Today Cheryl Ladd, Brian Grazer, and Jamey Sheridan are 70, and Erik Per Sullivan is 30. Today is also the birthday of Bill Cosby, Topher Grace, Michelle Rodriguez, Rachel Brosnahan, Richard Simmons, Malala Yousafzai, Cheyenne Jackson, Phil Lord, Anna Friel, Steve Howey, Natalie Martinez, Byung-Hun Lee, Tamsin Greig, Mel Harris, Denise Nicholas, Edwin Neal, and the late Milton Berle, Tod Browning, Joe DeRita, Jay Thomas, Monte Hellman, Beah Richards, Charlie Murphy, Louis B. Meyer, Jean Hersholt, George Eastman, Henry David Thoreau, Pablo Neruda, and Donald E. Westlake. Lon Chaney Jr. died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 67. Kelly Preston died one year ago in 2020 at age 57.
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