Today “Weird Al” Yankovic, Sam Raimi, and Nancy Grace are 60. Today is also the birthday of Ryan Reynolds, Emilia Clarke, Ang Lee, Dwight Yoakam, Philip Kaufman, Cat Deeley, Alex Gibney, Pelé, Grant Imahara, Amandla Sternberg, Meghan McCain, and the late Johnny Carson, Michael Crichton, Coleen Gray, Diana Dors, Frank Sutton, Una O’Connor, Hayden Rorke, Gummo Marx, and Harold P. Warren. Al Jolson died 69 years ago in 1950 at age 64. Oskar Werner died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 61.
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