Today James Darren is 85, Bonnie Tyler is 70, and Will Smith (writer/actor) and Troy Duffy are 50. Today is also the birthday of Julianna Margulies, Nancy Sinatra, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Kanye West, Frank Grillo, Griffin Dunne, Colin Baker, Kathy Baker, J.P. Manoux, Gabby Giffords, Kevin Farley, Dan Futterman, Matthew Bright, and the late Joan Rivers, Robert Preston, Jerry Stiller, Alexis Smith, who would be 100, Bernie Casey, George Wallace, Don Grady, Charles Tyner, Myron Healey, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Barbara Bush. Robert Taylor died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 57. Anthony Bourdain died three years ago in 2018 at age 61. Bonnie Pointer died one year ago in 2020 at age 69.
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