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Today Jean-Claude Van Damme is 60, and Bristol Palin is 30. Today is also the birthday of Zac Efron, Freida Pinto, Pam Dawber, Tyler Posey, Joe Morton, Dawn Wells, Arliss Howard, Ne-Yo, Esperanza Spalding, Chuck Lorre, Howard Shore, Nic Pizzolatto, Lucky Yates, David Twohy, Peter Sohn, Barry Gifford, Bob Weinstein, Mike Ditka, Milo Yiannopoulos, and the late George C. Scott, Klaus Kinski, Chuck Berry, Peter Boyle, Miriam Hopkins, Erin Moran, Inger Stevens, Om Puri, Calvin Lockhart, Lotte Lenya, Bobby Troup, Melina Mercouri, who would be 100, Victor Sen Yung, Norman ‘Chubby’ Chaney, Roy Del Ruth, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Henry Travers died 65 years ago in 1965 at age 91. Julie London died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 74. Dee Dee Warwick died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 66.

Today Marsha Hunt is 103, and Rob Marshall is 60. Today is also the birthday of Felicity Jones, Norm Macdonald, Mike Judge, Michael McKean, George Wendt, Eminem, Don Collier, Matthew Macfadyen, Max Irons, Cameron Esposito, Mark Gatiss, Alan Jackson, Wood Harris, Ziggy Marley, Rizwan Manji, Susan Stroman, and the late Rita Hayworth, Montgomery Clift, who would be 100, Jean Arthur, Arthur Miller, Margot Kidder, Julie Adams, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Irene Ryan, Tom Poston, Beverly Garland, Spring Byington, Sam Bottoms, John Marley, Evel Knievel, and Andy Whitfield. Tennessee Ernie Ford died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 72.

Today Angela Lansbury is 95, and Barry Corbin is 80. Today is also the birthday of Tim Robbins, Flea, John Mayer, Suzanne Somers, Kenneth Lonergan, David Zucker, Gary Kemp, Paul Sparks, Kim Wayans, Todd Stashwick, Peter Bowles, Christopher Mitchum, and the late Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Linda Darnell, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Alice Pearce, Berry Kroeger, Michael Conrad, Bill Elliott, and Nico. Leo G. Carroll died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 85. Cornel Wilde died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 77. Shirley Booth died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 94. Audra Lindley died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 79. Deborah Kerr died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 86. Barbara Billingsley died ten years ago in 2010 at age 94.

Today Michael Lewis is 60, and Zak Orth is 50. Today is also the birthday of Dominic West, John Getz, Tanya Roberts, Paul Walter Hauser, Ali Fazal, Larry Miller, Jere Burns, Todd Solondz, Linda Lavin, Mira Nair, Lynn Lowry, Brandon Jay McLaren, Michael Caton-Jones, Matteo Garrone, Eileen Ryan, and the late Penny Marshall, Friedrich Nietzsche, P.G. Wodehouse, Mario Puzo, who would be 100, Mark Lenard, Jane Darwell, Mervyn LeRoy, Michel Foucault, Virginia Leith, Jean Peters, Nigel Green, and Fritz Feld. Cole Porter died 56 years ago in 1964 at age 73. Frank DeKova died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 71. Pat O’Brien died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 83. Delphine Seyrig died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 58. Edie Adams died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 81.

Today Jon Seda is 50, and Ben Whishaw is 40. Today is also the birthday of Steve Coogan, Jay Pharoah, Udo Kier, Natalie Maines, Usher Raymond, Lori Petty, Max Thieriot, Chen Chang, Ben Zeitlin, Stephen A. Smith, and the late Roger Moore, Lillian Gish, e.e. cummings, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry Anderson, Robert Webber, Rick Aviles, Allan Jones, and Jack Arnold. Errol Flynn died 61 years ago in 1959 at age 50. Bing Crosby died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 74. Keenan Wynn died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 70. Leonard Bernstein died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 72. Elizabeth Peña died six years ago in 2014 at age 55.

