Today Dean Koontz is 75, and Jodi Arias is 40. Today is also the birthday of Tom Hanks, Jack White, Jimmy Smits, Chris Cooper, Courtney Love, Pamela Adlon, Kelly McGillis, Fred Savage, Douglas Booth, Richard Roundtree, Ed Ames, Fred Norris, David O’Hara, David Hockney, Scott Grimes, Kevin Nash, Richard Wilson, Nigel Lythgoe, O.J. Simpson, Jordan Belfort, Steven Avery, Amanda Knox, and the late Brian Dennehy, Vince Edwards and Elem Klimov. Rod Steiger died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 77. Charles Lane died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 102. Rip Torn died one year ago in 2019 at age 88.
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