Today Joan Chen is 60. Today is also the birthday of Channing Tatum, Carol Burnett, Jet Li, Kevin James, Giancarlo Esposito, Pablo Schreiber, Jemima Kirke, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bobby Rydell, Jordana Brewster, Tom Welling, Ivana Milicevic, Debra Wilson, Melania Trump, and the late Douglas Sirk, Jean Vigo, Warren Clarke, Edgar Kennedy, Claudine Auger, Stafford Repp, and William Desmond Taylor. Gypsy Rose Lee died 51 years ago in 1970 at age 59. Irene Ryan died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 70. Broderick Crawford died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 74. Lucille Ball died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 77. Jonathan Demme died four years ago in 2017 at age 73.
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