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Today Roland Joffé is 75, and RuPaul and Jonathan Ross are 60. Today is also the birthday of Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Lorne Michaels, Rachel McAdams, Gordon Lightfoot, Lauren Hutton, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Stephen Root, Leslie Louise Bibb, Sophie Marceau, Dylan Walsh, Tom Ellis, Zoë Bell, Susan Rice, Harry Lloyd, Robert Brown, Jon Avnet, Steven E. de Souza, Duwayne Dunham, Bill Morrison, John Boehner, and the late Rock Hudson, Peter Cook, Lee Strasberg, Rance Howard, Jeff Buckley, Mischa Auer, Sara Haden, Frank Maxwell, Lester Allen, and Charles Walters. Gladys Cooper died 49 years ago in 1971 at age 82. Jimmy Ritz died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 81. Esther Rolle died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 78. Ruth Brown died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 78.

Today Steve Railsback is 75, and Martha Plimpton and Jamie Babbit are 50. Today is also the birthday of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lisa Bonet, Clu Gulager, Missi Pyle, Pete Davidson, Harry Lennix, Marg Helgenberger, Miguel Sandoval, Allison Anders, Ron Chaney, and the late Burgess Meredith, Guy Stockwell, Royal Dano, Ellen Albertini Dew, Richard Hale, Daws Butler, George Petrie, George S. Kaufman, Henri Charrière, and Thomas H. Ince. Clark Gable died sixty years ago in 1960 at age 59. William Holden died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 63. Edward Woodward died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 79. William Goldman died two years ago in 2018 at age 87.

Today Sam Waterston is 80, and Bob Gunton and Roger Donaldson are 75. Today is also the birthday of Ed Asner, Shailene Woodley, Beverly D’Angelo, Yaphet F. Kotto, Petula Clark, Jonny Lee Miller, Joanna Barnes, Judy Gold, Ray McKinnon, Asia Kate Dillon, Kevin J. O’Connor, Sean Murray, John Roberts, François Ozon, James Widdoes, Ildikó Enyedi, and the late Georgia O’Keeffe, Randy Savage, Jack Burns, Lewis Stone, Susanne Lothar, Gloria Foster, John Kerr, Kay Walsh, J.G. Ballard, Francesco Rosi, Jean Hill, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Lionel Barrymore died 66 years ago in 1954 at age 76. Tyrone Power died 62 years ago in 1958 at age 44. Jean Gabin died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 72.

Today Paul Hirsch is 75. Today is also the birthday of Josh Duhamel, Olga Kurylenko, Patrick Warburton, Vanessa Bayer, Russell Tovey, Harland Williams, Sandahl Bergman, Yimou Zhang, Paul McGann, Kathleen Hughes, Laura San Giacomo, Gary Grubbs, Brian Gleeson, Dana Snyder, Chris Noonan, Bill Farmer, Katty Kay, P.J. O’Rourke, Sacheen Littlefeather, Travis Barker, Prince Charles, Condoleezza Rice, and the late Veronica Lake, Louise Brooks, Brian Keith, Dick Powell, McLean Stevenson, Rosemary DeCamp, Claude Monet, Jennifer Jayne, Phyllis Avery, Jack Smith, Astrid Lindgren, Sherwood Schwartz, Aaron Copland, Morton Downey, Mamie Eisenhower, and Joseph McCarthy. Tony Richardson died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 63. Virginia Cherrill died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 88. Eddie Bracken died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 87.

Today Tom Atkins is 85, and Neil Flynn is 60. Today is also the birthday of Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Kimmel, Gerard Butler, Joe Mantegna, Steve Zahn, Chris Noth, Aisha Hinds, Noah Hathaway, Jimmy Hawkins, J.A. Preston, David Zellner, Kentucker Audley, and the late Garry Marshall, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jean Seberg, Oskar Werner, Robert Sterling, Richard Mulligan, Jack Elam, who would be 100, Gunnar Björnstrand, Hermione Baddeley, Don Gordon, Mary Beth Hughes, Adrienne Corri, and Fred Phelps. Vittorio De Sica died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 73. Junior Samples died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 57. Leon Russell died four years ago in 2016 at age 74.

