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Today Jeffrey Toobin is 60. Today is also the birthday of Al Franken, Mr. T, Fairuza Balk, Judge Reinhold, Jonathan Hyde, Lisa Edelstein, Nick Cassavetes, Noel Fielding, Tom Daley, J. Elvis Weinstein, and the late Raymond Burr, The Notorious B.I.G., Robert Montgomery, Richard Hatch, Jeffrey Dahmer, Alice Drummond, Brent Briscoe, Richard Libertini, Kay Kendall, Dennis Day, Peggy Cass, and Jeanne Bates. John Garfield died 68 years ago in 1952 at age 39. Alejandro Rey died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 57. John Gielgud died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 96. Howard Morris died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 85.

Today Alan Zweibel is 70, Tony Goldwyn and John Billingsley are 60, and Louis Theroux is 50. Today is also the birthday of Cher, Timothy Olyphant, Dave Thomas, Bronson Pinchot, Mindy Cohn, Busta Rhymes, Matt McCoy, Allen Maldonado, David Proval, Jack Gleeson, Anton Corbijn, Mike Flanagan, Jon Amiel, and the late James Stewart, Joe Cocker, and David Hedison. Gilda Radner died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 42. Robin Gibb died eight years ago in 2012 at age 62.

Today Pete Townshend is 75. Today is also the birthday of Grace Jones, Polly Walker, James Fox, Nancy Kwan, Dusty Hill, Sam Smith, Eric Lloyd, Thomas Vinterberg, Morten Tyldum, and the late Malcolm X, Nora Ephron, Andre the Giant, Joey Ramone, Peter Mayhew, Lorraine Hansberry, Bruce Bennett, Daniel Gélin, and Pol Pot. Ronald Colman died 62 years ago in 1958 at age 67. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Henry Morgan both died 26 years ago in 1994. Onassis was 64. Morgan was 79. Alan Young died four years ago in 2016 at age 96.

Today Priscilla Pointer is 96, Mark Mothersbaugh is 70, and Tina Fey is 50. Today is also the birthday of Robert Morse, Yun-Fat Chow, George Strait, Miriam Margolyes, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Patrick St. Esprit, Terry Zwigoff, and the late Frank Capra, Pernell Roberts, Perry Como, Bill Macy, Richard Brooks, and Robert J. Wilke. Jill Ireland died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 54. Elizabeth Montgomery and Elisha Cook Jr. both died 25 years ago in 1995. Montgomery was 62. Cook Jr. was 91.

Today Peter Gerety is 80. Today is also the birthday of Craig Ferguson, Bob Saget, Trent Reznor, Grace Zabriskie, Lena Waithe, David Eigenberg, Sugar Ray Leonard, Derek Hough, Tabatha Coffey, and the late Dennis Hopper, Bill Paxton, Jean Gabin, Maureen O’Sullivan, and Matthew McGrory. Tony Randall died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 84. Frank Gorshin died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 72.

Today Thomas Brodie-Sangster is 30. Today is also the birthday of Debra Winger, Pierce Brosnan, Danny Trejo, Kevin McDonald, Melanie Lynskey, Janet Jackson, Megan Fox, Jesper Christensen, Mare Winningham, David Boreanaz, Jim Sturgess, Tori Spelling, Stephen Mangan, Rebecca Front, Jason ‘Wee-Man’ Acuña, and the late Henry Fonda, Kenji Mizoguchi, Liberace, Yvonne Craig, Margaret Sullavan, and Harry Carey Jr. Django Reinhardt died 67 years ago in 1953 at age 43. Andy Kaufman died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 35. Margaret Hamilton died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 82. Jim Henson and Sammy Davis Jr. both died thirty years ago in 1990. Henson was 53, and Davis Jr. was 64.

Today Lainie Kazan is 80, Nicholas Hammond is 70, and Julian Jarrold is 60. Today is also the birthday of Chazz Palminteri, David Krumholtz, Caroline Dhavernas, Alexandra Breckenridge, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Madeleine Albright, Brian Eno, John Glen, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, and the late James Mason, Joseph Cotten, L. Frank Baum, Joseph Wiseman, Katrin Cartlidge, Arletty, Jûzô Itami, Peter Shaffer, André De Toth, Mario Monicelli, and Pierre Curie. June Carter Cash died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 73.

Today Francesca Annis is 75. Today is also the birthday of Cate Blanchett, George Lucas, Tim Roth, David Byrne, Robert Zemeckis, Sofıa Coppola, Danny Huston, Amber Tamblyn, Miranda Cosgrove, Greg Davies, Siân Phillips, Rob Tapert, Mark Zuckerberg, and the late Bobby Darin, Anne Wiazemsky, Richard Deacon, Oona O’Neill Chaplin, Sidney Bechet, and Mrinal Sen. Rita Hayworth died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 68. Frank Sinatra died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 82. Wendy Hiller and Robert Stack both died seventeen years ago in 2003. She was 90. He was 84. B.B. King died five years ago in 2015 at age 89. Powers Boothe died three years ago in 2017 at age 68. Tom Wolfe died two years ago in 2018 at age 88.

Today Stevie Wonder and Joe Johnston are 70, and David Simon is 60. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Colbert, Harvey Keitel, Samantha Morton, Robert Pattinson, Lena Dunham, Alan Ball, Fred Melamed, Buck Taylor, Brian Geraghty, Iwan Rheon, Zoë Wanamaker, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Dennis Rodman, and the late Bea Arthur, Daphne Du Maurier, Ritchie Valens, Beverly Owen, Herbert Ross, Chishû Ryû, Joe Louis, Mary Wells, and Jim Jones. Gary Cooper died 59 years ago in 1961 at age 60. Margot Kidder died two years ago in 2018 at age 69. Doris Day died one year ago in 2019 at age 97.

Today Bob Burns is 85, Gabriel Byrne is 70, and Samantha Mathis is 50. Today is also the birthday of Rami Malek, Burt Bacharach, Jason Biggs, Emilio Estevez, Ving Rhames, Malin Akerman, Domhnall Gleeson, Nathan Fielder, Bruce McCulloch, Catherine Tate, Lindsay Crouse, Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen Baldwin, Richard Riehle, Kim Greist, Emily VanCamp, Steve Winwood, Millie Perkins, Tony Hawk, and the late Katharine Hepburn, George Carlin, Jesús Franco, Tom Snyder, Frank Pierson, Yogi Berra, and Florence Nightingale, who would be 200. Erich von Stroheim died 63 years ago in 1957 at age 71. Tor Johnson died 49 years ago in 1971 at age 67. Robert Reed died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 59. Perry Como died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 88. H.R. Giger died six years ago in 2014 at age 74.