Today Patricia Richardson is 70, and Josh Gad is 40. Today is also the birthday of Emily Blunt, Kelly Macdonald, Aziz Ansari, Kristin Davis, Dakota Fanning, Niecy Nash, Paul Morrissey, Marie-Josée Croze, and the late Peter Fonda, Victor Fleming, George Frideric Handel, W.E.B. Du Bois, Diane Varsi, Mary Pat Gleason, Terence Fisher, Norman Taurog, and Jirí Menzel. Mabel Normand died 91 years ago in 1930 at age 37. Stan Laurel died 56 years ago in 1965 at age 74. Katherine Helmond died two years ago in 2019 at age 89.
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