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Today Muriel Pavlow is 97, and Shirley Anne Field and Kathryn Beaumont are 80. Today is also the birthday of Tobey Maguire, J.J. Abrams, Isabelle Adjani, Sam Claflin, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Wagner Moura, Julia Duffy, Matthew Lewis, Chandler Riggs, Drake Bell, Ed Westwick, Courtney Ford, Vera Wang, Ross Perot, Janusz Kaminski, Jo Frost, Khloé Kardashian, and the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, Helen Keller, Robert Keeshan, John McIntire, Billy Curtis, Skelton Knaggs, and I.A.L. Diamond. Jack Lemmon died 17 years ago in 2001 at age 76. Gale Storm died nine years ago in 2009 at age 87.

Today John Beasley is 75, and Ariana Grande is 25. Today is also the birthday of Paul Thomas Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Sean Hayes, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris O’Donnell, Mark McKinney, Robert Davi, Chris Isaak, Matt Letscher, Josef Sommer, Gedde Watanabe, Michael Paul Chan, Jerry Schatzberg, Derek Jeter, Harley Quinn Smith, and the late Peter Lorre, Eleanor Parker, Dick Smith, and Wolfgang Reitherman. Nora Ephron died six years ago in 2012 at age 71.

Today is the birthday of Ricky Gervais, Linda Cardellini, Jimmie Walker, Carly Simon, June Lockhart, Busy Philipps, John Benjamin Hickey, Larry Kramer, Jason Lewis, Angela Kinsey, Rain, Timur Bekmambetov, Denys Arcand, Ernest R. Dickerson, Sonia Sotomayor, and the late Sidney Lumet, Anthony Bourdain, George Michael, George Orwell, Roger Livesey, Charlotte Greenwood, George Murdock, and Anne Revere. Colin Clive died 81 years ago in 1937 at age 37. Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died nine years ago in 2009. Jackson was 50. Fawcett was 62. Patrick Macnee died three years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today Georg Stanford Brown is 75, and Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister is 60. Today is also the birthday of Mick Fleetwood, Mindy Kaling, Peter Weller, Robert Downey Sr., Nancy Allen, Solange Knowles, Minka Kelly, Vanessa Ray, Michele Lee, Iain Glen, Sherry Stringfield, Joe Penny, Dan Gilroy, Vittorio Storaro, and the late Claude Chabrol, Adrienne Shelly, Al Molinaro, Phil Harris, and Jack Carter. Tony Hancock committed suicide fifty years ago in 1968 at age 44. Jackie Gleason died 31 years ago in 1987 at age 71. Brian Keith committed suicide 21 years ago in 1997 at age 75. David Tomlinson died 18 years ago in 2000 at age 83. Paul Winchell died 13 years ago in 2005 at age 82. Eli Wallach died four years ago in 2014 at age 98.

Today Clarence Thomas is 70. Today is also the birthday of Frances McDormand, Joel Edgerton, Selma Blair, Joss Whedon, Melissa Rauch, Randy Jackson, Bryan Brown, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Martin Klebba, John Amplas, Russell Mulcahy, and the late Bob Fosse, June Carter Cash, Dennis Price, Alan Vega, Alfred Kinsey, and Alan Turing. Maureen O’Sullivan died twenty years ago in 1998 at age 87. Peter Falk died seven years ago in 2011 at age 83.

Today Dianne Feinstein is 85, Bruce Campbell is 60, and Portia Doubleday is 30. Today is also the birthday of Meryl Streep, Kris Kristofferson, Cyndi Lauper, Emmanuelle Seigner, Stephen Chow, Amy Brenneman, Elizabeth Warren, Michael Lerner, Prunella Scales, Donald Faison, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Joe Dempsie, Lindsay Wagner, Graham Greene, Carson Daly, Douglas Smith, Alicia Goranson, Tim Russ, Uwe Boll, David L. Lander, Joie Lee, Dan Brown, Erin Brockovich, Wayne Federman, Adam Schiff, Wolfgang Becker, and the late Billy Wilder, Abbas Kiarostami, Freddie Prinze, John Dillinger, Michael Todd, Ralph Waite, Amrish Puri, Erich Maria Remarque, and Octavia Butler. David O. Selznick died 53 years ago in 1965 at age 63. Judy Garland died 49 years ago in 1969 at age 47. Joseph Losey died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 75. Fred Astaire died 31 years ago in 1987 at age 88. George Carlin died ten years ago in 2008 at age 71.

Today Bernie Kopell is 85, Ron Ely is 80, and Ian McEwan is 70. Today is also the birthday of Chris Pratt, Juliette Lewis, David Morrissey, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter, Lana Wachowski, Benjamin Walker, Carrie Preston, Mariette Hartley, Jussie Smollett, Josh Pais, Maggie Siff, Lana Del Rey, Michael Bowen, Joe Flaherty, Edward Snowden, Jim Breuer, Prince William, Gretchen Carlson, and the late Judy Holliday, Jane Russell, Maureen Stapleton, Tony Scott, Robert Pastorelli, Eric Douglas, Conrad L. Hall, and Benazir Bhutto. Carroll O’Connor and John Lee Hooker died 17 years ago in 2001. O’Connor was 76. Hooker was 83.

Today Danny Aiello is 85, Robert Rodriguez and Jon Glaser are 50, and Mike Birbiglia is 40. Today is also the birthday of Nicole Kidman, Brian Wilson, John Goodman, Olympia Dukakis, Lionel Richie, Josh Lucas, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dreama Walker, James Tolkan, Candy Clark, Bonnie Bartlett, Stephen Frears, Tress MacNeille, Robert B. Weide, and the late Errol Flynn, Martin Landau, John Mahoney, Ulrich Mühe, Chet Atkins, Audie Murphy, and Terence Young. Estelle Winwood died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 101. Ryan Dunn died seven years ago in 2011 at age 34.

Today Phylicia Rashad is 70, Zoe Saldana is 40, and Atticus Shaffer is 20. Today is also the birthday of Gena Rowlands, Kathleen Turner, Paul Dano, Salman Rushdie, Jean Dujardin, Hugh Dancy, Marisa Pavan, Robin Tunney, Mia Sara, Ryan Hurst, Aidan Turner, Samuel West, Ken Davitian, Derren Nesbitt, Paula Abdul, Macklemore, Boris Johnson, Laura Ingraham, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the late Moe Howard, Charles Coburn, Nick Drake, Nancy Marchand, Mildred Natwick, May Whitty, Pier Angeli, Louis Jourdan, Pat Buttram, Harry Lauter, Kim Walker, Pauline Kael, and Lou Gehrig. Ed Wynn died 52 years ago in 1966 at age 79. Jean Arthur died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 90. James Gandolfini died five years ago in 2013 at age 51. Anton Yelchin died two years ago in 2016 at age 27.

Today is the birthday of Paul McCartney, Isabella Rossellini, Carol Kane, Blake Shelton, Richard Madden, Kim Dickens, Alana De La Garza, Ivonne Coll, Ralph Brown, Max Records, Steve Miner, Rick Famuyiwa, Barbara Broccoli, and the late Roger Ebert, Keye Luke, E.G. Marshall, Maggie McNamara, Mae Busch, and Jeanette MacDonald.