Today Julian Fellowes is 70, Jonathan Franzen is 60, Donnie Wahlberg is 50, and Taissa Farmiga is 25. Today is also the birthday of Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Brady Corbet, Austin Butler, Belinda Carlisle, Helen McCrory, Larry B. Scott, Tim Bagley, Robert Joy, Martha Coolidge, Giuliana Rancic, and the late Mae West, Maureen O’Hara, Davy Crockett, Samuel Goldwyn, Monty Woolley, Glenn Corbett, Evelyn Ankers, and Mark Felt. Vivian Vance died 40 years ago in 1979 at age 70. Ira Gershwin died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 86. Pearl Bailey died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 72. Yvonne Craig died four years ago in 2015 at age 78. Arthur Hiller died three years ago in 2016 at age 92.
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