Today Lara Parker is 80, Simon Le Bon is 60, and David Walton is 40. Today is also the birthday of John Cleese, Roberto Benigni, Patrick Fugit, Peter Firth, Kelly Osbourne, Fran Lebowitz, Ivan Reitman, Robert Picardo, Michael Shamus Wiles, James Cosmo, Joanna Scanlan, Ming-liang Tsai, Theodore Melfi, Brontis Jodorowsky, Marla Maples, and the late Theodore Roosevelt, Sylvia Plath, Ruby Dee, Teresa Wright, who would be 100, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Dylan Thomas, Nanette Fabray, Scott Weiland, Carrie Snodgress, Jack Carson, Carolyn Craig, Frederick De Cordova, Leif Erickson, Bernie Wrightson, and John Gotti. Sammee Tong died 54 years ago in 1964 at age 63. Allan “Rocky” Lane died 45 years ago in 1973 at age 64. James M. Cain died 41 years ago in 1977 at age 85.
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