Today Alan Arkin is 85, Diana Ross is 75, and Vicki Lawrence is 70. Today is also the birthday of James Caan, Martin Short, Keira Knightley, Steven Tyler, Jennifer Grey, Leslie Mann, Jonathan Groff, T.R. Knight, Amy Smart, Michael Imperioli, Todd Barry, Martin McDonagh, Carly Chaikin, Johnny Crawford, Natasha Leggero, Francis Lawrence, Richard Dawkins, Jonathan Glazer, Tinto Brass, Bob Woodward, Nancy Pelosi, and the late Tennessee Williams, Robert Frost, Leonard Nimoy, Sterling Hayden, Strother Martin, who would be 100, Bob Elliott, Will Wright, and Luke Askew. Ludwig van Beethoven died 192 years ago in 1827 at age 56. Eazy-E died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 31.
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