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Today Tate Taylor is 50, and Imogen Poots and Daniela Vega are 30. Today is also the birthday of Anderson Cooper, Penelope Wilton, Jason Jones, James Purefoy, Bill Paterson, Sebastian Armesto, Irma P. Hall, Masami Nagasawa, Larry McMurtry, and the late Tony Curtis, Josephine Baker, Paulette Goddard, Leo Gorcey, Chuck Barris, Allen Ginsberg, Curtis Mayfield, Ellen Corby, Maurice Evans, Colleen Dewhurst, Alain Resnais, Robert Z’Dar, Edward Winter, John Kellogg, Roy Glenn, Melissa Mathison, Anthony Harvey, and Herk Harvey. Franz Kafka died 95 years ago in 1924 at age 40. Ozzie Nelson died 44 years ago in 1975 at age 69. Roberto Rossellini died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Robert Morley died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 84. Anthony Quinn died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 86. David Carradine died ten years ago in 2009 at age 72. Rue McClanahan died nine years ago in 2010 at age 76. James Arness died eight years ago in 2011 at age 88. Muhammad Ali died three years ago in 2016 at age 74.

Today Morena Baccarin and James Ransone are 40. Today is also the birthday of Dana Carvey, Zachary Quinto, Stacy Keach, Dominic Cooper, Justin Long, Charlie Watts, Dennis Haysbert, Wentworth Miller, Liam Cunningham, Wayne Brady, Jerry Mathers, Sally Kellerman, Charles Haid, Dr. Cornel West, Joanna Gleason, Navid Negahban, A.J. Styles, Lasse Hallström, Beetlejuice, Kevin Feige, Lisandro Alonso, and the late Johnny Weissmuller, Marvin Hamlisch, Thomas Hardy, The Marquis de Sade, Milo O’Shea, Max Showalter, Chief John Big Tree, Bruno S., and Lotte Reiniger. Jean Hersholt died 63 years ago in 1956 at age 69. George S. Kaufman died 58 years ago in 1961 at age 71. Leo Gorcey died fifty years ago in 1969 at age 51. Stephen Boyd died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 45. Jim Hutton died forty years ago in 1979 at age 45. Rex Harrison and Jack Gilford died 29 years ago in 1990. Harrison was 82. Gilford was 81. Imogene Coca died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 92. Mel Ferrer and Bo Diddley died eleven years ago in 2008. Ferrer was 90. Diddley was 79. Richard Dawson and Kathryn Joosten died seven years ago in 2012. Dawson was 79. Joosten was 72. Peter Sallis died two years ago in 2017 at age 96.

Today Pat Boone is 85, and Teri Polo is 50. Today is also the birthday of Morgan Freeman, Amy Schumer, Brian Cox, Alanis Morissette, Ronnie Wood, Tom Holland, Jonathan Pryce, Rene Auberjonois, Paula Malcomson, Sylvia Hoeks, Sarah Wayne Callies, Rick Gomez, Heidi Klum, Gareth Edwards, and the late Marilyn Monroe, Andy Griffith, Powers Boothe, Edward Woodward, Cleavon Little, Frank Morgan, Richard Erdman, and Aubrey Morris. Leslie Howard died 76 years ago in 1943 at age 50. Adolf Eichmann died 57 years ago in 1962 at age 56. Helen Keller died 51 years ago in 1968 at age 87.

Today Tom Berenger is 70. Today is also the birthday of Clint Eastwood, Colin Farrell, Brooke Shields, Chris Elliott, Lea Thompson, Susie Essman, Paolo Sorrentino, Eric Christian Olsen, Sharon Gless, Jonathan Tucker, Sebastian Koch, Joe Namath, and the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Don Ameche, Walt Whitman, who would be 200, Denholm Elliott, Jim Hutton, Alida Valli, Fred Allen, John Bonham, Jack Holt, Barbara Pepper, Madge Blake, and Menahem Golan. William Castle died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 63. Jean Stapleton died six years ago in 2013 at age 90.

