Today is the birthday of Susan Sarandon, Liev Schreiber, Christoph Waltz, Alicia Silverstone, Dakota Johnson, Anne Rice, Melissa Benoist, Russell Simmons, Mick Jackson, Caitriona Balfe, Abraham Benrubi, Armand Assante, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Lancashire, Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the late Buster Keaton, Charlton Heston, Jackie Collins, George Sidney, John Larch, Scotty Beckett, Philip Van Zandt, and Stan Dragoti. Janis Joplin died fifty years ago in 1970 at age 27. Graham Chapman died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 48. Buddy Lester died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 87. Diahann Carroll died one year ago in 2019 at age 84.
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