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Today Mort Sahl is 93, and Yvonne Furneaux is 92. Today is also the birthday of Tim Blake Nelson, Pam Ferris, Frances Fisher, Jeffrey Donovan, Benoît Magimel, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Jonathan Jackson, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Andre Gregory, Mark Neveldine, and the late Salvador Dalí, Irving Berlin, Phil Silvers, Natasha Richardson, Cory Monteith, Denver Pyle, who would be 100, Doug McClure, Doodles Weaver, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Fox, and David Gest. Bob Marley died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 36. Douglas Adams died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 49.

Today Joseph Ruben is 70, Bono is 60, Dallas Roberts is 50, and Lauren Potter is 30. Today is also the birthday of Donovan, Kenan Thompson, Erik Palladino, Mike Hagerty, Meg Foster, Alex Jennings, Françoise Fabian, Jim Abrahams, David Mackenzie, and the late Fred Astaire, Sid Vicious, David O. Selznick, George Coe, Nancy Walker, Ettore Scola, Anatole Litvak, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, and John Wilkes Booth. Joan Crawford died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Shel Silverstein died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 68.

Today James L. Brooks is 80, and Ghostface Killah is 50. Today is also the birthday of Glenda Jackson, Candice Bergen, Billy Joel, Rosario Dawson, Grace Gummer, Chris Diamantopoulos, Daniel Franzese, Wendy Crewson, Alan Bennett, Amy Hill, Joe Carnahan, J.A. Bayona, and the late Albert Finney, Mike Wallace, Pedro Armendáriz, Richard Barthelmess, J.M. Barrie, William Moulton Marston, and Emile Ardolino. Lena Horne died ten years ago in 2010 at age 92. Michael Parks died three years ago in 2017 at age 77.

Today Mark Blankfield is 70. Today is also the birthday of David Attenborough, Melissa Gilbert, Thomas Pynchon, David Keith, Enrique Iglesias, Phyllida Law, Michel Gondry, Stephen Amell, Sebastian Schipper, and the late Saul Bass and Touko Laaksonen (Tom of Finland), who would both be 100, Ricky Nelson and Peter Benchley, who would both be 80, Don Rickles, Roberto Rossellini, Stephen Furst, Sidney James, Robert Johnson, Miyoshi Umeki, Fernandel, and Harry S. Truman. Edmond O’Brien died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 69. Dirk Bogarde died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 78.

Today John Irvin is 80, and Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb is 70. Today is also the birthday of Traci Lords, Breckin Meyer, Asghar Farhadi, Amy Heckerling, Mark O’Brien, Ned Bellamy, Michael Rosen, Ruggero Deodato, Nicholas Hytner, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, and the late Gary Cooper, Anne Baxter, Val Lewton, David Tomlinson, Darren McGavin, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Ishirô Honda, Robert Hegyes, Marilyn Burns, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, and Robert Browning. Ray Harryhausen died seven years ago in 2013 at age 92.

Today Bob Seger is 75, and Anne Parillaud is 60. Today is also the birthday of George Clooney, Willie Mays, Gabourey Sidibe, Adrianne Palicki, Gregg Henry, Lars Mikkelsen, Sasheer Zamata, Tom Bergeron, Naomi Scott, Stephen Gaghan, LuLu Roman, Tony Blair, and the late Orson Welles, Rudolph Valentino, Max Ophüls, Sigmund Freud, Raymond Bailey, and Dana Hill. Marlene Dietrich died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 90.

Today Lance Henriksen is 80, and Kurt Sutter is 60. Today is also the birthday of Michael Palin, Henry Cavill, Adele, John Rhys-Davies, Richard E. Grant, Michael Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Clark Duke, Pat Carroll, Tina Yothers, Marion Bailey, Jerzy Skolimowski, Brian Williams, Brooke Hogan, Chris Brown, and the late Karl Marx, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Tammy Wynette, Ann B. Davis, Jim Kelly, Roger Rees, Bing Russell, Ben Wright, Robert Foulk, Nellie Bly, and Sage Stallone. John Williams died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 80. The first short The Three Stooges made for Columbia, Woman Haters, was released 86 years ago in 1934.

Today Will Arnett is 50, and Nicholas Hamilton is 20. Today is also the birthday of Richard Jenkins, Ana Gasteyer, Pia Zadora, Randy Travis, Lance Bass, Julian Barratt, Jackie Jackson, Mick Mars, Mike Dirnt, Mary Beth McDonough, Eleanor Coppola, Rolf de Heer, Erin Andrews, George Will, and the late Audrey Hepburn, Dick Dale, Paul Gleason, Eric Sykes, Russi Taylor, and Howard Da Silva. Moe Howard died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 77. Dom DeLuise and Jane Randolph both died eleven years ago in 2009. He was 75. She was 93.

Today Bobby Cannavale is 50. Today is also the birthday of Frankie Valli, Christina Hendricks, Rebecca Hall, Amy Ryan, Chris Mulkey, Rob Brydon, Dulé Hill, Pom Klementieff, Emily V. Gordon, Willie Geist, and the late James Brown, Pete Seeger, Mary Astor, George Gaynes, Robert Osborne, Ann B. Davis, Beulah Bondi, Walter Slezak, Aline MacMahon, Jack La Rue, “Sugar” Ray Robinson, and Robert De Niro Sr., who died on his birthday 27 years ago in 1993 at age 71. Robert Alda died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 72. Christine Jorgensen died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 62. Jackie Cooper died eleven years ago in 2011 at age 88.

Today Stephen Daldry is 60, and Ellie Kemper is 40. Today is also the birthday of Dwayne The Rock Johnson, David Beckham, Christine Baranski, Bruce Robinson, David Suchet, Bruce Glover, Lily Allen, Ari Lehman, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Lone Scherfig, Donatella Versace, and the late Bing Crosby, Satyajit Ray, Theodore Bikel, John Neville, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lesley Gore, and Hedda Hopper. Oliver Reed died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 61. Lynn Redgrave died ten years ago in 2010 at age 67. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. died six years ago in 2014 at age 95.