Today Jimmy Lydon is 96, Michael J. Pollard is 80, and Ryûhei Kitamura is 50. Today is also the birthday of Keir Dullea, Idina Menzel, Ruta Lee, Stephen Tobolowsky, Colm Meaney, Wynonna Judd, CeeLo Green, Ted McGinley, Duncan Jones, Antoine Fuqua, and the late Howard Hawks, Agnès Varda, Mel Blanc, Hugh Griffith, Clint Walker, Benny Goodman, Douglas Fowley, Franklin J. Schaffner, Meredith MacRae, Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry), Irving Thalberg, Christine Jorgensen, and Jamie Uys. Dooley Wilson died 66 years ago in 1953 at age 67. Claude Rains died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 77. Michel Simon died 44 years ago in 1975 at age 80.

Today Helmut Berger is 75, Rupert Everett is 60, and Riley Keough is 30. Today is also the birthday of Annette Bening, Laverne Cox, Ted Levine, Melissa Etheridge, Danny Elfman, La Toya Jackson, Noel Gallagher, Melanie Brown (Mel B), Justin Chon, Robert Logan, Kevin Conway, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Aaron McGruder, Daniel Tosh, and the late Bob Hope, John F. Kennedy, Josef von Sternberg, Clifton James, Sebastian Shaw, Stacy Keach Sr., and Gregg Toland. John Barrymore died 77 years ago in 1942 at age 60. James Whale died 62 years ago in 1957 at age 67. Mary Pickford died 40 years ago in 1979 at age 87. Harvey Korman died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 81. Dennis Hopper died nine years ago in 2010 at age 74.

Today Jean-Pierre Leaud, Gladys Knight, Patricia Quinn, and Rudy Giuliani are 75, Steve King is 70, Justin Kirk is 50, and Nonso Anozie is 40. Today is also the birthday of Carey Mulligan, Kylie Minogue, Carroll Baker, Jake Johnson, Romain Duris, Christa Miller, Anne Reid, John Fogerty, Irwin Winkler, Marco Rubio, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and the late Ian Fleming, Sondra Locke, Edith Massey, Glenn Quinn, Martha Vickers, Beth Howland, Zelda Rubinstein, Gordon Willis, Hank Mann, and Rob Ford, who would be 50. Phil Hartman died 21 years ago in 1998 at age 49. Gary Coleman died nine years ago in 2010 at age 42. Maya Angelou died five years ago in 2014 at age 86.

Today Henry Kissinger and Sumner Redstone are 96, and Lily-Rose Depp is 20. Today is also the birthday of Paul Bettany, André Benjamin, Joseph Fiennes, Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Schiff, Lee Meriwether, Jack McBrayer, Ben Feldman, Adam Carolla, Bella Heathcote, Todd Bridges, Bruce Weitz, Ken Lerner, Peri Gilpin, Linnea Quigley, Jamie Oliver, Chris Colfer, Jee-woon Kim, Giuseppe Tornatore, Simon Blackwell, and the late Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Dashiell Hammett, John Cheever, Steve Franken, Willie Best, Lucile Watson, Antonia Bird, Dolores Hope, Hubert Humphrey, Wild Bill Hickok, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. George Zucco died 59 years ago in 1960 at age 74. Jeff Conway died eight years ago in 2011 at age 60. Gregg Allman died two years ago in 2017 at age 69.

Today Pam Grier and Hank Williams Jr. are 70. Today is also the birthday of Helena Bonham Carter, Lenny Kravitz, Stevie Nicks, Bobcat Goldthwait, Matt Stone, Lauryn Hill, Alex Garland, Tarsem Singh, and the late John Wayne, Peter Cushing, Al Jolson, James Arness, Peggy Lee, Jay Silverheels, Robert Morley, and John Dahl. Eddie Albert died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 99. Sydney Pollack died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 73. Art Linklater died nine years ago in 2010 at age 97.

Today Ann Robinson is 90, Ian McKellen is 80, Frank Oz is 75, and Anne Heche is 50. Today is also the birthday of Mike Myers, Octavia Spencer, Cillian Murphy, Jacki Weaver, Jamie Kennedy, Ethan Suplee, Demetri Martin, Bobby Slayton, Ray Stevenson, Leslie Uggams, Kevin Heffernan, Justin Henry, Erinn Hayes, Joseph D. Reitman, Neil Marshall, Ken Jacobs, and the late Miles Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dixie Carter, Claude Akins, Raymond Carver, Jeanne Crain, Robert Ludlum, Bill Robinson, and George Hickenlooper. Vic Tayback died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 60. Charles Nelson Reilly died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 76.