Today Rita Moreno is 90, and Hailee Steinfeld is 25. Today is also the birthday of Jean-Louis Trintignant, Teri Garr, Donna Mills, Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), Mo’Nique, John Kerry, Nikki Sixx, Max Martini, Xosha Roquemore, Lynda Day George, Brenda Lee, Rider Strong, Jon Brion, Tom Shadyac, Margaret Hoover, and the late Jean Marais, Maila Nurmi (aka Vampira), Ron Carey, Liz Smith, who would be 100, Gilbert Roland, Marie Windsor, Betsy Blair, Elizabeth Baur, Dilip Kumar, Manoel de Oliveira, and Carlo Ponti. Sam Cooke and Percy Kilbride died 57 years ago in 1964. Cooke was 33. Kilbride was 76. Bettie Page died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 85. Ravi Shankar died nine years ago in 2012 at age 92. Kim Ki-duk died one year ago in 2020 at age 59.
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