Today Doris Day is 97, Dr. Jane Goodall is 85, Tony Orlando and Lamberto Bava are 75, David Hyde Pierce is 60, and Ben Mendelsohn is 50. Today is also the birthday of Eddie Murphy, Alec Baldwin, Matthew Goode, Sofia Boutella, Marsha Mason, Cobie Smulders, Adam Scott, Amanda Bynes, Wayne Newton, Rachel Bloom, Jamie Bamber, Catherine McCormack, Eric Braeden, Marisa Paredes, Josh Safdie, Cristi Puiu, Alice Lowe, Pat Proft, and the late Marlon Brando, Leslie Howard, Dooley Wilson, Washington Irving, Jan Sterling, Richard Manuel, Iron Eyes Cody, George Jessel, Ray Combs, Mary Anderson, Harry Earles, and Allan Dwan. Conrad Veidt died 76 years ago in 1943 at age 50. Warren Oates died 37 years ago in 1982 at age 53.
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