Today John Considine is 85, and Jim Bakker is 80. Today is also the birthday of Cuba Gooding Jr., Kate Bosworth, Taye Diggs, Dax Shepard, Todd Haynes, Paz Vega, Tia Carrere, Joanna Pacula, James Marshall, Jack Hanna, and the late Isaac Asimov, who would be 100, Roger Miller, Anna Lee, Howard Caine, Jason Evers, Dziga Vertov, and Oscar Micheaux. Emil Jannings died seventy years ago in 1950 at age 65. Alan Hale Jr. died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 68. Anne Francis and Pete Postlethwaite died nine years ago in 2011. Francis was 80. Postlethwaite was 64. Bob Einstein died one year ago in 2019 at age 76.
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