Today Anne Rice is 80, and Susan Sarandon is 75. Today is also the birthday of Liev Schreiber, Christoph Waltz, Alicia Silverstone, Dakota Johnson, Melissa Benoist, Russell Simmons, Mick Jackson, Caitriona Balfe, Abraham Benrubi, Armand Assante, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Lancashire, Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the late Buster Keaton, Charlton Heston, Jackie Collins, George Sidney, John Larch, Scotty Beckett, Philip Van Zandt, and Stan Dragoti. Janis Joplin died 51 years ago in 1970 at age 27. Graham Chapman died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 48. Buddy Lester died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 87. Diahann Carroll died two years ago in 2019 at age 84.
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