Today Susanne Bier is 60, Damien Dante Wayans is 40, and Emma Watson is 30. Today is also the birthday of Emma Thompson, Seth Rogen, Luke Evans, Claudia Cardinale, Maisie Williams, Andrew Daly, Thomas F. Wilson, Linda Perry, Trine Dyrholm, Reed Morano, Richard Rush, Sam McMurray, Tom Kane, Chris Stapleton, Olivier Nakache, and the late Leonardo da Vinci, Elizabeth Montgomery, Hans Conried, John Williams, Roy Clark, Michael Ansara, Frank Vincent, Jean Willes, Henry James, Wallace Reid, and Bessie Smith. Abraham Lincoln died 155 years ago in 1865 at age 56. Wallace Beery died 71 years ago in 1949 at age 64. Jean Genet died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 75. Greta Garbo died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 84. Joey Ramone died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 49. R. Lee Ermey died two years ago in 2018 at age 74.
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