Today Denise Nicholas is 75. Today is also the birthday of Bill Cosby, Topher Grace, Michelle Rodriguez, Richard Simmons, Malala Yousafzai, Cheryl Ladd, Cheyenne Jackson, Monte Hellman, Brian Grazer, Phil Lord, Anna Friel, Steve Howey, Natalie Martinez, Byung-Hun Lee, Tamsin Greig, Erik Per Sullivan, Jamey Sheridan, Mel Harris, Edwin Neal, and the late Milton Berle, Tod Browning, Joe DeRita, Jay Thomas, Beah Richards, Charlie Murphy, who would be 60, Louis B. Meyer, Jean Hersholt, George Eastman, Henry David Thoreau, Pablo Neruda, and Donald E. Westlake. Lon Chaney Jr. died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 67.
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