Today Nicholas Meyer is 75. Today is also the birthday of Ricky Martin, Ryan Seacrest, Lee Daniels, Thure Lindhardt, Diedrich Bader, Michael Raymond-James, Anil Kapoor, Austin Stowell, Gavin O’Connor, Louis Tomlinson, Stephenie Meyer, Scott Spiegel, Jeff Sessions, and the late Ava Gardner, Michael Curtiz, Howard Hughes, Jonas Mekas, Ruth Chatterton, and Franz Waxman. Bernard Herrmann died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 64. Peter Lawford died 36 years ago in 1984 at 61. Toshirô Mifune died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 77. Harold Pinter died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 78. Charles Durning and Jack Krugman died eight years ago in 2012. Durning was 89. Klugman was 90.
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