Today Joe Don Baker is 85. Today is also the birthday of Josh Brolin, Christina Ricci, Darren Aronofsky, Costa-Gavras, John Michael Higgins, Arsenio Hall, Judy Blume, Lochlyn Munro, Michael Ironside, Tara Strong, Raphael Sbarge, Iko Uwais, Josef Altin, Cliff De Young, Zach Grenier, Annette Crosbie, and the late Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, both born today in 1809, Franco Zeffirelli, Forrest Tucker, Louis Zorich, Lorne Greene, Simon MacCorkindale, Richard Lynch, Ann Gillis, Wallace Ford, and Joseph Kearns. Dziga Vertov died 67 years ago in 1954 at age 58. Sal Mineo died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 37. Jean Renoir died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 84. Charles M. Schulz died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 77. Sid Caesar died seven years ago in 2014 at age 91. Marty Allen died three years ago in 2018 at age 95.
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