Today Lee Daniels is 60. Today is also the birthday of Ricky Martin, Ryan Seacrest, Thure Lindhardt, Diedrich Bader, Michael Raymond-James, Anil Kapoor, Austin Stowell, Nicholas Meyer, Gavin O’Connor, Louis Tomlinson, Stephenie Meyer, Scott Spiegel, Jeff Sessions, and the late Ava Gardner, Michael Curtiz, Howard Hughes, Jonas Mekas, Ruth Chatterton, and Franz Waxman. Bernard Herrmann died 44 years ago in 1975 at age 64. Peter Lawford died 35 years ago in 1984 at 61. Toshirô Mifune died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 77. Harold Pinter died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 78. Charles Durning and Jack Krugman died seven years ago in 2012. Durning was 89. Klugman was 90.
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