Today Shirley MacLaine is 85, Peter Friedman is 70, Glenn Morshower is 60, and Rory McCann is 50. Today is also the birthday of Barbra Streisand, Djimon Hounsou, Eric Bogosian, Richard Donner, Cedric The Entertainer, Eric Balfour, Kelly Clarkson, Aidan Gillen, Derek Luke, Michael O’Keefe, Bruce Kirby, Austin Nichols, Damon Lindelof, and the late Michael Parks, William Castle, Jill Ireland, Jack E. Leonard, and Robert Wiene. Louise Dresser died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 86. Bud Abbott died 45 years ago in 1974 at age 78.
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