Today Mary Pat Gleason is 70, and Niecy Nash and Marie-Josée Croze are 70. Today is also the birthday of Emily Blunt, Kelly Macdonald, Aziz Ansari, Kristin Davis, Dakota Fanning, Josh Gad, Paul Morrissey, Jirí Menzel, Patricia Richardson, and the late Peter Fonda, who would be 80, Victor Fleming, George Frideric Handel, W.E.B. Du Bois, Diane Varsi, Terence Fisher, and Norman Taurog. Mabel Normand died ninety years ago in 1930 at age 37. Stan Laurel died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 74. Katherine Helmond died one year ago in 2019 at age 89.
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