Today Hal Holbrook is 95, Christina Pickles is 85, Brenda Fricker is 75, and Jason Ritter is 40. Today is also the birthday of Michael Jordan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rene Russo, Jim Brown, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michael Bay, Lou Diamond Phillips, Larry The Cable Guy, Jerry O’Connell, Ed Sheeran, Denise Richards, Lucy Davis, Billie Joe Armstrong, Paris Hilton, Rory Kinnear, Richard Karn, Patricia Routledge, Barry Humphries, Becky Ann Baker, Dieter Laser, Bonnie Wright, Don Coscarelli, and the late Alan Bates, Arthur Kennedy, Kathleen Freeman, Huey P. Newton, Jeremy Slate, Ralphie May, and Arthur Hunnicutt. Lee Strasberg died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 80.
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