Today Michael Learned is 80, Sebastián Silva is 40, and Isaac Hempstead Wright is 20. Today is also the birthday of Kristin Stewart, Dennis Quaid, Cynthia Nixon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Elle Fanning, Jay Baruchel, Jay Chandrasekhar, Jenna Jameson, David Gordon Green, Marty Krofft, Mark Pellegrino, Isabel Coixet, and the late Hugh M. Hefner, Michel Simon, Ward Bond, Paul Robeson, Brad Dexter, and Brandon De Wilde. Sidney Lumet died eight years ago in 2011 at age 86.
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