Today Bruce Springsteen is 70, and Jason Alexander is 60. Today is also the birthday of Anthony Mackie, Julio Iglesias, Mary Kay Place, Skylar Astin, Kip Pardue, Rosalind Chao, Tom Lester, Chi McBride, Hasan Minhaj, Karl Pilkington, Paul Petersen, Alex Proyas, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christopher Miller, and the late Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Mickey Rooney, Walter Pidgeon, Romy Schneider, and Elizabeth Peña. Billy Gilbert died 48 years ago in 1971 at age 77. Shirley Clarke died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 77.
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