Today Leon Rippy is 70, and Richard LaGravenese is 60. Today is also the birthday of Henry Winkler, Kevin Pollak, Nia Long, Larry Wilmore, Harry Hamlin, Matthew Morrison, Gavin Rossdale, Maria Thayer, Michael Beach, Joe Berlinger, Mark Steven Johnson, Fiona Dourif, Claude Lelouch, Jessica Hynes, Juliet Stevenson, Charles Martin Smith, Brett Kelly, Andrea Mitchell, Ivanka Trump, and the late John Adams, Ruth Gordon, Louis Malle, Ezra Pound, Ruth Hussey, Jane Randolph, Herschel Bernardi, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michael Winner, Ed Lauter, and Dick Gautier. Samuel Fuller died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 85. Steve Allen died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 78. Jam Master Jay died seventeen years ago in 2002 at age 37. Robert Goulet died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 73. Al Molinaro died four years ago in 2015 at age 96.
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