Today Richard Donner is 90, and Austin Nichols is 40. Today is also the birthday of Shirley MacLaine, Barbra Streisand, Djimon Hounsou, Eric Bogosian, Cedric The Entertainer, Eric Balfour, Kelly Clarkson, Aidan Gillen, Derek Luke, Michael O’Keefe, Bruce Kirby, Rory McCann, Glenn Morshower, Peter Friedman, Damon Lindelof, and the late Michael Parks, William Castle, Jill Ireland, Jack E. Leonard, and Robert Wiene. Louise Dresser died 65 years ago in 1965 at age 86. Bud Abbott died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 78.
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