Today John Astin is 90, Eric Clapton is 75, Robbie Coltrane is 70, and Bill Corbett is 60. Today is also the birthday of Warren Beatty, Paul Reiser, Céline Dion, Kenneth Welsh, Peter Marshall, Katy Mixon, Ian Ziering, Juliet Landau, M.C. Hammer, Norah Jones, Tracy Chapman, Maurice LaMarche, Michael Lehmann, Mark Consuelos, Piers Morgan, and the late Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Herbert Anderson, Richard Dysart, Anna Q. Nilsson, Anna Sewell, who would be 200, Sydney Chaplin, Jean-Claude Brialy, Shirley Stoler, and Ray McAnally. James Cagney died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 86. Michael Jeter died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 50.
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