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Today Sean Astin is 50. Today is also the birthday of Téa Leoni, Rashida Jones, Chelsea Handler, Diane Baker, Neil Jordan, Tom Courtenay, Lee Evans, John Doe, Mark Moses, Scott ‘Carrot Top’ Thompson, Ric Flair, Jameela Jamil, Noah Jupe, and the late George Harrison, Zeppo Marx, Jim Backus, Larry Gelbart, Anthony Burgess, Bobby Riggs, Bert Remsen, and Gert Fröbe. Tennessee Williams died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 71. James Coco died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 56. Erland Josephson died nine years ago in 2012 at age 88. Bill Paxton died four years ago in 2017 at age 61.

Today Dominic Chianese is 90, Michael Radford is 75, Debra Jo Rupp is 70, Emilio Rivera and Kasi Lemmons are 60, Gillian Flynn is 50, and O’Shea Jackson Jr. is 30. Today is also the birthday of Billy Zane, Edward James Olmos, Daniel Kaluuya, Barry Bostwick, Jenny O’Hara, Beth Broderick, Todd Field, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and the late Abe Vigoda, who would be 100, Emmanuelle Riva, John Vernon, Marjorie Main, Steve Jobs, Steven Hill, and Mitch Hedberg. Dinah Shore died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 77. Henny Youngman died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 91. John Randolph died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 88. Don Knotts and Dennis Weaver died fifteen years ago in 2006, both at age 81. Harold Ramis died seven years ago in 2014 at age 69.

Today Patricia Richardson is 70, and Josh Gad is 40. Today is also the birthday of Emily Blunt, Kelly Macdonald, Aziz Ansari, Kristin Davis, Dakota Fanning, Niecy Nash, Paul Morrissey, Marie-Josée Croze, and the late Peter Fonda, Victor Fleming, George Frideric Handel, W.E.B. Du Bois, Diane Varsi, Mary Pat Gleason, Terence Fisher, Norman Taurog, and Jirí Menzel. Mabel Normand died 91 years ago in 1930 at age 37. Stan Laurel died 56 years ago in 1965 at age 74. Katherine Helmond died two years ago in 2019 at age 89.

Today Elizabeth MacRae is 85, and Ellen Greene is 70. Today is also the birthday of Kyle MacLachlan, Drew Barrymore, Thomas Jane, Julie Walters, Rachel Dratch, James Hong, Paul Dooley, Jeri Ryan, Josh Helman, Nicholas Pileggi, Paul Lieberstein, Rebecca Schull, Nigel Planer, and the late George Washington, Luis Buñuel, Jonathan Demme, Giulietta Masina, who would be 100, John Mills, Robert Young, Don Pardo, Dwight Frye, Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter, Karin Dor, Kenneth Williams, Vaughn Taylor, Sheldon Leonard, and Mildred Davis. Andy Warhol died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 58. Simone Simon died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 94.

Today Tyne Daly and Anthony Daniels are 75, Christopher Atkins is 60, and Sophie Turner is 25. Today is also the birthday of Elliot Page, Kelsey Grammer, Jordan Peele, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mélanie Laurent, Kim Coates, William Petersen, Kumail Nanjiani, Tituss Burgess, Bob Rafelson, William Baldwin, Jack Coleman, Margarethe von Trotta, Christine Ebersole, Brendan Sexton III, Chuck Palahniuk, Justin Roiland, Gary Lockwood, Shane Ryan, and the late Alan Rickman, Nina Simone, Sam Peckinpah, John Lewis, David Foster Wallace, Rue McClanahan, Ann Sheridan, Larry Drake, Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Sacha Guitry, and James Beck. Malcolm X was assassinated 56 years ago in 1965 at age 39. Stanley Donen and Peter Tork died two year ago in 2019. Donen was 94. Tork was 77.

Today Brenda Blethyn and Sandy Duncan are 75. Today is also the birthday of Sidney Poitier, Lili Taylor, Miles Teller, Mike Leigh, Joel Hodgson, Richard Beymer, Rihanna, Trevor Noah, Chelsea Peretti, Charles Barkley, Andrea Savage, Willie Garson, Louis Ferreira, Jay Hernandez, Lauren Ambrose, Anthony Head, David Herman, Jack Falahee, Jason Blum, Andrew Bergman, Cindy Crawford, Kliph Nesteroff, Patricia Hearst, Ivana Trump, and the late Robert Altman, Kurt Cobain, Richard Matheson, Brion James, Amanda Blake, Gale Gordon, Pierre Boulle, and Gloria Vanderbilt. Max Schreck died 85 years ago in 1936 at age 56. Dick York died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 63. Sandra Dee died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 62.

Today David Mazouz is 20. Today is also the birthday of Benicio Del Toro, Jeff Daniels, Ray Winstone, Smokey Robinson, Justine Bateman, Seal, Amy Tan, Sam Reid, Millie Bobby Brown, Leslie David Baker, Josh Trank, Victoria Justice, Zach Clark, and the late Lee Marvin, John Frankenheimer, Ann Savage, who would be 100, Cedric Hardwicke, Louis Feuillade, Merle Oberon, David Margulies, and Louis Calhern. Michael Powell died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 84. Derek Jarman died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 52. Stanley Kramer died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 87. Harper Lee died five years ago in 2016 at age 89.

Today is the birthday of John Travolta, Matt Dillon, Cybil Shepherd, Yoko Ono, Molly Ringwald, Dr. Dre, Ike Barinholtz, Vanna White, Logan Miller, Greta Scacchi, Regina Spektor, László Nemes, Jeff Orlowski, and the late John Hughes, Toni Morrison, Milos Forman, George Kennedy, Jack Palance, Mary Ure, Adolphe Menjou, Allan Melvin, Edward Arnold, Bill Cullen, and Nikos Kazantzakis. Martin Luther died 475 years ago in 1546 at age 62. Michelangelo died 457 years ago in 1564 at age 88. Andy Devine died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Harry Caray died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 83. Dale Earnhardt died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 49. Jean Rouch died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 86.

Today Jim Brown is 85, Denise Richards is 50, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Paris Hilton are 40, and Ed Sheeran and Bonnie Wright are 30. Today is also the birthday of Michael Jordan, Rene Russo, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michael Bay, Lou Diamond Phillips, Brenda Fricker, Larry The Cable Guy, Jerry O’Connell, Jason Ritter, Lucy Davis, Billie Joe Armstrong, Rory Kinnear, Richard Karn, Patricia Routledge, Christina Pickles, Barry Humphries, Becky Ann Baker, Don Coscarelli, and the late Alan Bates, Hal Holbrook, Arthur Kennedy, Kathleen Freeman, Arthur Hunnicutt, Huey P. Newton, Dieter Laser, Jeremy Slate, and Ralphie May. Lee Strasberg died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 80. Andrzej Zulawski died five years ago in 2016 at age 75.

Today William Katt is 70. Today is also the birthday of Mahershala Ali, LeVar Burton, Ice-T, Elizabeth Olsen, Troy Evans, John McEnroe, The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye), Christopher Eccleston, Agyness Deyn, Janice Dickinson, Lisa Loring, Yoshishige Yoshida, and the late Sonny Bono, Edgar Bergen, John Schlesinger, Chester Morris, Hugh Beaumont, Brian Bedford, Robert J. Flaherty, James Baskett, Ken Takakura, Carlos Rivas, Vernon Dent, Mack Swain, and Kim Jong-il. Len Lesser died ten years ago in 2011 at age 88. Lesley Gore died six years ago in 2015 at age 68.