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Today Aimee Mann is 60. Today is also the birthday of Bernie Sanders, Martin Freeman, David Arquette, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Pink, Brian Huskey, Larenz Tate, Thomas Kretschmann, Julien Richings, Gaten Matarazzo, Wiz Khalifa, and the late Peter Sellers, Sid Caesar, Patsy Cline, Alexander Mackendrick, Hillary Brooke, Frank Cady, and David R. Ellis. Dorothy Dandridge died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 42. Zero Mostel died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 62. Leni Riefenstahl died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 101.

Today Sonny Rollins is 90, Dario Argento is 80, and Julie Kavner is 70. Today is also the birthday of Evan Rachel Wood, Leslie Jones, Toby Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Gloria Gaynor, Susan Blakely, Shannon Elizabeth, Michael Emerson, Corbin Bernsen, Angie Everhart, W. Earl Brown, Diane Warren, James Schamus, Doug Bradley, and the late Buddy Holly, Peter Lawford, Elia Kazan, Anthony Quayle, Elizabeth I of England, Don Messick, and Eazy-E. Maria Montez died 69 years ago in 1951 at age 39. Katrin Cartlidge died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 41. Mac Miller died two years ago in 2018 at age 26.

Today is the birthday of Roger Waters, Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Rosie Perez, Jane Curtin, Jeff Foxworthy, Jo Anne Worley, Macy Gray, Swoosie Kurtz, Kimberly Peirce, Anne Lockhart, Matthew Horne, David Allan Coe, Chris Christie, and the late John Mitchum, John Ridgely, and Max Schreck. Edmund Gwenn died 61 years ago in 1959 at age 81. Akira Kurosawa died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 88. Burt Reynolds died two years ago in 2018 at age 82.

Today Raquel Welch is 80. Today is also the birthday of Werner Herzog, Bob Newhart, Michael Keaton, George Lazenby, Rose McGowan, Paddy Considine, Carice van Houten, William Devane, Annabelle Wallis, Carol Lawrence, Christopher Morris, Dennis Dugan, Sergey Loznitsa, and the late Freddie Mercury, Jesse James, Gloria Holden, Darryl F. Zanuck, Jack Valenti, and Moshé Mizrahi. Barbara Loden died forty years ago in 1980 at age 48. Mother Teresa died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 87. Setsuko Hara died five years ago in 2015 at age 95. Hugh O’Brian died four years ago in 2016 at age 91.

Today Damon Wayans and Jocelyn Moorhouse are 60, Ione Skye is 50, and Max Greenfield is 40. Today is also the birthday of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Whitney Cummings, Mitzi Gaynor, Wes Bentley, Noah Taylor, Kyle Mooney, Jan Švankmajer, Michael Berryman, John DiMaggio, Anthony Weiner, Dr. Drew Pinsky, and the late Howard Morris, Dick York, Richard S. Castellano, Leonard Frey, Edward Dmytryk, Richard Wright, and Paul Harvey. George O’Brien died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 86. Irene Dunne died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 91. Dottie West died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 58. Hervé Villechaize died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 50. Steve Irwin died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 44. Joan Rivers died six years ago in 2014 at age 81. Bill Daily died two years ago in 2018 at age 91.

Today Pauline Collins is 80, and Maria Bamford is 50. Today is also the birthday of Charlie Sheen, Valerie Perrine, Garrett Hedlund, Noah Baumbach, Holt McCallany, Paz de la Huerta, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Irene Papas, Shaun White, Al Jardine, Steve Jones, Redfoo, Malcolm Gladwell, Pilar Pallete, and the late Alan Ladd, Eileen Brennan, Anne Jackson, Mary Grace Canfield, Kitty Carlisle, Mantan Moreland, Freddie King, and Whitey Bulger. Frank Capra died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 94. Michael Clarke Duncan died eight years ago in 2012 at age 54.

Today Marge Champion is 101, and Harvey Levin is 70. Today is also the birthday of Keanu Reeves, Salma Hayek Pinault, Katt Williams, Mark Harmon, Terry Bradshaw, Mary Jo Catlett, Eugenio Derbez, Robert Shapiro, Keith Allen, and the late Hal Ashby, Chuck McCann, Mel Stuart, and Sue Mengers. J.R.R. Tolkien died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 81. Troy Donahue died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 65. Bob Denver died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 70.

Today Phil McGraw is 70. Today is also the birthday of Lily Tomlin, Barry Gibb, George Maharis, Scott Speedman, Boyd Holbrook, Zak Penn, Gloria Estefan, Don Stroud, Burn Gorman, Zendaya, Craig Gillespie, and the late Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Farnsworth, who would be 100, Vittorio Gassman, Ron O’Neal, James Rebhorn, and Conway Twitty. Ethel Waters died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 80. Murray Hamilton died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 63. Dean Jones died five years ago in 2015 at age 84. Shelley Berman died three years ago in 2017 at age 92.

Today Larry Hankin is 80, Van Morrison and Itzhak Perlman are 75, Zack Ward and Debbie Gibson are 50, and Leo Bill is 40. Today is also the birthday of Richard Gere, Chris Tucker, Sara Ramirez, Jonathan Cake, Dee Bradley Baker, Joe Swanberg, Marc Webb, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Marcia Clark, and the late James Coburn, Buddy Hackett, Fredric March, Richard Basehart, Arthur Godfrey, Noble Willingham, Maurice Pialat, and Caligula. John Ford died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 79. Richard Anderson died three years ago in 2017 at age 91.

Today Warren Buffett is 90. Today is also the birthday of Cameron Diaz, Michael Chiklis, Lewis Black, David Paymer, Robert Crumb, Elizabeth Ashley, Timothy Bottoms, Frank Conniff, Lisa Ling, and the late Fred MacMurray, Joan Blondell, Raymond Massey, Peggy Lipton, Shirley Booth, Bill Daily, Mary Shelley, Kitty Wells, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, and Huey Long. Charles Coburn died 59 years ago in 1961 at age 84. Lindsay Anderson died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 71. Charles Bronson died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 81. Glenn Ford died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 90. Wes Craven died five years ago in 2015 at age 76. Valerie Harper died one year ago in 2019 at age 80.