Today Brenda Blethyn and Sandy Duncan are 75. Today is also the birthday of Sidney Poitier, Lili Taylor, Miles Teller, Mike Leigh, Joel Hodgson, Richard Beymer, Rihanna, Trevor Noah, Chelsea Peretti, Charles Barkley, Andrea Savage, Willie Garson, Louis Ferreira, Jay Hernandez, Lauren Ambrose, Anthony Head, David Herman, Jack Falahee, Jason Blum, Andrew Bergman, Cindy Crawford, Kliph Nesteroff, Patricia Hearst, Ivana Trump, and the late Robert Altman, Kurt Cobain, Richard Matheson, Brion James, Amanda Blake, Gale Gordon, Pierre Boulle, and Gloria Vanderbilt. Max Schreck died 85 years ago in 1936 at age 56. Dick York died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 63. Sandra Dee died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 62.
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