Today Robert Downey Sr. is 85, Vittorio Storaro is 80, Nancy Allen is 70, and Minka Kelly is 40. Today is also the birthday of Mick Fleetwood, Mindy Kaling, Peter Weller, Solange Knowles, Vanessa Ray, Michele Lee, Iain Glen, Sherry Stringfield, Georg Stanford Brown, Joe Penny, Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister, Dan Gilroy, and the late Claude Chabrol, Adrienne Shelly, Al Molinaro, Phil Harris, and Jack Carter. Tony Hancock died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 44. Jackie Gleason died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 71. Brian Keith died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 75. David Tomlinson died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 83. Paul Winchell died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 82. Eli Wallach died six years ago in 2014 at age 98.
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