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Today Judy Parfitt is 85, Dakin Matthews is 80, Lindsay Duncan is 70, and Morgan Spurlock is 50. Today is also the birthday of Joni Mitchell, Lorde, Adam Devine, Jason and Jeremy London, Christopher Knight, Jackie Joseph, Earl Boen, Michael Byrne, Lawrence O’Donnell, David Petraeus, and the late Marie Curie, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Dean Jagger, Dana Plato, Joe Cobb, Miriam Cooper, Lucille La Verne, Edith Bouvier Beale, James Cook, Billy Graham, Edward F. Cline, Edward Sedgwick, and Leon Trotsky. Dwight Frye died 77 years ago in 1943 at age 44. Victor McLaglen died 61 years ago in 1959 at age 72. Steve McQueen died forty years ago in 1980 at age 50. Slappy White died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 74. Howard Keel died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 85. Gunnar Hansen died five years ago in 2015 at age 68. Leonard Cohen died four years ago in 2016 at age 82.

Today Ethan Hawke is 50. Today is also the birthday of Sally Field, Emma Stone, Thandie Newton, Maria Shriver, June Squibb, Kelly Rutherford, Rebecca Romijn, Nigel Havers, Ron Underwood, Trace Beaulieu, Taryn Manning, Frank DeCaro, Sal Vulcano, Conchita Wurst, Lamar Odom, and the late Mike Nichols, Glenn Frey, Brad Davis, Edward Yang, James Jones, Jonathan Harris, Francis Lederer, John Philip Sousa, and Pat Tillman. Gene Tierney died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 70.

Today Elke Sommer is 80, and Tilda Swinton is 60. Today is also the birthday of Art Garfunkel, Sam Rockwell, Famke Janssen, Tatum O’Neal, Robert Patrick, Jonny Greenwood, Harris Yulin, Judy Reyes, Eddie Pepitone, Seth Gilliam, Chris Addison, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Armin Shimerman, Ryan Adams, Bryan Adams, Michael Gaston, Kevin Jonas, Kris Jenner, and the late Vivien Leigh, Sam Shepard, Joel McCrea, Roy Rogers, Ike Turner, John McGiver, Victor Argo, Herb Edelman, Natalie Schafer, Ralph Moody, Charles Bradley, and Jessie Ralph, who would be 150. George M. Cohan died 78 years ago in 1942 at age 64. Mack Sennett and Ward Bond both sixty died years ago in 1960. Sennett was 80. Bond was 57. Reginald Owen died 48 years ago in 1972 at age 85. Georges Franju died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 75. Fred MacMurray died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 83. Jill Clayburgh died ten years ago in 2010 at age 66.

Today Markie Post is 70, Kathy Griffin is 60, and Anthony Ruivivar, Tabu, and Bethenny Frankel are 50. Today is also the birthday of Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Macchio, Sean Diddy Combs, Loretta Swit, Peter Lord, Jeff Probst, Laura W. Bush, and the late Art Carney, Will Rogers, Gig Young, Walter Cronkite, Doris Roberts, Martin Balsam, Leonardo Cimino, Darla Hood, Cameron Mitchell, Virginia Field, Ian Wolfe, and Forbes Murray. Michael Crichton died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 66.

Today Lois Smith is 90. Today is also the birthday of Roseanne Barr, Dennis Miller, Dolph Lundgren, Monica Vitti, Tom Savini, Anna Wintour, Kathy Kinney, Dylan Moran, Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, Colin Kaepernick, Vincent Franklin, Kate Capshaw, Hal Hartley, Gary Ross, Jim Cummings, Brian Henson, Kevin Murphy, Davis Guggenheim, Kendall Jenner, and the late Charles Bronson, Ken Berry, Jeremy Brett, Aneta Corsaut, John Barry, Wanda Hendrix, Mike Evans, Peggy McCary, and Jean Rollin. Mary Martin died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 76. Bob Kane died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 83. Sondra Locke died two years ago in 2018 at age 74.

