Today Margaret Cho and Lisa Marie are 50. Today is also the birthday of Joan Didion, Little Richard, Frankie Muniz, Paula Patton, Jeroen Krabbé, Nick Stahl, Jessica Paré, Lynne Ramsay, Dolly Wells, Morgan Brittany, Amy Acker, and the late Walt Disney, Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, Emeric Pressburger, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Hayes, Alvy Moore, Nunnally Johnson, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Martin Van Buren, George Armstrong Custer, and Strom Thurmond. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 227 years ago in 1791 at age 35. Robert Aldrich died 35 years ago in 1983 at age 65. Nelson Mandela died five years ago in 2013 at age 95.
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