Today Stevie Wonder and Joe Johnston are 70, and David Simon is 60. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Colbert, Harvey Keitel, Samantha Morton, Robert Pattinson, Lena Dunham, Alan Ball, Fred Melamed, Buck Taylor, Brian Geraghty, Iwan Rheon, Zoë Wanamaker, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Dennis Rodman, and the late Bea Arthur, Daphne Du Maurier, Ritchie Valens, Beverly Owen, Herbert Ross, Chishû Ryû, Joe Louis, Mary Wells, and Jim Jones. Gary Cooper died 59 years ago in 1961 at age 60. Margot Kidder died two years ago in 2018 at age 69. Doris Day died one year ago in 2019 at age 97.
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