Today Smokey Robinson is 80. Today is also the birthday of Benicio Del Toro, Jeff Daniels, Ray Winstone, Justine Bateman, Seal, Amy Tan, Sam Reid, Millie Bobby Brown, David Mazouz, Leslie David Baker, Josh Trank, Victoria Justice, Zach Clark, and the late Lee Marvin, John Frankenheimer, Ann Savage, Cedric Hardwicke, Louis Feuillade, Merle Oberon, David Margulies, and Louis Calhern. Michael Powell died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 84. Derek Jarman died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 52. Stanley Kramer died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 87. Harper Lee died four years ago in 2016 at age 89.
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