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Today is the birthday of John Carpenter, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Debbie Allen, Ricardo Darín, Richard T. Jones, Marwan Kenzari, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Caroline Munro, Atticus Ross, FKA Twigs, James May, Kate Moss, Jason Friedberg, and the late Ethel Merman, Harry Carey, Aaliyah, Susan Sontag, Elliott Reid, Katy Jurado, Alexander Knox, John Hamilton, Diana Wynyard, Karl Freund, Leslie H. Martinson, Stirling Silliphant, Buddy Lester, and Ralph Ince. Carole Lombard died 79 years ago in 1942 at age 33. Ted Cassidy died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 46. Bernard Lee died forty years ago in 1981 at age 73.

Today Regina King is 50. Today is also the birthday of Margaret O’Brien, Andrea Martin, Chad Lowe, James Nesbitt, Mario Van Peebles, Phyllis Coates, Joanne Linville, Jamie Clayton, Kellita Smith, Skrillex, DJ Jazzy Jeff (Jeffrey A. Townes), and the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Lloyd Bridges, Ronnie Van Zant, Maria Schell, Marjorie Bennett, Kirin Kiki, Patricia Blair, Ernest Thesiger, Ivor Novello, and Rex Ingram. Ray Bolger died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 83. Brad Renfro died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 25. Nagisa Ôshima died eight years ago in 2013 at age 80. Dan Haggerty died five years ago in 2016 at age 73. Carol Channing died two year ago in 2019 at age 97.

Today Carole Cook is 97, Faye Dunaway is 80, and Pitbull is 40. Today is also the birthday of Emily Watson, Jason Bateman, Steven Soderbergh, Dave Grohl, Carl Weathers, LL Cool J, Holland Taylor, Lawrence Kasdan, Kevin Durand, T Bone Burnett, Jordan Ladd, Grant Gustin, Mark Addy, Dan Schneider, Shepard Smith, and the late Stan Brakhage, Hal Roach, Bebe Daniels, Guy Williams, William Bendix, Harold Russell, Tom Tryon, Andy Rooney, Joseph Losey, Mary Ann Jackson, and Warren Mitchell. Lewis Carroll died 123 years ago in 1898 at age 65. Humphrey Bogart died 63 years ago in 1957 at age 57. Barry Fitzgerald died sixty years ago in 1961 at age 72. Peter Finch died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 60. Donna Reed died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 64. Douglas Sirk died 34 years in 1987 at age 89. Shelley Winters died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 85. Ricardo Montalban died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 88.

Today Julia Louis-Dreyfus is 60. Today is also the birthday of Orlando Bloom, Michael Peña, Patrick Dempsey, Liam Hemsworth, Shonda Rhimes, Penelope Ann Miller, Ruth Wilson, Carol Cleveland, Bill Bailey, Nicole Eggert, Frances Sternhagen, Trace Adkins, Nick Clooney, William B. Davis, Jon Cypher, Billy Gray, John McNaughton, and the late Robert Stack, Rip Taylor, Kay Francis, Rosemary Murphy, Charles Nelson Reilly, Paul Birch, Gwen Verdon, Jack Mercer, Albert Lamorisse, Horatio Alger, Michael Bond, and Gregory Walcott. Ernie Kovacs died 59 years ago in 1962 at age 42. Joe Spinell died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 52. Ted Demme died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 38. Dick Gautier died four years ago in 2017 at age 85.

