Today Wilford Brimley is 85. Today is also the birthday of Gwyneth Paltrow, Meat Loaf, Marc Maron, Kathleen Nolan, Shaun Cassidy, Andy Lau, Carrie Brownstein, Anna Camp, Lola Kirke, Avril Lavigne, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Liz Torres, Scott Lawrence, Jean-Marc Barr, Thomas Mann, Indira Varma, Lil Wayne, and the late Arthur Penn, William Conrad, Will Sampson, Greg Morris, Jayne Meadows, who would be 100, and Miklós Jancsó. Clara Bow died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 60. Donald O’Connor died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 78. Herbert Lom died seven years ago in 2012 at age 95. Hugh Hefner died two years ago in 2017 at age 91.
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