Today Donald Sutherland is 85, P.J. Soles is 70, and Mark Burnett is 60. Today is also the birthday of Jason Clarke, Kar-Wai Wong, David Hasselhoff, Alex Winter, Heather Langenkamp, Mélanie Thierry, Cécile de France, Elena Anaya, Billie Lourd, F. Gary Gray, Lucie Arnaz, John Ventimiglia, Robert Romanus, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Angela Merkel, and the late James Cagney, Phyllis Diller, Diahann Carroll, Art Linkletter, Barbara O’Neil, William Gargan, and Jack Conway. Billie Holiday died 61 years ago in 1959 at age 44. John Coltrane died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 40. Geraldine Fitzgerald died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 91. Elaine Stritch died six years ago in 2014 at age 89.
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