Today Mavis Staples is 80. Today is also the birthday of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sofia Vergara, Adrian Grenier, Arlo Guthrie, Fiona Shaw, Robert Pine, Ivan Passer, Peter Serafinowicz, Golshifteh Farahani, Jessica Simpson, Wyatt Russell, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Sue Lyon, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Alice Munro, Annie Mumolo, Marco Rodríguez, Joel Potrykus, and the late Fred Gwynne, Marcel Proust, Nikola Tesla, Jake LaMotta, Ron Glass, David Brinkley, Tura Satana, Nick Adams, John Gilbert, and Jerry Nelson. Mel Blanc died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 81. Omar Sharif died four years ago in 2015 at age 83.
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