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Today Peter Coyote is 80, Ben Vereen and Charles Dance are 75, Jodi Benson is 60, Carlos Reygadas is 50, and Michael Oliver is 40. Today is also the birthday of Dan Stevens, Bai Ling, Julia Sweeney, Bradley Whitford, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Mario Lopez, Jessica Harper, David Lee Roth, Joelle Carter, Rose McIver, Rebecca Pidgeon, Chiaki Kuriyama, Morgan Neville, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Brett Favre, and the late Edward D. Wood Jr., Helen Hayes, John Prine, Thelonious Monk, Harold Pinter, Chris Penn, Richard Jaeckel, Anita Mui, Dana Elcar, and Daniel Massey. Eddie Cantor died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 72. Ralph Richardson died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 80. Orson Welles and Yul Brynner died 36 years ago in 1985. Welles was 70. Brynner was 65. Christopher Reeve died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 52.

Today Brian Blessed is 85, and Robert Wuhl is 70. Today is also the birthday of Guillermo del Toro, Tony Shalhoub, Sharon Osbourne, Brandon Routh, Scott Bakula, Nick Swardson, Chris O’Dowd, Steve McQueen, John O’Hurley, Michael Paré, Sean Lennon, Lorna Raver, Tyler James Williams, Jodelle Ferland, Steve Burns, Melissa Villaseñor, Peter Docter, and the late John Lennon, Jacques Tati, Alastair Sim, Fyvush Finkel, Edward Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hank Patterson, Jason Wingreen, and Donald Sinden. Ernesto “Che” Guevara died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 39. Miriam Hopkins died 49 years ago in 1972 at age 69. Jan Hooks died seven years ago in 2014 at age 57. Andrzej Wajda died five years ago in 2016 at age 90. Jean Rochefort died four years ago in 2017 at age 87.

Today Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr. is 80, Jean-Jacques Beineix is 75, and Shira Piven is 60. Today is also the birthday of Matt Damon, Sigourney Weaver, Chevy Chase, Darrell Hammond, Bruno Mars, Paul Hogan, Jeremy Davis, Peter Greene, Nick Cannon, Bella Thorne, R.L. Stine, Ian Hart, Robert Kelly, Angus T. Jones, Edward Zwick, David Yates, Burr Steers, Sal Governale, Soon-Yi Previn, and the late Frank Herbert and Rouben Mamoulian. Larry Semon died 93 years ago in 1928 at age 39. Fernando Lamas died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 67.

Today Desmond Tutu is 90, and John Mellencamp is 70. Today is also the birthday of Thom Yorke, Joy Behar, Yo-Yo Ma, Dylan Baker, Omar Benson Miller, Shawn and Aaron Ashmore, Mary Badham, Simon Cowell, Nicole Ari Parker, Amber Stevens West, Andrew Dominik, Bree Olson, Vladimir Putin, and the late June Allyson, Andy Devine, Al Martino, Elijah Muhammad, and Robert Z. Leonard. Edgar Allan Poe died 172 years ago in 1849 at age 40. Charles Rocket died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 56.

Today is the birthday of Elisabeth Shue, Ioan Gruffudd, Britt Ekland, Olivia Thirlby, Jeremy Sisto, Brett Gellman, Wendy Robie, Ellen Travolta, Jsu Garcia, Matt Porterfield, Leslie Moonves, and the late Carole Lombard, Janet Gaynor, Fay Spain, Jerome Cowan, and Mitchell Leisen. Tod Browning died 59 years ago in 1962 at age 82. Dennis Price died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 58. Bette Davis died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 81. Denholm Elliott died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 70. Richard Farnsworth died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 80. Scott Wilson died three years ago in 2018 at age 76. Rip Taylor died two years ago in 2019 at age 88. Eddie Van Halen died one year ago in 2020 at age 65.

Today Glynis Johns is 98, Karen Allen is 70, and Jacob Tremblay is 15. Today is also the birthday of Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Jesse Eisenberg, Clive Barker, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Parminder Nagra, Daniel Baldwin, Laura Gemser, Tom Hooper, Ti West, Taylour Paige, Scott Weinger, Toshio Masuda, and the late Larry Fine, Donald Pleasence, Bernie Mac, Louis Lumière, Jeff Conaway, Bill Dana, Diane Cilento, Gail Davis, Skip Homeier, John Hoyt, and Allen Ludden. Jean Vigo died 87 years ago in 1934 at age 29. Barbara Nichols died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 47. Gloria Grahame died forty years ago in 1981 at age 57. Rodney Dangerfield died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 82. Steve Jobs and Charles Napier died ten years ago in 2011. Jobs was 56. Napier was 75. Geoffrey Holder died seven years ago in 2014 at age 84. Chantal Ackerman died six years ago in 2015 at age 65.

Today Anne Rice is 80, and Susan Sarandon is 75. Today is also the birthday of Liev Schreiber, Christoph Waltz, Alicia Silverstone, Dakota Johnson, Melissa Benoist, Russell Simmons, Mick Jackson, Caitriona Balfe, Abraham Benrubi, Armand Assante, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Lancashire, Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the late Buster Keaton, Charlton Heston, Jackie Collins, George Sidney, John Larch, Scotty Beckett, Philip Van Zandt, and Stan Dragoti. Janis Joplin died 51 years ago in 1970 at age 27. Graham Chapman died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 48. Buddy Lester died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 87. Diahann Carroll died two years ago in 2019 at age 84.

Today Chubby Checker is 80. Today is also the birthday of Clive Owen, Alicia Vikander, Neve Campbell, Seann William Scott, Tessa Thompson, Denis Villeneuve, Lena Headey, Tommy Wiseau, John Patrick Shanley, Reverend Al Sharpton, Greg Proops, Gwen Stefani, Janel Moloney, Tommy Lee, and the late Gore Vidal, Leo McCarey, Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Michael Hordern, Charles Middleton, Julien Duvivier, and Gertrude Berg. Woody Guthrie died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 55. Dub Taylor died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 87. Roddy McDowall died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 70. Janet Leigh died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 77.

Today Angie Dickinson is 90, Eric Stoltz is 60, and Jenna Elfman is 50. Today is also the birthday of Marion Cotillard, Monica Bellucci, Tony Hale, Ezra Miller, Johnny Mathis, Fran Drescher, Amy Landecker, Barry Williams, Kieran Culkin, Nancy Ames, Victoria Tennant, and the late Deborah Kerr, who would be 100, Truman Capote, Michael Powell, Elie Wiesel, Dan O’Bannon, Buddy Rich, Frankie Lymon, Jack Wild, and Lewis Milestone. James Dean died 66 years ago in 1955 at age 24. Edgar Bergen died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 75. Simone Signoret died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 64.

Today Silvio Berlusconi is 85, Dale Dickey is 60, and Mackenzie Crook is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jerry Lee Lewis, Ian McShane, Andrew Dice Clay, Zachary Levi, Nicolas Winding Refn, Chrissy Metz, Bryant Gumbel, Robert Webb, Russell Peters, Roger Bart, Robert Benton, and the late Michelangelo Antonioni, Madeline Kahn, Stanley Kramer, Greer Garson, Anita Ekberg, Gene Autry, Caravaggio, Trevor Howard, Steve Forrest, and Larry Linville. Charles Addams died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 76. Lois Maxwell died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 80. Tony Curtis and Greg Giraldo died eleven years ago in 2010. Curtis was 85. Giraldo was 44. Mac Davis and Helen Reddy died one year ago in 2020, both at age 78.