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Today Olivia Hussey is 70. Today is also the birthday of Rooney Mara, Jennifer Garner, Sean Bean, Adam McKay, David Bradley, Maïwenn, William Mapother, Joel Murray, Michael Forest, Nick Hornby, Redman, Victoria Beckham, and the late William Holden, Anne Shirley, Roddy Piper, Lindsay Anderson, Arthur Lake, Paul Langton, Joan Lorring, Señor Wences, Louis Jean Heydt, and George Seaton. Eddie Cochran died 61 years ago in 1960 at age 21. Dick Shawn died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Kitty Carlisle died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 96. Doris Roberts died five years ago in 2016 at age 90.

Today Peter Billingsley and Erik Bleaman (aka High Pitch Erik) are 50, and Anya Taylor-Joy is 25. Today is also the birthday of Ellen Barkin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Claire Foy, Jon Cryer, Martin Lawrence, Lukas Haas, Gina Carano, Bobby Vinton, Chance the Rapper, AKON, Jay O. Sanders, Hayes MacArthur, Qi Shu, Billy West, Marshall R. Teague, and the late Charles Chaplin, Peter Ustinov, who would be 100, Spike Milligan, Barry Nelson, Edie Adams, Selena Quintanilla-Perez, who would be 50, Henry Mancini, David Graf, George ‘The Animal’ Steele, Catherine Scorsese, Les Tremayne, and Dusty Springfield. David Lean died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 83.

Today Andrew Daly is 50. Today is also the birthday of Emma Thompson, Seth Rogen, Emma Watson, Luke Evans, Claudia Cardinale, Maisie Williams, Thomas F. Wilson, Linda Perry, Trine Dyrholm, Susanne Bier, Reed Morano, Sam McMurray, Tom Kane, Damien Dante Wayans, Chris Stapleton, Olivier Nakache, and the late Leonardo da Vinci, Elizabeth Montgomery, Hans Conried, John Williams, Roy Clark, Michael Ansara, Frank Vincent, Jean Willes, Henry James, Richard Rush, Wallace Reid, and Bessie Smith. Abraham Lincoln died 156 years ago in 1865 at age 56. Wallace Beery died 72 years ago in 1949 at age 64. Jean Genet died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 75. Greta Garbo died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 84. Joey Ramone died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 49. R. Lee Ermey died three years ago in 2018 at age 74. Brian Dennehy died one year ago in 2020 at age 81.

Today Robert Carlyle and Daniel Clowes are 60, and Abigail Breslin is 25. Today is also the birthday of Julie Christie, Loretta Lynn, Adrien Brody, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Anthony Michael Hall, Brad Garrett, Peter Capaldi, Rob McElhenney, James Gray, Gina McKee, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Allen Baron, and the late Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Richard Jeni, Bradford Dillman, Arlene Martel, Gloria Jean, Berry Berenson, Lee Tracy, Michelle McNamara, Philip Stone, Gerry Anderson, John Howard, Liz Renay, and Anne Sullivan. Fredric March died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 77. Burl Ives died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 85. Jonathan Frid died nine years ago in 2012 at age 87. Bibi Andersson died two years ago in 2019 at age 83.

Today Al Green is 75, and Peter Davison is 70. Today is also the birthday of Ron Perlman, Allison Williams, Edward Fox, Glenn Howerton, Tony Dow, Caroline Rhea, Charles Burnett, Ruben Östlund, Bokeem Woodbine, William Sadler, Paul Sorvino, Erick Avari, Saundra Santiago, Ricky Schroder, Gary Kroeger, Hannah Marks, Yance Ford, and the late Don Adams, Samuel Beckett, Stanley Donen, Thomas Jefferson, Howard Keel, Lyle Waggoner, Maurice Ronet, Christopher Hitchens, Jonathan Brandis, and Clark Middleton. Milos Forman died three year ago in 2018 at age 86.

Today Jane Withers is 95, Ed O’Neill is 75, Tom Noonan is 70, Magda Szubanski is 60, Shannen Doherty and Nicholas Brendon are 50, and Paul Rust is 40. Today is also the birthday of David Letterman, Claire Danes, Andy Garcia, Saoirse Ronan, Ilana Glazer, Marley Shelton, Jennifer Morrison Matt McGorry, Hardy Krüger, Dan Lauria, Herbie Hancock, Walter Salles, Robert Durst, and the late Ann Miller, Charles Napier, Tom Clancy, David Cassidy, Tiny Tim, Movita, Virginia Cherrill, John Dunsworth, Georges Franju, and Robert Harron. Paul Ford died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 74. Boxer Joe Louis died forty years ago in 1981 at age 66. “Sugar” Ray Robinson died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 67.

Today Vincent Gallo is 60. Today is also the birthday of Joel Grey, Bill Irwin, John Milius, Louise Lasser, Lisa Stansfield, Jennifer Esposito, Tricia Helfer, Peter Riegert, Jeremy Clarkson, Mason Reese, Carl Franklin, and the late Johnny Sheffield and Meshach Taylor. Dolores del Rio died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 78. Roscoe Lee Browne died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 84. Jonathan Winters died eight years ago in 2013 at age 87.

Today Michael Pitt is 40. Today is also the birthday of Daisy Ridley, Charlie Hunnam, Mandy Moore, Steven Seagal, David Harbour, Haley Joel Osment, Alex Pettyfer, Guillaume Canet, Peter MacNicol, Orlando Jones, Liz Sheridan, Barkhad Abdi, Deborah Rush, Peter Morgan, Christophe Honoré, and the late Max Von Sydow, Delphine Seyrig, Omar Sharif, Chuck Connors, who would be 100, Harry Morgan, George Arliss, and Junior Samples. Michael Curtiz died 59 years ago in 1962 at age 75. Marjorie Main died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 85. Sam Kinison died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 38. Little Eva died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 59. Dixie Carter died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 70.

Today is the birthday of Kristin Stewart, Dennis Quaid, Cynthia Nixon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Elle Fanning, Jay Baruchel, Jay Chandrasekhar, Michael Learned, Jenna Jameson, David Gordon Green, Sebastián Silva, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Marty Krofft, Mark Pellegrino, Isabel Coixet, and the late Hugh M. Hefner, Michel Simon, Ward Bond, Paul Robeson, Brad Dexter, and Brandon De Wilde. Sidney Lumet died nine years ago in 2011 at age 86.