Today Ann Robinson is 90, Ian McKellen is 80, Frank Oz is 75, and Anne Heche is 50. Today is also the birthday of Mike Myers, Octavia Spencer, Cillian Murphy, Jacki Weaver, Jamie Kennedy, Ethan Suplee, Demetri Martin, Bobby Slayton, Ray Stevenson, Leslie Uggams, Kevin Heffernan, Justin Henry, Erinn Hayes, Joseph D. Reitman, Neil Marshall, Ken Jacobs, and the late Miles Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dixie Carter, Claude Akins, Raymond Carver, Jeanne Crain, Robert Ludlum, Bill Robinson, and George Hickenlooper. Vic Tayback died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 60. Charles Nelson Reilly died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 76.
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