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Today Walton Goggins is 50. Today is also the birthday of Taron Egerton, Tracy Morgan, Ellen Pompeo, Hugh Bonneville, Chris Lilley, Heather Matarazzo, Miranda Lambert, Eve, Diplo, Neil Gaiman, Sinbad, Tommy Davidson, Michael Schultz, Kieran Shipka, Josh Peck, Zoey Deutch, Stephen Herek, Michael Jai White, Roland Emmerich, Terence Davies, Sylvain Chomet, Tim Rice, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Daniel Waters, and the late Richard Burton, Claude Rains, Roy Scheider, Ennio Morricone, Mabel Normand, Martin Luther, Brittany Murphy, François Périer, Russell Means, Russell Johnson, Harry Andrews, Debra Hill, Steven Geray, Esther Dale, and Leo White. Abel Gance died forty years ago in 1981 at age 92. Jackie Vernon died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Chuck Connors died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 71. Ken Kesey died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 66. Jack Palance died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 87. Norman Mailer and Laraine Day died fourteen years ago in 2007. Mailer was 84. Day was 87. Dino De Laurentiis died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 91.

Today Lou Ferrigno is 70. Today is also the birthday of Ryan Murphy, Eric Dane, Lio Tipton, Teryl Rothery, SisQó, Robert Duncan McNeill, Chris Jericho, Nick Lachey, Ryo Kase, Fernando Meirelles, Marco Bellocchio, Billie August, Karen Dotrice, Nikki Blonsky, Mary Vivian Pearce, and the late Hedy Lamarr, Dorothy Dandridge, Ed Wynn, Carl Sagan, Marie Dressler, Robert Frank, Edna May Oliver, who died on her birthday 79 years ago in 1942 at age 59, Charles Robinson, Robert Douglas, Anne Sexton, Mae Marsh, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Anthony Asquith, Ivan Turgenev, and Spiro Agnew. Edgar Kennedy died 73 years ago in 1948 at age 58. Dylan Thomas died 68 years ago in 1953 at age 39. Charles Bickford died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 76. Yves Montand died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 70. Mabel King died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 66. Art Carney died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 85. Stieg Larsson died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 50.

Today Walter Mirisch is 100, Paolo Taviani is 90, Leif Garrett is 60, and A.D. Miles is 50. Today is also the birthday of Alain Delon, Alfre Woodard, Parker Posey, Gretchen Mol, Matthew Rhys, Bonnie Raitt, Kazuo Ishiguro, Phil Fondacaro, Richard Curtis, Jack Osbourne, Tara Reid, Mary Hart, Gordon Ramsay, Anne Dorval, Don McManus, and the late Norman Lloyd, Bram Stoker, Michael Nyqvist, Robert Strauss, Stéphane Audran, Bob Schiller, Esther Rolle, Morley Safer, Darla Hood, Joe Flynn, Ken Dodd, Gene Saks, who would be 100, Margaret Mitchell, Patti Page, Martha Gellhorn, and Milton Bradley. Michael O’Donoghue died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 54. Jean Marais died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 84. Lucille Bliss died nine years ago in 2012 at age 96. Alex Trebek died one year ago in 2020 at age 80.

Today Earl Boen is 80, Lawrence O’Donnell is 70, and Lorde is 25. Today is also the birthday of Joni Mitchell, Adam Devine, Jason and Jeremy London, Morgan Spurlock, Lindsay Duncan, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Knight, Dakin Matthews, Jackie Joseph, Michael Byrne, David Petraeus, and the late Marie Curie, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Dean Jagger, Dana Plato, Joe Cobb, Miriam Cooper, Lucille La Verne, Edith Bouvier Beale, James Cook, Billy Graham, Edward F. Cline, Edward Sedgwick, and Leon Trotsky. Dwight Frye died 78 years ago in 1943 at age 44. Victor McLaglen died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 72. Steve McQueen died 41 years ago in 1980 at age 50. Slappy White died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 74. Howard Keel died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 85. Gunnar Hansen died six years ago in 2015 at age 68. Leonard Cohen died five years ago in 2016 at age 82. Norm Crosby died one year ago in 2020 at age 93.

Today Sally Field is 75, and Nigel Havers is 70. Today is also the birthday of Ethan Hawke, Emma Stone, Thandie Newton, Maria Shriver, June Squibb, Kelly Rutherford, Rebecca Romijn, Ron Underwood, Trace Beaulieu, Taryn Manning, Frank DeCaro, Sal Vulcano, Conchita Wurst, Lamar Odom, and the late Mike Nichols, Glenn Frey, Brad Davis, Edward Yang, James Jones, who would be 100, Jonathan Harris, Francis Lederer, John Philip Sousa, and Pat Tillman. Gene Tierney died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 70.

