Today Annette Crosbie is 85, and Darren Aronofsky is 50. Today is also the birthday of Josh Brolin, Christina Ricci, Franco Zeffirelli, Costa-Gavras, John Michael Higgins, Arsenio Hall, Joe Don Baker, Judy Blume, Lochlyn Munro, Michael Ironside, Tara Strong, Raphael Sbarge, Iko Uwais, Josef Altin, Cliff De Young, Zach Grenier, and the late Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, both born 210 years ago in 1809, Forrest Tucker, who would be 100, Louis Zorich, Lorne Greene, Simon MacCorkindale, Richard Lynch, Ann Gillis, Wallace Ford, and Joseph Kearns. Dziga Vertov died 65 years ago in 1954 at age 58. Sal Mineo died 43 years ago in 1976 at age 37. Jean Renoir died forty years ago in 1979 at age 84. Charles M. Schulz died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 77. Sid Caesar died five years ago in 2014 at age 91.
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