Today is the birthday of David Schwimmer, Stefanie Powers, Peter Mullan, Marisol Nichols, Katharine Isabelle, Shah Rukh Khan, Luna Lauren Velez, Nelly, Jon Dore, Ron McGovney, David Andrews, Jon M. Chu, Patrick J. Buchanan, and the late Burt Lancaster, Luchino Visconti, Ray Walston, Marie Antoinette, Ann Rutherford, Paul Ford, Alice Brady, Warren Stevens, Patrice Chéreau, Jack Starrett, James Dunn, Claire McDowell, Warren G. Harding, James K. Polk, Steve Ditko, Walter Woolf King, and Sidney Luft. George Bernard Shaw died seventy years ago in 1950 at age 94. Pier Paolo Pasolini died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 53. Irwin Allen died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 75. Hal Roach died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 100. Theo van Gogh died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 47. Sid Melton died nine years ago in 2011 at age 94.

Today Tim Cook is 60. Today is also the birthday of Toni Collette, Larry Flynt, Lyle Lovett, Anthony Kiedis, Logan Marshall-Green, Jeannie Berlin, Natalia Tena, Alex Wolff, Barbara Bosson, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Rachel Ticotin, Penn Badgley, Marcel Ophüls, Kinky Friedman, Matt Jones, Anthony Ramos, Robert Foxworth, David Foster, Jenny McCarthy, Peter Ostrum, Helene Udy, Lucky McKee, and the late Marcia Wallace, Edward Van Sloan, Betsy Palmer, Emmaline Henry, Laura La Plante, and Lil Peep. Ezra Pound died 48 years ago in 1972 at age 87. King Vidor died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 88. Phil Silvers died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 74. Adrienne Shelly died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 40. Fred Thompson died five years ago in 2015 at age 73.

Today Brian Doyle-Murray is 75, Jane Pauley is 70, Arnaud Desplechin is 60, Eddie Kaye Thomas is 40, and Willow Smith is 20. Today is also the birthday of Lee Grant, Peter Jackson, Rob Schneider, Dermot Mulroney, Stephen Rea, Dan Rather, Ron Rifkin, Sally Kirkland, Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock), Johnny Marr, Letitia Wright, Piper Perabo, David Dencik, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kether Donohue, Mike O’Malley, Randy Jackson, Michael J. Anderson, Ruben Fleischer, Nora Twomey, Vanilla Ice, and the late John Candy and Frank Silva, who would both be 70, Ethel Waters, Dale Evans, Michael Landon, John Keats, David Ogden Stiers, Bud Spencer, Barbara Bel Geddes, Eduard Franz, Sara Allgood, Ollie Johnston, and Jimmy Savile. Harry Houdini died 94 years ago in 1926 at age 52. John Houseman died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 86. Federico Fellini and River Phoenix died 27 years ago in 1993. Fellini was 73. Phoenix was 23.

Today Henry Winkler is 75, and Nia Long is 50. Today is also the birthday of Kevin Pollak, Larry Wilmore, Harry Hamlin, Matthew Morrison, Gavin Rossdale, Maria Thayer, Michael Beach, Joe Berlinger, Leon Rippy, Mark Steven Johnson, Fiona Dourif, Claude Lelouch, Jessica Hynes, Juliet Stevenson, Richard LaGravenese, Charles Martin Smith, Brett Kelly, Andrea Mitchell, Ivanka Trump, and the late John Adams, Ruth Gordon, Louis Malle, Ezra Pound, Ruth Hussey, Jane Randolph, Herschel Bernardi, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michael Winner, Ed Lauter, and Dick Gautier. Samuel Fuller died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 85. Steve Allen died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 78. Jam Master Jay died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 37. Robert Goulet died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 73. Al Molinaro died five years ago in 2015 at age 96.

Today Peter Watkins is 85, and Ben Foster is 40. Today is also the birthday of Richard Dreyfuss, Winona Ryder, Gabrielle Union, Dan Castellaneta, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kate Jackson, Rufus Sewell, Joely Fisher, Lee Child, Ralph Bakshi, Michael Schur, and the late Bob Ross, Fanny Brice, Peter Green, Beth Chapman, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Hardy, Geraldine Brooks, Eddie Constantine, Isao Takahata, and Joseph Goebbels. Adolphe Menjou died 57 years ago in 1963 at age 73. Vaughn Meader died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 68. John Witherspoon died one year ago in 2019 at age 77.