Today Al Ruddy is 90, Michael Parkinson is 85, and Vince Vaughn is 50. Today is also the birthday of Lady Gaga, Reba McEntire, Dianne Wiest, Nick Frost, Julia Stiles, Conchata Ferrell, Brett Ratner, Richard Kelly, Mike Newell, Richard Eyre, Alexandra Billings, Mya Taylor, James Bidgood, and the late Ken Howard, Dirk Bogarde, Freddie Bartholomew, and Flora Robson. Virginia Woolf died 79 years ago in 1941 at age 59. Peter Ustinov died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 82.
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