Today Ashanti is 40. Today is also the birthday of Paul Simon, Sacha Baron Cohen, Melinda Dillon, Marie Osmond, Kate Walsh, Matt Walsh, Kiele Sanchez, Demond Wilson, Susan Blommaert, Hiro Kanagawa, Rutanya Alda, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Chris Carter, Abderrahmane Sissako, Nancy Kerrigan, Jason Friedberg, Billy Bush, Tiffany Trump, and the late Lenny Bruce, Margaret Thatcher, Kelly Preston, Cornel Wilde, Yves Montand, Laraine Day, who would be 100, Robert Walker, Jack MacGowran, Dusan Makavejev, and Robert Bray. Maya Deren died 59 years ago in 1961 at age 44. Clifton Webb died 54 years ago in 1966 at age 76. Ed Sullivan died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 73.

Today Hiroyuki Sanada is 60, and Kirk Cameron is 50. Today is also the birthday of Hugh Jackman, Josh Hutcherson, Lin Shaye, Deborah Foreman, Tony Cavalero, David Threlfall, Les Dennis, Richard Price, Tom Guiry, Iris Apatow, Chris Wallace, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (Carlos the Jackal), and the late Dick Gregory, Luciano Pavarotti, Daliah Lavi, Satoshi Kon, Josephine Hutchinson, and Randy Stuart. John Denver died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 53. Gillo Pontecorvo died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 86.

Today Amos Gitai is 70, and Constance Zimmer is 50. Today is also the birthday of Joan Cusack, Artie Lange, Matt Bomer, Dawn French, Emily Deschanel, Stephen Moyer, David Morse, Jane Krakowski, Michelle Trachtenberg, Cardi B, Sean Patrick Flanery, John Nettles, Lennie James, Michael J. Nelson, Justin Lin, Doona Bae, Amitabh Bachchan, Brett Morgen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Hany Abu-Assad, Shawn Ryan, and the late Luke Perry, Elmore Leonard, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ron Leibman, Sig Ruman, Jean Vander Pyl, Earle Hyman, Jerome Robbins, and Fred Trump. Chico Marx died 59 years ago in 1961. Edith Piaf and Jean Cocteau died 57 years ago in 1963. Piaf was 47. Cocteau was 74. Redd Foxx died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 68. Robert Forster died one year ago in 2019 at age 78.

Today is the birthday of Dan Stevens, Bai Ling, Julia Sweeney, Ben Vereen, Bradley Whitford, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Charles Dance, Mario Lopez, Jessica Harper, David Lee Roth, Peter Coyote, Joelle Carter, Rose McIver, Rebecca Pidgeon, Carlos Reygadas, Jodi Benson, Chiaki Kuriyama, Morgan Neville, Michael Oliver, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Brett Favre, and the late Edward D. Wood Jr., Helen Hayes, John Prine, Thelonious Monk, Harold Pinter, Chris Penn, Richard Jaeckel, Anita Mui, Dana Elcar, and Daniel Massey. Eddie Cantor died 56 years ago in 1964 at age 72. Ralph Richardson died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 80. Orson Welles and Yul Brynner died 35 years ago in 1985. Welles was 70. Brynner was 65. Christopher Reeve died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 52.

Today is the birthday of Guillermo del Toro, Tony Shalhoub, Sharon Osbourne, Brandon Routh, Scott Bakula, Nick Swardson, Chris O’Dowd, Steve McQueen, John O’Hurley, Michael Paré, Robert Wuhl, Lorna Raver, Brian Blessed, Tyler James Williams, Jodelle Ferland, Steve Burns, Melissa Villaseñor, Peter Docter, Sean Lennon, and the late John Lennon, who would be 80, Jacques Tati, Alastair Sim, Fyvush Finkel, Edward Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hank Patterson, Jason Wingreen, who would be 100, and Donald Sinden. Miriam Hopkins died 48 years ago in 1972 at age 69. Andrzej Wajda died four years ago in 2016 at age 90. Jean Rochefort died three years ago in 2017 at age 87.