Today Wolfgang Petersen is 80, and Gary Dell’Abate is 60. Today is also the birthday of Michael Caine, Billy Crystal, Quincy Jones, Jamie Bell, Ansel Elgort, Corey Stoll, Meredith Salenger, Chris Klein, Betsy Brandt, Raymond J. Barry, Johnny Flynn, Stephen Curry, Kevin Williamson, Gary Anthony Williams, Bruno Dumont, Sasha Grey, Bertrand Blier, and the late Albert Einstein and Diane Arbus. Susan Hayward died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 57. Busby Berkeley died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 80. Howard Ashman died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 40. Fred Zinnemann died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 89. Peter Graves died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 83.
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