Today John Nettles is 75, and Jane Krakowski and Brett Morgen are 50. Today is also the birthday of Joan Cusack, Artie Lange, Matt Bomer, Dawn French, Emily Deschanel, Stephen Moyer, Luke Perry, David Morse, Ron Leibman, Michelle Trachtenberg, Constance Zimmer, Cardi B, Sean Patrick Flanery, Lennie James, Michael J Nelson, Justin Lin, Doona Bae, Amitabh Bachchan, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Hany Abu-Assad, Amos Gitai, Shawn Ryan, and the late Elmore Leonard, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sig Ruman, Jean Vander Pyl, Earle Hyman, Jerome Robbins, who would be 100, and Fred Trump. Chico Marx died 57 years ago in 1961. Édith Piaf and Jean Cocteau died 55 years ago in 1963. Piaf was 47. Cocteau was 74. Redd Foxx died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 68. The first episode of Saturday Night Live aired 43 years ago in 1975.
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