Today David Attenborough is 95, and Stephen Amell is 40. Today is also the birthday of Melissa Gilbert, Thomas Pynchon, David Keith, Enrique Iglesias, Phyllida Law, Mark Blankfield, Michel Gondry, Sebastian Schipper, and the late Don Rickles, Roberto Rossellini, Ricky Nelson, Stephen Furst, Sidney James, Saul Bass, Touko Laaksonen (Tom of Finland), Peter Benchley, Robert Johnson, Miyoshi Umeki, Fernandel, and Harry S. Truman. Edmond O’Brien died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 69. Dirk Bogarde died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 78.
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