Today Claire Bloom is 90, Jane Seymour is 70, and Alex Borstein is 50. Today is also the birthday of Matt Groening, Sherry Jackson, Marisa Berenson, Christopher McDonald, Miranda July, Amber Riley, Brendon Small, Samira Makhmalbaf, Omarosa Manigault Newman, and the late Chris Farley, Cesar Romero, Harvey Korman, Kevin McCarthy, John Barrymore, Allan Arbus, Galileo Galilei, Susan B. Anthony, Arthur Shields, Meg Wyllie, and Gale Sondergaard. Wally Cox and Tim Holt died 48 years ago in 1973. Cox was 48, and Holt was 54. Ethel Merman died 37 years in 1984 at age 76. George Gaynes died five years ago in 2016 at age 98.
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