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Today David Selby is 80, Charlotte Rampling is 75, Tim Meadows is 60, and Mia Hansen-Løve is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Guest, Michael Sheen, Laura Linney, Barbara Hershey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Mann, Chris Parnell, Darren Criss, Bobby Brown, Errol Morris, Tony Jaa, Benoît Jacquot, David Meunier, Jamie Brewer, Jonathan Freeman, and the late John Carradine, Red Buttons, William S. Burroughs, Hank Aaron, Tim Holt, HR Giger, Stephen J. Cannell, and Stefan Gierasch. Thelma Ritter died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 66. Joseph L. Mankiewicz died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 83. Kirk Douglas died one year ago in 2020 at age 103.

Today Rob Corddry is 50. Today is also the birthday of Alice Cooper, Hannibal Buress, Gabrielle Anwar, Jim O’Heir, Michael Beck, Linda Bassett, John Schuck, Jerry Adler, Dan Quayle, and the late Ida Lupino, George A. Romero, David Brenner, Rosa Parks, Charles Lindbergh, William Talman, Conrad Bain, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Norman Wisdom, James Craig, Nigel Bruce, and Betty Friedan, who died on her 85th birthday fifteen years ago in 2006. Louis Jordan died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 66. Karen Carpenter died 38 year ago in 1983 at age 32. Liberace died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 67. John Mahoney died three years ago in 2018 at age 77.

Today is the birthday of Nathan Lane, Blythe Danner, Isla Fisher, Maura Tierney, Warwick Davis, Kenneth Anger, Morgan Fairchild, Tim Heidecker, Fredric Lehne, Stephen McHattie, Anthony Russo, Amal Clooney, Lizzie Borden, and the late Joey Bishop, Victor Buono, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Michael Cimino, Shelley Berman, Gertrude Stein, Norman Rockwell, Mary Carlisle, John Fielder, James Bridges, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Buddy Holly died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 22. Anna May Wong died sixty years ago in 1961 at age 56. John Cassavetes died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 59. Audrey Meadows died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 73. Al Lewis died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 82. Ben Gazzara died nine years ago in 2012 at age 81. Julie Adams died two years ago in 2019 at age 92.

Today Blake Clark is 75. Today is also the birthday of Graham Nash, Tom Smothers, Bo Hopkins, Christie Brinkley, Zosia Mamet, Shakira, David Jason, Jack McGee, Catherine Flemming, Lori Beth Denberg, Rich Sommer, Laura Poitras, Oz Perkins, Duane “Dog” Chapman, John A. Russo, and the late Farrah Fawcett, James Joyce, James Dickey, Ayn Rand, Elaine Stritch, Tony Jay, S.Z. Sakall, Carol Ann Susi, Frank Albertson, Jackie Burroughs, Eva Cassidy, Bonita Granville, Connie Gilchrist, Frank Lloyd, Duane Jones, and Vera Chytilová. Boris Karloff died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 81. Sid Vicious died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 21. Donald Pleasence died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 75. Gene Kelly died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 83. Philip Seymour Hoffman died seven years ago in 2014 at age 46. Bob Elliott died five years ago in 2016 at age 92.

Today Michael C. Hall is 50, and John Gemberling is 40. Today is also the birthday of Don Everly, Garrett Morris, Pauly Shore, Julia Garner, Harry Styles, Lisa Marie Presley, Abbi Jacobson, Sherilyn Fenn, Linus Roache, Bill Mumy, Ronda Rousey, Anna Biller, and the late Clark Gable, John Ford, Terry Jones, Langston Hughes, Sherman Hemsley, Brandon Lee, Stuart Whitman, Rick James, Nancy Gates, Boris Yeltsin, Peter Sallis, who would be 100, Paul Carr, Bibi Besch, and Lee Thompson Young. Buster Keaton and Hedda Hopper died 55 years ago in 1966. Keaton was 70. Hopper was 80. John Vernon died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 72. Maximilian Schell died seven years ago in 2014 at age 83.

Today Jessica Walter is 80, Patricia Velasquez is 50, and Justin Timberlake is 40. Today is also the birthday of Minnie Driver, Kerry Washington, Jonathan Banks, Portia de Rossi, Bobby Moynihan, John Lydon, Philip Glass, Kelly Lynch, Stuart Margolin, Paul Scheer, Anthony Lapaglia, Peter McRobbie, Nick DiPaolo, Dexter Fletcher, Megan Ellison, Michael St. Michaels, and the late Jean Simmons, Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing and Mario Lanza, who would both be 100, Norman Mailer, Jackie Robinson, Suzanne Pleshette, Franz Schubert, Eddie Cantor, Joanne Dru, Percy Helton, and Derek Jarman. Samuel Goldwyn died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 94. George Abbott died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 107.

Today Dick Cheney is 80, and Phil Collins and Charles S. Dutton are 70. Today is also the birthday of Gene Hackman, Vanessa Redgrave, Christian Bale, Olivia Colman, Wilmer Valderrama, Ann Dowd, Brett Butler, Gino Conforti, Steven Zaillian, Andy Milonakis, Wayne Wilderson, and the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Ireland, David Wayne, Dick Martin, Hugh Marlowe, Tammy Grimes, Michael Anderson, and Delbert Mann. Mahatma Gandhi and Orville Wright both died 73 years ago in 1948. Gandhi was 78. Wright was 76.

Today is the birthday of Oprah Winfrey, Tom Selleck Heather Graham, Katharine Ross, Sara Gilbert, Edward Burns, Sam Trammell, Justin Hartley, Adam Lambert, and the late W.C. Fields, Anton Chekhov, Victor Mature, Ernst Lubitsch, Dorothy Malone, Paddy Chayefsky, and John Forsythe. Alan Ladd died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 50. Freddie Prinze died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 22. Jacques Rivette died five years ago in 2016 at age 87.

Today Alan Alda is 85, and Elijah Wood is 40. Today is also the birthday of Will Poulter, Joey Fatone, Susan Howard, Frank Darabont, Marthe Keller, Gillian Vigman, Sarah McLachlan, John Beck, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Nicholas Pryor, Jack Hill, Mo Rocca, Ariel Winter, Rick Ross, Nick Carter, and the late John Banner, who died on his birthday 48 years ago in 1973 at age 63, Tom Neal, Lewis Wilson, Richard Glatzer, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Maurice Gosfield. Zora Neale Hurston died 61 years ago in 1960 at age 69. Burt Mustin died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 92. Erle C. Kenton died 41 years ago in 1980 at age 83.

Today is the birthday of James Cromwell, Patton Oswalt, Alan Cumming, Bridget Fonda, Rosamund Pike, Mimi Rogers, Frank Miller, Keith Olbermann, Mike Patton, Phil Rosenthal, Michael Craig, Tricky, and the late Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lewis Carroll, Donna Reed, who would be 100, Troy Donahue, John Witherspoon, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Howard McNear, Ingrid Thulin, Sabu, and Milton Kibbee. Andre the Giant died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 46. Jack Paar died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 85. J.D. Salinger died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 91. Pete Seeger died seven years ago in 2014 at age 94. Emmanuelle Riva died four years ago in 2017 at age 89.