Today Patrick Wayne is 80, and Travis Fimmel and Laura Benanti are 40. Today is also the birthday of Linda Ronstadt, Forest Whitaker, D.A. Pennebaker, Diane Kruger, Brigitte Nielsen, Eddie Griffin, Jesse Ventura, Terry O’Quinn, Scott Foley, Celia Imrie, Brian Austin Green, Joe Turkel, Adam Savage, Greg Sestero, Jim Rash, Tony Hendra, Arianna Huffington, Gabriel Iglesias, Beth Stern, and the late Larry Cohen, Rembrandt, Ian Curtis, Alex Karras, William Dieterle, and Bill Gunn, who would be 90. Anton Chekhov died 115 years ago in 1904 at age 44. Dana Hill died 23 years ago in 1996 at age 32. Gianni Versace died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 50. Celeste Holm died seven years ago in 2012 at age 95. Martin Landau died two years ago in 2017 at age 89.
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