Today Jim Sharman is 75, Courtney B. Vance and Jason Beghe are 60, and Dave Eggers is 50. Today is also the birthday of Liza Minnelli, James Taylor, Aaron Eckhart, Barbara Feldon, Lesley Manville, Mitt Romney, Ron Jeremy, Titus Welliver, Jaimie Alexander, Samm Levine, Jake Tapper, Frank Welker, Luenell, Marlon Jackson, Rob Cohen, Tammy Duckworth, and the late Edward Albee, Jack Kerouac, Takashi Shimura, and Billie ‘Buckwheat’ Thomas. Charlie Parker died 65 years ago in 1955 at age 34. John Cazale died 42 years ago in 1978 at age 41.
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