Today Ken Loach is 85, William Lucking is 80, Joe Piscopo is 70, and Denis Lavant is 60. Today is also the birthday of Greg Kinnear, Thomas Haden Church, Kendrick Lamar, Barry Manilow, Will Forte, Bobby Farrelly, Scott Adkins, John Gallagher Jr., Joshua Leonard, Michael Showalter, Jason Patric, Peter Lupus, Arthur Darvill, Venus Williams, Jodie Whittaker, Jon Gries, Jennifer Irwin, Louis Leterrier, Phyllida Lloyd, Newt Gingrich, and the late Ralph Bellamy, Lucio Fulci, Russell Simpson, James Shigeta, Setsuko Hara, Grant Mitchell, M.C. Escher, and Sonny Fox. Cyd Charisse died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 86.
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