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Today Larry King is 85, Ted Turner is 80, and Charlie Kaufman is 60. Today is also the birthday of Jodie Foster, Adam Driver, Meg Ryan, Allison Janney, Dick Cavett, Barry Jenkins, Reid Scott, Kathleen Quinlan, Terry Farrell, Sandrine Holt, Jason Scott Lee, Robert Beltran, Paul Weitz, Calvin Klein, Ann Curry, and the late Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, Alan Young, Dan Haggerty, Gillo Pontecorvo, Tommy Dorsey, Nancy Carroll, Eleanor Audley, Alan Baxter, Anton Walbrook, Erskine Sanford, Dick Wesson, Ned Sparks, and James A. Garfield. Stepin Fetchit died 33 years ago in 1985 at age 83. John Neville died seven years ago in 2011 at age 86. Mike Nichols died four years ago in 2014 at age 83. Della Reese and Charles Manson died one year ago in 2017. Reese was 86. Manson was 83.

Today Dom Irrera is 70, Oscar Nuñez is 60, and Owen Wilson and Romany Malco are 50. Today is also the birthday of Chloë Sevigny, Kevin Nealon, Delroy Lindo, Damon Wayans Jr., Margaret Atwood, Linda Evans, Elizabeth Perkins, Mike Epps, Brenda Vaccaro, Alan Moore, Kirk Hammett, Allison Tolman, Nate Parker, Nasim Pedrad, Miranda Raison, Susan Sullivan, Peta Wilson, Nick Chinlund, Jameson Parker, Dan Bakkedahl, Carter Burwell, Steven Moffat, Kim Soucie, Julia Ducournau, Megyn Kelly, and the late Imogene Coca, Johnny Mercer, Frances Marion, David Hemmings, Katie Johnson, and Joey Forman. Donald Meek died 72 years ago in 1946 at age 68. Jim Jones died forty years ago in 1978 at age 47. Fritz Feld died 25 years ago in 1993 at age 93. Cab Calloway died 24 years ago in 1994 at age 86. James Coburn died sixteen years ago in 2002 at age 74. Sharon Jones died two years ago in 2016 at age 60.

Today Gordon Lightfoot is 80, Lauren Hutton is 75, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is 60, and Rachel McAdams, Tom Ellis, and Zoë Bell are 40. Today is also the birthday of Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Lorne Michaels, RuPaul, Leslie Bibb, Stephen Root, Sophie Marceau, Dylan Walsh, Susan Rice, Jonathan Ross, Roland Joffé, Harry Lloyd, Robert Brown, Jon Avnet, Steven E. de Souza, Duwayne Dunham, Bill Morrison, John Boehner, and the late Rock Hudson, Peter Cook, Lee Strasberg, Rance Howard, Jeff Buckley, Mischa Auer, Sara Haden, Frank Maxwell, Lester Allen, and Charles Walters. Gladys Cooper died 47 years ago in 1971 at age 82. Jimmy Ritz died 33 years ago in 1985 at age 81. Esther Rolle died twenty years ago in 1998 at age 78. Ruth Brown died twelve years ago in 2006 at age 78.

Today Clu Gulager is 90, Marg Helgenberger is 60, and Pete Davidson is 25. Today is also the birthday of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Martha Plimpton, Lisa Bonet, Missi Pyle, Steve Railsback, Harry Lennix, Miguel Sandoval, Jamie Babbit, Allison Anders, Ron Chaney, and the late Burgess Meredith, Guy Stockwell, Royal Dano, Ellen Albertini Dew, Richard Hale, Daws Butler, George Petrie, George S. Kaufman, Henri Charrière, and Thomas H. Ince. Clark Gable died 58 years ago in 1960 at age 59. William Holden died 37 years ago in 1981 at age 63. Edward Woodward died nine years ago in 2009 at age 79.

Today Jack Burns is 85. Today is also the birthday of Ed Asner, Sam Waterston, Shailene Woodley, Beverly D’Angelo, Yaphet F. Kotto, Petula Clark, Jonny Lee Miller, Joanna Barnes, Judy Gold, Ray McKinnon, Asia Kate Dillon, Kevin J. O’Connor, Sean Murray, John Roberts, François Ozon, Bob Gunton, Roger Donaldson, James Widdoes, Ildikó Enyedi, and the late Georgia O’Keeffe, Randy Savage, Lewis Stone, Susanne Lothar, Gloria Foster, John Kerr, Kay Walsh, J.G. Ballard, Francesco Rosi, Jean Hill, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard, who would be fifty. Lionel Barrymore died 64 years ago in 1954 at age 76. Tyrone Power died sixty years ago in 1958 at age 44. Jean Gabin died 42 years ago in 1976 at age 72.

