Today is the birthday of M. Night Shyamalan, Vera Farmiga, Michelle Yeoh, Leland Orser, Merrin Dungey, Michael Anderson Jr., Peter Bonerz, Catherine Hicks, Leslie Odom Jr., Peter Simonischek, Inga Landgré, and the late Robert Mitchum, Lucille Ball, Andy Warhol, Frank Finlay, Charles Crichton, Paul Bartel, and Umberto Lenzi. Preston Sturges died sixty years ago in 1959 at age 60. Rick James died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 56. John Hughes died ten years ago in 2009 at age 59.
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