Today William Jackson Harper is 40. Today is also the birthday of Nick Nolte, Mary Steenburgen, John Williams, Mary McCormack, Seth Green, Brooke Adams, Robert Klein, John Grisham, Allan Rich, Cecily Strong, Mathilda May, Creed Bratton, Ethan Phillips, and the late James Dean, Jack Lemmon, Lana Turner, Gary Coleman, Audrey Meadows, Jules Verne, King Vidor, Jack Larson, William Tecumseh Sherman, who would be 200, Betty Field, Burt Mustin, Alejandro Rey, Charles Ruggles, Roger Lloyd Pack, and Bengt Ekerot, who would be 100.
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