Today Samuel L. Jackson is 70, and Rutina Wesley is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jane Fonda, Kiefer Sutherland, Ray Romano, Julie Delpy, Phil Donahue, Andy Dick, Jane Kaczmarek, Steven Yeun, Emmanuel Macron, Michael Horse, Josh Mostel, Fabiana Udenio, Kaitlyn Dever, Dennis Boutsikaris, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Mnuchin, and the late Frank Zappa, Paul Winchell, John G. Avildsen, Jack Nance, Ulli Lommel, Ed Nelson, Carl Wilson, and Joe Paterno. Ted Healy died 81 years ago in 1937 at age 41. F. Scott Fitzgerald died 78 years ago in 1940 at age 44. Stella Adler died 26 years ago in 1992 at age 91. Billie Whitelaw died four years ago in 2014 at age 82.
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