Today is the birthday of Kenneth Branagh, Michael Snow, Raven-Symoné, Tommy Kirk, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nia Peeples, Xavier Samuel, Patrick John Flueger, Susan Dey, Fionnula Flanagan, Bobby Flay, and the late Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Lamour, Michael Clarke Duncan, Dan Blocker, Mako, Barbara Nichols, Harold Gould, Douglas Kenney, Tommy Rettig, Ray Collins, Una Merkel, Victor McLaglen, John Colicos, and Greg Giraldo. Otis Redding died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 26. Ed Wood died 41 years ago in 1978 at age 54. Richard Pryor died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 65.
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