Today Maggie Smith is 85, Lior Ashkenazi is 50, and Noomi Rapace and André Holland are 40. Today is also the birthday of Denzel Washington, Sienna Miller, John Legend, Seth Meyers, Joe Manganiello, Nichelle Nichols, Gayle King, Jan Bijvoet, James Foley, and the late F.W. Murnau, Stan Lee, Lew Ayres, Martin Milner, Billy Chapin, Hildegard Knef, Lou Jacobi, Charmian Carr, Frank Kelly, Mikhail Kalatozov, and Woodrow Wilson. Dennis Wilson died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 39. Sam Peckinpah died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 59. Jerry Orbach died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 69. Debbie Reynolds died three years ago in 2016 at age 84. Rose Marie died two years ago in 2017 at age 94.
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