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Today Matt Damon, Robert Kelly, and Soon-Yi Previn are 50, and Nick Cannon is 40. Today is also the birthday of Sigourney Weaver, Chevy Chase, Darrell Hammond, Bruno Mars, Paul Hogan, Jeremy Davis, Peter Greene, Bella Thorne, R.L. Stine, Ian Hart, Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., Angus T. Jones, Edward Zwick, David Yates, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Burr Steers, Shira Piven, Sal Governale, and the late Frank Herbert, who would be 100, and Rouben Mamoulian. Larry Semon died 92 years ago in 1928 at age 39.

Today Nicole Ari Parker is 50. Today is also the birthday of John Mellencamp, Thom Yorke, Joy Behar, Yo-Yo Ma, Desmond Tutu, Dylan Baker, Omar Benson Miller, Shawn and Aaron Ashmore, Mary Badham, Simon Cowell, Amber Stevens West, Andrew Dominik, Bree Olson, Vladimir Putin, and the late June Allyson, Andy Devine, Al Martino, Elijah Muhammad, and Robert Z. Leonard. Edgar Allan Poe died 171 years ago in 1849 at age 40. Charles Rocket died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 56.

Today is the birthday of Elisabeth Shue, Ioan Gruffudd, Britt Ekland, Olivia Thirlby, Jeremy Sisto, Brett Gellman, Wendy Robie, Ellen Travolta, Jsu Garcia, Matt Porterfield, Leslie Moonves, and the late Carole Lombard, Janet Gaynor, Fay Spain, Jerome Cowan, and Mitchell Leisen. Tod Browning died 58 years ago in 1962 at age 82. Dennis Price died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 58. Bette Davis died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 81. Denholm Elliott died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 70. Richard Farnsworth died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 80. Scott Wilson died two years ago in 2018 at age 76. Rip Taylor died one year ago in 2019 at age 88.

Today Glynis Johns is 97, Laura Gemser is 70, Daniel Baldwin is 60, and Ti West is 40. Today is also the birthday of Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Jesse Eisenberg, Karen Allen, Jacob Tremblay, Clive Barker, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Parminder Nagra, Tom Hooper, Scott Weinger, and the late Larry Fine, Donald Pleasence, Bernie Mac, Louis Lumière, Jeff Conaway, Bill Dana, Diane Cilento, Gail Davis, Skip Homeier, John Hoyt, and Allen Ludden. Jean Vigo died 86 years ago in 1934 at age 29. Barbara Nichols died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 47. Gloria Grahame died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 57. Rodney Dangerfield died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 82. Steve Jobs and Charles Napier died nine years ago in 2011. Jobs was 56. Napier was 75. Geoffrey Holder died six years ago in 2014 at age 84. Chantal Ackerman died five years ago in 2015 at age 65.

Today is the birthday of Susan Sarandon, Liev Schreiber, Christoph Waltz, Alicia Silverstone, Dakota Johnson, Anne Rice, Melissa Benoist, Russell Simmons, Mick Jackson, Caitriona Balfe, Abraham Benrubi, Armand Assante, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Lancashire, Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the late Buster Keaton, Charlton Heston, Jackie Collins, George Sidney, John Larch, Scotty Beckett, Philip Van Zandt, and Stan Dragoti. Janis Joplin died fifty years ago in 1970 at age 27. Graham Chapman died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 48. Buddy Lester died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 87. Diahann Carroll died one year ago in 2019 at age 84.

Today John Patrick Shanley is 70. Today is also the birthday of Clive Owen, Alicia Vikander, Neve Campbell, Seann William Scott, Tessa Thompson, Denis Villeneuve, Lena Headey, Chubby Checker, Tommy Wiseau, Reverend Al Sharpton, Greg Proops, Gwen Stefani, Janel Moloney, Tommy Lee, and the late Gore Vidal, Leo McCarey, Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Michael Hordern, Charles Middleton, Julien Duvivier, and Gertrude Berg. Woody Guthrie died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 55. Roddy McDowall died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 70. Janet Leigh died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 77.

Today Ian McNeice is 70, Terence Winter is 60, and Kelly Ripa and Maribel Verdú are 50. Today is also the birthday of Sting, Lorraine Bracco, Rex Reed, Avery Brooks, Lew Temple, Efren Ramirez, Annie Leibovitz, Jeff Bennett, Tiffany, Claudio Fragasso, and the late Groucho Marx, Bud Abbott, George ‘Spanky’ McFarland, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Charles Drake, Moses Gunn, Graham Greene, Shirley Clarke, Robin Hardy, Nat Turner, and Johnnie Cochran. Rock Hudson died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 59. Harriet Nelson died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 85. Nipsey Russell died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 87. Tom Petty died three years ago in 2017 at age 66.

Today Jimmy Carter is 96, Julie Andrews is 85, and Randy Quaid is 70. Today is also the birthday of Brie Larson, Zach Galifianakis, Rupert Friend, Stella Stevens, Stephen Collins, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Josh Brener, Leila Hatami, Marielle Heller, Theresa May, and the late Walter Matthau, who would be 100, Richard Harris, James Whitmore, Laurence Harvey, George Peppard, Tom Bosley, Everett Sloane, Ted Healy, Philippe Noiret, Stanley Holloway, and Ip Man. E.B. White died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 86. Tom Clancy died seven years ago in 2013 at age 66.

Today Johnny Mathis is 85, Victoria Tennant is 70, and Tony Hale is 50. Today is also the birthday of Marion Cotillard, Monica Bellucci, Angie Dickinson, Ezra Miller, Fran Drescher, Jenna Elfman, Amy Landecker, Barry Williams, Eric Stoltz, Kieran Culkin, Nancy Ames, Steve Stoliar, and the late Deborah Kerr, Truman Capote, Michael Powell, Elie Wiesel, Dan O’Bannon, Buddy Rich, Frankie Lymon, Jack Wild, and Lewis Milestone. James Dean died 65 years ago in 1955 at age 24. Edgar Bergen died 42 years ago in 1978 at age 75. Simone Signoret died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 64. 

Today Jerry Lee Lewis is 85, Nicolas Winding Refn and Russell Peters are 50, and Zachary Levi and Chrissy Metz are 40. Today is also the birthday of Ian McShane, Andrew Dice Clay, Bryant Gumbel, Mackenzie Crook, Robert Webb, Roger Bart, Dale Dickey, Robert Benton, Silvio Berlusconi, and the late Michelangelo Antonioni, Madeline Kahn, Stanley Kramer, Greer Garson, Anita Ekberg, Gene Autry, Caravaggio, Trevor Howard, Steve Forrest, and Larry Linville. Charles Addams died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 76. Lois Maxwell died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 80. Tony Curtis and Greg Giraldo died ten years ago in 2010. Curtis was 85. Giraldo was 44.