Today Bijou Phillips is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jane Powell, David Oyelowo, Asa Butterfield, Method Man, Rachel Maddow, Mackenzie Davis, Taran Killam, Jane Adams, Ali MacGraw, Barry Sonnenfeld, Tomas Alfredson, Albert and Allen Hughes, Chang-dong Lee, Annette O’Toole, Rob Bottin, Susan Boyle, Richard Christy, and the late Toshirô Mifune and Harry Lewis, who would both be 100, Debbie Reynolds, Lon Chaney Sr., Wallace Beery, Otto von Bismarck, Grace Lee Whitney, and Gordon Jump. Noah Beery died 74 years ago in 1946 at age 64 on the birthday his brother, Wallace Beery. Marvin Gaye was murdered 36 years ago in 1984 at age 44, one day before his birthday. Leslie Cheung committed suicide seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 46. Steven Bochco died two years ago in 2018 at age 74.
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