Today Tyne Daly and Anthony Daniels are 75, Christopher Atkins is 60, and Sophie Turner is 25. Today is also the birthday of Elliot Page, Kelsey Grammer, Jordan Peele, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mélanie Laurent, Kim Coates, William Petersen, Kumail Nanjiani, Tituss Burgess, Bob Rafelson, William Baldwin, Jack Coleman, Margarethe von Trotta, Christine Ebersole, Brendan Sexton III, Chuck Palahniuk, Justin Roiland, Gary Lockwood, Shane Ryan, and the late Alan Rickman, Nina Simone, Sam Peckinpah, John Lewis, David Foster Wallace, Rue McClanahan, Ann Sheridan, Larry Drake, Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Sacha Guitry, and James Beck. Malcolm X was assassinated 56 years ago in 1965 at age 39. Stanley Donen and Peter Tork died two year ago in 2019. Donen was 94. Tork was 77.
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