Today Tom Dreesen is 80, and John Hawkes is 60. Today is also the birthday of Brian De Palma, Taraji P. Henson, Virginia Madsen, Harry Connick Jr., Moby, Ludacris, Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Daily, Amy Madigan, Kristy McNichol, Lola Falana, Roxann Dawson, Earl Holliman, Tony Gilroy, Bertrand Bonello, John Curran, Bashar al-Assad, and the late Herbert Lom, Ian Abercrombie, O. Henry, and Robert Day. Lorne Greene died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 72. Jessica Tandy died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 85. Kim Hunter died seventeen years ago in 2002 at age 79. John Ritter died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 54. Kevin McCarthy and Harold Gould died nine years ago in 2010. McCarthy was 96. Gould was 86. Andy Whitfield died eight years ago in 2011 at age 39.
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