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Today Víctor Erice is 80, and Leonard Whiting is 70. Today is also the birthday of Vincent D’Onofrio, Lizzy Caplan, Mike Tyson, Rupert Graves, David Alan Grier, Monica Potter, Molly Parker, Marton Csokas, Rick Gonzalez, Angela Sarafyan, Michael Phelps, Fantasia Barrino, Mark Waters, and the late Lena Horne, Susan Hayward, Anthony Mann, Glenda Farrell, Ted Ross, Pat McCormick, John Harmon, George Chandler, Florence Ballard, and Dave Van Ronk. George “Spanky” McFarland died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 65. Gale Gordon died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 89. Pina Bausch died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 68. Paul Mazursky died six years ago in 2014 at age 84.

Today Cara Williams is 95. Today is also the birthday of Richard Lewis, Gary Busey, Melora Hardin, Lily Rabe, Colin Jost, Bret McKenzie, Brian d’Arcy James, Fred Grandy, Matthew Weiner, Sharon Lawrence, Jeff Baena, and the late Slim Pickens, Ray Harryhausen, who would be 100, Robert Evans, Bernard Herrmann, Ian Bannen, Corey Allen, Ruth Warrick, Joan Davis, and Nelson Eddy. Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle died 87 years ago in 1933 at age 46. Jayne Mansfield died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 34. Bob Crane died 42 years ago in 1978 at age 49. Lana Turner died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 74. William Hickey died 23  years ago in 1997 at age 69. Vittorio Gassman died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 77. Rosemary Clooney died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 74. Katharine Hepburn died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 96. Edward Yang died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 59. Don S. Davis died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 65. Jim Kelly died seven years ago in 2013 at age 67. Steve Ditko died two years ago in 2018 at age 90.

Today Mike White is 50. Today is also the birthday of Mel Brooks, Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Mary Stuart Masterson, Felicia Day, Bruce Davison, Alice Krige, Alessandro Nivola, John Byner, Ayelet Zurer, Aileen Quinn, Elon Musk, Kellie Pickler, Jon Watts, and the late Gilda Radner, Pat Morita, Richard Rodgers, Henry VIII of England, Richard Bright, and John Inman. Frank Sutton died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 50. Rod Serling died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 50. GG Allin died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 36. Jack Carter died five years ago in 2015 at age 93. Harlan Ellison died two years ago in 2018 at age 84.

Today is the birthday of Tobey Maguire, J.J. Abrams, Isabelle Adjani, Sam Claflin, Vera Wang, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Wagner Moura, Julia Duffy, Matthew Lewis, Chandler Riggs, Drake Bell, Ed Westwick, Courtney Ford, Shirley Anne Field, Kathryn Beaumont, Janusz Kaminski, Jo Frost, Khloé Kardashian, and the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, Helen Keller, Robert Keeshan, Ross Perot, Muriel Pavlow, John McIntire, Billy Curtis, Skelton Knaggs, and I.A.L. Diamond, who would be 100. Jack Lemmon died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 76. Gale Storm died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 87.

Today Michael Paul Chan is 70, Paul Thomas Anderson, Nick Offerman, Sean Hayes, Chris O’Donnell, and Matt Letscher are 50, and Jason Schwartzman is 40. Today is also the birthday of Aubrey Plaza, Ariana Grande, Chris Isaak, John Beasley, Mark McKinney, Robert Davi, Josef Sommer, Gedde Watanabe, Jerry Schatzberg, Derek Jeter, Harley Quinn Smith, and the late Peter Lorre, Eleanor Parker, Dick Smith, and Wolfgang Reitherman. Nora Ephron died eight years ago in 2012 at age 71. Edith Scob died one year ago in 2019 at age 81.

Today June Lockhart is 95, and Carly Simon is 75. Today is also the birthday of Ricky Gervais, Linda Cardellini, Jimmie Walker, Busy Philipps, John Benjamin Hickey, Jason Lewis, Angela Kinsey, Rain, Timur Bekmambetov, Denys Arcand, Ernest R. Dickerson, Sonia Sotomayor, and the late Sidney Lumet, Anthony Bourdain, George Michael, George Orwell, Larry Kramer, Roger Livesey, Charlotte Greenwood, George Murdock, and Anne Revere. Colin Clive died 83 years ago in 1937 at age 37. Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died eleven years ago in 2009. Jackson was 50. Fawcett was 62. Patrick Macnee died five years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today Robert Downey Sr. is 85, Vittorio Storaro is 80, Nancy Allen is 70, and Minka Kelly is 40. Today is also the birthday of Mick Fleetwood, Mindy Kaling, Peter Weller, Solange Knowles, Vanessa Ray, Michele Lee, Iain Glen, Sherry Stringfield, Georg Stanford Brown, Joe Penny, Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister, Dan Gilroy, and the late Claude Chabrol, Adrienne Shelly, Al Molinaro, Phil Harris, and Jack Carter. Tony Hancock died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 44. Jackie Gleason died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 71. Brian Keith died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 75. David Tomlinson died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 83. Paul Winchell died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 82. Eli Wallach died six years ago in 2014 at age 98.

Today Melissa Rauch is 40. Today is also the birthday of Frances McDormand, Joel Edgerton, Selma Blair, Joss Whedon, Randy Jackson, Bryan Brown, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Martin Klebba, John Amplas, Russell Mulcahy, Clarence Thomas, and the late Bob Fosse, June Carter Cash, Dennis Price, Alan Vega, Alfred Kinsey, and Alan Turing. Maureen O’Sullivan died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 87. Peter Falk died nine years ago in 2011 at age 83.

Today Erin Brockovich and Adam Schiff are 60. Today is also the birthday of Meryl Streep, Kris Kristofferson, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Campbell, Emmanuelle Seigner, Stephen Chow, Amy Brenneman, Elizabeth Warren, Michael Lerner, Prunella Scales, Donald Faison, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Joe Dempsie, Lindsay Wagner, Graham Greene, Portia Doubleday, Carson Daly, Douglas Smith, Alicia Goranson, Tim Russ, Uwe Boll, David L. Lander, Joie Lee, Dan Brown, Wayne Federman, Dianne Feinstein, Adam Schiff, Wolfgang Becker, and the late Billy Wilder, Abbas Kiarostami, Freddie Prinze, John Dillinger, Michael Todd, Ralph Waite, Amrish Puri, Erich Maria Remarque, and Octavia Butler. David O. Selznick died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 63. Judy Garland died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 47. Joseph Losey died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 75. Fred Astaire died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 88. George Carlin died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 71.

Today Mariette Hartley is 80. Today is also the birthday of Chris Pratt, Juliette Lewis, Bernie Kopell, David Morrissey, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter, Lana Wachowski, Benjamin Walker, Carrie Preston, Ron Ely, Josh Pais, Maggie Siff, Lana Del Rey, Michael Bowen, Joe Flaherty, Ian McEwan, Edward Snowden, Jim Breuer, Prince William, Jussie Smollett, Gretchen Carlson, and the late Judy Holliday, Jane Russell, Maureen Stapleton, Tony Scott, Robert Pastorelli, Eric Douglas, Conrad L. Hall, and Benazir Bhutto. Carroll O’Connor and John Lee Hooker died nineteen years ago in 2001. O’Connor was 76. Hooker was 83.