Today is the birthday of Joe Biden, Dick Smothers, Estelle Parsons, Sean Young, Bo Derek, Joel McHale, Andrea Riseborough, Joe Walsh, Dierks Bentley, Ming-Na Wen, Callie Thorne, Don DeLillo, Larry Karaszewski, Veronica Hamel, Richard Masur, Jerry Hardin, Ned Vaughn, Judy Woodruff, Mie Hama, Samuel E. Wright, Rodger Bumpass, Jeff Dowd, and the late Robert F. Kennedy, Bob Einstein, Richard Dawson, Kaye Ballard, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Robert Armstrong, Evelyn Keyes, Phyllis Thaxter, Reginald Denny, Franklin Cover, and Kon Ichikawa. Allan Sherman died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 48. Richard Loo died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 80. Robert Altman died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 81.
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