Today is the birthday of Kristin Stewart, Dennis Quaid, Cynthia Nixon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Elle Fanning, Jay Baruchel, Jay Chandrasekhar, Michael Learned, Jenna Jameson, David Gordon Green, Sebastián Silva, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Marty Krofft, Mark Pellegrino, Isabel Coixet, and the late Hugh M. Hefner, Michel Simon, Ward Bond, Paul Robeson, Brad Dexter, and Brandon De Wilde. Sidney Lumet died nine years ago in 2011 at age 86.
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