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Today Barrie Chase is 85, Dolores Hart is 80, and Viggo Mortensen is 60. Today is also the birthday of John Krasinski, Snoop Dogg, Danny Boyle, Dan Fogler, Kenneth Choi, Melanie Mayron, Elfriede Jelinek, and the late Bela Lugosi, Margaret Dumont, Tom Petty, Charley Chase, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jerry Orbach, William Christopher, Michael Dunn, Bill Nunn, Arlene Francis, Hélène Surgère, Joyce Brothers, John Anderson, and Rex Ingram. Anthony Quayle died 29 years ago in 1989 at age 76. Joel McCrea died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 84. Burt Lancaster died 24 years ago in 1994 at age 80. Jack Elam died fifteen years ago in 2003 at age 82. Jane Wyatt died twelve years ago in 2006 at age 96.

Today Michael Steele is 60, and Rodney Carrington is 50. Today is also the birthday of John Lithgow, Michael Gambon, Trey Parker, John le Carré, Rebecca Ferguson, Jon Favreau, Chris Kattan, Gillian Jacobs, Tony Lo Bianco, Jason Reitman, Agnès Jaoui, Annie Golden, Omar Gooding, Ty Pennington, Samantha Robinson, Philip Pullman, Ebrahim Golestan, and the late Divine, Tor Johnson, Robert Reed, LaWanda Page, and Juanita Moore. Martha Raye died 24 years ago in 1994 at age 78. Rudy Ray Moore died ten years ago in 2008 at age 81. Tom Bosley died eight years ago in 2010 at age 83.

Today Dawn Wells is 80. Today is also the birthday of Jean-Claude Van Damme, Zac Efron, Freida Pinto, Pam Dawber, Tyler Posey, Joe Morton, Arliss Howard, Ne-Yo, Esperanza Spalding, Chuck Lorre, Howard Shore, Nic Pizzolatto, Lucky Yates, David Twohy, Peter Sohn, Barry Gifford, Bob Weinstein, Mike Ditka, Bristol Palin, Milo Yiannopoulos, and the late George C. Scott, Klaus Kinski, Chuck Berry, Peter Boyle, Miriam Hopkins, Erin Moran, Inger Stevens, Om Puri, Calvin Lockhart, Lotte Lenya, Bobby Troup, who would be 100, Melina Mercouri, Victor Sen Yung, Norman ‘Chubby’ Chaney, Roy Del Ruth, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Henry Travers died 53 years ago in 1965 at age 91. Julie London died eighteen years ago in 2000 at age 74. Dee Dee Warwick died ten years ago in 2008 at age 66.

Today Marsha Hunt is 101, Julie Adams is 92, Don Collier is 90, George Wendt is 70, Alan Jackson is 60, and Ziggy Marley is 50. Today is also the birthday of Felicity Jones, Norm Macdonald, Mike Judge, Michael McKean, Eminem, Rob Marshall, Matthew Macfadyen, Max Irons, Cameron Esposito, Mark Gatiss, Wood Harris, Rizwan Manji, Susan Stroman, and the late Rita Hayworth, who would be 100, Montgomery Clift, Jean Arthur, Arthur Miller, Margot Kidder, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Irene Ryan, Tom Poston, Beverly Garland, Spring Byington, Sam Bottoms, John Marley, Evel Knievel, and Andy Whitfield. Tennessee Ernie Ford died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 72.

Today Angela Lansbury is 93, Christopher Mitchum is 75, and Tim Robbins is 60. Today is also the birthday of Flea, John Mayer, Suzanne Somers, Barry Corbin, David Zucker, Gary Kemp, Paul Sparks, Kim Wayans, Todd Stashwick, Peter Bowles, Kenneth Lonergan, and the late Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Linda Darnell, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Alice Pearce, Berry Kroeger, Michael Conrad, Bill Elliott, and Nico. Leo G. Carroll died 46 years ago in 1982 at age 85. Cornel Wilde died 29 years ago in 1989 at age 77. Shirley Booth died 26 years ago in 1992 at age 94. Audra Lindley died 21 years ago in 1997 at age 79. Deborah Kerr died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 86. Barbara Billingsley died eight years ago in 2010 at age 94.

