Today Brian Doyle-Murray is 75, Jane Pauley is 70, Arnaud Desplechin is 60, Eddie Kaye Thomas is 40, and Willow Smith is 20. Today is also the birthday of Lee Grant, Peter Jackson, Rob Schneider, Dermot Mulroney, Stephen Rea, Dan Rather, Ron Rifkin, Sally Kirkland, Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock), Johnny Marr, Letitia Wright, Piper Perabo, David Dencik, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kether Donohue, Mike O’Malley, Randy Jackson, Michael J. Anderson, Ruben Fleischer, Nora Twomey, Vanilla Ice, and the late John Candy and Frank Silva, who would both be 70, Ethel Waters, Dale Evans, Michael Landon, John Keats, David Ogden Stiers, Bud Spencer, Barbara Bel Geddes, Eduard Franz, Sara Allgood, Ollie Johnston, and Jimmy Savile. Harry Houdini died 94 years ago in 1926 at age 52. John Houseman died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 86. Federico Fellini and River Phoenix died 27 years ago in 1993. Fellini was 73. Phoenix was 23.
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