Today Mary Jo Deschanel is 75, and Amy Grant is 60. Today is also the birthday of Christina Applegate, John Larroquette, Joel Kinnaman, Ben Stein, Jill Hennessy, Dougray Scott, Billy Burke, Tracey Walter, Kathryn Grant, Gaspard Ulliel, Beverly Washburn, Mark Frost, Amy Seimetz, Gregg Turkington, Bruno Tonioli, Charlaine Harris, Barbara Bush, Jenna Bush Hager, and the late Ricardo Montalban and Noel Neill, who would both be 100, Joe DiMagggio, John Kennedy Jr., Jeffrey Hunter, Jessie Royce Landis, and Augusto Pinochet. Bill “Bojangles” Robinson died 71 years ago in 1949 at age 72. Upton Sinclair died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 90. Jack Albertson died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 74. Flip Wilson died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 64. Fidel Castro and Ron Glass died four years ago in 2016. Castro was 90. Glass was 71. Rance Howard died three years ago in 2017 at age 89.
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