Today Mick Jackson is 75, and Melissa Benoist is 30. Today is also the birthday of Susan Sarandon, Liev Schreiber, Christoph Waltz, Alicia Silverstone, Dakota Johnson, Anne Rice, Russell Simmons, Caitriona Balfe, Armand Assante, Vicky Krieps, Abraham Benrubi, Sarah Lancashire, Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the late Buster Keaton, Charlton Heston, Jackie Collins, George Sidney, John Larch, Scotty Beckett, Philip Van Zandt, and Stan Dragoti. Janis Joplin died 48 years ago in 1970 at age 27. Graham Chapman died 29 years ago in 1989 at age 48. Buddy Lester died sixteen years ago in 2002 at age 87.
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