Today Roger Daltrey is 75, Javier Bardem is 50, and Justin Bieber is 25. Today is also the birthday of Ron Howard, Harry Belafonte, Lupita Nyong’o, Zack Snyder, Tim Daly, Dirk Benedict, Chuck Zito, Robert Clary, Eddie Huang, Kesha, and the late David Niven, Jacques Rivette, Glenn Miller, Alan Thicke, Ralph Ellison, Joan Hackett, Harry Caray, and Jack Clayton. Jackie Coogan died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 69. Joe Besser died 31 years ago in 1988 at age 80. Alain Resnais died five years ago in 2014 at age 91.
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