Today Jennifer Coolidge is 60. Today is also the birthday of Jack Black, Armie Hammer, David Fincher, Luis Guzmán, Daniel Stern, Ai Weiwei, Billy Boyd, Brian Thompson, David Soul, Ken Jenkins, Florence Welch, Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, Quvenzhane Wallis, Sheryl Sandberg, Alana Thompson (Honey Boo Boo), and the late Donald O’Connor, Charles Boyer, Ben Gazzara, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Rocket, Nancy Kulp, who would be 100, Simon Oakland, Roxie Roker, Jack Kirby, and James Wong Howe. Emmett Till died 66 years ago in 1955 at age 14. Ruth Gordon died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 88. John Huston died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 81. Chadwick Boseman died one year ago in 2020 at age 43.
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