Today Joan Didion is 85, Jeroen Krabbé is 75, Lynne Ramsay is 50, and Nick Stahl is 40. Today is also the birthday of Little Richard, Margaret Cho, Frankie Muniz, Paula Patton, Lisa Marie, Jessica Paré, Dolly Wells, Morgan Brittany, Amy Acker, and the late Walt Disney, Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, Emeric Pressburger, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Hayes, Alvy Moore, Nunnally Johnson, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Martin Van Buren, George Armstrong Custer, and Strom Thurmond. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 228 years ago in 1791 at age 35. Robert Aldrich died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 65. Nelson Mandela died six years ago in 2013 at age 95.
