Today Woody Allen is 85, Bette Midler is 75, and Sarah Silverman is 50. Today is also the birthday of Emily Mortimer, Janelle Monáe, Treat Williams, Riz Ahmed, Jonathan Katz, Zoë Kravitz, Deep Roy, Nestor Carbonell, Nate Torrence, Larry Charles, David Hornsby, Akiva Schaffer, Andrew Adamson, Rick Scott, and the late Richard Pryor, who would be 80, Dick Shawn, Mary Martin, David Doyle, Paul Picerni, Matthew Shepard, and Pablo Escobar. James Baldwin died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Paul Benedict died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 70. Ken Berry died two years ago in 2018 at age 85.
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