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Today Clint Eastwood is 90, Chris Elliott is 60, and Paolo Sorrentino is 50. Today is also the birthday of Colin Farrell, Brooke Shields, Tom Berenger, Lea Thompson, Susie Essman, Eric Christian Olsen, Sharon Gless, Jonathan Tucker, Sebastian Koch, Joe Namath, and the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who would be 75, Don Ameche, Walt Whitman, Denholm Elliott, Jim Hutton, Alida Valli, Fred Allen, John Bonham, Jack Holt, Barbara Pepper, Madge Blake, and Menahem Golan. William Castle died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 63. Jean Stapleton died seven years ago in 2013 at age 90.

Today Jimmy Lydon is 97, and Ruta Lee is 85. Today is also the birthday of Keir Dullea, Idina Menzel, Stephen Tobolowsky, Colm Meaney, Wynonna Judd, CeeLo Green, Ted McGinley, Duncan Jones, Antoine Fuqua, Ryûhei Kitamura, and the late Howard Hawks, Agnès Varda, Mel Blanc, Michael J. Pollard, Hugh Griffith, Clint Walker, Benny Goodman, Douglas Fowley, Franklin J. Schaffner, who would be 100, Meredith MacRae, Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry), Irving Thalberg, Christine Jorgensen, and Jamie Uys. Dooley Wilson died 67 years ago in 1953 at age 67. Claude Rains died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 77. Michel Simon died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 80.

Today Melanie Brown (Mel B) and Daniel Tosh are 45. Today is also the birthday of Annette Bening, Rupert Everett, Riley Keough, Laverne Cox, Ted Levine, Helmut Berger, Melissa Etheridge, Danny Elfman, La Toya Jackson, Noel Gallagher, Justin Chon, Robert Logan, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Aaron McGruder, and the late Bob Hope, John F. Kennedy, Josef von Sternberg, Clifton James, who would be 100, Sebastian Shaw, Kevin Conway, Stacy Keach Sr., and Gregg Toland. John Barrymore died 78 years ago in 1942 at age 60. James Whale died 63 years ago in 1957 at age 67. Mary Pickford died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 87. Harvey Korman died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 81. Dennis Hopper died ten years ago in 2010 at age 74.

Today Anne Reid is 85. Today is also the birthday of Carey Mulligan, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Kylie Minogue, Carroll Baker, Gladys Knight, Jake Johnson, Romain Duris, Christa Miller, Patricia Quinn, John Fogerty, Justin Kirk, Nonso Anozie, Irwin Winkler, Rudy Giuliani, Marco Rubio, Steve King, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and the late Ian Fleming, Sondra Locke, Edith Massey, Glenn Quinn, who would be 50, Martha Vickers, Beth Howland, Zelda Rubinstein, Gordon Willis, Hank Mann, and Rob Ford. Phil Hartman died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 49. Gary Coleman died ten years ago in 2010 at age 42. Maya Angelou died six years ago in 2014 at age 86.

Today Henry Kissinger and Sumner Redstone are 97, Lee Meriwether is 85, Joseph Fiennes is 50, Ben Feldman is 40, and Chris Colfer is 30. Today is also the birthday of Paul Bettany, André Benjamin, Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Schiff, Jack McBrayer, Adam Carolla, Bella Heathcote, Todd Bridges, Bruce Weitz, Ken Lerner, Peri Gilpin, Linnea Quigley, Jamie Oliver, Jee-woon Kim, Giuseppe Tornatore, Simon Blackwell, Lily-Rose Depp, and the late Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Dashiell Hammett, Harlan Ellison, John Cheever, Steve Franken, Willie Best, Lucile Watson, Antonia Bird, Dolores Hope, Hubert Humphrey, Wild Bill Hickok, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. George Zucco died sixty years ago in 1960 at age 74. Jeff Conway died nine years ago in 2011 at age 60. Gregg Allman died three years ago in 2017 at age 69.

Today Alex Garland is 50. Today is also the birthday of Helena Bonham Carter, Pam Grier, Lenny Kravitz, Stevie Nicks, Bobcat Goldthwait, Matt Stone, Lauryn Hill, Tarsem Singh, Hank Williams Jr., and the late John Wayne, Miles Davis, Peter Cushing, Al Jolson, James Arness, Peggy Lee, who would be 100, Jay Silverheels, Robert Morley, and John Dahl. Eddie Albert died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 99. Sydney Pollack died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 73. Art Linkletter died ten years ago in 2010 at age 97.

Today Jamie Kennedy and Neil Marshall are 50. Today is also the birthday of Ian McKellen, Mike Myers, Octavia Spencer, Cillian Murphy, Anne Heche, Jacki Weaver, Frank Oz, Ethan Suplee, Demetri Martin, Bobby Slayton, Ray Stevenson, Leslie Uggams, Kevin Heffernan, Justin Henry, Erinn Hayes, Joseph D. Reitman, Ken Jacobs, Ann Robinson, Robert Greene, and the late Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dixie Carter, Claude Akins, Raymond Carver, Jeanne Crain, Robert Ludlum, Bill Robinson, and George Hickenlooper. Vic Tayback died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 60. Charles Nelson Reilly died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 76.

Today Priscilla Presley is 75, Kristin Scott Thomas and Doug Jones are 60, and Zhangke Jia is 50. Today is also the birthday of Bob Dylan, John C. Reilly, Jim Broadbent, Alfred Molina, Tommy Chong, Gary Burghoff, Michael Lonsdale, Roger Deakins, Nell Campbell, Patti LaBelle, Rosanne Cash, Will Sasso, Dana Ashbrook, Dash Mihok, Eric Close, Greg Berlanti, Michael Chabon, and the late Queen Victoria, Mai Zetterling, Peter Whitney, Willis Bouchey, and Seijun Suzuki. Duke Ellington died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 75. Dick Martin died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 86. Burt Kwouk died four years ago in 2016 at age 85. Jerry Maren died two years ago in 2018 at age 98.

Today is the birthday of Joan Collins, Drew Carey, H. Jon Benjamin, Richard Ayoade, Barbara Barrie, John Ortiz, Melissa McBride, Jewel Kilcher, Ryan Coogler, Charles Kimbrough, Tom Tykwer, Samuel Maoz, and the late Douglas Fairbanks, Scatman Crothers, Rosemary Clooney, Betty Garrett, Nigel Davenport, and James Gleason. Jackie “Moms” Mabley died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 81. George Jessel died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 83. Sterling Hayden died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 70. Roger Moore died three years ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today Thomas Schlamme is 70, and Naomi Campbell is 50. Today is also the birthday of Morrissey, Richard Benjamin, Ginnifer Goodwin, Maggie Q, Brooke Smith, Ann Cusack, Sean Gunn, Michael Kelly, Barbara Parkins, Michael Constantine, Max Brooks, and the late Laurence Olivier, Paul Winfield, Harvey Milk, who would be 90, Michael Sarrazin, who would be 80, Sid Melton, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Langston Hughes died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 65. Dina Merrill died three years ago in 2017 at age 93.