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Today Jessica Simpson and Thomas Ian Nicholas are 40. Today is also the birthday of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sofia Vergara, Adrian Grenier, Arlo Guthrie, Fiona Shaw, Robert Pine, Peter Serafinowicz, Golshifteh Farahani, Wyatt Russell, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Alice Munro, Annie Mumolo, Mavis Staples, Marco Rodríguez, Joel Potrykus, and the late Fred Gwynne, Marcel Proust, Nikola Tesla, Sue Lyon, Ivan Passer, Jake LaMotta, Ron Glass, David Brinkley, who would be 100, Tura Satana, Nick Adams, John Gilbert, and Jerry Nelson. Mel Blanc died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 81. Omar Sharif died five years ago in 2015 at age 83.

Today Dean Koontz is 75, and Jodi Arias is 40. Today is also the birthday of Tom Hanks, Jack White, Jimmy Smits, Chris Cooper, Courtney Love, Pamela Adlon, Kelly McGillis, Fred Savage, Douglas Booth, Richard Roundtree, Ed Ames, Fred Norris, David O’Hara, David Hockney, Scott Grimes, Kevin Nash, Richard Wilson, Nigel Lythgoe, O.J. Simpson, Jordan Belfort, Steven Avery, Amanda Knox, and the late Brian Dennehy, Vince Edwards and Elem Klimov. Rod Steiger died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 77. Charles Lane died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 102. Rip Torn died one year ago in 2019 at age 88.

Today Steve Lawrence is 85, and Beck is 50. Today is also the birthday of Angelica Huston, Kevin Bacon, Jeffrey Tambor, Billy Crudup, Michael Weatherly, Kim Darby, Milo Ventimiglia, Sophia Bush, Robert Knepper, Toby Keith, Kathleen Robertson, Jamie Blackley, Lee Tergesen, Wolfgang Puck, Jaden Smith, Michael Cuesta, Joe Russo, Wally Pfister, Maya Hawke, and the late Marty Feldman, John D. Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller, Mary Ellen Trainor, Craig Stevens, Jerry Vale, Louis Jordan, Billy Eckstine, Percy Grainger, Barbara Loden, Eugene Pallette, and Jean Rouverol. Vivien Leigh died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 53. Dick Sargent died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 64. June Allyson died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 88. Betty Ford died nine years ago in 2011 at age 93. Ernest Borgnine died eight years ago in 2012 at age 95. Nelsan Ellis died three years ago in 2017 at age 39. Tab Hunter died two years ago in 2018 at age 86.

Today Ringo Starr is 80, and Michelle Kwan is 40. Today is also the birthday of Shelley Duvall, Jim Gaffigan, Bérénice Bejo, Doc Severinsen, Nina Hoss, Billy Campbell, Hamish Linklater, Mo Collins, Patricia Hitchcock, Robin Weigert, Eve Hewson, Jorja Fox, Jack Whitehall, Amy Carlson, Kirsten Vangsness, Christian Camargo, Joe Spano, Martin Wallström, Blondie Chaplin, Jonathan Dayton, and the late Vittorio De Sica, George Cukor, Gustav Mahler, Jon Pertwee, Robert A. Heinlein, and Satchel Paige. Arthur Conan Doyle died ninety years ago in 1930 at age 71. Veronica Lake died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 50. Fred Neil died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 65.

Today The Dalai Lama is 85, Burt Ward is 75, Geraldine James is 70, and Eva Green is 40. Today is also the birthday of Sylvester Stallone, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin Hart, Jennifer Saunders, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Ned Beatty, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Tia Mowry-Hardict, Fred Dryer, Allyce Beasley, Brian Posehn, Peter Hedges, George W. Bush, and the late Janet Leigh, Frida Kahlo, Nancy Reagan, Merv Griffin, Della Reese, William Schallert, Sebastian Cabot, Cathy O’Donnell, and Misty Upham. William Faulkner died 58 years ago today in 1962 at 64. Chief John Big Tree died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 90. Louis Armstrong died 49 years ago in 1971 at age 69. Brandon De Wilde died 48 years ago in 1972 at age 30. Joe E. Brown died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 80. Alma Reville died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 82. Marsha P. Johnson died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 46. Roy Rogers died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 86. John Frankenheimer died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 72. Buddy Ebsen died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 95.

