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Today Ace Frehley is 70. Today is also the birthday of Sally Hawkins, Anouk Aimée, Jenna Coleman, Ari Graynor, James Le Gros, Kevin McNally, Matt Reeves, Cristian Mungiu, Rachel Morrison, Cory Booker, and the late Jack Klugman, Sandy Dennis, Robert Donner, Casey Kasem, Cuba Gooding, August Wilson, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Coretta Scott King, and Ulysses S. Grant. Edward R. Murrow died 56 years ago in 1965 at age 57. Stanley Adams died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 62.

Today Joan Chen is 60. Today is also the birthday of Channing Tatum, Carol Burnett, Jet Li, Kevin James, Giancarlo Esposito, Pablo Schreiber, Jemima Kirke, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bobby Rydell, Jordana Brewster, Tom Welling, Ivana Milicevic, Debra Wilson, Melania Trump, and the late Douglas Sirk, Jean Vigo, Warren Clarke, Edgar Kennedy, Claudine Auger, Stafford Repp, and William Desmond Taylor. Gypsy Rose Lee died 51 years ago in 1970 at age 59. Irene Ryan died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 70. Broderick Crawford died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 74. Lucille Ball died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 77. Jonathan Demme died four years ago in 2017 at age 73.

Today Talia Shire is 75, and Dinesh D’Souza is 60. Today is also the birthday of Al Pacino, Renée Zellweger, Hank Azaria, Jason Lee, Marguerite Moreau, Gina Torres, Melonie Diaz, Jillian Bell, Björn Ulvaeus, Jeffrey DeMunn, and the late Ella Fitzgerald, Paul Mazursky, Edward R. Murrow, Bertrand Tavernier, Russ Conway, Cy Twombly, and Oliver Cromwell. Ginger Rogers died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 83. Bea Arthur died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 86.

Today is the birthday of Shirley MacLaine, Barbra Streisand, Djimon Hounsou, Eric Bogosian, Richard Donner, Cedric The Entertainer, Eric Balfour, Kelly Clarkson, Aidan Gillen, Derek Luke, Michael O’Keefe, Rory McCann, Austin Nichols, Glenn Morshower, Peter Friedman, Damon Lindelof, and the late Michael Parks, William Castle, Jill Ireland, Bruce Kirby, Jack E. Leonard, and Robert Wiene. Louise Dresser died 66 years ago in 1965 at age 86. Bud Abbott died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 78.

Today Anne Douglas is 102, George Lopez is 60, D.B. Weiss is 50, and Gemma Whelan is 40. Today is also the birthday of John Oliver, Judy Davis, Dev Patel, Lee Majors, Michael Moore, John Cena, Kal Penn, Valerie Bertinelli, Jaime King, Joyce DeWitt, John Hannah, Eric Edelstein, Alan Oppenheimer, John Lutz, Bubba the Love Sponge (Todd Alan Clem), and the late William Shakespeare, who died 405 years ago on his birthday in 1616 at age 52, Shirley Temple, Sandra Dee, Roy Orbison, Jan Hooks, Hervé Villechaize, Simone Simon, Sheila Gish, Kevin Meaney, James Hayter, Frank Borzage, Ronald Neame, J.M.W. Turner, and James Buchanan. Otto Preminger died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 80. Satyajit Ray died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 70.

Today John Waters is 75, and Robin Bartlett is 70. Today is also the birthday of Jack Nicholson, Peter Frampton, Amber Heard, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sheryl Lee, Sherri Shepherd, Johnnie To, Roman Coppola, Lee Tamahori, and the late Eddie Albert, Glen Campbell, Charles Mingus, Jason Miller, Bettie Page, Charlotte Rae, Immanuel Kant, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Nabokov, Aaron Spelling, Rondo Hatton, Kaneto Shindô, Byron Haskin, and Marilyn Chambers. Linda Lovelace died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 53.

Today Queen Elizabeth II is 95, Claire Denis is 75, Tony Danza and Jean-Pierre Dardenne are 70, and Frank Dillane is 30. Today is also the birthday Elaine May, Iggy Pop, Robert Smith, Charles Grodin, James McAvoy, Patti LuPone, Andie MacDowell, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, John Cameron Mitchell, Nicole Sullivan, Rob Riggle, Brian White, Bridget Everett, Jeff Anderson, Peter Kosminsky, Anna Muylaert, Glen Hansard, and the late Anthony Quinn, Charlotte Brontë, Marcel Camus, Sammee Tong, Edwin S. Porter, and Gilbert Taylor. Mark Twain died 111 years ago in 1910 at age 74. Gummo Marx died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 84. Nina Simone died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 70. Prince and Michelle McNamara died five years ago in 2016. He was 57. She was 46. Verne Troyer died three years ago in 2018 at age 49.

Today Leslie Phillips is 97, and Ryan O’Neal is 80. Today is also the birthday of Jessica Lange, George Takei, Crispin Glover, Andy Serkis, Veronica Cartwright, Clint Howard, Shemar Moore, Billy Magnussen, Michael Render (Killer Mike GTO), Clayne Crawford, Gary Raymond, Judith O’Dea, Joey Lawrence, Carmen Electra, Chrysta Bell, and the late Harold Lloyd, Luther Vandross, Nina Foch, Elena Verdugo, Robert DoQui, Harris Wittels, Edie Sedgwick, Bruce Cabot, Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr. (Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf), and Adolf Hitler. Bram Stoker died 109 years ago today in 1912 at age 64. Don Siegel died thirty years ago today in 1991 at age 78. Benny Hill died 29 years ago today in 1992 at age 68. Cantinflas died 28 years ago today in 1993 at age 81.

Today Tim Curry is 75, and Hayden Christensen and Catalina Sandino Moreno are 40. Today is also the birthday of James Franco, Kate Hudson, Ashley Judd, Elinor Donahue, Ali Wong, Tony Plana, Arshad Warsi, Alan Price, Nicoletta Braschi, Arshad Warsi, Michael Dowse, William Klein, Christopher Miles, Suge Knight, Jesse James, and the late Jayne Mansfield, Dudley Moore, Hugh O’Brian, Dick Sargent, George O’Brien, May Robson, Constance Talmadge, Barry Brown, and Bernie Worrell. Ruth Hussey died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 93.

Today Hayley Mills is 75, Jane Leeves is 60, and David Tennant is 50. Today is also the birthday of Rick Moranis, Conan O’Brien, James Woods, Eric Roberts, Edgar Wright, Eli Roth, Maria Bello, Eric McCormack, America Ferrera, Vanessa Kirby, Melissa Joan Hart, Alia Shawkat, Britt Robertson, David Hewlett, Clive Revill, Jeff Dunham, Kourtney Kardashian, and the late James Drury, Barbara Hale, Miklós Rózsa, Clarence Darrow, Gabriel Axel, and André Bazin. Albert Einstein died 66 years ago in 1955 at age 76. Dick Clark died nine years ago in 2012 at age 82.