Today Dylan Baker and Simon Cowell are 60, and Shawn and Aaron Ashmore are 40. Today is also the birthday of John Mellencamp, Thom Yorke, Joy Behar, Yo-Yo Ma, Desmond Tutu, Omar Benson Miller, Mary Badham, Nicole Ari Parker, Amber Stevens West, Andrew Dominik, Bree Olson, Vladimir Putin, and the late June Allyson, Andy Devine, Al Martino, Elijah Muhammad, and Robert Z. Leonard. Edgar Allan Poe died 170 years ago in 1849 at age 40. Charles Rocket died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 56.
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