Today Dick Wolf and Uri Geller are 75. Today is also the birthday of Jonah Hill, Peter Criss, Todd Phillips, Michael Badalucco, Jenny Agutter, Ramon Rodriguez, Brian O’Halloran, Joe Cornish, Terry George, Eduardo Sánchez, and the late Irene Dunne, Dennis Morgan, George Roy Hill, who would be 100, Audrey Totter, John Spencer, Charlie Callas, Kathryn Joosten, Ki-duk Kim, John Hillerman, Mala Powers, Charley Grapewin, and Albert Dekker. John Steinbeck died 53 years ago in 1968 at age 66. Bobby Darin died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 37. Carl Sagan died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 62. Foster Brooks died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 89. Brittany Murphy and Arnold Stang died twelve years ago in 2009. Murphy was 32. Stang was 91.
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