Today John Capodice is 80, Jimmy Buffet and Stuart Wilson are 75, Stefan Ruzowitzky is 60, and Justin Trudeau is 50. Today is also the birthday of Sissy Spacek, Jeremy Strong, Hanna Schygulla, CCH Pounder, Annie Lennox, Nicholas Hope, Gary Sandy, Paul Willson, Karl Rove, and the late Humphrey Bogart, Cab Calloway, Rod Serling, Dick Miller, Mabel King, Mike Mazurki, Ismail Merchant, Frank Ferguson, Barton MacLane, Tony Martin, J. Edward Bromberg, and Conrad Hilton. W.C. Fields died 75 years ago in 1946 at age 66. Charlie Chaplin died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 88. Joan Blondell died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 73. Dean Martin died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 78. Denver Pyle died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 77. James Brown died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 73. Eartha Kitt died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 81. George Michael died five years ago in 2016 at age 53.
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