Today Jimmy Hawkins is 80, Noah Hathaway is 50, and Kentucker Audley is 40. Today is also the birthday of Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Kimmel, Gerard Butler, Joe Mantegna, Steve Zahn, Neil Flynn, Chris Noth, Aisha Hinds, Tom Atkins, J.A. Preston, David Zellner, and the late Garry Marshall, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jean Seberg, Oskar Werner, Robert Sterling, Richard Mulligan, Jack Elam, Gunnar Björnstrand, Hermione Baddeley, Don Gordon, Mary Beth Hughes, Adrienne Corri, and Fred Phelps. Vittorio De Sica died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 73. Junior Samples died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 57. Leon Russell died five years ago in 2016 at age 74.
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