Today Cheng Pei Pei is 75, and Patricia Wettig and Mick Garris are 70. Today is also the birthday of Jeff Bridges, Marisa Tomei, Jay-Z, Fred Armisen, Tyra Banks, Tony Todd, Max Baer Jr., Gemma Jones, Wink Martindale, Pamela Stephenson, Corinne Marchand, Kevin Sussman, Álex de la Iglesia, Yôjirô Takita, ‘Melrose’ Larry Green, and the late Deanna Durbin, who would be 100, Ronnie Corbett, Dennis Wilson, Horst Buchholz, Victor French, Donnelly Rhodes, Gérard Philipe, Michael Bates, Mark Robson, Lloyd Bacon, Alex North, Cornell Woolrich, and Francisco Franco. Bert Lahr died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 72. Frank Zappa died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 52. David L. Lander died one year ago in 2020 at age 73.
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