Today Joanne Woodward is 90, Howard Hesseman is 80, Mary Jo Pehl is 60, and Chelsea Clinton is 40. Today is the birthday of Timothy Spall, Kara Mara, Josh Groban, Noah Emmerich, Adam Baldwin, Donal Logue, Bingbing Li, Debra Monk, Barbara Babcock, Bolo Yeung, Ralph Nader, Charles Baker, Charlotte Stewart, and the late Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, John Steinbeck, William Demarest, Van Williams, Franchot Tone, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Lillian Gish died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 99. Spike Milligan died eighteen years ago in 2002 at 83. Fred Rogers died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 74. Leonard Nimoy died five years ago in 2015 at age 83. George Kennedy died four years ago in 2016 at age 91.
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