Today Dan Gilroy is 60, and Mindy Kaling is 40. Today is also the birthday of Mick Fleetwood, Peter Weller, Robert Downey Sr., Nancy Allen, Solange Knowles, Minka Kelly, Vanessa Ray, Michele Lee, Iain Glen, Sherry Stringfield, Georg Stanford Brown, Joe Penny, Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister, Vittorio Storaro, and the late Claude Chabrol, Adrienne Shelly, Al Molinaro, who would be 100, Phil Harris, and Jack Carter. Tony Hancock died 51 years ago in 1968 at age 44. Jackie Gleason died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 71. Brian Keith died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 75. David Tomlinson died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 83. Paul Winchell died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 82. Eli Wallach died five years ago in 2014 at age 98.
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