Today Penny Marshall is 75, and Matteo Garrone is 50. Today is also the birthday of Dominic West, John Getz, Tanya Roberts, Ali Fazal, Larry Miller, Jere Burns, Zak Orth, Todd Solondz, Linda Lavin, Mira Nair, Lynn Lowry, Brandon Jay McLaren, Michael Caton-Jones, Eileen Ryan, Virginia Leith, Michael Lewis, and the late Friedrich Nietzsche, P.G. Wodehouse, Mario Puzo, Mark Lenard, Jane Darwell, Mervyn LeRoy, Michel Foucault, Jean Peters, Nigel Green, and Fritz Feld. Cole Porter died 54 years ago in 1964 at age 73. Frank DeKova died 37 years ago in 1981 at age 71. Pat O’Brien died 35 years ago in 1983 at age 83. Delphine Seyrig died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 58. Edie Adams died ten years ago in 2008 at age 81. I Love Lucy premiered 67 years ago in 1951. Curb Your Enthusiasm premiered eighteen years ago in 2000.

Today Usher Raymond is 40, and Max Thieriot is 30. Today is also the birthday of Steve Coogan, Ben Whishaw, Mia Wasikowska, Jay Pharoah, Udo Kier, Natalie Maines, Lori Petty, Jon Seda, Chen Chang, Ben Zeitlin, Stephen A. Smith, and the late Roger Moore, Lillian Gish, e.e. cummings, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry Anderson, Robert Webber, Rick Aviles, Allan Jones, and Jack Arnold. Errol Flynn died 59 years ago in 1959 at age 50. Bing Crosby died 41 years ago in 1977 at age 74. Keenan Wynn died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 70. Leonard Bernstein died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 72. Elizabeth Peña died four years ago in 2014 at age 55.

Today Tisha Campbell-Martin is 50, and Tiffany Trump is 25. Today is also the birthday of Paul Simon, Sacha Baron Cohen, Melinda Dillon, Kelly Preston, Marie Osmond, Kate Walsh, Matt Walsh, Ashanti, Kiele Sanchez, Demond Wilson, Susan Blommaert, Hiro Kanagawa, Rutanya Alda, Chris Carter, Dusan Makavejev, Abderrahmane Sissako, Nancy Kerrigan, Jason Friedberg, Billy Bush, and the late Lenny Bruce, Cornel Wilde, Yves Montand, Laraine Day, Robert Walker and Jack MacGowran, who would both be 100, Robert Bray, and Margaret Thatcher. Maya Deren died 57 years ago in 1961 at age 44. Clifton Webb died 52 years ago in 1966 at age 76. Ed Sullivan died 44 years ago in 1974 at age 73.

Today Lin Shaye is 75, and Hugh Jackman is 50. Today is also the birthday of Josh Hutcherson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kirk Cameron, Deborah Foreman, Tony Cavalero, David Threlfall, Les Dennis, Richard Price, Tom Guiry, Iris Apatow, Chris Wallace, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (Carlos the Jackal), and the late Dick Gregory, Luciano Pavarotti, Daliah Lavi, Satoshi Kon, Josephine Hutchinson, and Randy Stuart. John Denver died in a plane crash 21 years ago in 1997 at age 53. Gillo Pontecorvo died twelve years ago in 2006 at age 86.

Today John Nettles is 75, and Jane Krakowski and Brett Morgen are 50. Today is also the birthday of Joan Cusack, Artie Lange, Matt Bomer, Dawn French, Emily Deschanel, Stephen Moyer, Luke Perry, David Morse, Ron Leibman, Michelle Trachtenberg, Constance Zimmer, Cardi B, Sean Patrick Flanery, Lennie James, Michael J Nelson, Justin Lin, Doona Bae, Amitabh Bachchan, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Hany Abu-Assad, Amos Gitai, Shawn Ryan, and the late Elmore Leonard, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sig Ruman, Jean Vander Pyl, Earle Hyman, Jerome Robbins, who would be 100, and Fred Trump. Chico Marx died 57 years ago in 1961. Édith Piaf and Jean Cocteau died 55 years ago in 1963. Piaf was 47. Cocteau was 74. Redd Foxx died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 68. The first episode of Saturday Night Live aired 43 years ago in 1975.