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Today Jill St. John is 80. Today is also the birthday of President Bill Clinton, Matthew Perry, Kyra Sedgwick, John Stamos, L.Q. Jones, Kevin Dillon, Jonathan Frakes, Peter Gallagher, Gerald McRaney, Jim Carter, Maria de Medeiros, Melissa Fumero, Ian McElhinney, Adam Arkin, Debra Paget, Diana Muldaur, Tracie Thoms, Pablo Larraín, and the late Gene Roddenberry, Coco Chanel, Fred Dalton Thompson, William Marshall, Angus Scrimm, Olga Baclanova, and Orville Wright. Alastair Sim died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 75. Groucho Marx died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 86. Raoul Ruiz died nine years ago in 2011 at age 70. Tony Scott died eight years ago in 2012 at age 68. Jack Riley died four years ago in 2016 at age 80. Dick Gregory died three years ago in 2017 at age 84.

Today Malcolm-Jamal Warner is 50. Today is also the birthday of Robert Redford, Roman Polanski, Edward Norton, Christian Slater, Andy Samberg, Denis Leary, Martin Mull, Craig Bierko, Madeleine Stowe, Kaitlin Olson, Sarita Choudhury, and the late Shelley Winters, who would be 100, Patrick Swayze, Don Keefer, Reg E. Cathey, Marcel Carné, and Alan Mowbray. Elmer Bernstein died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 82.

Today Sean Penn is 60. Today is also the birthday of Robert De Niro, Donnie Wahlberg, Taissa Farmiga, Brady Corbet, Austin Butler, Julian Fellowes, Belinda Carlisle, Helen McCrory, Larry B. Scott, Tim Bagley, Robert Joy, Jonathan Franzen, Martha Coolidge, Giuliana Rancic, and the late Mae West, Maureen O’Hara, who would be 100, Davy Crockett, Samuel Goldwyn, Monty Woolley, Glenn Corbett, Evelyn Ankers, and Mark Felt. Vivian Vance died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 70. Ira Gershwin died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 86. Pearl Bailey died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 72. Yvonne Craig died five years ago in 2015 at age 78. Arthur Hiller died four years ago in 2016 at age 92.

Today Bruce Beresford is 80, Bob Balaban is 75, and Timothy Hutton is 60. Today is also the birthday of Steve Carell, James Cameron, Madonna, Angela Bassett, Taika Waititi, Lesley Ann Warren, Ann Blyth, Julie Newmar, Reginald VelJohnson, Laura Innes, Cristin Milioti, Cameron Monaghan, Jeff Perry, Kathie Lee Gifford, and the late Robert Culp, Glenn Strange, Lois Nettleton, Charles Bukowski, who would be 100, Carole Shelley, Christine Cavanaugh, Mae Clarke, and T. E. Lawrence. Robert Johnson died 82 years ago in 1938 at age 27. Bela Lugosi died 64 years ago in 1956 at age 73. Elvis Presley died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 42. Aretha Franklin died two years ago in 2018 at age 76. Peter Fonda died one year ago in 2019 at age 79.

Today Jim Dale is 85, Tess Harper is 70, Anthony Anderson is 50, and Jennifer Lawrence is 30. Today is also the birthday of Ben Affleck, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Debra Messing, Jimmy Webb, Maxine Waters, Natasha Henstridge, Zeljko Ivanek, Barbara Bouchet, Pat Priest, Joe Jonas, and the late Rose Marie, Ethel Barrymore, Wendy Hiller, Julia Child, Mike Connors, Nicolas Roeg, Napoleon Bonaparte, Janice Rule, Huntz Hall, who would be 100, Stieg Larsson, and Scott Kalvert. Will Rogers died 85 years ago in 1935 in a plane crash at age 55.

Today Steve Martin and Wim Wenders are 75. Today is also the birthday of David Crosby, Halle Berry, Mila Kunis, Marcia Gay Harden, Lina Wertmüller, Magic Johnson, Emmanuelle Béart, James Buckley, Antonio Fargas, Susan Saint James, Lamorne Morris, Tom DiCillo, Preston Lacy, Danielle Steel, and the late Andrea Leeds, Alice Ghostly, Liz Fraser, and Alma Reville. Bruno Kirby died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 57. Fyvush Finkel died four years ago in 2016 at age 93.

Today Gretchen Corbett is 75, and Jane Carr is 70. Today is also the birthday of Sebastian Stan, John Slattery, Debi Mazar, Paul Greengrass, Danny Bonaduce, Kevin Tighe, Moritz Bleibtreu, David Crane, Dawnn Lewis, Joshua Marston, Jeff Altman, Philippe Petit, Steve Higgins, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and the late Alfred Hitchcock, Bert Lahr, Neville Brand, who would be 100, Pat Harrington Jr., Sridevi, Regis Toomey, Tom Davis, Annie Oakley, and Fidel Castro. Joe E. Ross died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 68.

Today George Soros is 90. Today is also the birthday of Casey Affleck, George Hamilton, Bruce Greenwood, Cara Delevingne, Peter Krause, Yvette Nicole Brown, Lakeith Stanfield, Isaach De Bankolé, Dana Ivey, Michael Ian Black, Oliver Ford Davies, Elizabeth Shepherd, Ray Abruzzo, and the late Cecil B. DeMille, John Cazale, William Goldman, Cantinflas, Samuel Fuller, Marjorie Reynolds, Jane Wyatt, Marion Lorne, John Derek, and Klara Hitler. Ian Fleming died 56 years ago in 1964 at age 56. Henry Fonda died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 77. Loretta Young died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 87. Merv Griffin died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 82. Lauren Bacall died six years ago in 2014 at age 89.

Today Arlene Dahl is 95, Adam LeFevre, Elya Baskin, and Steve Wozniak are 70, and Merritt Wever is 40. Today is also the birthday of Viola Davis, Chris Hemsworth, Hulk Hogan, Ian McDiarmid, Chris Messina, Anna Gunn, Sophie Okonedo, Embeth Davidtz, Will Friedle, Joe Rogan, Ashley Jensen, Fernando Arrabal, David Brooks, Tomi Lahren, and the late Mike Douglas, who died on his birthday fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 81, Stuart Gordon, Anna Massey, Lloyd Nolan, Jean Parker, Ian Charleson, Stuart Rosenberg, and Jerry Falwell. Jackson Pollock died 64 years ago in 1956 at age 44. Anne Ramsey died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 59. Peter Cushing died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 81. Robin Williams died six years ago in 2014 at age 63.

Today Rhonda Fleming is 97, Antonio Banderas is 60, and Lucas Till is 30. Today is also the birthday of Justin Theroux, Rosanna Arquette, Leo Fitzpatrick, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Diane Venora, Angie Harmon, Ryan Eggold, Murray Melvin, Don Swayze, Brenton Thwaites, Cate Shortland, Rick Overton, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Andrew Sullivan, Kylie Jenner, Mama June Shannon, and the late Norma Shearer, Jack Haley, Eddie Fisher, Jimmy Dean, Herbert Hoover, Lynn Cohen, Martha Hyer, Noah Beery Jr., Jeff Corey, Tom Laughlin, Hugh Herbert, Ken Annakin, and Walter Lang. Isaac Hayes died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 65. Al Freeman Jr. died eight years ago in 2012 at age 81.