Today Desmond Tutu is 90, and John Mellencamp is 70. Today is also the birthday of Thom Yorke, Joy Behar, Yo-Yo Ma, Dylan Baker, Omar Benson Miller, Shawn and Aaron Ashmore, Mary Badham, Simon Cowell, Nicole Ari Parker, Amber Stevens West, Andrew Dominik, Bree Olson, Vladimir Putin, and the late June Allyson, Andy Devine, Al Martino, Elijah Muhammad, and Robert Z. Leonard. Edgar Allan Poe died 172 years ago in 1849 at age 40. Charles Rocket died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 56.
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