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Today Dick Cavett is 85, and Meg Ryan is 60. Today is also the birthday of Jodie Foster, Adam Driver, Allison Janney, Charlie Kaufman, Barry Jenkins, Reid Scott, Kathleen Quinlan, Terry Farrell, Sandrine Holt, Jason Scott Lee, Robert Beltran, Paul Weitz, Calvin Klein, Ted Turner, Ann Curry, and the late Gene Tierney, Larry King, Clifton Webb, Alan Young, Dan Haggerty, Gillo Pontecorvo, Tommy Dorsey, Nancy Carroll, Eleanor Audley, Alan Baxter, Anton Walbrook, Erskine Sanford, Dick Wesson, Ned Sparks, and James A. Garfield. Stepin Fetchit died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 83. Alan J. Pakula died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 70. John Neville died ten years ago in 2011 at age 86. Mike Nichols died seven years ago in 2014 at age 83. Della Reese and Charles Manson died four years ago in 2017. Reese was 86. Manson was 83.

Today Nick Chinlund and Steven Moffat are 60, and Allison Tolman and Nasim Pedrad are 40. Today is also the birthday of Owen Wilson, Chloë Sevigny, Kevin Nealon, Delroy Lindo, Damon Wayans Jr., Margaret Atwood, Linda Evans, Elizabeth Perkins, and Mike Epps, Romany Malco, Brenda Vaccaro, Alan Moore, Kirk Hammett, Nate Parker, Oscar Nuñez, Miranda Raison, Susan Sullivan, Peta Wilson, Dom Irrera, Jameson Parker, Dan Bakkedahl, Carter Burwell, Kath Soucie, Julia Ducournau, Megyn Kelly, and the late Imogene Coca, Johnny Mercer, Frances Marion, David Hemmings, Katie Johnson, and Joey Forman. Donald Meek died 75 years ago in 1946 at age 68. Jim Jones died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 47. Fritz Feld died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 93. Cab Calloway died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 86. James Coburn died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 74. Sharon Jones died five years ago in 2016 at age 60.

Today Robert Brown is 95, and Stephen Root is 70. Today is also the birthday of Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Lorne Michaels, Rachel McAdams, RuPaul, Gordon Lightfoot, Lauren Hutton, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Leslie Louise Bibb, Sophie Marceau, Dylan Walsh, Tom Ellis, Zoë Bell, Susan Rice, Jonathan Ross, Roland Joffé, Harry Lloyd, Jon Avnet, Steven E. de Souza, Duwayne Dunham, Bill Morrison, John Boehner, and the late Rock Hudson, Peter Cook, Lee Strasberg, Rance Howard, Jeff Buckley, Mischa Auer, Sara Haden, Frank Maxwell, Lester Allen, and Charles Walters. Gladys Cooper died fifty years ago in 1971 at age 82. Jimmy Ritz died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 81. Esther Rolle died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 78. Ruth Brown died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 78.

Today Miguel Sandoval is 70. Today is also the birthday of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Martha Plimpton, Lisa Bonet, Clu Gulager, Missi Pyle, Pete Davidson, Steve Railsback, Harry Lennix, Marg Helgenberger, Francesca Scorsese, Jamie Babbit, Allison Anders, Ron Chaney, and the late Burgess Meredith, Guy Stockwell, Royal Dano, Ellen Albertini Dew, Richard Hale, Daws Butler, George Petrie, George S. Kaufman, Henri Charrière, and Thomas H. Ince. Clark Gable died 61 years ago in 1960 at age 59. Edward Woodward died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 79. William Goldman died three years ago in 2018 at age 87.

Today Beverly D’Angelo is 70, and Shailene Woodley is 30. Today is also the birthday of Sam Waterston, Petula Clark, Jonny Lee Miller, Joanna Barnes, Judy Gold, Ray McKinnon, Asia Kate Dillon, Kevin J. O’Connor, Sean Murray, John Roberts, François Ozon, Bob Gunton, Roger Donaldson, James Widdoes, Ildikó Enyedi, and the late Ed Asner, Yaphet F. Kotto, Georgia O’Keeffe, Randy Savage, Jack Burns, Lewis Stone, Susanne Lothar, Gloria Foster, John Kerr, Kay Walsh, J.G. Ballard, Francesco Rosi, Jean Hill, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Lionel Barrymore died 67 years ago in 1954 at age 76. Tyrone Power died 63 years ago in 1958 at age 44. Jean Gabin died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 72.

