Today Peter Billingsley and Erik Bleaman (aka High Pitch Erik) are 50, and Anya Taylor-Joy is 25. Today is also the birthday of Ellen Barkin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Claire Foy, Jon Cryer, Martin Lawrence, Lukas Haas, Gina Carano, Bobby Vinton, Chance the Rapper, AKON, Jay O. Sanders, Hayes MacArthur, Qi Shu, Billy West, Marshall R. Teague, and the late Charles Chaplin, Peter Ustinov, who would be 100, Spike Milligan, Barry Nelson, Edie Adams, Selena Quintanilla-Perez, who would be 50, Henry Mancini, David Graf, George ‘The Animal’ Steele, Catherine Scorsese, Les Tremayne, and Dusty Springfield. David Lean died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 83.
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