Today Hugh Downs is 99, Frank Collison is 70, Meg Tilly is 60, Simon Pegg is 50, and Brett Dier is 30. Today is also the birthday of Freddie Highmore, Carl Bernstein, Michael Bloomberg, Harriet Andersson, Teller, Danai Gurira, Andrew Robinson, Zach Galligan, Terry Gross, Alan Parker, Jackie Martling, Joan O’Brien, Rob Thomas, Anton Lesser, Andrew Prine, Sakina Jaffrey, Angela Robinson, Allan Miller, and the late Jack Benny, Florence Henderson, Thelma Ritter, Vic Morrow, Gregory Hines, Lois Maxwell, Edward Platt, Jimmy Hoffa, Woody Hayes, Tim Buckley, Stuart Erwin, and Masaki Kobayashi. Sig Ruman died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 82. Louis Jourdan died five years ago in 2015 at age 93.
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