Today is the birthday of Carol Burnett, Channing Tatum, Jet Li, Kevin James, Giancarlo Esposito, Joan Chen, Pablo Schreiber, Jemima Kirke, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bobby Rydell, Jordana Brewster, Claudine Auger, Tom Welling, Ivana Milicevic, Debra Wilson, Melania Trump, and the late Douglas Sirk, Jean Vigo, Warren Clarke, Edgar Kennedy, Stafford Repp, and William Desmond Taylor. Gypsy Rose Lee died 49 years ago in 1970 at age 59. Irene Ryan died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 70. Broderick Crawford died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 74. Lucille Ball died 30 years ago in 1989 at age 77. Jonathan Demme died two years ago in 2017 at age 73.
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