Today is the birthday of Woody Allen, Bette Midler, Sarah Silverman, Emily Mortimer, Janelle Monáe, Treat Williams, Riz Ahmed, Jonathan Katz, Zoë Kravitz, Deep Roy, Nestor Carbonell, Nate Torrence, Larry Charles, David Hornsby, Akiva Schaffer, Andrew Adamson, Rick Scott, and the late Richard Pryor, Dick Shawn, Mary Martin, David Doyle, Paul Picerni, Matthew Shepard, and Pablo Escobar. James Baldwin died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Paul Benedict died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 70. Ken Berry died one year ago in 2018 at age 85.
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