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Today Amy Sedaris and Michael Winterbottom are 60. Today is also the birthday of Eric Idle, Brendan Gleeson, Lucy Lawless, Annabella Sciorra, Bud Cort, Vangelis, Marina Sirtis, Ed Skrein, Christopher Lambert, Michel Hazanavicius, Godfrey Reggio, Victor Salva, and the late Pearl Bailey, Arthur O’Connell, Scott Wilson, Jackie Vernon, Dennis O’Keefe, Warner Baxter, Bobby ‘Wheezer’ Hutchins, Onslow Stevens, John McLaughlin, John Tyler, and Sam Walton. Harry Ritz died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 78. Paul Henreid died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 84. Mitch Hedberg died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 37. Patty Duke died five years ago in 2016 at age 69. Agnès Varda died two years ago in 2019 at age 90.

Today Julia Stiles is 40, and Mya Taylor is 30. Today is also the birthday of Lady Gaga, Reba McEntire, Vince Vaughn, Dianne Wiest, Nick Frost, Brett Ratner, Richard Kelly, Mike Newell, Richard Eyre, Michael Parkinson, Alexandra Billings, James Bidgood, Albert S. Ruddy, and the late Dirk Bogarde, who would be 100, Conchata Ferrell, Ken Howard, Freddie Bartholomew, and Flora Robson. Virginia Woolf died eighty years ago in 1941 at age 59. Peter Ustinov died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 82.

Today Nathan Fillion is 50. Today is also the birthday of Quentin Tarantino, Michael York, Mariah Carey, Fergie, Kevin Corrigan, Elizabeth Mitchell, Pauley Perrette, Stephen Dillane, Austin Pendleton, Julian Glover, Holliday Grainger, Brenda Song, Jessie J, and the late Gloria Swanson, Maria Schneider, Anne Ramsey, David Janssen, Richard Marner and Harold Nicholas, who would both be 100, Mary Treen, Budd Schulberg, and Lorenzo Semple Jr. Dudley Moore, Milton Berle, and Billy Wilder all died nineteen years ago in 2002. Moore was 66, Berle was 93, and Wilder was 95.

Today Richard Dawkins is 80, Johnny Crawford is 75, and Francis Lawrence is 50. Today is also the birthday of Alan Arkin, James Caan, Martin Short, Diana Ross, Keira Knightley, Steven Tyler, Jennifer Grey, Leslie Mann, Vicki Lawrence, Jonathan Groff, T.R. Knight, Amy Smart, Michael Imperioli, Todd Barry, Martin McDonagh, Carly Chaikin, Natasha Leggero, Jonathan Glazer, Tinto Brass, Bob Woodward, Nancy Pelosi, and the late Tennessee Williams, Robert Frost, Leonard Nimoy, Sterling Hayden, Strother Martin, Bob Elliott, Will Wright, and Luke Askew. Ludwig van Beethoven died 194 years ago in 1827 at age 56. Eazy-E died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 31.

Today Gene Shalit is 95, and John Stockwell is 60. Today is also the birthday of Elton John, Gloria Steinem, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lee Pace, Jenny Slate, Edgar Ramírez, Richard O’Brien, Doug Stanhope, Mary Gross, Marcia Cross, Brenda Strong, LisaGay Hamilton, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Michael Glaser, Domenick Lombardozzi, James McDaniel, Amy Pascal, Katharine McPhee, Ben Mankiewicz, Anita Bryant, and the late Aretha Franklin, David Lean, Simone Signoret and Nancy Kelly, who would both be 100, Ed Begley, Hoyt Axton, Howard Cosell, John Laurie, Machiko Kyô, Patrick Troughton, Jean Rogers, Jean Epstein, Toshio Matsumoto, Matthew Garber, and Marcin Wrona. Max Ophüls died 64 years ago in 1957 at age 54.

Today Tommy Hilfiger is 70, and Tig Notaro is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jessica Chastain, Jim Parsons, Alyson Hannigan, Louie Anderson, Lake Bell, Lara Flynn Boyle, Robert Carradine, William Smith, Finn Jones, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Mary Berry, Peter Jacobson, Meiko Kaji, Star Jones, Peyton Manning, Undertaker (Mark William Calaway), Tabitha King, and the late Steve McQueen, Norman Fell, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Harry Houdini, R. Lee Ermey, Curtis Hanson, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Barbera, Richard Conte, and Connie Hines. Garry Shandling died five years ago in 2016 at age 66.

Today is the birthday of Catherine Keener, Keri Russell, Michael Haneke, Michelle Monaghan, Hope Davis, Amanda Plummer, Nicholle Tom, Mark Rydell, Terry Sweeney, Teresa Ganzel, David Milch, Marc Cherry, Lodge Kerrigan, Larry Fessenden, Jaume Collet-Serra, Rex Tillerson, Perez Hilton, and the late Akira Kurosawa, Joan Crawford, Marty Allen, Tony Burton, Kenneth Tobey, and Philip Ober. Peter Lorre died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 59. Giulietta Masina died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 73. Elizabeth Taylor died ten years ago in 2011 at age 79.

Today William Shatner is 90, and Keegan-Michael Key and Will Yun Lee are 50. Today is also the birthday of Reese Witherspoon, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Matthew Modine, M. Emmet Walsh, Bob Costas, Wolf Blitzer, Constance Wu, Nick Robinson, Lena Olin, James Wolk, Nicole Holofcener, Eric Roth, Cole Hauser, Angelo Badalamenti, Carlton Cuse, James Patterson, Tyler Oakley, May Britt, Pat Robertson, and the late Karl Malden, Chico Marx, Bruno Ganz, Marcel Marceau, Ross Martin, Werner Klemperer, Virginia Grey, James Westerfield, Haing S. Ngor, Joseph Schildkraut, and Lew Wasserman. William Hanna died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 90.

Today Peter Brook is 96, and Timothy Dalton is 75. Today is also the birthday of Gary Oldman, Matthew Broderick, Rosie O’Donnell, Scott Eastwood, Jaye Davidson, Brad Hall, Rhys Darby, Karyn Kusama, Greg Ellis, Sonequa Martin-Green, Santino Fontana, Slavoj Zizek, Cenk Uygur, Kevin Federline, and the late Éric Rohmer, Russ Meyer, James Coco, Al Freeman Jr., Virginia Weidler, Peter Bull, W.S. Van Dyke, and Sidney Franklin. Robert Preston died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 68. Chuck Barris died four years ago in 2017 at age 87.

Today Hal Linden is 90, Murray Bartlett is 50, and Barron Trump is 15. Today is also the birthday of William Hurt, Holly Hunter, Spike Lee, David Thewlis, Michael Rapaport, Xavier Dolan, Liza Snyder, Christy Carlson Romano, Theresa Russell, Cedric Yarbrough, Kathy Ireland, Mikey Day, Ramin Bahrani, Duke Johnson, Bruce Wagner, Louis Sachar, Ruby Rose, and the late Carl Reiner, Fred Rogers, Henrik Ibsen, Jerry Reed, Jack Kruschen, Michael Redgrave, Ozzie Nelson, Vera Lynn, Edmund Goulding, Ted Bessell, Edgar Buchanan, and Anne Bradstreet. Carl Theodor Dreyer died 53 years ago in 1968 at age 79. Kenny Rogers died one year ago in 2020 at age 81.