Today James Randi is 90, Bruce Dickinson is 60, and Alexandre Aja is 40. Today is also the birthday of Charlize Theron, Michael Shannon, David Duchovny, Wayne Knight, Abbie Cornish, Tobin Bell, Garrison Keillor, Robert Mueller, Maggie Wheeler, Harold Perrineau, Brit Marling, David Rasche, John Glover, Eric Johnson, Verna Bloom, Anjanette Comer, Caroline Aaron, and the late Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer, Billie Burke, Nicholas Ray, Edward Hardwicke, Stan Freberg, and Rick Genest. Oliver Hardy died 61 years ago in 1957 at age 65.
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