Today Charlaine Harris is 70, Christina Applegate is 50, and Amy Seimetz, Barbara Bush, and Jenna Bush Hager are 40. Today is also the birthday of John Larroquette, Joel Kinnaman, Ben Stein, Jill Hennessy, Dougray Scott, Billy Burke, Mary Jo Deschanel, Tracey Walter, Kathryn Grant, Gaspard Ulliel, Beverly Washburn, Mark Frost, Gregg Turkington, Amy Grant, Bruno Tonioli, and the late Ricardo Montalban, Joe DiMagggio, John Kennedy Jr., Jeffrey Hunter, Noel Neill, Jessie Royce Landis, and Augusto Pinochet. Bill “Bojangles” Robinson died 72 years ago in 1949 at age 72. Upton Sinclair died 53 years ago in 1968 at age 90. Jack Albertson died forty years ago in 1981 at age 74. Flip Wilson died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 64. Fidel Castro and Ron Glass died five years ago in 2016. Castro was 90. Glass was 71. Rance Howard died four years ago in 2017 at age 89.
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