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Today Peter Sarsgaard and Matthew Vaughn are 50. Today is also the birthday of Bryan Cranston, Rachel Weisz, Wanda Sykes, Jenna Fischer, Bret Easton Ellis, Tobias Menzies, Brandon T. Jackson, Laura Prepon, Donna Murphy, Jay Duplass, Daniel J. Travanti, Nick Searcy, Bel Powley, Haley Lu Richardson, Andrew Haigh, E.L. James, and the late John Heard, Anna Magnani, Townes van Zandt, Rik Mayall, James Broderick, and Alan Sues. Divine died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 42. Stanley Kubrick died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 70.

Today Alan Greenspan is 95, David Gilmour and Martin Kove are 75, and Tyler the Creator is 30. Today is also the birthday of Rob Reiner, Connie Britton, Tom Arnold, Shaquille O’Neal, D.L. Hughley, Moira Kelly, Eddie Deezen, Alan Davies, and the late Michelangelo, Lou Costello, Ed McMahon, Andrzej Wajda, Hal Needham, Gabriel García Márquez, Virginia Gregg, Alberta Watson, Guy Kibbee, Lewis Gilbert, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Marion Barry. Louisa May Alcott died 133 years ago in 1888 at age 55. Margaret Dumont died 56 years ago in 1965 at age 82. Nelson Eddy died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 65. William Hopper died 51 years ago in 1970 at age 55. Ayn Rand died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 77. Both Georgia O’Keeffe and Adolph Caesar died 35 years ago in 1986. O’Keeffe was 98. Caesar was 52. Teresa Wright died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 86. Nancy Reagan died five years ago in 2016 at age 94. Robert Osbourne died four years ago in 2017 at age 84.

Today Adrian Lyne is 80, and Steven Weber is 60. Today is also the birthday of Catherine O’Hara, Patricia Heaton, Chaz Bono, Mykelti Williamson, Kay Lenz, Daniel Roebuck, James Ellroy, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Paul W.S. Anderson, Dominique Pinon, Scott Hicks, Wash Westmoreland, Paolo Virzì, Agustí Villaronga, Robert Shaye, Dav Pilkey, and the late John Garfield, Joan Greenwood, who would be 100, Gunnar Hansen, and Pearl White. John Candy died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 43. Minnie Pearl died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 83.

Today Charlie Brooker is 50. Today is also the birthday of George Miller, Miranda Richardson, Jessica Biel, Julie Bowen, Laura Harring, Katherine Waterston, Ira Glass, David Faustino, Sandy Martin, Tim Kazurinsky, Gloria Hendry, Eric DaRe, Larry Pine, Aaron Moorhead, and the late Jean Harlow, James Doohan, Bobby Driscoll, Gia Scala, Barney Martin, and Alexander Graham Bell. Lou Costello died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 52. William Frawley died 55 years ago in 1966 at age 79. Danny Kaye died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 76. David Ogden Stiers died three years ago in 2018 at age 75.

Today Bryce Dallas Howard is 40. Today is also the birthday of Daniel Craig, Rebel Wilson, Jon Bon Jovi, Chris Martin, Laraine Newman, John Irving, John Cullum, Gates McFadden, Gordon Thomson, and the late Jennifer Jones, Desi Arnaz, Lou Reed, Karen Carpenter, Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss), Tom Wolfe, Jon Finch, Martin Ritt, and Kenji Misumi, who would be 100. Philip K. Dick died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 53. Randolph Scott died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 89. Sandy Dennis died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 54. Mercedes McCambridge died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 87. James Lipton died one year ago in 2020 at age 93.

Today Robert Clary is 95. Today is also the birthday of Javier Bardem, Ron Howard, Harry Belafonte, Roger Daltrey, Lupita Nyong’o, Zack Snyder, Tim Daly, Dirk Benedict, Chuck Zito, Eddie Huang, Justin Bieber, Kesha, and the late David Niven, Jacques Rivette, Glenn Miller, Alan Thicke, Ralph Ellison, Joan Hackett, Harry Caray, and Jack Clayton, who would be 100. Jackie Coogan died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 69. Joe Besser died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 80. Alain Resnais died seven years ago in 2014 at age 91.

February 29 is the birthday of Joss Ackland, Antonio Sabato Jr., Ja Rule, Peter Scanavino, Tony Robbins, Harvey Jason, Margit Carstensen, Shane Johnson, Ken Foree, Jessie T. Usher, and the late Dinah Shore, Dennis Farina, Alex Rocco, Michèle Morgan, Arthur Franz, James Mitchell, Edward Faulkner, William A. Wellman, Richard Ramirez, and Aileen Wuornos. Frank Albertson died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 55. Davy Jones died nine years ago in 2012 at age 66.

Today Gavin MacLeod is 90, and Rae Dawn Chong is 60. Today is also the birthday of John Turturro, Gilbert Gottfried, Bernadette Peters, Mercedes Ruehl, Tommy Tune, Mike Figgis, Rory Cochrane, Geoffrey Arend, Guy Maddin, Paul Krugman, Robert Sean Leonard, Daniel Handler, Sidney J. Furie, and the late Zero Mostel, Charles Durning, Brian Jones, Vincente Minnelli, Bubba Smith, Don Francks, Billie Bird, and Ben Hecht. Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Ishiro Honda died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 81. Jane Russell died twelve years ago in 2011 at age 89.

Today Charlotte Stewart is 80, Bolo Yeung is 75, Charles Baker is 50, and Josh Groban is 40. Today is the birthday of Joanne Woodward, Timothy Spall, Kara Mara, Howard Hesseman, Noah Emmerich, Adam Baldwin, Donal Logue, Bingbing Li, Debra Monk, Barbara Babcock, Ralph Nader, Chelsea Clinton, Mary Jo Pehl, and the late Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, John Steinbeck, William Demarest, Van Williams, Franchot Tone, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Lillian Gish died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 99. Spike Milligan died nineteen years ago in 2002 at 83. Fred Rogers died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 74. Leonard Nimoy died six years ago in 2015 at age 83. George Kennedy died five years ago in 2016 at age 91.

Today Josephine Tewson is 90. Today is also the birthday of Michael Bolton, Bill Duke, James Wan, Marilyn Michaels, Jane Wagner, Greg Germann, Teresa Palmer, Drew Goddard, Michel Houellebecq, Marta Kristen, Steve Agee, Tim Kaine, and the late Johnny Cash, Jackie Gleason, Tony Randall, Fats Domino, Betty Hutton, who would be 100, William Frawley, Godfrey Cambridge, Victor Hugo, Christopher Marlowe, Dub Taylor, Dane Clark, Tex Avery, Michael Pate, Robert Alda, William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), Madeleine Carroll, and Margaret Leighton. Lawrence Tierney died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 82.