Today Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Warren, and Lindsay Wagner are 70, and Wayne Federman is 60. Today is also the birthday of Kris Kristofferson, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Campbell, Emmanuelle Seigner, Stephen Chow, Amy Brenneman, Michael Lerner, Prunella Scales, Donald Faison, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Joe Dempsie, Graham Greene, Portia Doubleday, Carson Daly, Douglas Smith, Alicia Goranson, Tim Russ, Uwe Boll, David L. Lander, Joie Lee, Dan Brown, Erin Brockovich-Ellis, Dianne Feinstein, Adam Schiff, Wolfgang Becker, and the late Billy Wilder, Abbas Kiarostami, Freddie Prinze, John Dillinger, Michael Todd, Ralph Waite, Amrish Puri, Erich Maria Remarque, and Octavia Butler. David O. Selznick died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 63. Judy Garland died fifty years ago in 1969 at age 47. Joseph Losey died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 75. Fred Astaire died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 88. George Carlin died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 71.
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