Today Jeff Kanew is 75, Billy Gibbons is 70, and Flo Rida is 40. Today is also the birthday of Liv Ullmann, J.B. Smoove, Krysten Ritter, Miranda Otto, Anna Popplewell, Benjamin Bratt, Joyce Bulifant, Stephan James, Theo James, Ben Cross, Xander Berkeley, Jon Tenney, James Mangold, Shane Black, Sam Robards, Lesley Stahl, Paul and Peter Allen Vogt, and the late Ludwig van Beethoven, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Noël Coward, Bill Hicks, Max Linder, Steven Bochco, Patti Deutsch, Margaret Mead, N!xau, and Robert Kerman. Thelma Todd died 84 years ago in 1935 at age 29. Harland Sanders died 39 years ago in 1980 at age 90. Lee Van Cleef died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 64. John Spencer died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 58.
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