Today Hugh Hudson is 85, and Billy Ray Cyrus is 60. Today is also the birthday of Elvis Costello, Tim Burton, Alexander Skarsgård, Gene Simmons, Tom Skerritt, Blake Lively, Tom Hollander, John Savage, Rachael Ray, Ben Falcone, Blair Underwood, Simon McBurney, Kel Mitchell, Mink Stole, Jeff Tweedy, Joe Wright, John Badham, Fatih Akin, and the late Sean Connery, Regis Philbin, Leonard Bernstein, Mel Ferrer, Van Johnson, Michael Rennie, Don DeFore, Monty Hall, who would be 100, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and George Wallace. Paul Muni died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 71. Truman Capote died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 59. Aaliyah died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 22. Marvin Kaplan died five years ago in 2016 at age 89.
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