Today Francesca Annis is 75. Today is also the birthday of Cate Blanchett, George Lucas, Tim Roth, David Byrne, Robert Zemeckis, Sofıa Coppola, Danny Huston, Amber Tamblyn, Miranda Cosgrove, Greg Davies, Siân Phillips, Rob Tapert, Mark Zuckerberg, and the late Bobby Darin, Anne Wiazemsky, Richard Deacon, Oona O’Neill Chaplin, Sidney Bechet, and Mrinal Sen. Rita Hayworth died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 68. Frank Sinatra died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 82. Wendy Hiller and Robert Stack both died seventeen years ago in 2003. She was 90. He was 84. B.B. King died five years ago in 2015 at age 89. Powers Boothe died three years ago in 2017 at age 68. Tom Wolfe died two years ago in 2018 at age 88.
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