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Today Michael Rosen is 75, and Lucile Hadzihalilovic is 60. Today is also the birthday of Traci Lords, Breckin Meyer, Asghar Farhadi, Amy Heckerling, Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb, Mark O’Brien, Ned Bellamy, Ruggero Deodato, John Irvin, Nicholas Hytner, and the late Gary Cooper, Anne Baxter, Val Lewton, David Tomlinson, Darren McGavin, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Ishirô Honda, Robert Hegyes, Marilyn Burns, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, and Robert Browning. Ray Harryhausen died eight years ago in 2013 at age 92.

Today Willie Mays is 90, LuLu Roman is 75, and George Clooney is 60. Today is also the birthday of Bob Seger, Gabourey Sidibe, Adrianne Palicki, Gregg Henry, Lars Mikkelsen, Sasheer Zamata, Anne Parillaud, Tom Bergeron, Naomi Scott, Stephen Gaghan, Tony Blair, and the late Orson Welles, Rudolph Valentino, Max Ophüls, Sigmund Freud, Raymond Bailey, and Dana Hill. Marlene Dietrich died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 90.

Today Marion Bailey is 70. Today is also the birthday of Michael Palin, Henry Cavill, Adele, John Rhys-Davies, Lance Henriksen, Richard E. Grant, Michael Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Kurt Sutter, Clark Duke, Pat Carroll, Tina Yothers, Jerzy Skolimowski, Brian Williams, Brooke Hogan, Chris Brown, and the late Karl Marx, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Tammy Wynette, Ann B. Davis, Jim Kelly, Roger Rees, Bing Russell, Ben Wright, Robert Foulk, Nellie Bly, and Sage Stallone. John Williams died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 80. The first short The Three Stooges made for Columbia, Woman Haters, was released 87 years ago in 1934.

Today Eleanor Coppola is 85, George Will is 80, Jackie Jackson, Mick Mars, and Rolf de Heer are 70, and Mary Beth McDonough is 60. Today is also the birthday of Will Arnett, Richard Jenkins, Ana Gasteyer, Pia Zadora, Randy Travis, Lance Bass, Julian Barratt, Mike Dirnt, Nicholas Hamilton, Erin Andrews, and the late Audrey Hepburn, Dick Dale, Paul Gleason, Eric Sykes, Russi Taylor, and Howard Da Silva. Moe Howard died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 77. Dom DeLuise and Jane Randolph both died twelve years ago in 2009. DeLuise was 75. Randolph was 93.

Today is the birthday of Frankie Valli, Bobby Cannavale, Christina Hendricks, Rebecca Hall, Amy Ryan, Chris Mulkey, Rob Brydon, Dulé Hill, Pom Klementieff, Emily V. Gordon, Willie Geist, and the late James Brown, Pete Seeger, Mary Astor, George Gaynes, Robert Osborne, Ann B. Davis, Beulah Bondi, Walter Slezak, Aline MacMahon, Jack La Rue, “Sugar” Ray Robinson, who would be 100, and Robert De Niro Sr., who died on his birthday 28 years ago in 1993 at age 71. Robert Alda died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 72. Christine Jorgensen died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 62. Jackie Cooper died ten years ago in 2011 at age 88.

Today Bruce Robinson and David Suchet are 75. Today is also the birthday of Dwayne The Rock Johnson, David Beckham, Christine Baranski, Ellie Kemper, Bruce Glover, Lily Allen, Stephen Daldry, Ari Lehman, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Lone Scherfig, Donatella Versace, and the late Bing Crosby, Satyajit Ray, who would be 100, Theodore Bikel, John Neville, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lesley Gore, and Hedda Hopper. Oliver Reed died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 61. Lynn Redgrave died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 67. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. died seven years ago in 2014 at age 95.

Today Joanna Lumley is 75. Today is also the birthday of Wes Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Julie Benz, Judy Collins, Bailey Chase, Tim McGraw, Diahnne Abbott, James Badge Dale, John Diehl, Stephen Macht, Dann Florek, Maia Morgenstern, Kerry Bishé, Madeline Brewer, Nicholas Braun, Anne Fletcher, James Murray, and the late Jack Paar, Glenn Ford, Danielle Darrieux, Dan O’Herlihy, John Meillon, Louis Nye, Joseph Heller, Leila Hyams, Terry Southern, Henry Koster, and Calamity Jane. Joseph Goebbels died 76 years ago in 1945 at age 47. Grant Mitchell died 64 years ago in 1957 at age 82.

Today Bill Plympton is 75, and Kunal Nayyar is 40. Today is also the birthday of Kirsten Dunst, Gal Gadot, Lars von Trier, Jane Campion, Burt Young, Ana de Armas, Johnny Galecki, Adrian Pasdar, Sam Heughan, Allan Arkush, Jacques Audiard, James Marsh, Travis Scott, and the late Cloris Leachman, Eve Arden, Al Lewis, Jill Clayburgh, Gary Collins, and Dick Elliott. Tom Poston died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 85.

Today is the birthday of Daniel Day-Lewis, Jerry Seinfeld, Willie Nelson, Uma Thurman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kate Mulgrew, Leslie Jordan, Tyler Labine, Richard Kline, Phillip Noyce, Andrew Bujalski, and the late Duke Ellington, Jean Rochefort, Celeste Holm, Fred Zinnemann, Irvin Kershner, Tom Ewell, Maya Deren, Wayne Robson, Tommy Noonan, who would be 100, Richard Carlson, King Hu, William Randolph Hearst, and Dale Earnhardt. Anthony Mann died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 60. Alfred Hitchcock died 41 years ago in 1980 at age 80. Bob Hoskins died seven years ago in 2014 at age 71. Irrfan Khan died one year ago in 2020 at age 53.

Today Ann-Margret is 80, Bridget Moynahan is 50, Jessica Alba is 40, and Tony Revolori is 25. Today is also the birthday of Penélope Cruz, Jay Leno, Mary McDonnell, Claes Bang, Kim Gordon, Elisabeth Röhm, Jorge Garcia, Kari Wuhrer, Paul Guilfoyle, Harry Shum Jr., Dan Goor, and the late Lionel Barrymore, Carolyn Jones, Bruno Kirby, Harper Lee, Terry Pratchett, Madge Sinclair, Sidney Toler, Richard C. Sarafian, Oskar Schindler, and Saddam Hussein. Ed Begley died 51 years ago in 1970 at age 69. John Singleton died two years ago in 2019 at age 51.