Today Kirstie Alley and Rush Limbaugh are 70, and Simon Russell Beale is 60. Today is also the birthday of Howard Stern, Rob Zombie, Oliver Platt, Issa Rae, John Lasseter, Anthony Andrews, Rachael Harris, Alexandra Wentworth, Christiane Amanpour, Wayne Wang, Mary Harron, Shirley Eaton, Zayn Malik, Aaron Seltzer, Liliana Cavani, Jeff Bezos, and the late Luise Rainer, Jack London, Tex Ritter, Ray Teal, Joe E. Lewis, Patsy Kelly, Joe Frazier, and Matti Kassila. Henri-Georges Clouzot died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 69. Keye Luke died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 86. Maurice Gibb died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 53. William Peter Blatty died four years ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today Naomi Judd is 75, and Mary J. Blige is 50. Today is also the birthday of Amanda Peet, Mitchell Ryan, Marc Blucas, Phyllis Logan, Alfonso Arau, Devin Ratray, Rockmond Dunbar, Kyle Richards, Malcolm D. Lee, Joel Zwick, Felix Silla, Diana Gabaldon, and the late Rod Taylor, Lionel Stander, George Zucco, Christine Kaufmann, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Kathleen Byron, who would be 100, Veda Ann Borg, Angela Paton, Grant Tinker, Peter Baldwin, Chester Conklin, and Alexander Hamilton. Jack Soo died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 61. Sheldon Leonard died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 89. Maurice Pialat died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 77. Éric Rohmer died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 89. David Nelson died ten years ago in 2011 at age 74. Anita Ekberg died six years ago in 2015 at age 83.

Today Evan Handler is 60, and Jared Kushner is 40. Today is also the birthday of Walter Hill, Rod Stewart, Jemaine Clement, George Foreman, Trini Alvarado, William Sanderson, Sarah Shahi, Emily Meade, Tony Gardner, Fran Walsh, Brandon Cronenberg, Gurinder Chadha, and the late Sal Mineo, Linda Lovelace, Francis X. Bushman, Ray Bolger, Paul Henreid, Bernard Lee, Jim Croce, David Maysles, Frank Sinatra Jr., Teresa Graves, Roy Edward Disney, and Josh Ryan Evans. Richard Boone died forty years ago in 1981 at age 63. Paul Lynde died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 55. Maila Nurmi (Vampira) died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 85. David Bowie died five years ago in 2016 at age 69.

Today K Callan is 85, Joan Baez is 80, and Al Jean is 60. Today is also the birthday of J.K. Simmons, Imelda Staunton, Joey Lauren Adams, David Johansen, Dave Matthews, Joely Richardson, John Doman, Angela Bettis, Deon Cole, Omari Hardwick, Jimmy Page, A.J. McLean, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, and the late Richard Nixon, Lee Van Cleef, Susannah York, Bob Denver, Dick Enberg, Clive Dunn, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Bernard Gorcey, and Sergei Parajanov. Arthur Lake died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 81. Peter Cook died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 57.

Today Larry Storch is 98, and John McTiernan is 70. Today is also the birthday of Sarah Polley, Gaby Hoffmann, Yvette Mimieux, Sam Riley, Shirley Bassey, Jenny Lewis, R. Kelly, Amber Benson, Freddie Stroma, Betsy DeVos, Kim Jong-un, and the late Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Graham Chapman, who would be 80, Stephen Hawking, José Ferrer, Soupy Sales, Ron Moody, Gypsy Rose Lee, Kerwin Mathews, William Hartnell, and Roy Kinnear. Terry-Thomas died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 78. Pat Buttram died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 78. Jesse White died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 80. Yvonne De Carlo died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 84.

Today Jeremy Renner and Kevin Rahm are 50. Today is also the birthday of Nicolas Cage, Katie Couric, Ruth Negga, Terry Moore, David Caruso, Merritt Wever, Lauren Cohan, Kenny Loggins, Doug E. Doug, Liam Aiken, Rex Lee, Dustin Diamond, Anne Schedeen, Haley Bennett, Robert Sheehan, Steven Williams, Tomm Moore, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, and the late Charles Addams, Vincent Gardenia, Irrfan Khan, Butterfly McQueen, Alan Napier, Geoffrey Bayldon, William Peter Blatty, Adolph Zukor, and Roland Topor. Trevor Howard died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 74. Rod Taylor died six years ago in 2015 at age 84.