Today Connie Booth is 80, Penelope Spheeris is 75, and Joe Lo Truglio is 50. Today is also the birthday of Lucy Liu, Britney Spears, Dennis Christopher, Rena Sofer, Steven Bauer, Brendan Coyle, Alfred Enoch, Dan Butler, Harry Reid, and the late Julie Harris, Maria Callas, Ray Walston, Leo Gordon, Jonathan Frid, Bill Irwin, Gianni Versace, Warren William, Robert F. Simon, and Vilgot Sjöman. Marty Feldman died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 48. Desi Arnaz died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 69. Robert Cummings died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 80. Joey Adams died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 88.
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