Today Jessica Simpson and Thomas Ian Nicholas are 40. Today is also the birthday of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sofia Vergara, Adrian Grenier, Arlo Guthrie, Fiona Shaw, Robert Pine, Peter Serafinowicz, Golshifteh Farahani, Wyatt Russell, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Alice Munro, Annie Mumolo, Mavis Staples, Marco Rodríguez, Joel Potrykus, and the late Fred Gwynne, Marcel Proust, Nikola Tesla, Sue Lyon, Ivan Passer, Jake LaMotta, Ron Glass, David Brinkley, who would be 100, Tura Satana, Nick Adams, John Gilbert, and Jerry Nelson. Mel Blanc died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 81. Omar Sharif died five years ago in 2015 at age 83.
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