Today Janis Paige is 97, George Chakiris is 85, Linda Henning is 75, and Ed Begley Jr. is 70. Today is also the birthday of Amy Poehler, Mickey Rourke, Molly Shannon, Jennifer Tilly, Nick Jonas, Marc Anthony, David Copperfield, Bingbing Fan, Danny John-Jules, Alexis Bledel, Max Minghella, Madeline Zima, Jayne Brook, Kurt Fuller, Jim McBride, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Roger Ross Williams, and the late Lauren Bacall, Peter Falk, BB King, Anne Francis, Morgan Woodward, Tommy Bond, Allen Funt, and Guy Hamilton. Mary Travers died ten years ago in 2009 at age 72. Edward Albee died three years ago in 2016 at age 88.
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