Today Robert M. Young is 97, and Mariel Hemingway is 60. Today is also the birthday of Scarlett Johansson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mark Ruffalo, Terry Gilliam, Mads Mikkelsen, Steven Van Zandt, Alden Ehrenreich, Richard Kind, Billie Jean King, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Karen O, Leos Carax, Marjane Satrapi, and the late Rodney Dangerfield, who would be 100, Geraldine Page, Michael Kenneth Williams, Robert Vaughn, Allen Garfield, Lee Patrick, Arthur Hiller, Andrzej Zulawski, Charles de Gaulle, Elizabeth Patterson, and Paul A. Partain. Jack London died 105 years ago in 1916 at age 40. Shemp Howard died 66 years ago in 1955 at age 60. John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley died 58 years ago in 1963. Kennedy was 46, Lewis was 64, and Huxley was 69. Mae West died 41 years ago in 1980 at age 87. Michael Conrad died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 58. Scatman Crothers died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 76. Sterling Holloway died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 87. Bill Bixby and Anthony Burgess died 28 years ago in 1993. Bixby was 59. Burgess was 76. Florence Henderson died five years ago in 2016 at age 82.
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