Today Jean-Claude Van Damme is 60, and Bristol Palin is 30. Today is also the birthday of Zac Efron, Freida Pinto, Pam Dawber, Tyler Posey, Joe Morton, Dawn Wells, Arliss Howard, Ne-Yo, Esperanza Spalding, Chuck Lorre, Howard Shore, Nic Pizzolatto, Lucky Yates, David Twohy, Peter Sohn, Barry Gifford, Bob Weinstein, Mike Ditka, Milo Yiannopoulos, and the late George C. Scott, Klaus Kinski, Chuck Berry, Peter Boyle, Miriam Hopkins, Erin Moran, Inger Stevens, Om Puri, Calvin Lockhart, Lotte Lenya, Bobby Troup, Melina Mercouri, who would be 100, Victor Sen Yung, Norman ‘Chubby’ Chaney, Roy Del Ruth, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Henry Travers died 65 years ago in 1965 at age 91. Julie London died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 74. Dee Dee Warwick died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 66.
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