Today Lin Shaye is 75, and Hugh Jackman is 50. Today is also the birthday of Josh Hutcherson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kirk Cameron, Deborah Foreman, Tony Cavalero, David Threlfall, Les Dennis, Richard Price, Tom Guiry, Iris Apatow, Chris Wallace, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (Carlos the Jackal), and the late Dick Gregory, Luciano Pavarotti, Daliah Lavi, Satoshi Kon, Josephine Hutchinson, and Randy Stuart. John Denver died in a plane crash 21 years ago in 1997 at age 53. Gillo Pontecorvo died twelve years ago in 2006 at age 86.
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