Today is the birthday of Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Kimmel, Gerard Butler, Joe Mantegna, Frances Conroy, Steve Zahn, Neil Flynn, Chris Noth, Aisha Hinds, Tom Atkins, Noah Hathaway, Jimmy Hawkins, J.A. Preston, David Zellner, Kentucker Audley, and the late Garry Marshall, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jean Seberg, Oskar Werner, Robert Sterling, Richard Mulligan, Jack Elam, Gunnar Björnstrand, Hermione Baddeley, Don Gordon, Mary Beth Hughes, Adrienne Corri, and Fred Phelps. Vittorio De Sica died 44 years ago in 1974 at age 73. Junior Samples died 35 years ago in 1983 at age 57. Leon Russell died two years ago in 2016 at age 74.
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