Today is the birthday of Frankie Valli, Bobby Cannavale, Christina Hendricks, Rebecca Hall, Amy Ryan, Chris Mulkey, Rob Brydon, Dulé Hill, Pom Klementieff, Emily V. Gordon, Willie Geist, and the late James Brown, Pete Seeger, Mary Astor, George Gaynes, Robert Osborne, Ann B. Davis, Beulah Bondi, Walter Slezak, Aline MacMahon, Jack La Rue, “Sugar” Ray Robinson, who would be 100, and Robert De Niro Sr., who died on his birthday 28 years ago in 1993 at age 71. Robert Alda died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 72. Christine Jorgensen died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 62. Jackie Cooper died ten years ago in 2011 at age 88.
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