Today Lav Diaz, Pedro Costa, and Ellen Sandweiss are 60, and Tyrese Gibson is 40. Today is also the birthday of Patti Smith, Tracey Ullman, Russ Tamblyn, Fred Ward, Michael Nesmith, Lucy Punch, Betty Aberlin, LeBron James, Sandy Koufax, Tiger Woods, Bennett Miller, Lloyd Kaufman, Dave England, Kelli Maroney, George Newbern, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Jeff Lynee, Meredith Vieira, James Burrows, Andrew Fleming, Matt Lauer, Sean Hannity, and the late Rudyard Kipling, Bo Diddley, Jack Lord, Davy Jones, Jack Riley, Carol Reed, Jeanette Nolan, and Joseph Bologna. Lew Ayres died 22 years ago in 1996 at age 88. Luise Rainer died four years ago in 2014 at age 104.
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