Today Margo Martindale is 70, Elizabeth McGovern is 60, and Michiel Huisman is 40. Today is also the birthday of Vin Diesel, Kristen Bell, James Brolin, Paul Verhoeven, Wendy Williams, Kelly Reilly, Andre Royo, James Faulkner, Priyanka Chopra, Chace Crawford, Hampton Fancher, Ann-Marie Johnson, Grant Bowler, Richard Branson, Audrey Landers, Lee Arenberg, Jared Hess, and the late Nelson Mandela, Red Skelton, Hunter S. Thompson, Hume Cronyn, Chill Wills, John Glenn, who would be 100, Richard Dix, Gene Lockhart, Harriet Nelson, Lupe Velez, Burt Kwouk, and William Makepeace Thackeray. Jane Austen died 204 years ago in 1817 at age 41. Nico died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 49. Alex Rocco died six years ago in 2015 at age 79.
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