Today Joan Plowright is 90, Jane Alexander is 80, Dennis Franz is 75, Caitlyn Jenner is 70, and Ben Harper is 50. Today is also the birthday of Julia Roberts, Joaquin Phoenix, Andy Richter, Gwendoline Christie, Frank Ocean, Bill Gates, Matt Smith, Daphne Zuniga, Finn Wittrock, Brad Paisley, Telma Hopkins, Lauren Holly, Annie Potts, Joe Thomas, Chris Bauer, Jami Gertz, Sheryl Underwood, Kevin Macdonald, Jake Kasdan, Michael Dougherty, Joe Lansdale, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the late Elsa Lanchester, Edith Head, Alan Clarke, Joe Spinell, Jack Soo, Dody Goodman, and Evelyn Waugh. Alice Brady died eighty years ago in 1939 at age 46. James MacArthur died nine years ago in 2010 at age 72.
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