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Today Anna Deavere Smith is 70, and Aisha Tyler is 50. Today is also the birthday of James Marsden, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jason Sudeikis, Frankie Avalon, Robert Blake, Billy Eichner, Alison Lohman, Xzibit, Lance Armstrong, Anna Thomson, Beth Grant, Christopher Heyerdahl, Nina Arianda, Gailard Sartain, Mark Romanek, David Mirkin, Ben Carson, and the late Greta Garbo, James Gandolfini, Fred Willard, Jack Warden, who would be 100, Samuel Johnson, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, June Foray, Grayson Hall, Rossano Brazzi, and Jack Cardiff. Frank Morgan died 71 years ago in 1949 at age 59. Franchot Tone died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 63. Jimi Hendrix died fifty years ago in 1970 at age 27. Russ Meyer died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 82.

Today Bruce Spence is 75, Narendra Modi is 70, Kevin Clash is 60, and Mark Osborne is 50. Today is also the birthday of Kyle Chandler, Cassandra Peterson (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark), Baz Luhrmann, Bryan Singer, Paul Feig, Neill Blomkamp, Bobby Lee, Rita Rudner, Matthew Settle, Pat Crowley, Sam Esmail, Nate Berkus, and the late Hank Williams, Anne Bancroft, John Ritter, Roddy McDowall, Lupe Ontiveros, David Huddleston, Ken Kesey, Paul Benedict, Dolores Costello, Jerry Colonna, Harold Bennett, George Cleveland, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Richard Basehart died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 70. Grady Sutton died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 89. Red Skelton died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 84.

Today Janis Paige is 98, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is 70, and Danny John-Jules and Jayne Brook are 60. Today is also the birthday of Amy Poehler, Mickey Rourke, Molly Shannon, Ed Begley Jr., George Chakiris, Jennifer Tilly, Nick Jonas, Marc Anthony, David Copperfield, Bingbing Fan, Alexis Bledel, Max Minghella, Madeline Zima, Richard Marx, Kurt Fuller, Linda Henning, Jim McBride, Roger Ross Williams, and the late Lauren Bacall, Peter Falk, BB King, Anne Francis, Morgan Woodward, Tommy Bond, Allen Funt, and Guy Hamilton. Mary Travers died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 72. Edward Albee died four years ago in 2016 at age 88.

Today Carmen Maura and Ron Shelton 75, and Lisa Vanderpump is 60. Today is also the birthday of Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Hardy, Oliver Stone, Josh Charles, Rebecca Miller, Henry Silva, Norm Crosby, Jimmy Carr, Danny Nucci, Pawel Pawlikowski, Mike Reiss, Margaret Keane, Prince Harry, Heidi Montag, and the late Jean Renoir, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray, Nipsey Russell, Agatha Christie, Robert Benchley, Penny Singleton, Margaret Lockwood, Jacques Becker, William Howard Taft, Wendie Jo Sperber, and Shôhei Imamura. Richard Wright died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 65. Frances Bay died nine years ago in 2011 at age 92. Harry Dean Stanton died three years ago in 2017 at age 91. Ric Ocasek died one year ago in 2019 at age 75.

Today Howard Deutch is 70, Melissa Leo, Callum Keith Rennie, and Christian Petzold are 60, and Robert Ben Garant is 50. Today is also the birthday of Sam Neill, Andrew Lincoln, Walter Koenig, Joon-ho Bong, Robert Wisdom, Faith Ford, NAS, Joey Heatherton, Corneliu Porumboiu, and the late Amy Winehouse, Nicol Williamson, Harve Presnell, Kay Medford, Clayton Moore, Jack Hawkins, and Robert Florey. Irving Thalberg died 84 years ago in 1936 at age 37. Grace Kelly died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 52. Janet Gaynor died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 77. Patrick Swayze and Henry Gibson died eleven years ago in 2009. Swayze was 57. Gibson was 73.

Today is the birthday of Jacqueline Bisset, Jean Smart, Jeffrey Ross, Tyler Perry, Barbara Bain, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Fiona Apple, Don Bluth, Tavis Smiley, Colin Trevorrow, Frank Marshall, Travis Knight, Nick Vallelonga, Niall Horan, and the late Claudette Colbert, Roald Dahl, Richard Kiel, Nell Carter, Mel Tormé, Scott Brady, Gladys George, John Crawford, who would be 100, Reta Shaw, Mae Questel, and Maurice Jarre. Tupac Shakur died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 25. Frank Vincent died three years ago in 2017 at age 80.

Today Robert John Burke is 60, and Will Chase is 50. Today is also the birthday of Louis C.K., Jennifer Hudson, Joe Pantoliano, Paul F. Tompkins, Ben McKenzie, Hans Zimmer, Amy Yasbeck, Emmy Rossum, Alfie Allen, Ben Folds, Peter Scolari, 2 Chainz, and the late Maurice Chevalier, Ian Holm, Paul Walker, Barry White, George Jones, Jesse Owens, Freddie Jones, Bill McKinney, Desmond Llewelyn, Neil Peart, Dickie Moore, Leslie Cheung, Edward Binns, Billy Gilbert, Ben Blue, H.L. Mencken, and Stanislaw Lem. William Boyd died 48 years ago in 1972 at age 77. Frank Nelson died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 75. Anthony Perkins died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 60. Raymond Burr died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 76. Johnny Cash died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 71. David Foster Wallace died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 46. Claude Chabrol died ten years ago in 2010 at age 80.

Today Brian De Palma is 80, Amy Madigan is 70, John Curran is 60, and Taraji P. Henson is 50. Today is also the birthday of Virginia Madsen, John Hawkes, Harry Connick Jr., Moby, Ludacris, Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Daily, Kristy McNichol, Tom Dreesen, Lola Falana, Roxann Dawson, Earl Holliman, Tony Gilroy, Bertrand Bonello, Bashar al-Assad, and the late Herbert Lom, Ian Abercrombie, O. Henry, and Robert Day. Lorne Greene died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 72. Jessica Tandy died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 85. Kim Hunter died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 79. John Ritter died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 54. Kevin McCarthy and Harold Gould died ten years ago in 2010. McCarthy was 96. Gould was 86. Andy Whitfield died nine years ago in 2011 at age 39.

Today Colin Firth is 60. Today is also the birthday of Ryan Phillippe, Amy Irving, Philip Baker Hall, Guy Ritchie, Kate Burton, Chris Columbus, Kyle Bornheimer, Misty Copeland, Bill O’Reilly, and the late Edmond O’Brien, Robert Wise, Dennis Burkley, Karl Lagerfeld, Bessie Love, and Aleksandr Dovzhenko. Dalton Trumbo died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 70. Yves Montand died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 70. Jane Wyman did thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 90. Cliff Robertson died nine years ago in 2011, one day after his birthday, at age 88. Richard Kiel died six years ago in 2014 at age 74.

Today Topol is 85, Hugh Grant is 60, and Michelle Williams is 40. Today is also the birthday of Adam Sandler, Eric Stonestreet, Zoe Kazan, Jeffrey Combs, Michael Bublé, Henry Thomas, Tom Wopat, Julia Sawalha, Goran Visnjic, Charles Esten, and the late Cliff Robertson, Sylvia Miles, Neil Hamilton, Otis Redding, Harland Sanders, and Arthur Freed. John McGiver died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 61. Burgess Meredith died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 89.