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Today Norman Lear is 96, Will Jordan is 91, and Cliff Curtis and Maria Grazia Cucinotta are 50. Today is also the birthday of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maya Rudolph, Taylor Schilling, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Donnie Yen, Betty Thomas, Rade Serbedzija, Bill Engvall, Roger Guenveur Smith, Bryan Fuller, Carol Leifer, Takashi Shimizu, Triple H (Paul Levesque), and the late Keenan Wynn, Jerry Van Dyke, Donald Crisp, Maury Chaykin, who died on his birthday in 2010 at age 61, Lupita Tovar, and Charles Vidor. Gertrude Stein died 72 years ago in 1946 at age 72. William Wyler died 37 years ago in 1981 at age 79. James Mason died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 75. Bob Hope died fifteen years ago in 2003 at age 100. R.G. Armstrong died six years ago in 2012 at age 95. Sam Shepard died one year ago in 2017 at age 73.

Today Mick Jagger and Peter Hyams are 75, and Olivia Williams is 50. Today is also the birthday of Helen Mirren, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Jason Statham, Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven, Roger Taylor, Darlene Love, Linda Harrison, Juliet Rylance, Susan George, Dito Montiel, Danny Woodburn, Andy Goldsworthy, and the late Stanley Kubrick, Jason Robards, Gracie Allen, Blake Edwards, Vivian Vance, Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Jung, James Best, Marjorie Lord, who would be 100, Suzanna Leigh, and Joe Jackson. Ed Gein died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 77. June Foray died one year ago in 2017 at age 99.

Today is the birthday of Matt LeBlanc, Illeana Douglas, Iman, Barbara Harris, David Denman, Jay F. Ferguson, D.B. Woodside, Darren Star, Ana Lily Amirpour, and the late Walter Brennan, Estelle Getty, Brad Renfro, Jack Gilford, Woody Strode, Janet Margolin, Emmett Till, August Schellenberg, Jerry Paris, Harold Peary, Lila Lee, and Raoul Ruiz. Vincente Minnelli died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 83. John Schlesinger died fifteen years ago in 2003 at age 77.

Today Kristin Chenoweth and Laura Leighton are 50, and Bindi Irwin is 20. Today is also the birthday of Anna Paquin, Jennifer Lopez, Elisabeth Moss, Rose Byrne, Lynda Carter, Michael Richards, Ruth Buzzi, Mara Wilson, Gus Van Sant, Chris Sarandon, Dan Hedaya, Doug Liman, Summer Glau, Laura Fraser, Patty Jenkins, Gallagher, Paul Ben-Victor, Robert Hays, Mark Goddard, Danny Dyer, and the late Peter Yates, Alexandre Dumas, Amelia Earhart, Robert Emhardt, Mabel Albertson, Chief Dan George, Zelda Fitzgerald, Ermanno Olmi, Delmer Daves, and Robert Graves. Constance Bennett died 53 years ago in 1965 at age 60. Peter Sellers died 38 years ago in 1980 at age 54. Alan Clarke died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 54. Sherman Hemsley died six years ago in 2012 at age 74.

Today Jan Troell is 87, Ronny Cox is 80, and Shawn Levy is 50. Today is also the birthday of Woody Harrelson, Daniel Radcliffe, Slash, Marlon Wayans, Eric La Salle, Kathryn Hahn, Charisma Carpenter, Edie McClurg, Larry Manetti, Pepe Serna, Jo Brand, Don Imus, Monica Lewinsky, Anthony Kennedy, and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Raymond Chandler, Gloria DeHaven, Emil Jannings, John Rutsey, Hank Worden, Karl Swenson, Robert Brown, and Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy. D.W. Griffith died seventy years ago in 1948 at age 73. Montgomery Clift died 52 years ago in 1966 at age 45. Vic Marrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen died 36 years ago in 1982 on the set of The Twilight Zone: The Movie. Marrow was 53. Le was 7. Chen was 6. Amy Winehouse died seven years ago in 2011 at age 27.

Today Bob Dole is 95, Orson Bean is 90, and Terence Stamp is 80. Today is also the birthday of Willem Dafoe, Albert Brooks, Danny Glover, David Spade, John Leguizamo, Louise Fletcher, Selena Gomez, Paul Schrader, Rhys Ifans, Alex Trebek, Alan Menken, Jaime Camil, Adam Godley, Peter Jason, Olivier Gourmet, and the late James Whale and Dan Rowan. Ulrich Mühe died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 54. Estelle Getty died ten years ago in 2008 at age 84. Dennis Farina died five years ago in 2013 at age 69.

Today Norman Jewison is 92, Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) is 70, and Josh Hartnett and Justin Bartha are 40. Today is also the birthday of Charlotte Gainsbourg, Juno Temple, Jon Lovitz, George Wallace, Béla Tarr, Godfrey, Rory Culkin, Betty Gilpin, David Dastmalchian, Diane Guerrero, Sprague Grayden, Alysia Reiner, Ike Eisenmann, Adrienne King, and the late Robin Williams, Don Knotts, Ernest Hemingway, Edward Herrmann, Paul Burke, Karel Reisz, Maria Falconetti, and Janet Reno. Basil Rathbone died 51 years ago in 1967 at age 75. Theodore Bikel died three years ago in 2015 at age 91. John Heard died one year ago in 2017 at age 71.

Today Cormac McCarthy is 85, Diana Rigg is 80, and Julianne Hough is 30. Today is also the birthday of Sandra Oh, Judy Greer, Omar Epps, Josh Holloway, John Francis Daley, Carlos Santana, Frank Whaley, Dean Winters, Naseeruddin Shah, Sally Ann Howes, Simon Rex, Tantoo Cardinal, Rodney Eastman, Camille Keaton, Randal Kleiser, and the late Natalie Wood, Alexander the Great, Verna Felton, Lola Albright, Aleksey German, and Billy Mays. Franklin Pangborn died sixty years ago in 1958 at age 69. Bruce Lee died 45 years ago today at age 32.

Today Mark Holton is 60, Jim Norton and Matthew Libatique are 50, and Shane Dawson is 30. Today is also the birthday of Benedict Cumberbatch, Anthony Edwards, Brian May, Jared Padalecki, Vinessa Shaw, Kaitlin Doubleday, Lisa Lampanelli, Campbell Scott, Nancy Carell, Saïd Taghmaoui, George Dzundza, Josh Fadem, Abel Ferrara, Atom Egoyan, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hideo Nakata, Juan José Campanella, Tommy McLoughlin, and the late Pat Hingle, Richard Jordan, Max Fleischer, George McGovern, and Lizzie Borden. Joe Flynn died 44 years ago in 1974 at age 49. Jack Warden died twelve years ago in 2006 at age 85. Mel Smith died five years ago in 2013 at age 60. James Garner died four years ago in 2014 at age 86. Garry Marshall died two years ago in 2016 at age 81.

Today Paul Verhoeven and Hampton Fancher are 80, James Faulkner is 70, and Andre Royo and Grant Bowler are 50. Today is also the birthday of Vin Diesel, Kristen Bell, James Brolin, Margo Martindale, Elizabeth McGovern, Kelly Reilly, Michiel Huisman, Priyanka Chopra, Chace Crawford, M.I.A., Ann-Marie Johnson, Richard Branson, Wendy Williams, Audrey Landers, Lee Arenberg, Jared Hess, and the late Nelson Mandela, who would be 100, Red Skelton, Hunter S. Thompson, Hume Cronyn, Chill Wills, John Glenn, Richard Dix, Gene Lockhart, Harriet Nelson, Lupe Velez, Burt Kwouk, and William Makepeace Thackeray.