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Today Claire Bloom is 90, Jane Seymour is 70, and Alex Borstein is 50. Today is also the birthday of Matt Groening, Sherry Jackson, Marisa Berenson, Christopher McDonald, Miranda July, Amber Riley, Brendon Small, Samira Makhmalbaf, Omarosa Manigault Newman, and the late Chris Farley, Cesar Romero, Harvey Korman, Kevin McCarthy, John Barrymore, Allan Arbus, Galileo Galilei, Susan B. Anthony, Arthur Shields, Meg Wyllie, and Gale Sondergaard. Wally Cox and Tim Holt died 48 years ago in 1973. Cox was 48, and Holt was 54. Ethel Merman died 37 years in 1984 at age 76. George Gaynes died five years ago in 2016 at age 98.

Today Joan O’Brien and Andrew Prine are 85, Terry Gross is 70, and Angela Robinson is 50. Today is also the birthday of Simon Pegg, Meg Tilly, Freddie Highmore, Carl Bernstein, Michael Bloomberg, Harriet Andersson, Teller, Danai Gurira, Andrew Robinson, Zach Galligan, Jackie Martling, Rob Thomas, Anton Lesser, Sakina Jaffrey, Frank Collison, Brett Dier, Allan Miller, and the late Jack Benny, Florence Henderson, Thelma Ritter, Vic Morrow, Gregory Hines, Lois Maxwell, Alan Parker, Edward Platt, Jimmy Hoffa, Woody Hayes, Hugh Downs, who would be 100, Tim Buckley, Stuart Erwin, and Masaki Kobayashi. Sig Ruman died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 82. Louis Jourdan died six years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today Bo Svenson is 80, Joe Estevez is 75, David Naughton is 70, and Henry Rollins and Richard Tyson are 60. Today is also the birthday of Kim Novak, George Segal, Stockard Channing, Jerry Springer, Peter Gabriel, Robbie Williams, Mena Suvari, Neal McDonough, Donald Sumpter, and the late Oliver Reed, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Chuck Yeager, Peter Tork, and Carol Lynley. Martin Balsam died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 76. Stacy Keach Sr. died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 88. Seijun Suzuki died four years ago in 2017 at age 93.

Today Joe Don Baker is 85. Today is also the birthday of Josh Brolin, Christina Ricci, Darren Aronofsky, Costa-Gavras, John Michael Higgins, Arsenio Hall, Judy Blume, Lochlyn Munro, Michael Ironside, Tara Strong, Raphael Sbarge, Iko Uwais, Josef Altin, Cliff De Young, Zach Grenier, Annette Crosbie, and the late Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, both born today in 1809, Franco Zeffirelli, Forrest Tucker, Louis Zorich, Lorne Greene, Simon MacCorkindale, Richard Lynch, Ann Gillis, Wallace Ford, and Joseph Kearns. Dziga Vertov died 67 years ago in 1954 at age 58. Sal Mineo died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 37. Jean Renoir died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 84. Charles M. Schulz died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 77. Sid Caesar died seven years ago in 2014 at age 91. Marty Allen died three years ago in 2018 at age 95.

Today Damian Lewis is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jennifer Aniston, Sheryl Crow, Taylor Lautner, Brandy Norwood, Tina Louise, Diane Franklin, Natalie Dormer, Q’orianka Kilcher, Jeb Bush, Sarah Palin, Alex Jones, and the late Burt Reynolds, Leslie Nielsen, Eva Gabor, Thomas A. Edison, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Kim Stanley, Sonny Landham, Billy Halop, Max Baer, and Sidney Sheldon. Sergei Eisenstein died 73 years ago in 1948 at age 50. Sylvia Plath died 58 years ago in 1963 at age 30. Lee J. Cobb died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 64. Whitney Houston died nine years ago in 2012 at age 48.

Today Alexander Payne and George Stephanopoulos are 60, Uzo Aduba and Stephanie Beatriz are 40, and Emma Roberts is 30. Today is also the birthday of Laura Dern, Robert Wagner, Elizabeth Banks, Chloë Grace Moretz, Vince Gilligan, Rupert Vansittart, Meadow Williams, Glenn Beck, and the late Lon Chaney Jr., Jimmy Durante, Alan Hale, Judith Anderson, Jerry Goldsmith, Stella Adler, Bertolt Brecht, Michael Apted, John Dierkes, Hazel Court, John Farrow, and Douglas Slocombe. Jim Varney died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 50. Arthur Miller died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 89. Roy Scheider died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 75. Shirley Temple died seven years ago in 2014 at age 85.

Today Tom Hiddleston is 40. Today is also the birthday of Joe Pesci, Carole King, Mia Farrow, Judith Light, Michael B. Jordan, Ziyi Zhang, Ciarán Hinds, Charlie Day, David Simon, David Hayman, Margarita Levieva, Jason George, Marianna Hill, Fede Alvarez, Rose Leslie, Charles Shaughnessy, Clive Swift, Janet Suzman, and the late Ronald Colman, Kathryn Grayson, Brian Donlevy, Carmen Miranda, Peggy Wood, Roy Jenson, and William Henry Harrison. George ‘Gabby’ Hayes died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 83. John Gavin and Reg E. Cathey died three years ago in 2018. Gavin was 86. Cathey was 59.

Today Nick Nolte is 80. Today is also the birthday of Mary Steenburgen, John Williams, Mary McCormack, Seth Green, Brooke Adams, Robert Klein, John Grisham, Cecily Strong, Mathilda May, Creed Bratton, William Jackson Harper, Ethan Phillips, and the late James Dean, who would be 90, Jack Lemmon, Lana Turner, who would be 100, Gary Coleman, Audrey Meadows, Jules Verne, King Vidor, Allan Rich, Jack Larson, William Tecumseh Sherman, Betty Field, Burt Mustin, Alejandro Rey, Charles Ruggles, Roger Lloyd Pack, and Bengt Ekerot. Robert Conrad died one year ago in 2020 at age 84.

Today is the birthday of Chris Rock, James Spader, Eddie Izzard, Garth Brooks, Ashton Kutcher, Tina Majorino, Deborah Ann Woll, Robyn Lively, Jason Gedrick, Eric Godon, Robert Smigel, James Deen, and the late Charles Dickens, Miguel Ferrer, Pete Postlethwaite, Eddie Bracken, Gloria Talbott, Jock Mahoney, Buster Crabbe, Wayne Allwine, Dora Bryan, Hector Babenco, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas More, and Puyi. Dale Evans died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 88. Mickey Jones died three years ago in 2018 at age 76. Albert Finney died two year ago in 2019 at age 82. Orson Bean died one year ago in 2020 at age 91.

Today Mamie Van Doren is 90, and Kevin Whately is 70. Today is also the birthday of Kathy Najimy, Dane DeHaan, Axl Rose, Tom Brokaw, Mike Farrell, Josh Stewart, Robert Townsend, Jim Sheridan, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Debra Granik, Fabian, and the late Bob Marley, François Truffaut, Rip Torn, Ronald Reagan, Babe Ruth, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Patrick Macnee, Ramon Novarro, Haskell Wexler, David Gorcey, who would be 100, and Eva Braun. Danny Thomas died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 79. Joseph Cotten died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 88. Irwin Corey died four years ago in 2017 at age 102.