Today Dilip Kumar is 98, Jean-Louis Trintignant is 90, and Donna Mills is 80. Today is also the birthday of Rita Moreno, Teri Garr, Hailee Steinfeld, Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), Mo’Nique, John Kerry, Nikki Sixx, Max Martini, Xosha Roquemore, Lynda Day George, Brenda Lee, Rider Strong, Jon Brion, Tom Shadyac, Margaret Hoover, and the late Jean Marais, Maila Nurmi (aka Vampira), Ron Carey, Liz Smith, Gilbert Roland, Marie Windsor, Betsy Blair, Elizabeth Baur, Manoel de Oliveira, and Carlo Ponti. Sam Cooke and Percy Kilbride died 56 years ago in 1964. Cooke was 33. Kilbride was 76. Bettie Page died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 85. Ravi Shankar died eight years ago in 2012 at age 92.
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