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Today Prince Philip is 99. Today is also the birthday of Gina Gershon, Elizabeth Hurley, Bill Burr, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kate Flannery, DJ Qualls, Jürgen Prochnow, Ben Daniels, Laura Silverman, Tzi Ma, Jeremy Saulnier, Dustin Lance Black, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Andrew Niccol, Timothy Van Patten, Bria Vinaite, Faith Evans, Kate Upton, Sasha Obama, John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, Bobby Jindal, and the late Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Kevin Corcoran, Sessue Hayakawa, and Maurice Sendak. Spencer Tracy died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 67. Rainer Werner Fassbinder died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 37. Jo Van Fleet died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 80. Ray Charles died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 73.

Today is the birthday of Johnny Depp, Natalie Portman, Michael J. Fox, Aaron Sorkin, Jackie Mason, Eddie Marsan, Josh Hamilton, Mae Whitman, Gloria Reuben, Justin Benson, and the late Cole Porter, Robert Cummings, Mona Freeman, Joe Santos, and Robert McNamara. Ousmane Sembene died thirteen years ago today in 2007 at age 84. Adam West died three years ago in 2017 at age 88.

Today Nancy Sinatra is 80, Kathy Baker is 70, and Gabby Giffords is 50. Today is also the birthday of Julianna Margulies, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Kanye West, Frank Grillo, Griffin Dunne, Bonnie Tyler, Colin Baker, James Darren, J.P. Manoux, Kevin Farley, Dan Futterman, Matthew Bright, Will Smith, Troy Duffy, and the late Joan Rivers, Robert Preston, Jerry Stiller, Alexis Smith, Bernie Casey, George Wallace, Don Grady, Charles Tyner, Myron Healey, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Barbara Bush. Robert Taylor died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 57. Anthony Bourdain died two years ago in 2018 at age 61.

Today Tom Jones and Ronald Pickup are 80, and Iggy Azalea is 30. Today is also the birthday of Liam Neeson, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, Karl Urban, James Ivory, William Forsythe, Colleen Camp, Tom McCarthy, Mick Foley, Bear Grylls, Dave Navarro, Fetty Wap, Mike Pence, and the late Dean Martin, Jessica Tandy, Prince, Bonnie Lee Bakley, Ken Osmond, Hope Summers, and Dolores Gray. Jean Harlow died 83 years ago in 1937 at age 26. ZaSu Pitts died 67 years ago in 1963 at age 69. Judy Holliday died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 43. Christopher Lee died five years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today Ellie Kendrick is 30. Today is also the birthday of Paul Giamatti, Jason Isaacs, Robert Englund, Sandra Bernhard, Colin Quinn, Harvey Fierstein, Max Casella, Danny Webb, Hirokazu Koreeda, Jonathan Nolan, Danny Strong, Natalie Morales, and the late Billie Whitelaw, Chantal Akerman, who would be 70, Maria Montez, Kenneth Connor, Sam Simon, Judith Barsi, and Thomas Mann. Jack Haley died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 81. Anne Bancroft died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 73. Esther Williams died seven years ago in 2013 at age 91.

Today Troye Sivan is 25. Today is also the birthday of Mark Wahlberg, Jeff Garlin, Ron Livingston, Nick Kroll, Susan Lynch, Chad Allen, Kenny G, Liza Weil, Laurie Anderson, Suze Orman, Pete Wentz, Lisa Cholodenko, Kathleen Kennedy, Roger Michell, David Hare, and the late Tony Richardson, Jacques Demy, Spalding Gray, Robert Lansing, William Boyd, Peggy Stewart, Warren Frost, Daniel von Bargen, John Abbott, Herb Vigran, Henry Levin, and Pancho Villa. Vito Scotti died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 78. Mel Tormé died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 73. Ronald Reagan died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 93. Ray Bradbury died eight years ago in 2012 at age 91.

Today Angelina Jolie and Russell Brand are 45. Today is also the birthday of Bruce Dern, T.J. Miller, Keith David, Noah Wyle, Rob Huebel, Horatio Sanz, Robin Lord Taylor, Sean Pertwee, Michelle Phillips, Oona Chaplin, Geoffrey Palmer, and the late Rosalind Russell, Dennis Weaver, Clara Blandick, and Russell Hicks. Dorothy Gish died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 70. Massimo Troisi died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 41.

Today Irma P. Hall is 85, and Bill Paterson is 75. Today is also the birthday of Imogen Poots, Anderson Cooper, Penelope Wilton, Jason Jones, James Purefoy, Sebastian Armesto, Masami Nagasawa, Larry McMurtry, Daniela Vega, Tate Taylor, and the late Tony Curtis, Josephine Baker, Paulette Goddard, Leo Gorcey, Chuck Barris, Allen Ginsberg, Curtis Mayfield, Ellen Corby, Maurice Evans, Colleen Dewhurst, Alain Resnais, Robert Z’Dar, Edward Winter, John Kellogg, Roy Glenn, Melissa Mathison, Anthony Harvey, and Herk Harvey. Franz Kafka died 96 years ago in 1924 at age 40. Ozzie Nelson died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 69. Roberto Rossellini died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Robert Morley died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 84. Anthony Quinn died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 86. David Carradine died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 72. Rue McClanahan died ten years ago in 2010 at age 76. James Arness died nine years ago in 2011 at age 88. Muhammad Ali died four years ago in 2016 at age 74.

Today Joanna Gleason is 70. Today is also the birthday of Dana Carvey, Zachary Quinto, Stacy Keach, Dominic Cooper, Justin Long, Charlie Watts, Dennis Haysbert, Wentworth Miller, Morena Baccarin, Liam Cunningham, Wayne Brady, Jerry Mathers, Sally Kellerman, Charles Haid, James Ransone, Dr. Cornel West, Navid Negahban, A.J. Styles, Lasse Hallström, Beetlejuice, Kevin Feige, Lisandro Alonso, and the late Johnny Weissmuller, Marvin Hamlisch, Thomas Hardy, The Marquis de Sade, Milo O’Shea, Max Showalter, Chief John Big Tree, Bruno S., and Lotte Reiniger. Jean Hersholt died 64 years ago in 1956 at age 69. George S. Kaufman died 59 years ago in 1961 at age 71. Leo Gorcey died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 51. Stephen Boyd died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 45. Jim Hutton died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 45. Rex Harrison and Jack Gilford died thirty years ago in 1990. Harrison was 82. Gilford was 81. Imogene Coca died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 92. Mel Ferrer and Bo Diddley died twelve years ago in 2008. Ferrer was 90. Diddley was 79. Richard Dawson and Kathryn Joosten died eight years ago in 2012. Dawson was 79. Joosten was 72. Peter Sallis died three years ago in 2017 at age 96.

Today Paula Malcomson is 50. Today is also the birthday of Morgan Freeman, Amy Schumer, Brian Cox, Alanis Morissette, Ronnie Wood, Tom Holland, Jonathan Pryce, Pat Boone, Sylvia Hoeks, Sarah Wayne Callies, Rick Gomez, Heidi Klum, Gareth Edwards, and the late Marilyn Monroe, Andy Griffith, Powers Boothe, Edward Woodward, Rene Auberjonois, Cleavon Little, Frank Morgan, Richard Erdman, and Aubrey Morris. Leslie Howard died 77 years ago in 1943 at age 50. Adolf Eichmann died 58 years ago in 1962 at age 56. Helen Keller died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 87.