Today Martha Coolidge is 75, Robert Joy is 70, Larry B. Scott is 60, and Austin Butler is 30. Today is also the birthday of Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Donnie Wahlberg, Taissa Farmiga, Brady Corbet, Julian Fellowes, Belinda Carlisle, Tim Bagley, Jonathan Franzen, Giuliana Rancic, and the late Mae West, Maureen O’Hara, Davy Crockett, Samuel Goldwyn, Helen McCrory, Monty Woolley, Glenn Corbett, Evelyn Ankers, and Mark Felt. Vivian Vance died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 70. Ira Gershwin died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 86. Pearl Bailey died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 72. Yvonne Craig died six years ago in 2015 at age 78. Arthur Hiller died five years ago in 2016 at age 92.
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