Today Patti LuPone is 70, Robert Smith is 60, and James McAvoy is 40. Today is also the birthday Elaine May, Iggy Pop, Charles Grodin, Queen Elizabeth II, Andie MacDowell, Tony Danza, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, John Cameron Mitchell, Nicole Sullivan, Rob Riggle, Claire Denis, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Brian White, Bridget Everett, Jeff Anderson, Frank Dillane, Peter Kosminsky, Anna Muylaert, Glen Hansard, and the late Anthony Quinn, Charlotte Brontë, Marcel Camus, Sammee Tong, Edwin S. Porter, and Gilbert Taylor. Mark Twain died 109 years ago in 1910 at age 74. Gummo Marx died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 84. Nina Simone died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 70. Prince and Michelle McNamara died three years ago in 2016. He was 57. She was 46. Verne Troyer died one year ago in 2018 at age 49.
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