Today Todd Solondz is 60, and Dominic West is 50. Today is also the birthday of John Getz, Tanya Roberts, Paul Walter Hauser, Ali Fazal, Larry Miller, Jere Burns, Zak Orth, Linda Lavin, Mira Nair, Lynn Lowry, Brandon Jay McLaren, Michael Caton-Jones, Matteo Garrone, Eileen Ryan, Virginia Leith, Michael Lewis, and the late Penny Marshall, Friedrich Nietzsche, P.G. Wodehouse, Mario Puzo, Mark Lenard, Jane Darwell, Mervyn LeRoy, Michel Foucault, Jean Peters, Nigel Green, and Fritz Feld. Cole Porter died 55 years ago in 1964 at age 73. Frank DeKova died 38 years ago in 1981 at age 71. Pat O’Brien died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 83. Delphine Seyrig died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 58. Edie Adams died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 81.
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