Today is the birthday of David Attenborough, Melissa Gilbert, Thomas Pynchon, Enrique Iglesias, Michel Gondry, Stephen Amell, and the late Don Rickles, Roberto Rossellini, Ricky Nelson, Stephen Furst, Sidney James, Saul Bass, Touko Laaksonen (Tom of Finland), Peter Benchley, Robert Johnson, Miyoshi Umeki, Fernandel, and Harry S. Truman. Edmond O’Brien died 34 years ago in 1985 at age 69. Dirk Bogarde died twenty years ago in 1999 at age 78.
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