Today Ayman al-Zawahiri is 70. Today is also the birthday of Gena Rowlands, Kathleen Turner, Paul Dano, Zoe Saldana, Salman Rushdie, Jean Dujardin, Phylicia Rashad, Hugh Dancy, Atticus Shaffer, Marisa Pavan, Robin Tunney, Mia Sara, Ryan Hurst, Aidan Turner, Samuel West, Ken Davitian, Derren Nesbitt, Paula Abdul, Macklemore, Boris Johnson, Laura Ingraham, and the late Moe Howard, Charles Coburn, Nick Drake, Nancy Marchand, Mildred Natwick, May Whitty, Pier Angeli, Louis Jourdan, who would be 100, Pat Buttram, Harry Lauter, Kim Walker, Pauline Kael, and Lou Gehrig. Ed Wynn died 65 years ago in 1966 at age 79. Jean Arthur died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 90. James Gandolfini died eight years ago in 2013 at age 51. Anton Yelchin died five years ago in 2016 at age 27. Ian Holm died one year ago in 2020 at age 88.
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