Today Alan Alda is 85, and Elijah Wood is 40. Today is also the birthday of Will Poulter, Joey Fatone, Susan Howard, Frank Darabont, Marthe Keller, Gillian Vigman, Sarah McLachlan, John Beck, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Nicholas Pryor, Jack Hill, Mo Rocca, Ariel Winter, Rick Ross, Nick Carter, and the late John Banner, who died on his birthday 48 years ago in 1973 at age 63, Tom Neal, Lewis Wilson, Richard Glatzer, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Maurice Gosfield. Zora Neale Hurston died 61 years ago in 1960 at age 69. Burt Mustin died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 92. Erle C. Kenton died 41 years ago in 1980 at age 83.
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