Today Nicole Ari Parker is 50. Today is also the birthday of John Mellencamp, Thom Yorke, Joy Behar, Yo-Yo Ma, Desmond Tutu, Dylan Baker, Omar Benson Miller, Shawn and Aaron Ashmore, Mary Badham, Simon Cowell, Amber Stevens West, Andrew Dominik, Bree Olson, Vladimir Putin, and the late June Allyson, Andy Devine, Al Martino, Elijah Muhammad, and Robert Z. Leonard. Edgar Allan Poe died 171 years ago in 1849 at age 40. Charles Rocket died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 56.
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