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Today Tom Wopat is 70, and Eric Stonestreet and Henry Thomas are 50. Today is also the birthday of Michelle Williams, Adam Sandler, Hugh Grant, Zoe Kazan, Topol, Jeffrey Combs, Michael Bublé, Julia Sawalha, Goran Visnjic, Charles Esten, and the late Cliff Robertson, Sylvia Miles, Neil Hamilton, Otis Redding, Harland Sanders, and Arthur Freed. John McGiver died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 61. Burgess Meredith died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 89.

Today Bernie Sanders is 80, Martin Freeman and David Arquette are 50, and Jonathan Taylor Thomas is 40. Today is also the birthday of Pink, Aimee Mann, Brian Huskey, Larenz Tate, Thomas Kretschmann, Julien Richings, Gaten Matarazzo, Wiz Khalifa, and the late Peter Sellers, Sid Caesar, Patsy Cline, Alexander Mackendrick, Hillary Brooke, Frank Cady, and David R. Ellis. Dorothy Dandridge died 56 years ago in 1965 at age 42. Zero Mostel died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 62. Leni Riefenstahl died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 101.

Today Chrissie Hynde is 70. Today is also the birthday of Dario Argento, Evan Rachel Wood, Leslie Jones, Toby Jones, Sonny Rollins, Gloria Gaynor, Susan Blakely, Shannon Elizabeth, Michael Emerson, Corbin Bernsen, Julie Kavner, Angie Everhart, W. Earl Brown, Diane Warren, James Schamus, Doug Bradley, and the late Buddy Holly, Peter Lawford, Elia Kazan, Anthony Quayle, Elizabeth I of England, Don Messick, and Eazy-E. Maria Montez died seventy years ago in 1951 at age 39. Katrin Cartlidge died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 41. Mac Miller died three years ago in 2018 at age 26.

Today is the birthday of Roger Waters, Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Rosie Perez, Jane Curtin, Jeff Foxworthy, Jo Anne Worley, Macy Gray, Swoosie Kurtz, Kimberly Peirce, Anne Lockhart, Matthew Horne, David Allan Coe, Chris Christie, and the late John Mitchum, John Ridgely, and Max Schreck. Edmund Gwenn died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 81. Akira Kurosawa died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 88. Burt Reynolds died three years ago in 2018 at age 82.

Today Dennis Dugan is 75, and Michael Keaton is 70. Today is also the birthday of Werner Herzog, Bob Newhart, Raquel Welch, George Lazenby, Rose McGowan, Paddy Considine, Carice van Houten, William Devane, Annabelle Wallis, Carol Lawrence, Christopher Morris, Sergey Loznitsa, and the late Freddie Mercury, who would be 75, Jesse James, Gloria Holden, Darryl F. Zanuck, Jack Valenti, who would be 100, and Moshé Mizrahi. Barbara Loden died 41 years ago in 1980 at age 48. Mother Teresa died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 87. Setsuko Hara died six years ago in 2015 at age 95. Hugh O’Brian died five years ago in 2016 at age 91. Jiří Menzel died one year ago in 2020 at age 82.

Today Mitzi Gaynor is 90, and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter is 40. Today is also the birthday of Damon Wayans, Whitney Cummings, Wes Bentley, Noah Taylor, Max Greenfield, Kyle Mooney, Ione Skye, Jan Švankmajer, Michael Berryman, John DiMaggio, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Anthony Weiner, and the late Howard Morris, Dick York, Richard S. Castellano, Leonard Frey, Edward Dmytryk, Richard Wright, and Paul Harvey. George O’Brien died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 86. Irene Dunne died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 91. Dottie West died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 58. Hervé Villechaize died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 50. Steve Irwin died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 44. Joan Rivers died seven years ago in 2014 at age 81. Bill Daily died three years ago in 2018 at age 91.

Today Irene Papas is 95. Today is also the birthday of Charlie Sheen, Valerie Perrine, Garrett Hedlund, Noah Baumbach, Pauline Collins, Maria Bamford, Holt McCallany, Paz de la Huerta, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Shaun White, Al Jardine, Steve Jones, Redfoo, Malcolm Gladwell, Pilar Pallete, and the late Alan Ladd, Eileen Brennan, Anne Jackson, Mary Grace Canfield, Kitty Carlisle, Mantan Moreland, Freddie King, and Whitey Bulger. Frank Capra died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 94. Michael Clarke Duncan died nine years ago in 2012 at age 54.

Today Mark Harmon is 70. Today is also the birthday of Keanu Reeves, Salma Hayek, Katt Williams, Terry Bradshaw, Mary Jo Catlett, Eugenio Derbez, Robert Shapiro, Keith Allen, Harvey Levin, and the late Hal Ashby, Chuck McCann, Mel Stuart, Marge Champion, and Sue Mengers. J.R.R. Tolkien died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 81. Troy Donahue died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 65. Bob Denver died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 70.

Today Barry Gibb is 75, Boyd Holbrook is 40, and Zendaya is 25. Today is also the birthday of Lily Tomlin, George Maharis, Scott Speedman, Zak Penn, Gloria Estefan, Don Stroud, Burn Gorman, Craig Gillespie, Phil McGraw, and the late Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Farnsworth, Vittorio Gassman, Ron O’Neal, James Rebhorn, and Conway Twitty. Ethel Waters died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 80. Murray Hamilton died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 63. Dean Jones died six years ago in 2015 at age 84. Shelley Berman died four years ago in 2017 at age 92.

Today Chris Tucker is 50, and Joe Swanberg is 40. Today is also the birthday of Richard Gere, Van Morrison, Sara Ramirez, Jonathan Cake, Dee Bradley Baker, Zack Ward, Marc Webb, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Debbie Gibson, Leo Bill, Itzhak Perlman, Marcia Clark, and the late James Coburn, Buddy Hackett, Fredric March, Richard Basehart, Arthur Godfrey, Noble Willingham, Maurice Pialat, and Caligula. John Ford died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 79. Richard Anderson died four years ago in 2017 at age 91.