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Today Grace Zabriskie is 80. Today is also the birthday of Craig Ferguson, Bob Saget, Trent Reznor, Lena Waithe, David Eigenberg, Peter Gerety, Sugar Ray Leonard, Derek Hough, Tabatha Coffey, and the late Dennis Hopper, Bill Paxton, Jean Gabin, Maureen O’Sullivan, and Matthew McGrory. Tony Randall died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 84. Frank Gorshin died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 72.

Today Kevin McDonald is 60. Today is also the birthday of Debra Winger, Pierce Brosnan, Danny Trejo, Melanie Lynskey, Janet Jackson, Megan Fox, Jesper Christensen, Mare Winningham, David Boreanaz, Jim Sturgess, Tori Spelling, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Stephen Mangan, Rebecca Front, Jason ‘Wee-Man’ Acuña, and the late Henry Fonda, Kenji Mizoguchi, Liberace, Yvonne Craig, Margaret Sullavan, and Harry Carey Jr., who would be 100. Django Reinhardt died 68 years ago in 1953 at age 43. Andy Kaufman died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 35. Margaret Hamilton died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 82. Jim Henson and Sammy Davis Jr. died 31 years ago in 1990. Henson was 53, and Davis Jr. was 64. Lynn Shelton died one year ago in 2020 at age 54.

Today Jamie-Lynn Sigler is 40. Today is also the birthday of Lainie Kazan, Chazz Palminteri, David Krumholtz, Caroline Dhavernas, Alexandra Breckenridge, Nicholas Hammond, Madeleine Albright, Brian Eno, John Glen, Julian Jarrold, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, and the late James Mason, Joseph Cotten, L. Frank Baum, Joseph Wiseman, Katrin Cartlidge, Arletty, Jûzô Itami, Peter Shaffer, André De Toth, Mario Monicelli, and Pierre Curie. June Carter Cash died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 73. Fred Willard died one year ago in 2020 at age 86.

Today Robert Zemeckis is 70, Tim Roth is 60, and Sofıa Coppola is 50. Today is also the birthday of Cate Blanchett, George Lucas, David Byrne, Danny Huston, Amber Tamblyn, Francesca Annis, Miranda Cosgrove, Greg Davies, Siân Phillips, Rob Tapert, Mark Zuckerberg, and the late Bobby Darin, Anne Wiazemsky, Richard Deacon, who would be 100, Oona O’Neill Chaplin, Sidney Bechet, and Mrinal Sen. Rita Hayworth died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 68. Frank Sinatra died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 82. Wendy Hiller and Robert Stack both died eighteen years ago in 2003. Hiller was 90. Stack was 84. B.B. King died six years ago in 2015 at age 89. Powers Boothe died four years ago in 2017 at age 68. Tom Wolfe died three years ago in 2018 at age 88.

Today Dennis Rodman and Siobhan Fallon Hogan are 60. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Colbert, Harvey Keitel, Stevie Wonder, Samantha Morton, Robert Pattinson, Lena Dunham, David Simon, Alan Ball, Fred Melamed, Buck Taylor, Joe Johnston, Brian Geraghty, Iwan Rheon, Zoë Wanamaker, and the late Bea Arthur, Daphne Du Maurier, Ritchie Valens, Beverly Owen, Herbert Ross, Chishû Ryû, Joe Louis, Mary Wells, and Jim Jones. Gary Cooper died sixty years ago in 1961 at age 60. Margot Kidder died three years ago in 2018 at age 69. Doris Day died two years ago in 2019 at age 97.

Today Millie Perkins is 85, Bruce McCulloch is 60, and Rami Malek 40. Today is also the birthday of Gabriel Byrne, Burt Bacharach, Jason Biggs, Emilio Estevez, Ving Rhames, Malin Akerman, Domhnall Gleeson, Nathan Fielder, Catherine Tate, Lindsay Crouse, Samantha Mathis, Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen Baldwin, Richard Riehle, Kim Greist, Emily VanCamp, Steve Winwood, Tony Hawk, Bob Burns, and the late Katharine Hepburn, George Carlin, Jesús Franco, Tom Snyder, Frank Pierson, Yogi Berra, and Florence Nightingale. Erich von Stroheim died 64 years ago in 1957 at age 71. Tor Johnson died fifty years ago in 1971 at age 67. Robert Reed died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 59. Perry Como died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 88. H.R. Giger died seven years ago in 2014 at age 74.

Today is the birthday of Mort Sahl, Tim Blake Nelson, Yvonne Furneaux, Pam Ferris, Frances Fisher, Jeffrey Donovan, Benoît Magimel, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Jonathan Jackson, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Andre Gregory, Mark Neveldine, Matías Piñeiro, and the late Salvador Dalí, Irving Berlin, Phil Silvers, Natasha Richardson, Cory Monteith, Denver Pyle, Doug McClure, Doodles Weaver, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Fox, and David Gest. Bob Marley died forty years ago in 1981 at age 36. Douglas Adams died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 49. Jerry Stiller died one year ago in 2020 at age 92.

Today Donovan is 75. Today is also the birthday of Bono, Kenan Thompson, Erik Palladino, Mike Hagerty, Dallas Roberts, Meg Foster, Alex Jennings, Françoise Fabian, Jim Abrahams, David Mackenzie, Joseph Ruben, Lauren Potter, and the late Fred Astaire, Sid Vicious, David O. Selznick, George Coe, Nancy Walker, Ettore Scola, Anatole Litvak, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, and John Wilkes Booth. Joan Crawford died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Shel Silverstein died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 68.

Today Glenda Jackson is 85, and Candice Bergen is 75. Today is also the birthday of Billy Joel, Rosario Dawson, James L. Brooks, Grace Gummer, Chris Diamantopoulos, Daniel Franzese, Wendy Crewson, Alan Bennett, Amy Hill, Ghostface Killah, Joe Carnahan, J.A. Bayona, and the late Albert Finney, Mike Wallace, Pedro Armendáriz, Richard Barthelmess, J.M. Barrie, William Moulton Marston, and Emile Ardolino. Lena Horne died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 92. Michael Parks died four years ago in 2017 at age 77. Little Richard died one year ago in 2020 at age 87.

Today David Attenborough is 95, and Stephen Amell is 40. Today is also the birthday of Melissa Gilbert, Thomas Pynchon, David Keith, Enrique Iglesias, Phyllida Law, Mark Blankfield, Michel Gondry, Sebastian Schipper, and the late Don Rickles, Roberto Rossellini, Ricky Nelson, Stephen Furst, Sidney James, Saul Bass, Touko Laaksonen (Tom of Finland), Peter Benchley, Robert Johnson, Miyoshi Umeki, Fernandel, and Harry S. Truman. Edmond O’Brien died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 69. Dirk Bogarde died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 78.