Today Eva Marie Saint is 97, Ron Kovic is 75, and Tahar Rahim is 40. Today is also the birthday of Gina Lollobrigida, Tracy Letts, Geraldo Rivera, Stephen Rannazzisi, Ed O’Ross, Mo McRae, Oren Moverman, Malia Obama, and the late Neil Simon, Gloria Stuart, Stephen Boyd, Bill Withers, Calvin Coolidge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Eric Fleming, Colin Welland, Rube Goldberg, and Meyer Lansky. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died 195 years ago in 1826. Adams was 90, and Jefferson was 83. James Monroe died 190 years ago in 1831 at age 73. Eva Gabor died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 76. Barry White died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 58. Abbas Kiarostami died five years ago in 2016 at age 76.
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