Today is the birthday of Matt Groening, Claire Bloom, Jane Seymour, Alex Borstein, Sherry Jackson, Marisa Berenson, Christopher McDonald, Miranda July, Amber Riley, Brendon Small, Samira Makhmalbaf, Omarosa Manigault, and the late Chris Farley, Cesar Romero, Harvey Korman, Kevin McCarthy, John Barrymore, Allan Arbus, Galileo Galilei, Susan B. Anthony, Arthur Shields, Meg Wyllie, and Gale Sondergaard. Wally Cox and Tim Holt died 46 years ago in 1973. Cox was 48, and Holt was 54. Ethel Merman died 35 years in 1984 at age 76. George Gaynes died three years ago in 2016 at age 98.
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