Today Twiggy and Sally Potter are 70. Today is also the birthday of Jeremy Irons, Paul Williams, Jimmy Fallon, Rosemary Harris, James Lipton, David McCallum, Cheri Oteri, Danielle Panabaker, Sanaa Lathan, Alison Sweeney, Kim Richards, David Bamber, Victor Williams, Randolph Mantooth, Jean-Claude Carrière, Soledad O’Brien, Mario Batali, and the late Adam West, Cass Elliot, Frances Farmer, Ben Turpin, who would be 150, William Hickey, Ray Danton, and Jóhann Jóhannsson, who would be 50. Rex Ingram died fifty years ago in 1969 at age 73. Bernie Casey and Jake LaMotta died two years ago in 2017. Casey was 78. LaMotta was 95.
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