Today Art Garfunkel is 80, and Jonny Greenwood and Chris Addison are 50. Today is also the birthday of Tilda Swinton, Sam Rockwell, Famke Janssen, Tatum O’Neal, Robert Patrick, Elke Sommer, Harris Yulin, Judy Reyes, Eddie Pepitone, Seth Gilliam, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Armin Shimerman, Ryan Adams, Bryan Adams, Michael Gaston, Kevin Jonas, Kris Jenner, and the late Vivien Leigh, Sam Shepard, Joel McCrea, Roy Rogers, Ike Turner, John McGiver, Victor Argo, Herb Edelman, Natalie Schafer, Ralph Moody, Charles Bradley, and Jessie Ralph. George M. Cohan died 79 years ago in 1942 at age 64. Mack Sennett and Ward Bond both 61 died years ago in 1960. Sennett was 80. Bond was 57. Reginald Owen died 49 years ago in 1972 at age 85. Georges Franju died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 75. Fred MacMurray died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 83. Jill Clayburgh died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 66.

Today Laura W. Bush is 75, and Ralph Macchio and Jeff Probst are 60. Today is also the birthday of Matthew McConaughey, Kathy Griffin, Sean Diddy Combs, Loretta Swit, Anthony Ruivivar, Tabu, Peter Lord, Bethenny Frankel, and the late Art Carney, Will Rogers, Gig Young, Walter Cronkite, Doris Roberts, Martin Balsam, Leonardo Cimino, Darla Hood, Cameron Mitchell, Virginia Field, Markie Post, Ian Wolfe, and Forbes Murray. Michael Crichton died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 66. Andy Rooney died ten years ago in 2011 at age 92.

Today Monica Vitti is 90, Tom Savini is 75, and Dylan Moran is 50. Today is also the birthday of Roseanne Barr, Lois Smith, Dennis Miller, Dolph Lundgren, Anna Wintour, Kathy Kinney, Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, Vincent Franklin, Kate Capshaw, Hal Hartley, Gary Ross, Jim Cummings, Brian Henson, Kevin Murphy, Davis Guggenheim, Colin Kaepernick, Kendall Jenner, and the late Charles Bronson, who would be 100, Ken Berry, Jeremy Brett, Aneta Corsaut, John Barry, Wanda Hendrix, Mike Evans, Peggy McCary, and Jean Rollin. Mary Martin died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 76. Bob Kane died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 83. Sondra Locke died three years ago in 2018 at age 74.

Today Katharine Isabelle is 40. Today is also the birthday of David Schwimmer, Stefanie Powers, Peter Mullan, Marisol Nichols, Shah Rukh Khan, Luna Lauren Velez, Nelly, Jon Dore, Ron McGovney, David Andrews, Jon M. Chu, Patrick J. Buchanan, and the late Burt Lancaster, Luchino Visconti, Ray Walston, Marie Antoinette, Ann Rutherford, Paul Ford, Alice Brady, Warren Stevens, Patrice Chéreau, Jack Starrett, James Dunn, Claire McDowell, Warren G. Harding, James K. Polk, Steve Ditko, Walter Woolf King, and Sidney Luft. George Bernard Shaw died 71 years ago in 1950 at age 94. Pier Paolo Pasolini died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 53. Paul Frees died 35 years agon in 1986 at age 66. Irwin Allen died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 75. Hal Roach died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 100. Theo van Gogh died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 47. Sid Melton died ten years ago in 2011 at age 94.

Today Robert Foxworth is 80, Matt Jones is 40, and Anthony Ramos is 30. Today is also the birthday of Toni Collette, Lyle Lovett, Anthony Kiedis, Logan Marshall-Green, Jeannie Berlin, Natalia Tena, Alex Wolff, Barbara Bosson, Tim Cook, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Rachel Ticotin, Penn Badgley, Marcel Ophüls, Kinky Friedman, David Foster, Jenny McCarthy, Peter Ostrum, Helene Udy, Lucky McKee, and the late Marcia Wallace, Larry Flynt, Edward Van Sloan, Betsy Palmer, Emmaline Henry, Laura La Plante, and Lil Peep. Ezra Pound died 49 years ago in 1972 at age 87. King Vidor died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 88. Phil Silvers died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 74. Adrienne Shelly died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 40. Fred Thompson died six years ago in 2015 at age 73.