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Today Diahnne Abbott is 75, and Dann Florek and John Diehl are 70. Today is also the birthday of Wes Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Julie Benz, Judy Collins, Joanna Lumley, Bailey Chase, Tim McGraw, James Badge Dale, Stephen Macht, Maia Morgenstern, Kerry Bishé, Madeline Brewer, Nicholas Braun, Anne Fletcher, James Murray, and the late Jack Paar, Glenn Ford, Danielle Darrieux, Dan O’Herlihy, John Meillon, Louis Nye, Joseph Heller, Leila Hyams, Terry Southern, Henry Koster, and Calamity Jane. Joseph Goebbels died 75 years ago in 1945 at age 47. Grant Mitchell died 63 years ago in 1957 at age 82.

Today Burt Young is 80, and Sam Heughan is 40. Today is also the birthday of Cloris Leachman, Kirsten Dunst, Gal Gadot, Lars von Trier, Jane Campion, Johnny Galecki, Kunal Nayyar, Ana de Armas, Adrian Pasdar, Allan Arkush, Jacques Audiard, James Marsh, Bill Plympton, Travis Scott, and the late Eve Arden, Al Lewis, Jill Clayburgh, Gary Collins, and Dick Elliott. Tom Poston died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 85.

Today Phillip Noyce is 70, and Uma Thurman is 50. Today is also the birthday of Daniel Day-Lewis, Jerry Seinfeld, Willie Nelson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kate Mulgrew, Leslie Jordan, Tyler Labine, Richard Kline, Andrew Bujalski, and the late Duke Ellington, Jean Rochefort, Celeste Holm, Fred Zinnemann, Irvin Kershner, Tom Ewell, Maya Deren, Wayne Robson, Tommy Noonan, Richard Carlson, King Hu, William Randolph Hearst, and Dale Earnhardt. Anthony Mann died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 60. Alfred Hitchcock died forty years ago in 1980 at age 80. Bob Hoskins died six years ago in 2014 at age 71.

Today Jay Leno is 70. Today is also the birthday of Ann-Margret, Penélope Cruz, Jessica Alba, Mary McDonnell, Claes Bang, Kim Gordon, Elisabeth Röhm, Jorge Garcia, Bridget Moynahan, Kari Wuhrer, Tony Revolori, Paul Guilfoyle, Harry Shum Jr., Dan Goor, and the late Lionel Barrymore, Carolyn Jones, Bruno Kirby, Harper Lee, Terry Pratchett, Madge Sinclair, Sidney Toler, Richard C. Sarafian, Oskar Schindler, and Saddam Hussein. Ed Begley died fifty years ago in 1970 at age 69.

Today is the birthday of Sally Hawkins, Anouk Aimée, Jenna Coleman, Ari Graynor, James Le Gros, Kevin McNally, Matt Reeves, Ace Frehley, Cristian Mungiu, Rachel Morrison, Cory Booker, and the late Jack Klugman, Sandy Dennis, Robert Donner, Casey Kasem, Cuba Gooding, August Wilson, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Coretta Scott King, and Ulysses S. Grant. Stanley Adams died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 62. Edward R. Murrow died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 57.

Today Melania Trump is 50, and Channing Tatum and Jordana Brewster are 40. Today is also the birthday of Carol Burnett, Jet Li, Kevin James, Giancarlo Esposito, Joan Chen, Pablo Schreiber, Jemima Kirke, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bobby Rydell, Tom Welling, Ivana Milicevic, Debra Wilson, and the late Douglas Sirk, Jean Vigo, Warren Clarke, Edgar Kennedy, Claudine Auger, Stafford Repp, and William Desmond Taylor. Gypsy Rose Lee died fifty years ago in 1970 at age 59. Irene Ryan died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 70. Broderick Crawford died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 74. Lucille Ball died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 77. Jonathan Demme died three years ago in 2017 at age 73.

Today Al Pacino is 80, Björn Ulvaeus is 75, and Jason Lee is 50. Today is also the birthday of Renée Zellweger, Talia Shire, Hank Azaria, Marguerite Moreau, Gina Torres, Melonie Diaz, Jillian Bell, Jeffrey DeMunn, Bertrand Tavernier, Dinesh D’Souza, and the late Ella Fitzgerald, Paul Mazursky, Edward R. Murrow, Russ Conway, Cy Twombly, and Oliver Cromwell. Ginger Rogers died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 83. Bea Arthur died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 86.

Today Richard Donner is 90, and Austin Nichols is 40. Today is also the birthday of Shirley MacLaine, Barbra Streisand, Djimon Hounsou, Eric Bogosian, Cedric The Entertainer, Eric Balfour, Kelly Clarkson, Aidan Gillen, Derek Luke, Michael O’Keefe, Bruce Kirby, Rory McCann, Glenn Morshower, Peter Friedman, Damon Lindelof, and the late Michael Parks, William Castle, Jill Ireland, Jack E. Leonard, and Robert Wiene. Louise Dresser died 65 years ago in 1965 at age 86. Bud Abbott died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 78.

Today Anne Douglas is 101, Alan Oppenheimer is 90, Valerie Bertinelli is 60, and Dev Patel is 30. Today is also the birthday of John Oliver, Judy Davis, Lee Majors, Michael Moore, John Cena, Kal Penn, George Lopez, Jaime King, Joyce DeWitt, John Hannah, Gemma Whelan, Eric Edelstein, D.B. Weiss, John Lutz, Bubba the Love Sponge (Todd Alan Clem), and the late William Shakespeare, who died 404 years ago on his birthday in 1616 at age 52, Shirley Temple, Sandra Dee, Roy Orbison, Jan Hooks, Hervé Villechaize, Simone Simon, Sheila Gish, Kevin Meaney, James Hayter, Frank Borzage, Ronald Neame, J.M.W. Turner, and James Buchanan. Otto Preminger died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 80. Satyajit Ray died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 70.

Today Peter Frampton and Lee Tamahori are 70. Today is also the birthday of Jack Nicholson, John Waters, Amber Heard, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sheryl Lee, Sherri Shepherd, Johnnie To, Robin Bartlett, Roman Coppola, and the late Eddie Albert, Glen Campbell, Charles Mingus, Jason Miller, Bettie Page, Charlotte Rae, Immanuel Kant, Vladimir Lenin, who would be 150, Vladimir Nabokov, Aaron Spelling, Rondo Hatton, Kaneto Shindô, Byron Haskin, and Marilyn Chambers. Linda Lovelace died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 53.