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Today is the birthday of Eric Idle, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Sedaris, Lucy Lawless, Annabella Sciorra, Bud Cort, Vangelis, Marina Sirtis, Christopher Lambert, Michael Winterbottom, Michel Hazanavicius, Godfrey Reggio, Victor Salva, and the late Pearl Bailey, Arthur O’Connell, Scott Wilson, Jackie Vernon, Dennis O’Keefe, Warner Baxter, Bobby ‘Wheezer’ Hutchins, Onslow Stevens, John McLaughlin, John Tyler, and Sam Walton. Harry Ritz from the Ritz Brothers died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 78. Paul Henreid died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 84. Mitch Hedberg died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 37. Patty Duke died three years ago in 2016 at age 69.

Today Brett Ratner is 50. Today is also the birthday of Lady Gaga, Reba McEntire, Vince Vaughn, Dianne Wiest, Nick Frost, Julia Stiles, Conchata Ferrell, Richard Kelly, Mike Newell, Richard Eyre, Michael Parkinson, Alexandra Billings, Mya Taylor, James Bidgood, Albert S. Ruddy, and the late Ken Howard, Dirk Bogarde, Freddie Bartholomew, and Flora Robson. Virginia Woolf died 78 years ago in 1941 at age 59. Peter Ustinov died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 82.

Today Kevin Corrigan and Pauley Perrette are 50. Today is also the birthday of Quentin Tarantino, Michael York, Nathan Fillion, Mariah Carey, Fergie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Stephen Dillane, Austin Pendleton, Julian Glover, Holliday Grainger, Brenda Song, Jessie J, and the late Gloria Swanson, Maria Schneider, Anne Ramsey, David Janssen, Richard Marner, Mary Treen, Harold Nicholas, Budd Schulberg, and Lorenzo Semple Jr. Dudley Moore, Milton Berle, and Billy Wilder died 17 years ago in 2002. Moore was 66, Berle was 93, and Wilder was 95.

Today Alan Arkin is 85, Diana Ross is 75, and Vicki Lawrence is 70. Today is also the birthday of James Caan, Martin Short, Keira Knightley, Steven Tyler, Jennifer Grey, Leslie Mann, Jonathan Groff, T.R. Knight, Amy Smart, Michael Imperioli, Todd Barry, Martin McDonagh, Carly Chaikin, Johnny Crawford, Natasha Leggero, Francis Lawrence, Richard Dawkins, Jonathan Glazer, Tinto Brass, Bob Woodward, Nancy Pelosi, and the late Tennessee Williams, Robert Frost, Leonard Nimoy, Sterling Hayden, Strother Martin, who would be 100, Bob Elliott, Will Wright, and Luke Askew. Ludwig van Beethoven died 192 years ago in 1827 at age 56. Eazy-E died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 31.

Today Machiko Kyô is 95, Gloria Steinem is 85, and Lee Pace is 40. Today is also the birthday of Elton John, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jenny Slate, Edgar Ramírez, Gene Shalit, Richard O’Brien, Doug Stanhope, Mary Gross, Marcia Cross, Brenda Strong, LisaGay Hamilton, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Michael Glaser, John Stockwell, Domenick Lombardozzi, James McDaniel, Amy Pascal, Katharine McPhee, Ben Mankiewicz, Anita Bryant, and the late Aretha Franklin, David Lean, Simone Signoret, Ed Begley, Hoyt Axton, Howard Cosell, John Laurie, Patrick Troughton, Nancy Kelly, Jean Rogers, Jean Epstein, Toshio Matsumoto, Matthew Garber, and Marcin Wrona. Max Ophüls died 62 years ago in 1957 at age 54.

Today Tabitha King is 70, and Lake Bell is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jessica Chastain, Jim Parsons, Alyson Hannigan, Louie Anderson, Tig Notaro, Lara Flynn Boyle, Robert Carradine, William Smith, Finn Jones, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Mary Berry, Peter Jacobson, Meiko Kaji, Star Jones, Peyton Manning, Tommy Hilfiger, Undertaker (Mark William Calaway), and the late Steve McQueen, Norman Fell, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Harry Houdini, R. Lee Ermey, Curtis Hanson, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Barbera, Richard Conte, and Connie Hines. Garry Shandling died three years ago in 2016 at age 66.

Today Mark Rydell is 90, and Catherine Keener is 60. Today is also the birthday of Michael Haneke, Keri Russell, Michelle Monaghan, Hope Davis, Amanda Plummer, Nicholle Tom, Terry Sweeney, Teresa Ganzel, David Milch, Marc Cherry, Lodge Kerrigan, Larry Fessenden, Jaume Collet-Serra, Rex Tillerson, Perez Hilton, and the late Akira Kurosawa, Joan Crawford, Marty Allen, Tony Burton, Kenneth Tobey, and Philip Ober. Peter Lorre died 55 years ago in 1964 at age 59. Giulietta Masina died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 73. Elizabeth Taylor died eight years ago in 2011 at age 79.

Today Matthew Modine and Carlton Cuse are 60, and Tyler Oakley is 30. Today is also the birthday of Reese Witherspoon, William Shatner, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, M. Emmet Walsh, Keegan-Michael Key, Bob Costas, Wolf Blitzer, Constance Wu, Nick Robinson, Lena Olin, Will Yun Lee, James Wolk, Nicole Holofcener, Eric Roth, Cole Hauser, Angelo Badalamenti, James Patterson, May Britt, Pat Robertson, and the late Karl Malden, Chico Marx, Bruno Ganz, Marcel Marceau, Ross Martin, Werner Klemperer, Virginia Grey, James Westerfield, Haing S. Ngor, Joseph Schildkraut, and Lew Wasserman. William Hanna died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 90.

Today Slavoj Zizek is 70. Today is also the birthday of Gary Oldman, Matthew Broderick, Timothy Dalton, Rosie O’Donnell, Scott Eastwood, Jaye Davidson, Brad Hall, Rhys Darby, Karyn Kusama, Peter Brook, Greg Ellis, Sonequa Martin-Green, Santino Fontana, Cenk Uygur, Kevin Federline, and the late Russ Meyer, James Coco, Al Freeman Jr., Virginia Weidler, Peter Bull, W.S. Van Dyke, and Sidney Franklin. Robert Preston died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 68. Chuck Barris died two years ago in 2017 at age 87.

Today Vera Lynn is 102, Carl Reiner is 97, Duke Johnson is 40, and Xavier Dolan is 30. Today is also the birthday of William Hurt, Holly Hunter, Spike Lee, David Thewlis, Michael Rapaport, Hal Linden, Liza Snyder, Christy Carlson Romano, Theresa Russell, Cedric Yarbrough, Kathy Ireland, Mikey Day, Murray Bartlett, Ramin Bahrani, Bruce Wagner, Louis Sachar, Barron Trump, and the late Fred Rogers, Henrik Ibsen, Jerry Reed, Jack Kruschen, Michael Redgrave, Ozzie Nelson, Edmund Goulding, Ted Bessell, Edgar Buchanan, and Anne Bradstreet. Carl Theodor Dreyer died 51 years ago in 1968 at age 79.