Today Betty White is 98, Genndy Tartakovsky is 50, and Zooey Deschanel is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jim Carrey, James Earl Jones, Michelle Obama, Steve Harvey, Kid Rock, Maury Povich, Denis O’Hare, Freddy Rodriguez, Naveen Andrews, Kang-ho Song, Kelly Marie Tran, Joanna David, Robert Kennedy Jr., Leigh Whannell, Joshua Malina, Susanna Hoffs, Steve Earle, Lukas Moodysson, Kevin Reynolds, Brian Helgeland, Sebastian Junger, and the late Andy Kaufman, Muhammad Ali, Benjamin Franklin, Al Capone, Eartha Kitt, Mack Sennett, Sheree North, Noah Beery, and Keith Chegwin. Doodles Weaver died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 71. Emil Sitka died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 83. Richard Crenna died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 76. Virginia Mayo died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 84.
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