Today Gary Sandy and Paul Willson are 75, and Karl Rove is 70. Today is also the birthday of Sissy Spacek, Jimmy Buffet, Justin Trudeau, Hanna Schygulla, Stuart Wilson, CCH Pounder, Annie Lennox, Nicholas Hope, John Capodice, Stefan Ruzowitzky, and the late Humphrey Bogart, Cab Calloway, Rod Serling, Dick Miller, Mabel King, Mike Mazurki, Ismail Merchant, Frank Ferguson, Barton MacLane, Tony Martin, J. Edward Bromberg, and Conrad Hilton. W.C. Fields died 74 years ago in 1946 at age 66. Charlie Chaplin died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 88. Joan Blondell died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 73. Dean Martin died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 78. Denver Pyle died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 77. James Brown died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 73. Eartha Kitt died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 81. George Michael died four years ago in 2016 at age 53.
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