Today Jim Brown is 85, Denise Richards is 50, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Paris Hilton are 40, and Ed Sheeran and Bonnie Wright are 30. Today is also the birthday of Michael Jordan, Rene Russo, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michael Bay, Lou Diamond Phillips, Brenda Fricker, Larry The Cable Guy, Jerry O’Connell, Jason Ritter, Lucy Davis, Billie Joe Armstrong, Rory Kinnear, Richard Karn, Patricia Routledge, Christina Pickles, Barry Humphries, Becky Ann Baker, Don Coscarelli, and the late Alan Bates, Hal Holbrook, Arthur Kennedy, Kathleen Freeman, Arthur Hunnicutt, Huey P. Newton, Dieter Laser, Jeremy Slate, and Ralphie May. Lee Strasberg died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 80. Andrzej Zulawski died five years ago in 2016 at age 75.
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