Today Tom Waits is 70, and Nicholas Hoult is 30. Today is also the birthday of Ellen Burstyn, Jeffrey Wright, Noam Chomsky, Jack Huston, Jennifer Carpenter, Mark Duplass, Shiri Appleby, James Keach, Emily Browning, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Rolston, Caleb Landry Jones, Kristofer Hivju, Patrick Fabian, Kenneth Colley, Jeff Nichols, Clive Russell, Priscilla Barnes, Abdellatif Kechiche, Larry Bird, Aaron Carter, Chris Crocker, and the late Eli Wallach, Ted Knight, Louis Prima, Patrice O’Neal, who would be 50, Leigh Brackett, Hurd Hatfield, Fay Bainter, Rod Cameron, Johnny Duncan, and Jordon Parks Jr. Joan Bennett died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 80. Harry Morgan died eight years ago in 2011 at age 96.
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