Today Gerard Butler is 50. Today is also the birthday of Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Kimmel, Joe Mantegna, Frances Conroy, Steve Zahn, Neil Flynn, Chris Noth, Aisha Hinds, Tom Atkins, Noah Hathaway, Jimmy Hawkins, J.A. Preston, David Zellner, Kentucker Audley, and the late Garry Marshall, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jean Seberg, Oskar Werner, Robert Sterling, Richard Mulligan, Jack Elam, Gunnar Björnstrand, Hermione Baddeley, Don Gordon, Mary Beth Hughes, who would be 100, Adrienne Corri, and Fred Phelps. Vittorio De Sica died 45 years ago in 1974 at age 73. Junior Samples died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 57. Leon Russell died three years ago in 2016 at age 74.
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