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Today Henry Kissinger is 98, Louis Gossett Jr. is 85, Peri Gilpin is 60, and Paul Bettany is 50. Today is also the birthday of André Benjamin, Joseph Fiennes, Richard Schiff, Lee Meriwether, Jack McBrayer, Ben Feldman, Adam Carolla, Bella Heathcote, Todd Bridges, Bruce Weitz, Ken Lerner, Linnea Quigley, Jamie Oliver, Chris Colfer, Jee-woon Kim, Giuseppe Tornatore, Simon Blackwell, Lily-Rose Depp, and the late Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Dashiell Hammett, Harlan Ellison, John Cheever, Steve Franken, Willie Best, Lucile Watson, Antonia Bird, Dolores Hope, Hubert Humphrey, Wild Bill Hickok, Sumner Redstone, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. George Zucco died 61 years ago in 1960 at age 74. Jeff Conway died ten years ago in 2011 at age 60. Gregg Allman died four years ago in 2017 at age 69. Larry Kramer died one year ago in 2020 at age 84.

Today Tarsem Singh is 60, and Matt Stone is 50. Today is also the birthday of Helena Bonham Carter, Pam Grier, Lenny Kravitz, Stevie Nicks, Bobcat Goldthwait, Lauryn Hill, Alex Garland, Josh Thomas, Hank Williams Jr., and the late John Wayne, Miles Davis, Peter Cushing, Al Jolson, James Arness, Peggy Lee, Jay Silverheels, Robert Morley, and John Dahl. Eddie Albert died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 99. Sydney Pollack died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 73. Art Linkletter died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 97.

Today Justin Henry is 50, and Zazie Beetz is 30. Today is also the birthday of Ian McKellen, Mike Myers, Octavia Spencer, Cillian Murphy, Anne Heche, Jacki Weaver, Frank Oz, Jamie Kennedy, Ethan Suplee, Demetri Martin, Bobby Slayton, Ray Stevenson, Leslie Uggams, Kevin Heffernan, Erinn Hayes, Joseph D. Reitman, Neil Marshall, Ken Jacobs, Ann Robinson, Robert Greene, 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 31 years ago in 1990 at age 60. Charles Nelson Reilly died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 76.

Today Bob Dylan is 80. Today is also the birthday of John C. Reilly, Jim Broadbent, Alfred Molina, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tommy Chong, Priscilla Presley, Gary Burghoff, Roger Deakins, Nell Campbell, Patti LaBelle, Rosanne Cash, Doug Jones, Will Sasso, Dana Ashbrook, Dash Mihok, Eric Close, Greg Berlanti, Zhangke Jia, Michael Chabon, and the late Michael Lonsdale, Queen Victoria, Mai Zetterling, Peter Whitney, Willis Bouchey, and Seijun Suzuki. Duke Ellington died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 75. Dick Martin died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 86. Burt Kwouk died five years ago in 2016 at age 85. Jerry Maren died three years ago in 2018 at age 98.

Today Barbara Barrie is 90, and Charles Kimbrough is 85. Today is also the birthday of Joan Collins, Drew Carey, Ryan Coogler, H. Jon Benjamin, Richard Ayoade, John Ortiz, Melissa McBride, Jewel Kilcher, Tom Tykwer, Samuel Maoz, and the late Douglas Fairbanks, Scatman Crothers, Rosemary Clooney, Betty Garrett, Nigel Davenport, and James Gleason. Jackie “Moms” Mabley died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 81. George Jessel died forty years ago in 1981 at age 83. Sterling Hayden died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 70. Anne Meara died six years ago in 2015 at age 85. Roger Moore died four years ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today Ann Cusack is 60. Today is also the birthday of Morrissey, Richard Benjamin, Ginnifer Goodwin, Maggie Q, Naomi Campbell, Brooke Smith, Sean Gunn, Michael Kelly, Barbara Parkins, Michael Constantine, Thomas Schlamme, Max Brooks, and the late Laurence Olivier, Paul Winfield, Harvey Milk, Michael Sarrazin, Sid Melton, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Langston Hughes died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 65. Dina Merrill died four years ago in 2017 at age 93.

Today Al Franken is 70, and J. Elvis Weinstein is 50. Today is also the birthday of Mr. T, Fairuza Balk, Judge Reinhold, Jonathan Hyde, Lisa Edelstein, Nick Cassavetes, Noel Fielding, Jeffrey Toobin, Tom Daley, and the late Raymond Burr, The Notorious B.I.G., Robert Montgomery, Richard Hatch, Jeffrey Dahmer, Alice Drummond, Brent Briscoe, Richard Libertini, Kay Kendall, Dennis Day, Peggy Cass, and Jeanne Bates. John Garfield died 69 years ago in 1952 at age 39. Alejandro Rey died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 57. John Gielgud died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 96. Howard Morris died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 85.

Today Cher is 75. Today is also the birthday of Timothy Olyphant, Tony Goldwyn, Dave Thomas, Bronson Pinchot, Mindy Cohn, Louis Theroux, Busta Rhymes, John Billingsley, Matt McCoy, Allen Maldonado, David Proval, Jack Gleeson, Anton Corbijn, Mike Flanagan, Jon Amiel, Alan Zweibel, and the late James Stewart, Joe Cocker, and David Hedison. Gilda Radner died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 42. Robin Gibb died nine years ago in 2012 at age 62.

Today is the birthday of Pete Townshend, Grace Jones, Polly Walker, James Fox, Nancy Kwan, Dusty Hill, Sam Smith, Eric Lloyd, Thomas Vinterberg, Morten Tyldum, and the late Malcolm X, Nora Ephron, Andre the Giant, Joey Ramone, Peter Mayhew, Lorraine Hansberry, Bruce Bennett, Daniel Gélin, who would be 100, and Pol Pot. Ronald Colman died 63 years ago in 1958 at age 67. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Henry Morgan both died 27 years ago in 1994. Onassis was 64. Morgan was 79. Alan Young died five years ago in 2016 at age 96.

Today Priscilla Pointer is 97, Robert Morse is 90, and Miriam Margolyes is 80. Today is also the birthday of Tina Fey, Yun-Fat Chow, George Strait, Patrick St. Esprit, Terry Zwigoff, Mark Mothersbaugh, and the late Frank Capra, Pernell Roberts, Perry Como, Bill Macy, Richard Brooks, Hugh Keays-Byrne, and Robert J. Wilke. Jill Ireland died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 54. Elizabeth Montgomery and Elisha Cook Jr. both died 26 years ago in 1995. Montgomery was 62. Cook Jr. was 91.