Today is the birthday of Roger Waters, Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Rosie Perez, Jane Curtin, Jeff Foxworthy, Jo Anne Worley, Macy Gray, Swoosie Kurtz, Kimberly Peirce, Anne Lockhart, Matthew Horne, David Allan Coe, Chris Christie, and the late John Mitchum, John Ridgely, and Max Schreck. Edmund Gwenn died 61 years ago in 1959 at age 81. Akira Kurosawa died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 88. Burt Reynolds died two years ago in 2018 at age 82.
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