Today Fannie Flagg is 75. Today is also the birthday of Bill Murray, Stephen King, Luke Wilson, Cheryl Hines, Ethan Coen, David Wenham, Rob Morrow, Ricki Lake, Jerry Bruckheimer, François Cluzet, Maggie Grace, Otis Day, Faith Hill, Ann Elder, Nick Castle, Joseph Mazzello, Nancy Travis, Alfonso Ribeiro, Liam Gallagher, Martha Kauffman, Drew Friedman, Nicole Richie, and the late Leonard Cohen, Henry Gibson, Larry Hagman, Chuck Jones, and H.G. Wells. Walter Brennan died 35 years ago in 1974 at age 80. Alice Ghostley died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 84.
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