Today Hiroyuki Sanada is 60, and Kirk Cameron is 50. Today is also the birthday of Hugh Jackman, Josh Hutcherson, Lin Shaye, Deborah Foreman, Tony Cavalero, David Threlfall, Les Dennis, Richard Price, Tom Guiry, Iris Apatow, Chris Wallace, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (Carlos the Jackal), and the late Dick Gregory, Luciano Pavarotti, Daliah Lavi, Satoshi Kon, Josephine Hutchinson, and Randy Stuart. John Denver died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 53. Gillo Pontecorvo died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 86.
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