Today Kathleen Hughes is 90, and Prince Charles is 70. Today is also the birthday of Josh Duhamel, Olga Kurylenko, Patrick Warburton, Vanessa Bayer, Russell Tovey, Harland Williams, Sandahl Bergman, Yimou Zhang, Paul McGann, Laura San Giacomo, Gary Grubbs, Brian Gleeson, Dana Snyder, Chris Noonan, Bill Farmer, Katty Kay, P.J. O’Rourke, Sacheen Littlefeather, Paul Hirsch, Travis Barker, Condoleezza Rice, and the late Veronica Lake, Louise Brooks, Brian Keith, Dick Powell, McLean Stevenson, Rosemary DeCamp, Claude Monet, Jennifer Jayne, Phyllis Avery, Jack Smith, Astrid Lindgren, Sherwood Schwartz, Aaron Copland, Morton Downey, Mamie Eisenhower, and Joseph McCarthy. Tony Richardson died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 63. Virginia Cherrill died 22 years ago in 1996 at age 88. Eddie Bracken died sixteen years ago in 2002 at age 87.

Today is the birthday of Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Kimmel, Gerard Butler, Joe Mantegna, Frances Conroy, Steve Zahn, Neil Flynn, Chris Noth, Aisha Hinds, Tom Atkins, Noah Hathaway, Jimmy Hawkins, J.A. Preston, David Zellner, Kentucker Audley, and the late Garry Marshall, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jean Seberg, Oskar Werner, Robert Sterling, Richard Mulligan, Jack Elam, Gunnar Björnstrand, Hermione Baddeley, Don Gordon, Mary Beth Hughes, Adrienne Corri, and Fred Phelps. Vittorio De Sica died 44 years ago in 1974 at age 73. Junior Samples died 35 years ago in 1983 at age 57. Leon Russell died two years ago in 2016 at age 74.

Today Wallace Shawn and Valerie Leon are 75, Hassan Rouhani is 70, Megan Mullally is 60, and Ashley Williams and Alexandra Maria Lara are 40. Today is also the birthday of Ryan Gosling, Anne Hathaway, Neil Young, Radha Mitchell, Booker T. Jones, Sam Lloyd, Céline Sciamma, Tonya Harding, and the late Grace Kelly, Kim Hunter, Gwen Lee, Jacques Tourneur, Jack Oakie, Liam Dunn, Ina Balin, Richard Quine, and Charles Manson. William Holden died 37 years ago in 1981 at age 63. Eve Arden died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 82. Penny Singleton died fifteen years ago in 2003 at age 95. Lupita Tovar died two years ago in 2016 at age 106.

Today Peaches is 50. Today is also the birthday of Leonardo DiCaprio, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Scoot McNairy, Calista Flockhart, Bibi Andersson, Tye Sheridan, Adam Beach, Bill Moseley, Frank John Hughes, Barbara Boxer, Carson Kressley, Kris Swanberg, and the late Jonathan Winters, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Ryan, Vincent Schiavelli, Pat O’Brien, Patric Knowles, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Roland Young, George S. Patton, John Guillermin, and René Clair. Dayton Allen died fourteen years ago in 2004 at age 85. Robert Vaughn died two years ago in 2016 at age 83.

Today Ennio Morricone is 90, Michael Schultz is 80, Stephen Herek is 60, Tracy Morgan is 50, and Eve and Diplo are 40. Today is also the birthday of Taron Egerton, Walton Goggins, Ellen Pompeo, Hugh Bonneville, Chris Lilley, Heather Matarazzo, Miranda Lambert, Neil Gaiman, Sinbad, Tommy Davidson, Kieran Shipka, Josh Peck, Zoey Deutch, 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, Martin Luther, Brittany Murphy, François Périer, Russell Means, Russell Johnson, Harry Andrews, Debra Hill, Steven Geray, Esther Dale, and Leo White. Abel Gance died 37 years ago in 1981 at age 92. Jackie Vernon died 31 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Chuck Connors died 26 years ago in 1992 at age 71. Jack Palance died twelve years ago in 2006 at age 87. Norman Mailer died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 84.