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Today Thomas Lennon and Chris Cuomo are 50, and Bill Skarsgård is 30. Today is also the birthday of Sam Elliott, Melanie Griffith, Anna Kendrick, Eric Bana, Gillian Anderson, Audrey Tautou, David Steinberg, Kevin McKidd, Burton Gilliam, Toni Servillo, Amanda Bearse, Kenya Barris, McG, Hoda Kotb, and the late Whitney Houston, Robert Shaw, Robert Aldrich, P.L. Travers, Leo Genn, John Stephenson, Nat Pendleton, and Allen ‘Farina’ Hoskins, who would be 100. Sharon Tate was murdered 51 years ago in 1969 at age 26. Jerry Garcia died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 53. Gregory Hines died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 57. Matthew McGrory died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 32. Bernie Mac died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 50.

Today Nita Talbot is 90, and Donald P. Bellisario is 85. Today is also the birthday of Dustin Hoffman, Keith Carradine, Robin Quivers, Connie Stevens, Shawn Mendes, Don Most, Larry Wilcox, Peyton List, Lindsay Sloane, The Edge (David Howell Evans), Martin Brest, Jon Turteltaub, Lee Unkrich, Mamoru Oshii, and the late Esther Williams, Richard Anderson, Sylvia Sidney, Rory Calhoun, Dino De Laurentiis, Earl Cameron, Rosetta LeNoire, William Asher, and Robert Siodmak. Richard Deacon died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 63. Louise Brooks died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 78. Alan Napier died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 85. Fay Wray died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 96. Barbara Bel Geddes died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 82. Patricia Neal died ten years ago in 2010 at age 84. Karen Black died seven years ago in 2013 at age 74. Glen Campbell and Barbara Cook died three years ago in 2017. Campbell was 81. Cook was 89.

Today David Duchovny is 60. Today is also the birthday of Charlize Theron, Michael Shannon, Wayne Knight, Abbie Cornish, Tobin Bell, Garrison Keillor, Brit Marling, Caroline Aaron, Bruce Dickinson, Alexandre Aja, James Randi, Maggie Wheeler, Harold Perrineau, David Rasche, John Glover, Eric Johnson, Anjanette Comer, Robert Mueller, and the late Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer, Billie Burke, Nicholas Ray, Verna Bloom, Edward Hardwicke, Stan Freberg, and Rick Genest. Oliver Hardy died 63 years ago in 1957 at age 65.

Today Leland Orser is 60, and M. Night Shyamalan is 50. Today is also the birthday of Vera Farmiga, Michelle Yeoh, Merrin Dungey, Michael Anderson Jr., Peter Bonerz, Catherine Hicks, Leslie Odom Jr., Peter Simonischek, Inga Landgré, and the late Robert Mitchum, Lucille Ball, Andy Warhol, Frank Finlay, Charles Crichton, Paul Bartel, and Umberto Lenzi. Preston Sturges died 61 years ago in 1959 at age 60. Rick James died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 56. John Hughes died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 59.

Today Loni Anderson is 75. Today is also the birthday of Mark Strong, James Gunn, Janet McTeer, Jesse Williams, Maureen McCormick, Scott William Winters, John Jarratt, Billie Hayes, and the late John Huston, Neil Armstrong, Robert Taylor, John Saxon, Adam Yauch, Joan Hickson, Ja’net DuBois, Reginald Owen, Guy de Maupassant, Bob Clark, Pete Burns, and Joseph Merrick. Carmen Miranda died 65 years ago in 1955 at age 46. Marilyn Monroe died 58 years ago in 1962 at age 36. Richard Burton died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 58. Ralph Meeker died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 67. Alec Guinness died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 86. Charlotte Rae died two years ago in 2018 at age 92. Toni Morrison died one year ago in 2019 at age 88.

Today Carol Arthur is 85, Sapphire is 70, and Chet Hanks is 30. Today is also the birthday of Barack Obama, Billy Bob Thornton, Greta Gerwig, Richard Belzer, Paul Mooney, Meghan Markle, Daniel Dae Kim, Tina Cole, Abigail Spencer, James Tupper, Sebastian Roché, Donald Gibb, Keith Ellison, Dennis Lehane, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, and the late Louis Armstrong, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Don S. Davis, Anita Page, Ron Lester, who would be 50, William Keighley, and Louis Vuitton. Melvyn Douglas died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 80. Victor Mature died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 86.

Today Martin Sheen is 80, John Landis is 70, and Hannah Simone is 40. Today is also the birthday of Tony Bennett, John C. McGinley, Evangeline Lilly, Stephen Graham, James Hetfield, Isaiah Washington, Martha Stewart, Molly Hagan, Lambert Wilson, Michael Ealy, Jonah Ray, Nick Sandow, Mamie Gummer, Steven Berkoff, Mathieu Kassovitz, Jay North, Elsa Cárdenas, Justin Kurzel, Tom Brady, Max Landis, and the late Dolores del Rio, Jean Hagen, and Bethel Leslie. Joseph Conrad died 96 years ago in 1924 at age 66. Flannery O’Connor died 56 years ago in 1964 at age 39. Lenny Bruce died 54 years ago in 1966 at age 40. Ida Lupino died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 77.

Today Nehemiah Persoff is 101, Joanna Cassidy is 75, Kathryn Harrold is 70, and Kevin Smith is 50. Today is also the birthday of Mary-Louise Parker, Sam Worthington, Edward Furlong, Butch Patrick, Victoria Jackson, Matthew Del Negro, Hallie Eisenberg, Charli XCX, Nathan Zellner, and the late Peter O’Toole, Myrna Loy, Carroll O’Connor, Wes Craven, Beatrice Straight, James Baldwin, Max Wright, Jack L. Warner, and Gary Merrill. Jean-Pierre Melville died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 55. Fritz Lang died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 85. Raymond Carver died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 50. William S. Burroughs died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 83.

Today Chuck D is 60, and Jack O’Connell is 30. Today is also the birthday of Jason Momoa, Sam Mendes, Demián Bichir, Steve Schirripa, John Carroll Lynch, Coolio, Giancarlo Giannini, Adrian Dunbar, Eduardo Noriega, Terry Kiser, Adam Duritz, David Wain, Oona Laurence, José Padilha, and the late Jerry Garcia, Dom DeLuise, Claudius, Geoffrey Holder, Yves Saint Laurent, Herman Melville, Taylor Negron, Henry Jones, J. Lee Thompson, and Cookie Mueller. Strother Martin died forty years ago in 1980 at age 61. Paddy Chayefsky died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 58. D.A. Pennebaker died one year ago in 2019 at age 94.

Today Ben Chaplin is 50. Today is also the birthday of Wesley Snipes, J.K. Rowling, Geraldine Chaplin, Don Murray, Pat Cooper, Michael Biehn, B.J. Novak, Dean Cain, Mark Cuban, Emilia Fox, France Nuyen, Jessica Williams, Rico Rodriguez, Paul Provenza, Dirk Blocker, Barry Van Dyke, Al Sapienza, Alan Autry, Cassi Davis, and the late Mario Bava, Richard Griffiths, Geoffrey Lewis, Ted Cassidy, Louis de Funès, Percy Herbert, who would be 100, and Paul ‘Mousie’ Garner. Gore Vidal died eight years ago in 2012 at age 86. Roddy Piper died five years ago in 2015 at age 61. Jeanne Moreau died three years ago in 2017 at age 89.