Today Martin Sheen is 80, John Landis is 70, and Hannah Simone is 40. Today is also the birthday of Tony Bennett, John C. McGinley, Evangeline Lilly, Stephen Graham, James Hetfield, Isaiah Washington, Martha Stewart, Molly Hagan, Lambert Wilson, Michael Ealy, Jonah Ray, Nick Sandow, Mamie Gummer, Steven Berkoff, Mathieu Kassovitz, Jay North, Elsa Cárdenas, Justin Kurzel, Tom Brady, Max Landis, and the late Dolores del Rio, Jean Hagen, and Bethel Leslie. Joseph Conrad died 96 years ago in 1924 at age 66. Flannery O’Connor died 56 years ago in 1964 at age 39. Lenny Bruce died 54 years ago in 1966 at age 40. Ida Lupino died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 77.
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