Today Huey Lewis is 70, and Pruitt Taylor Vince is 60. Today is also the birthday of Edie Falco, Robbie Robertson, RZA, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jillian Armenante, Kathryn Erbe, Louis Herthum, Don Stark, Jenji Kohan, Peter Tolan, Bill Watterson, and the late Warren Oates, Jean Cocteau, Katherine Helmond, Shirley Knight, P.T. Barnum, Milburn Stone, John Wood, and William Hootkins. Leo McCarey died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 70.

Today Eva Marie Saint is 96, and Adrián García Bogliano is 40. Today is also the birthday of Gina Lollobrigida, Tahar Rahim, Tracy Letts, Geraldo Rivera, Stephen Rannazzisi, Ed O’Ross, Mo McRae, Oren Moverman, Ron Kovic, Malia Obama, and the late Neil Simon, Gloria Stuart, Stephen Boyd, Bill Withers, Calvin Coolidge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Eric Fleming, Colin Welland, Rube Goldberg, and Meyer Lansky. Thomas Jefferson died 194 years ago in 1826 at age 83. James Monroe died 189 years ago in 1831 at age 73. Eva Gabor died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 76. Barry White died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 58. Abbas Kiarostami died four years ago in 2016 at age 76.

Today Audra McDonald is 50, and Olivia Munn is 40. Today is also the birthday of Tom Cruise, Patrick Wilson, Connie Nielsen, Kurtwood Smith, Tommy Flanagan, Yeardley Smith, Thomas Gibson, Corey Sevier, Bruce Altman, Dave Barry, Tom Stoppard, Peyton Reed, Michele Soavi, Gloria Allred, Julian Assange, and the late Franz Kafka, George M. Cohan, Ken Russell, George Sanders, Kinji Fukasaku, Susan Peters, Rick Ducommun, and Don Haggerty. Jim Morrison died 49 years ago in 1971 at age 27. Rudy Vallée died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 84. Jim Backus died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 76. “Curly” Joe DeRita died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 83. Andy Griffith died eight years ago in 2012 at age 86. Noel Neill died four years ago in 2016 at age 95. Arte Johnson died one year ago in 2019 at age 90.

Today Scott Aukerman is 50, and Margot Robbie is 30. Today is also the birthday of Larry David, Lindsay Lohan, Ashley Tisdale, Doug Benson, Polly Holliday, Wendy Schaal, Saul Rubinek, Andrew Divoff, Samy Naceri, Frank Williams, Erin Burnett, Richard Petty, Keith Morrison, Mark Kermode, Johnny Weir, and the late Thurgood Marshall, Ron Silver, Ken Curtis, Brock Peters, Kenneth McMillan, Jenni Rivera, and Dave Thomas. Franklin Schaffner died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 69. Lee Remick died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 55. Fred Gwynne died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 66. James Stewart died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 89. Mario Puzo died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 78. Jan Murray died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 89. Michael Cimino died four years ago in 2016 at age 77.

Today Olivia de Havilland is 104, David Prowse is 85, Debbie Harry is 75, David Duke is 70, Fortune Feimster is 40. Today is also the birthday of Dan Aykroyd, Liv Tyler, Léa Seydoux, Andre Braugher, Geneviève Bujold, Jamie Farr, Pamela Anderson, Julianne Nicholson, Leslie Caron, Missy Elliott, Sufjan Stevens, Alan Ruck, Thomas Sadoski, David Gulpilil, Hannah Murray, Storm Reid, Jordi Mollà, Brian George, Peter Cattaneo, and the late Charles Laughton, Princess Diana, William Wyler, Karen Black, Sydney Pollack, Farley Granger, and Alice Guy-Blaché. Michael Landon died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 54. Robert Mitchum died 23 years in 1997 at age 79. Sylvia Sidney died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 88. Walter Matthau died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 79. Marlon Brando died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 80. Luther Vandross died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 54. Karl Malden died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 97.