Today Jessica Walter is 80, Patricia Velasquez is 50, and Justin Timberlake is 40. Today is also the birthday of Minnie Driver, Kerry Washington, Jonathan Banks, Portia de Rossi, Bobby Moynihan, John Lydon, Philip Glass, Kelly Lynch, Stuart Margolin, Paul Scheer, Anthony Lapaglia, Peter McRobbie, Nick DiPaolo, Dexter Fletcher, Megan Ellison, Michael St. Michaels, and the late Jean Simmons, Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing and Mario Lanza, who would both be 100, Norman Mailer, Jackie Robinson, Suzanne Pleshette, Franz Schubert, Eddie Cantor, Joanne Dru, Percy Helton, and Derek Jarman. Samuel Goldwyn died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 94. George Abbott died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 107.
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