Today Peter Watkins is 85, and Ben Foster is 40. Today is also the birthday of Richard Dreyfuss, Winona Ryder, Gabrielle Union, Dan Castellaneta, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kate Jackson, Rufus Sewell, Joely Fisher, Lee Child, Ralph Bakshi, Michael Schur, and the late Bob Ross, Fanny Brice, Peter Green, Beth Chapman, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Hardy, Geraldine Brooks, Eddie Constantine, Isao Takahata, and Joseph Goebbels. Adolphe Menjou died 57 years ago in 1963 at age 73. Vaughn Meader died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 68. John Witherspoon died one year ago in 2019 at age 77.