Today Gordon Lightfoot is 80, Lauren Hutton is 75, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is 60, and Rachel McAdams, Tom Ellis, and Zoë Bell are 40. Today is also the birthday of Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Lorne Michaels, RuPaul, Leslie Bibb, Stephen Root, Sophie Marceau, Dylan Walsh, Susan Rice, Jonathan Ross, Roland Joffé, Harry Lloyd, Robert Brown, Jon Avnet, Steven E. de Souza, Duwayne Dunham, Bill Morrison, John Boehner, and the late Rock Hudson, Peter Cook, Lee Strasberg, Rance Howard, Jeff Buckley, Mischa Auer, Sara Haden, Frank Maxwell, Lester Allen, and Charles Walters. Gladys Cooper died 47 years ago in 1971 at age 82. Jimmy Ritz died 33 years ago in 1985 at age 81. Esther Rolle died twenty years ago in 1998 at age 78. Ruth Brown died twelve years ago in 2006 at age 78.
