Today is the birthday of Shirley MacLaine, Barbra Streisand, Djimon Hounsou, Eric Bogosian, Richard Donner, Cedric The Entertainer, Eric Balfour, Kelly Clarkson, Aidan Gillen, Derek Luke, Michael O’Keefe, Rory McCann, Austin Nichols, Glenn Morshower, Peter Friedman, Damon Lindelof, and the late Michael Parks, William Castle, Jill Ireland, Bruce Kirby, Jack E. Leonard, and Robert Wiene. Louise Dresser died 66 years ago in 1965 at age 86. Bud Abbott died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 78.
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