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Today Frank Stallone is 70, Richard Linklater is 60, and Christopher Nolan is 50. Today is also the birthday of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hilary Swank, Lisa Kudrow, Laurence Fishburne, Peter Bogdanovich, Jean Reno, Terry Crews, Vivica A. Fox, Gina Rodriguez, Tom Green, Simon Baker, Buddy Guy, Martin Starr, Jaime Pressly, Christine Taylor, Joey King, Sofie Gråbøl, Kerry Fox, Frances de la Tour, Phil Davis, Barbara Kopple, Sid Krofft, Michael Bell, Yvonne Strahovski, Javier Botet, William Atherton, Paul Anka, Alton Brown, Richard Burgi, Carel Struycken, Delta Burke, Derek Waters, Ken Olin, Kate Bush, Erwin Leder, Ted Sarandos, and the late Henry Ford, Edd Byrnes, Richard Johnson, John P. Ryan, Dick Wilson, Emily Brontë, and John Cason. Claudette Colbert died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 92. Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni both died thirteen years ago in 2007. Bergman was 89. Antonioni was 94. Gloria DeHaven died four years ago in 2016 at age 91.

Today Mike Starr is 70. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Dorff, David Warner, Tim Gunn, Wil Wheaton, Robert Fuller, Timothy Omundson, Leslie Easterbrook, Ken Burns, Tony Sirico, Josh Radnor, Allison Mack, Ato Essandoh, Bill Forsyth, Mike Hodges, and the late William Powell, Maria Ouspenskaya, Chris Marker, Clara Bow, Lloyd Bochner, Thelma Todd, Irwin Corey, Peter Jennings, Charles Hallahan, Budd Boetticher, Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia, William Cameron Menzies, and Benito Mussolini. “Mama” Cass Elliot died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 32. Luis Buñuel, Raymond Massey, and David Niven all died 37 years ago in 1983. Buñuel was 83, Massey was 86, and Niven was 73.

Today is the birthday of Peter Cullen, Elizabeth Berkley, Sally Struthers, Lori Loughlin, Darryl Hickman, Dustin Milligan, Frances Lee McCain, Michael Hitchcock, Dey Young, Linda Kelsey, Carlos Jacott, Dick Ebersol, Francis Veber, and the late Jacqueline Kennedy, Joe E. Brown, Rudy Vallee, Georgia Engel, Richard Wright, Beatrix Potter, Alexis Arquette, Ann Doran, and Hugo Chávez. Marie Dressler died 86 years ago in 1934 at age 65. Eileen Brennan died seven years ago in 2013 at age 80.

Today Norman Lear is 98, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maya Rudolph, Taylor Schilling, Donnie Yen, Betty Thomas, Rade Serbedzija, Bill Engvall, Roger Guenveur Smith, Bryan Fuller, Cliff Curtis, Carol Leifer, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Takashi Shimizu, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, and the late Keenan Wynn, Jerry Van Dyke, Donald Crisp, Will Jordan, Maury Chaykin, who died on his birthday ten years ago in 2010 at age 61, Lupita Tovar, and Charles Vidor. Gertrude Stein died 74 years ago in 1946 at age 72. William Wyler died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 79. James Mason died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 75. Bob Hope died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 100. R.G. Armstrong died eight years ago in 2012 at age 95. Sam Shepard died three years ago in 2017 at age 73.

Today Helen Mirren and Linda Harrison are 75, and Susan George is 70. Today is also the birthday of Mick Jagger, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Jason Statham, Kate Beckinsale, Olivia Williams, Jeremy Piven, Roger Taylor, Darlene Love, Peter Hyams, Juliet Rylance, Danny Woodburn, Dito Montiel, Andy Goldsworthy, and the late Stanley Kubrick, Jason Robards, Gracie Allen, Blake Edwards, Vivian Vance, Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Jung, James Best, Marjorie Lord, Suzanna Leigh, and Joe Jackson. Ed Gein died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 77. June Foray died three years ago in 2017 at age 99.

Today is the birthday of Matt LeBlanc, Illeana Douglas, Iman, David Denman, Jay R. Ferguson, D.B. Woodside, Darren Star, Ana Lily Amirpour, and the late Walter Brennan, Estelle Getty, Brad Renfro, Jack Gilford, Woody Strode, Barbara Harris, Janet Margolin, Emmett Till, August Schellenberg, Jerry Paris, Harold Peary, Lila Lee, and Raoul Ruiz. Vincente Minnelli died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 83. John Schlesinger died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 77.

Today Dan Hedaya is 80. Today is also the birthday of Jennifer Lopez, Anna Paquin, Elisabeth Moss, Rose Byrne, Lynda Carter, Michael Richards, Ruth Buzzi, Kristin Chenoweth, Gus Van Sant, Chris Sarandon, Laura Leighton, Mara Wilson, Doug Liman, Summer Glau, Laura Fraser, Patty Jenkins, Gallagher, Paul Ben-Victor, Robert Hays, Mark Goddard, Danny Dyer, Bindi Irwin, and the late Peter Yates, Alexandre Dumas, Amelia Earhart, Robert Emhardt, Mabel Albertson, Chief Dan George, Zelda Fitzgerald, Ermanno Olmi, Delmer Daves, and Robert Graves. Constance Bennett died 65 years ago in 1965 at age 60. Peter Sellers died forty years ago in 1980 at age 54. Alan Clarke died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 54. Sherman Hemsley died eight years ago in 2012 at age 74.

Today Edie McClurg is 75, and Charisma Carpenter is 50. Today is also the birthday of Woody Harrelson, Daniel Radcliffe, Slash, Marlon Wayans, Eriq La Salle, Kathryn Hahn, Larry Manetti, Ronny Cox, Jan Troell, Pepe Serna, Jo Brand, Monica Lewinsky, Anthony Kennedy, Shawn Levy, and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Raymond Chandler, Gloria DeHaven, Emil Jannings, Don Imus, John Rutsey, Hank Worden, Karl Swenson, Robert Brown, and Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy. D.W. Griffith died 72 years ago in 1948 at age 73. Montgomery Clift died 54 years ago in 1966 at age 45. Vic Morrow, Myca Dinh Le, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen died 38 years ago in 1982. Morrow was 53. Le was 7. Chen was 6. Amy Winehouse died nine years ago in 2011 at age 27.

Today Bob Dole is 97, and Alex Trebek is 80. Today is also the birthday of Willem Dafoe, Albert Brooks, Danny Glover, Terence Stamp, John Leguizamo, Louise Fletcher, Paul Schrader, David Spade, Selena Gomez, Rhys Ifans, Alan Menken, Jaime Camil, Adam Godley, Peter Jason, Skyler Gisondo, Olivier Gourmet, and the late James Whale, Dan Rowan, and Orson Bean. Ulrich Mühe died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 54. Estelle Getty died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 84. Dennis Farina died seven years ago in 2013 at age 69.

Today Alysia Reiner is 50, and Sprague Grayden is 40. Today is also the birthday of Yusuf / Cat Stevens, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Josh Hartnett, Juno Temple, Jon Lovitz, Norman Jewison, George Wallace, Justin Bartha, Béla Tarr, Godfrey, Rory Culkin, Betty Gilpin, David Dastmalchian, Diane Guerrero, Ike Eisenmann, Adrienne King, and the late Robin Williams, Don Knotts, Ernest Hemingway, Edward Herrmann, Paul Burke, Karel Reisz, Maria Falconetti, and Janet Reno. Basil Rathbone died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 75. Theodore Bikel died five years ago in 2015 at age 91. John Heard died three years ago in 2017 at age 71.