Today David Allan Coe is 80, and Swoosie Kurtz is 75. Today is also the birthday of Roger Waters, Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Rosie Perez, Jane Curtin, Jeff Foxworthy, Jo Anne Worley, Macy Gray, Anne Lockhart, Matthew Horne, Chris Christie, and the late John Mitchum, who would be 100, John Ridgely, and Max Schreck. Edmund Gwenn died sixty years ago in 1959 at age 81. Akira Kurosawa died 21 years ago in 1998 at age 88. Burt Reynolds died one year ago in 2018 at age 82.
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