Today Janis Paige is 99, Jim McBride is 80, Amy Poehler is 50, and Bingbing Fan and Alexis Bledel are 40. Today is also the birthday of Mickey Rourke, Molly Shannon, Ed Begley Jr., George Chakiris, Jennifer Tilly, Nick Jonas, Marc Anthony, David Copperfield, Danny John-Jules, Max Minghella, Madeline Zima, Jayne Brook, Richard Marx, Kurt Fuller, Linda Henning, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Roger Ross Williams, and the late Lauren Bacall, Peter Falk, BB King, Anne Francis, Morgan Woodward, Tommy Bond, Allen Funt, and Guy Hamilton. Mary Travers died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 72. Edward Albee died five years ago in 2016 at age 88.
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