Today Erin Brockovich and Adam Schiff are 60. Today is also the birthday of Meryl Streep, Kris Kristofferson, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Campbell, Emmanuelle Seigner, Stephen Chow, Amy Brenneman, Elizabeth Warren, Michael Lerner, Prunella Scales, Donald Faison, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Joe Dempsie, Lindsay Wagner, Graham Greene, Portia Doubleday, Carson Daly, Douglas Smith, Alicia Goranson, Tim Russ, Uwe Boll, David L. Lander, Joie Lee, Dan Brown, Wayne Federman, Dianne Feinstein, Adam Schiff, Wolfgang Becker, and the late Billy Wilder, Abbas Kiarostami, Freddie Prinze, John Dillinger, Michael Todd, Ralph Waite, Amrish Puri, Erich Maria Remarque, and Octavia Butler. David O. Selznick died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 63. Judy Garland died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 47. Joseph Losey died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 75. Fred Astaire died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 88. George Carlin died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 71.
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