Today Cliff De Young is 75, Michael Ironside is 70, and Christina Ricci is 40. Today is also the birthday of Josh Brolin, Darren Aronofsky, Costa-Gavras, John Michael Higgins, Arsenio Hall, Joe Don Baker, Judy Blume, Lochlyn Munro, Tara Strong, Raphael Sbarge, Iko Uwais, Josef Altin, Zach Grenier, Annette Crosbie, and the late Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, both born today in 1809, Franco Zeffirelli, Forrest Tucker, Louis Zorich, Lorne Greene, Simon MacCorkindale, Richard Lynch, Ann Gillis, Wallace Ford, and Joseph Kearns. Dziga Vertov died 66 years ago in 1954 at age 58. Sal Mineo died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 37. Jean Renoir died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 84. Charles M. Schulz died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 77. Sid Caesar died six years ago in 2014 at age 91.
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