Today Jackie Mason is 90, Michael J. Fox and Aaron Sorkin are 60, and Natalie Portman is 40. Today is also the birthday of Johnny Depp, Eddie Marsan, Josh Hamilton, Mae Whitman, Gloria Reuben, David Koepp, Justin Benson, and the late Cole Porter, Robert Cummings, Mona Freeman, Joe Santos, and Robert McNamara. Charles Dickens died 151 years ago in 1870 at age 58. Robert Donat died 63 years ago in 1958 at age 53. Ousmane Sembene died fourteen years ago today in 2007 at age 84. Adam West died four years ago in 2017 at age 88.
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