Today Neil Young is 75, Tonya Harding is 50, and Ryan Gosling and Céline Sciamma are 40. Today is also the birthday of Anne Hathaway, Wallace Shawn, Megan Mullally, Radha Mitchell, Booker T. Jones Ashley Williams, Valerie Leon, Alexandra Maria Lara, Hassan Rouhani, and the late Grace Kelly, Kim Hunter, Gwen Lee, Jacques Tourneur, Jack Oakie, Sam Lloyd, Liam Dunn, Ina Balin, Richard Quine, who would be 100, and Charles Manson. William Holden died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 63. Eve Arden died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 82. Penny Singleton died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 95. Lupita Tovar died four years ago in 2016 at age 106. Stan Lee died two years ago in 2018 at age 95.

Today Barbara Boxer is 80, Stanley Tucci is 60, and Kris Rey is 40. Today is also the birthday of Leonardo DiCaprio, Demi Moore, Scoot McNairy, Calista Flockhart, Tye Sheridan, Adam Beach, Bill Moseley, Peaches, Frank John Hughes, Carson Kressley, and the late Jonathan Winters, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Ryan, Bibi Andersson, Vincent Schiavelli, Pat O’Brien, Patric Knowles, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Roland Young, George S. Patton, John Guillermin, and René Clair. Dayton Allen died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 85. Robert Vaughn died four years ago in 2016 at age 83.

Today Terence Davies is 75, and Neil Gaiman is 60. Today is also the birthday of Taron Egerton, Tracy Morgan, Walton Goggins, Ellen Pompeo, Hugh Bonneville, Chris Lilley, Heather Matarazzo, Miranda Lambert, Eve, Diplo, Sinbad, Tommy Davidson, Michael Schultz, Kieran Shipka, Josh Peck, Zoey Deutch, Stephen Herek, Michael Jai White, Roland Emmerich, Sylvain Chomet, Tim Rice, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Daniel Waters, and the late Richard Burton, Claude Rains, Roy Scheider, Ennio Morricone, Mabel Normand, Martin Luther, Brittany Murphy, François Périer, Russell Means, Russell Johnson, Harry Andrews, Debra Hill, Steven Geray, Esther Dale, and Leo White. Abel Gance died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 92. Jackie Vernon died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Chuck Connors died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 71. Jack Palance died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 87. Norman Mailer died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 84.

Today Charles Robinson is 75, and Chris Jericho is 50. Today is also the birthday of Ryan Murphy, Eric Dane, Lou Ferrigno, Analeigh Tipton, Teryl Rothery, SisQó, Robert Duncan McNeill, Nick Lachey, Ryo Kase, Fernando Meirelles, Billie August, Karen Dotrice, Nikki Blonsky, Mary Vivian Pearce, and the late Hedy Lamarr, Dorothy Dandridge, Ed Wynn, Carl Sagan, Marie Dressler, Robert Frank, Edna May Oliver, who died on her birthday 78 years ago in 1942 at age 59, Robert Douglas, Anne Sexton, Mae Marsh, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Anthony Asquith, Ivan Turgenev, and Spiro Agnew. Edgar Kennedy died 72 years ago in 1948 at age 58. Charles Bickford died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 76. Art Carney died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 85.

Today Norman Lloyd is 106, Alain Delon is 85, Mary Hart is 70, and Anne Dorval is 60. Today is also the birthday of Alfre Woodard, Parker Posey, Gretchen Mol, Matthew Rhys, Bonnie Raitt, Kazuo Ishiguro, Phil Fondacaro, Richard Curtis, Jack Osbourne, Tara Reid, Gordon Ramsay, Paolo Taviani, Leif Garrett, Don McManus, A.D. Miles, and the late Bram Stoker, Michael Nyqvist, who would be 60, Robert Strauss, Stéphane Audran, Bob Schiller, Esther Rolle, who would be 100, Morley Safer, Darla Hood, Joe Flynn, Ken Dodd, Gene Saks, Margaret Mitchell, Patti Page, Martha Gellhorn, and Milton Bradley. Michael O’Donoghue died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 54. Jean Marais died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 84. Lucille Bliss died eight years ago in 2012 at age 96.