Today is the birthday of Steve Carell, James Cameron, Madonna, Angela Bassett, Bob Balaban, Timothy Hutton, Taika Waititi, Lesley Ann Warren, Ann Blyth, Julie Newmar, Reginald VelJohnson, Laura Innes, Cristin Milioti, Cameron Monaghan, Jeff Perry, Bruce Beresford, Kathie Lee Gifford, and the late Robert Culp, Glenn Strange, Lois Nettleton, Charles Bukowski, Carole Shelley, Christine Cavanaugh, Mae Clarke, and T. E. Lawrence. Robert Johnson died 81 years ago in 1938 at age 27. Bela Lugosi died 63 years ago in 1956 at age 73. Elvis Presley died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 42. Aretha Franklin died one year ago in 2018 at age 76.
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