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Today Iris Apfel is 99, William Friedkin is 85, and Frank Henenlotter is 70. Today is also the birthday of Elliott Gould, Carla Gugino, Rebecca De Mornay, Lea Michele, Betty Lynn, Tom Six, Dr. Temple Grandin, Liam Payne, Lucas Cruikshank, and the late Ingrid Bergman, who died 38 years ago on her birthday in 1982 at age 67, Michael Jackson, Richard Attenborough, Preston Sturges, Dinah Washington, Charlie Parker, who would be 100, Joel Schumacher, John McCain, Charles Gray, Isabel Sanford, John Locke, and GG Allin. Lee Marvin died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Gene Wilder died four years ago in 2016 at age 83.

Today Ken Jenkins is 80, and Alana Thompson (Honey Boo Boo) is 15. Today is also the birthday of Jack Black, Armie Hammer, David Fincher, Jennifer Coolidge, Luis Guzmán, Daniel Stern, Ai Weiwei, Billy Boyd, Brian Thompson, David Soul, Florence Welch, Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, Quvenzhane Wallis, Sheryl Sandberg, and the late Donald O’Connor, Charles Boyer, Ben Gazzara, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Rocket, Nancy Kulp, Simon Oakland, Roxie Roker, Jack Kirby, and James Wong Howe. Emmett Till died 65 years ago in 1955 at age 14. Ruth Gordon died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 88. John Huston died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 81.

Today Charles Fleischer is 70. Today is also the birthday of Paul Reubens, Aaron Paul, Tom Ford, Tuesday Weld, Peter Stormare, Sarah Chalke, Patrick J. Adams, Diana Scarwid, G.W. Bailey, Alexa PenaVega, Shaun Weiss, Ellar Coltrane, Chandra Wilson, Tommy Sands, Robert Richardson, Cesar Millan, and the late Martha Raye, Lyndon Johnson, Lynn Shelton, Harry Reems, James Finlayson, Ira Levin, Theodore Dreiser, Man Ray, and Ed Gein. Gracie Allen died 56 years ago in 1964 at age 69. Robert Shaw died 42 years ago in 1978 at age 51.

Today Melissa McCarthy is 50, and Chris Pine and Macaulay Culkin are 40. Today is also the birthday of John Mulaney, Dylan O’Brien, Alison Steadman, Barbet Schroeder, Wanda De Jesus, Mike Colter, Brett Cullen, Kirk Fox, Chris Burke, and the late Michael Jeter, Katherine Johnson, Jim Davis, Yvette Vickers, Ben Bradlee, and Mother Teresa. Lon Chaney died ninety years ago in 1930 at age 47. Larry Keating died 57 years ago in 1963 at age 67. Kay Francis died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 63. Charles Boyer died 42 years ago in 1978 at age 78. Ted Knight died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 62. Tobe Hooper died three years ago in 2017 at age 74. Neil Simon died two years ago in 2018 at age 91.

Today Sean Connery is 90. Today is also the birthday of Elvis Costello, Tim Burton, Alexander Skarsgård, Gene Simmons, Tom Skerritt, Blake Lively, Tom Hollander, John Savage, Rachael Ray, Ben Falcone, Blair Underwood, Simon McBurney, Kel Mitchell, Mink Stole, Jeff Tweedy, Billy Ray Cyrus, Joe Wright, John Badham, Fatih Akin, Hugh Hudson, and the late Regis Philbin, Leonard Bernstein, Mel Ferrer, Van Johnson, Michael Rennie, Don DeFore, Monty Hall, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and George Wallace. Paul Muni died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 71. Truman Capote died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 59. Aaliyah died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 22. Marvin Kaplan died four years ago in 2016 at age 89.

Today Ronee Blakley and Vince McMahon are 75, Takashi Miike is 60, David Gregory is 50, and Elizabeth Debicki is 30. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Fry, Dave Chappelle, Marlee Matlin, Ava DuVernay, Steve Guttenberg, David Koechner, Jared Harris, Dana Gould, Rupert Grint, James D’Arcy, Anne Archer, Kevin Dunn, Craig Kilborn, Rodrigo García, and the late Kenny Baker, Hal Smith, Yasser Arafat, and Christine Chubbuck. Kenji Mizoguchi died 64 years ago in 1956 at age 58. Louis Prima died 42 years ago in 1978 at age 67. E.G. Marshall died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 84. Julie Harris died seven years ago in 2013 at age 87. Richard Attenborough died six years ago in 2014 at age 90. Jay Thomas died three years ago in 2017 at age 69.

Today Jay Mohr is 50, and Joanne Froggatt is 40. Today is also the birthday of Vera Miles, Shelley Long, Barbara Eden, Chan-wook Park, Andrew Rannells, Scott Caan, Ray Park, Rick Springfield, Lexi Alexander, Kirby Dick, Roger Avary, Alexandre Desplat, Leslie Van Houten, Jared Fogle, and the late Gene Kelly, Keith Moon, River Phoenix, who would be 50, Kobe Bryant, Marian Seldes, Robert Mulligan, and James Millhollin. Francis X. Bushman died 54 years ago in 1966 at age 83. Kathleen Freeman died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 82. Brock Peters died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 78.

Today Micheline Presle is 98, and David Chase is 75. Today is also the birthday of Kristen Wiig, Cindy Williams, James Corden, Ty Burrell, Richard Armitage, Rodrigo Santoro, Colm Feore, Chia-Hui Liu, Mark Williams, Courtney Gains, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Tori Amos, Andrew Wilson, Robert Wall, Rick Yune, Casper Christensen, Roy Guerra, Kay Cannon, and the late Valerie Harper, Ray Bradbury, who would be 100, John Lee Hooker, Leni Riefenstahl, Dorothy Parker, Honor Blackman, Claude Debussy, Cecil Kellaway, Elisabeth Bergner, Sylvia Koscina, John Lupton, and Andréas Voutsinas. Huey P. Newton died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 47.

Today Patty McCormack is 75, Marc Evan Jackson is 50, and Bo Burnham is 30. Today is also the birthday of Kim Cattrall, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hayden Panettiere, Melvin Van Peebles, Kacey Musgraves, Loretta Devine, Alicia Witt, Clarence Williams III, Cleo King, Peter Weir, RJ Mitte, and the late Kenny Rogers, Joe Strummer, Jack Weston, Tom Tully, Marie Blake, Frank Perry, and David Lochary. Danny Lockin died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 34. Barbara Harris died two years ago in 2018 at age 83.

Today Ron Paul is 85, Sally Yates is 60, and Fred Durst is 50. Today is also the birthday of Amy Adams, Andrew Garfield, Robert Plant, Joan Allen, Ray Wise, David O. Russell, Don King, John Noble, Demi Lovato, Al Roker, David Walliams, Sylvester McCoy, James Marsters, Colin Cunningham, Billy Gardell, Eddie Paskey, Peter Horton, Mark Borchardt, Andrey Konchalovskiy, and the late Isaac Hayes, H. P. Lovecraft, Alan Reed, Jim Reeves, André Morell, and Mikio Naruse. Kim Stanley died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 76. Phyllis Diller died eight years ago in 2012 at age 95. Elmore Leonard died seven years ago in 2013 at age 87. Jerry Lewis died three years ago in 2017 at age 91.