Today Sacheen Littlefeather is 75, Sandahl Bergman and Yimou Zhang are 70, and Vanessa Bayer and Russell Tovey are 40. Today is also the birthday of Josh Duhamel, Olga Kurylenko, Patrick Warburton, Harland Williams, Paul McGann, Kathleen Hughes, Laura San Giacomo, Gary Grubbs, Brian Gleeson, Dana Snyder, Chris Noonan, Bill Farmer, Katty Kay, P.J. O’Rourke, Paul Hirsch, Travis Barker, Prince Charles, Condoleezza Rice, and the late Veronica Lake, Louise Brooks, Brian Keith, who would be 100, Dick Powell, McLean Stevenson, Rosemary DeCamp, Claude Monet, Jennifer Jayne, Phyllis Avery, Jack Smith, Astrid Lindgren, Sherwood Schwartz, Aaron Copland, Morton Downey, Mamie Eisenhower, and Joseph McCarthy. Tony Richardson died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 63. Virginia Cherrill died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 88. Eddie Bracken died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 87.

Today Jimmy Hawkins is 80, Noah Hathaway is 50, and Kentucker Audley is 40. Today is also the birthday of Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Kimmel, Gerard Butler, Joe Mantegna, Steve Zahn, Neil Flynn, Chris Noth, Aisha Hinds, Tom Atkins, J.A. Preston, David Zellner, and the late Garry Marshall, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jean Seberg, Oskar Werner, Robert Sterling, Richard Mulligan, Jack Elam, Gunnar Björnstrand, Hermione Baddeley, Don Gordon, Mary Beth Hughes, Adrienne Corri, and Fred Phelps. Vittorio De Sica died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 73. Junior Samples died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 57. Leon Russell died five years ago in 2016 at age 74.

Today is the birthday of Ryan Gosling, Anne Hathaway, Neil Young, Wallace Shawn, Megan Mullally, Radha Mitchell, Booker T. Jones Ashley Williams, Valerie Leon, Alexandra Maria Lara, Céline Sciamma, Tonya Harding, Hassan Rouhani, and the late Grace Kelly, Kim Hunter, Gwen Lee, Jacques Tourneur, Jack Oakie, Sam Lloyd, Liam Dunn, Ina Balin, Richard Quine, and Charles Manson. William Holden died forty years ago in 1981 at age 63. Eve Arden died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 82. Penny Singleton and Jonathan Brandis died eighteen years ago in 2003. Singleton was 95. Brandis was 27. Liz Smith and Lupita Tovar died five years ago in 2016. Smith was 95. Tovar was 106. Stan Lee died three years ago in 2018 at age 95.

Today Bill Moseley is 70, and Tye Sheridan is 25. Today is also the birthday of Leonardo DiCaprio, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Scoot McNairy, Calista Flockhart, Adam Beach, Peaches, Frank John Hughes, Barbara Boxer, Carson Kressley, Kris Rey, and the late Jonathan Winters, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Ryan, Bibi Andersson, Vincent Schiavelli, Pat O’Brien, Patric Knowles, Fyodor Dostoevsky, who would be 200, Roland Young, George S. Patton, John Guillermin, and René Clair. Dayton Allen died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 85. Robert Vaughn died five years ago in 2016 at age 83.

Today Walton Goggins is 50. Today is also the birthday of Taron Egerton, Tracy Morgan, Ellen Pompeo, Hugh Bonneville, Chris Lilley, Heather Matarazzo, Miranda Lambert, Eve, Diplo, Neil Gaiman, Sinbad, Tommy Davidson, Michael Schultz, Kieran Shipka, Josh Peck, Zoey Deutch, Stephen Herek, Michael Jai White, Roland Emmerich, Terence Davies, Sylvain Chomet, Tim Rice, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Daniel Waters, and the late Richard Burton, Claude Rains, Roy Scheider, Ennio Morricone, Mabel Normand, Martin Luther, Brittany Murphy, François Périer, Russell Means, Russell Johnson, Harry Andrews, Debra Hill, Steven Geray, Esther Dale, and Leo White. Abel Gance died forty years ago in 1981 at age 92. Jackie Vernon died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Chuck Connors died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 71. Ken Kesey died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 66. Jack Palance died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 87. Norman Mailer and Laraine Day died fourteen years ago in 2007. Mailer was 84. Day was 87. Dino De Laurentiis died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 91.