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Today Tom Sizemore and Kim Delaney are 60. Today is also the birthday of Don Cheadle, Diane Ladd, Joel Coen, Anna Faris, Howie Mandel, Cathy Moriarty, Lucas Black, Jackie Hoffman, Gemma Chan, Jeff Fahey, Brian Baumgartner, Tom Wright, Jerry Lawler, Simon Amstell, Ehren McGhehey, and the late Chadwick Boseman, Garry Shandling, Busby Berkeley, C. S. Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, and Yakima Canutt. Godfrey Cambridge died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 43. Natalie Wood died forty years ago in 1981 at age 43. Cary Grant died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 82. Ralph Bellamy died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 87. George Harrison died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 58. Patrice O’Neal died ten years ago in 2011 at age 41.

Today Joe Dante is 75, and Alfonso Cuarón and Martin Clunes are 60. Today is also the birthday of Ed Harris, Jon Stewart, Randy Newman, Paul Shaffer, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Judd Nelson, Armando Iannucci, Karen Gillan, Berry Gordy, S. Epatha Merkerson, Ryan Kwanten, Colman Domingo, Angelica Ross, Agnieszka Holland, Stephnie Weir, Paul Dinello, Rose Abdoo, Pamela Hayden, and the late Gloria Grahame, James Karen, Hope Lange, Anna Nicole Smith, Michael Ritchie, Lilia Skala, Stefan Zweig, and Max Wagner. Rosalind Russell died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 69. Leslie Nielsen died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 84. Marjorie Lord died six years ago in 2015 at age 97.

Today Kathryn Bigelow is 70, and Steve Oedekerk is 60. Today is also the birthday of Bill Nye, William Fichtner, Alison Pill, Robin Givens, Lashana Lynch, Sharlto Copley, Elizabeth Marvel, Jaleel White, Curtis Armstrong, Fisher Stevens, Kimmy Robertson, Paulina García, Gerrit Graham, Callie Khouri, Adam Shankman, Barbara Anderson, Stephen Bannon, and the late Bruce Lee, Jimi Hendrix, James Agee, James Avery, Connie Sawyer, Claude Lanzmann, Les Blank, Ronit Elkabetz, and “Buffalo” Bob Smith. Harvey Milk died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 48. John Carradine died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 82. Irvin Kershner died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 87. Ken Russell died ten years ago in 2011 at age 84.

Today Mark L. Lester is 75. Today is also the birthday of Tina Turner, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Mark Margolis, DJ Khaled, Scott Adsit, Rich Little, Jessica Camacho, Lia Williams, Don Lake, Marianne Muellerleile, Julien Temple, and the late Robert Goulet, Charles M. Schultz, Albert Maysles, Cyril Cusack, Frances Dee, Daniel Petrie, and Charles Brackett. Tommy Dorsey died 65 years ago in 1956 at age 51. Mel Tolkin died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 94. Bernardo Bertolucci and Stephen Hillenburg died three years ago in 2018. Bertolucci was 77. Hillenburg was 57.

Today Charlaine Harris is 70, Christina Applegate is 50, and Amy Seimetz, Barbara Bush, and Jenna Bush Hager are 40. Today is also the birthday of John Larroquette, Joel Kinnaman, Ben Stein, Jill Hennessy, Dougray Scott, Billy Burke, Mary Jo Deschanel, Tracey Walter, Kathryn Grant, Gaspard Ulliel, Beverly Washburn, Mark Frost, Gregg Turkington, Amy Grant, Bruno Tonioli, and the late Ricardo Montalban, Joe DiMagggio, John Kennedy Jr., Jeffrey Hunter, Noel Neill, Jessie Royce Landis, and Augusto Pinochet. Bill “Bojangles” Robinson died 72 years ago in 1949 at age 72. Upton Sinclair died 53 years ago in 1968 at age 90. Jack Albertson died forty years ago in 1981 at age 74. Flip Wilson died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 64. Fidel Castro and Ron Glass died five years ago in 2016. Castro was 90. Glass was 71. Rance Howard died four years ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today is the birthday Billy Connolly, Katherine Heigl, Stephen Merchant, Shirley Henderson, Colin Hanks, Garret Dillahunt, Thierry Lhermitte, Danielle Nicolet, Sarah Hyland, Stanley Livingston, Conleth Hill, Dwight Schultz, Ulrich Seidl, Emir Kusturica, and the late William F. Buckley, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Cathleen Nesbitt, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Forrest J. Ackerman, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Garson Kanin, Zachary Taylor, and Ted Bundy. Lee Harvey Oswald died 58 years ago in 1963 at age 24. George Raft died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 79. Freddie Mercury died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 45. Pat Morita died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 73. Ricky Jay died three years ago in 2018 at age 72.

