Today Anna Deavere Smith is 70, and Aisha Tyler is 50. Today is also the birthday of James Marsden, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jason Sudeikis, Frankie Avalon, Robert Blake, Billy Eichner, Alison Lohman, Xzibit, Lance Armstrong, Anna Thomson, Beth Grant, Christopher Heyerdahl, Nina Arianda, Gailard Sartain, Mark Romanek, David Mirkin, Ben Carson, and the late Greta Garbo, James Gandolfini, Fred Willard, Jack Warden, who would be 100, Samuel Johnson, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, June Foray, Grayson Hall, Rossano Brazzi, and Jack Cardiff. Frank Morgan died 71 years ago in 1949 at age 59. Franchot Tone died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 63. Jimi Hendrix died fifty years ago in 1970 at age 27. Russ Meyer died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 82.
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