Today Virginia Madsen and Elizabeth Daily are 60. Today is also the birthday of Brian De Palma, Taraji P. Henson, John Hawkes, Harry Connick Jr., Moby, Ludacris, Tyler Hoechlin, Amy Madigan, Kristy McNichol, Tom Dreesen, Lola Falana, Roxann Dawson, Earl Holliman, Tony Gilroy, Bertrand Bonello, John Curran, Bashar al-Assad, and the late Herbert Lom, Ian Abercrombie, O. Henry, and Robert Day. Lorne Greene died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 72. Jessica Tandy died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 85. Kim Hunter died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 79. John Ritter died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 54. Kevin McCarthy and Harold Gould died eleven years ago in 2010. McCarthy was 96. Gould was 86. Andy Whitfield died ten years ago in 2011 at age 39.
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