Today Lesley Stahl is 80, Jon Tenney, Shane Black, and Sam Robards are 60, and Krysten Ritter is 40. Today is also the birthday of Liv Ullmann, J.B. Smoove, Miranda Otto, Billy Gibbons, Anna Popplewell, Benjamin Bratt, Joyce Bulifant, Stephan James, Theo James, Xander Berkeley, James Mangold, Paul and Peter Allen Vogt, Jeff Kanew, Flo Rida, and the late Ludwig van Beethoven, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Noël Coward, Bill Hicks, who would be 60, Ben Cross, Max Linder, Steven Bochco, Patti Deutsch, Margaret Mead, N!xau, and Robert Kerman. Thelma Todd died 86 years ago in 1935 at age 29. Harland Sanders died 41 years ago in 1980 at age 90. Lee Van Cleef died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 64. John Spencer died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 58.
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