Today Franco Nero is 80, and Chris Hardwick is 50. Today is also the birthday of Vincent Cassel, Robert Towne, Miley Cyrus, Robin Roberts, James Toback, Brennan Brown, Bruce Vilanch, Oded Fehr, Joe Eszterhas, Destin Daniel Cretton, Danny Hoch, Chuck Schumer, Sara Karloff, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, and the late Boris Karloff, Harpo Marx, Michael Gough, Robert Easton, Paula Raymond, Steve Landesberg, Elmarie Wendel, Run Run Shaw, Pierre Étaix, Bess Flowers, and Franklin Pierce. Merle Oberon died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 68. Roald Dahl died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 74. Klaus Kinski died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 65. Louis Malle died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 63. Larry Hagman died nine years ago in 2012 at age 81. Nicolas Roeg died three years ago in 2018 at age 90.

Today Robert M. Young is 97, and Mariel Hemingway is 60. Today is also the birthday of Scarlett Johansson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mark Ruffalo, Terry Gilliam, Mads Mikkelsen, Steven Van Zandt, Alden Ehrenreich, Richard Kind, Billie Jean King, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Karen O, Leos Carax, Marjane Satrapi, and the late Rodney Dangerfield, who would be 100, Geraldine Page, Michael Kenneth Williams, Robert Vaughn, Allen Garfield, Lee Patrick, Arthur Hiller, Andrzej Zulawski, Charles de Gaulle, Elizabeth Patterson, and Paul A. Partain. Jack London died 105 years ago in 1916 at age 40. Shemp Howard died 66 years ago in 1955 at age 60. John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley died 58 years ago in 1963. Kennedy was 46, Lewis was 64, and Huxley was 69. Mae West died 41 years ago in 1980 at age 87. Michael Conrad died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 58. Scatman Crothers died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 76. Sterling Holloway died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 87. Bill Bixby and Anthony Burgess died 28 years ago in 1993. Bixby was 59. Burgess was 76. Florence Henderson died five years ago in 2016 at age 82.

Today Juliet Mills is 80, Andrew Davis is 75, and Michael Strahan is 50. Today is also the birthday of Goldie Hawn, Björk, Marlo Thomas, Jena Malone, Cherry Jones, Nicollette Sheridan, Rain Phoenix, Alexander Siddig, Jimmi Simpson, Cynthia Rhodes, Lorna Luft, Thomas Mars, Carly Rae Jepsen, and the late Harold Ramis, Eleanor Powell, Joseph Campanella, Vivian Blaine, who would be 100, Ralph Meeker, and Voltaire. Jerry Colonna died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 82. Bill Bixby died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 59. David Cassidy died four years ago in 2017 at age 67.

Today Don DeLillo is 85, Judy Woodruff is 75, Rodger Bumpass is 70, Larry Karaszewski is 60, Joel McHale is 50, and Andrea Riseborough is 40. Today is also the birthday of Joe Biden, Dick Smothers, Estelle Parsons, Sean Young, Bo Derek, Joe Walsh, Dierks Bentley, Ming-Na Wen, Callie Thorne, Veronica Hamel, Richard Masur, Jerry Hardin, Ned Vaughn, Mie Hama, Jeff Dowd, and the late Robert F. Kennedy, Bob Einstein, Richard Dawson, Kaye Ballard, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Robert Armstrong, Evelyn Keyes, Samuel E. Wright, Phyllis Thaxter, Reginald Denny, Franklin Cover, and Kon Ichikawa. Allan Sherman died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 48. Richard Loo died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 80. Robert Altman died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 81. Michael J. Pollard died two years ago in 2019 at age 80.