Today Melania Trump is 50, and Channing Tatum and Jordana Brewster are 40. Today is also the birthday of Carol Burnett, Jet Li, Kevin James, Giancarlo Esposito, Joan Chen, Pablo Schreiber, Jemima Kirke, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bobby Rydell, Tom Welling, Ivana Milicevic, Debra Wilson, and the late Douglas Sirk, Jean Vigo, Warren Clarke, Edgar Kennedy, Claudine Auger, Stafford Repp, and William Desmond Taylor. Gypsy Rose Lee died fifty years ago in 1970 at age 59. Irene Ryan died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 70. Broderick Crawford died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 74. Lucille Ball died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 77. Jonathan Demme died three years ago in 2017 at age 73.
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