Today Thom Yorke is 50, and Omar Benson Miller is 40. Today is also the birthday of John Mellencamp, Joy Behar, Yo-Yo Ma, Desmond Tutu, Dylan Baker, Shawn and Aaron Ashmore, Mary Badham, Simon Cowell, Nicole Ari Parker, Amber Stevens West, Andrew Dominik, Bree Olson, Vladimir Putin, and the late June Allyson, Andy Devine, Al Martino, Elijah Muhammad, and Robert Z. Leonard. Edgar Allan Poe died 169 years ago in 1849 at age 40. Charles Rocket died thirteen years ago in 2005 at age 56.
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