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Today is the birthday of Marion Cotillard, Monica Bellucci, Tony Hale, Angie Dickinson, Ezra Miller, Johnny Mathis, Fran Drescher, JENNA ELFMAN, Amy Landecker, Barry Williams, Eric Stoltz, Kieran Culkin, Nancy Ames, Victoria Tennant, Steve Stoliar, and the late Deborah Kerr, Truman Capote, Michael Powell, Elie Wiesel, Dan O’Bannon, Buddy Rich, Frankie Lymon, Jack Wild, and Lewis Milestone. James Dean died 63 years ago in 1955 at age 24. Edgar Bergen died forty years ago in 1978 at age 75. Simone Signoret died 33 years ago in 1985 at age 64.

Today Bryant Gumbel is 70. Today is also the birthday of Jerry Lee Lewis, Ian McShane, Andrew Dice Clay, Zachary Levi, Nicolas Winding Refn, Chrissy Metz, Mackenzie Crook, Robert Webb, Russell Peters, Roger Bart, Dale Dickey, Robert Benton, Silvio Berlusconi, and the late Michelangelo Antonioni, Madeline Kahn, Stanley Kramer, Greer Garson, Anita Ekberg, Gene Autry, Caravaggio, Trevor Howard, Steve Forrest, and Larry Linville. Charles Addams died thirty years ago in 1988 at age 76. Lois Maxwell died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 80. Tony Curtis and Greg Giraldo died eight years ago in 2010. Curtis was 85. Giraldo was 44.

Today Naomi Watts is 50, and Hana Mae Lee is 30. Today is also the birthday of Brigitte Bardot, Mira Sorvino, Janeane Garofalo, John Sayles, Hilary Duff, Jeffrey Jones, Sarah Wright, Bam Margera, Moon Unit Zappa, Keir Gilchrist, and the late Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Finch, Ed Sullivan, Christopher Evan Welch, Arnold Stang, who would be 100, J.T. Walsh, Sylvia Kristel, William Windom, and Harris Savides. Harpo Marx died 54 years ago in 1964 at age 75. Miles Davis died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 65.

Today Kathleen Nolan is 85, and Shaun Cassidy is 60. Today is also the birthday of Gwyneth Paltrow, Meat Loaf, Marc Maron, Wilford Brimley, Andy Lau, Carrie Brownstein, Anna Camp, Lola Kirke, Avril Lavigne, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Liz Torres, Scott Lawrence, Jean-Marc Barr, Thomas Mann, Indira Varma, Lil Wayne, and the late Arthur Penn, William Conrad, Will Sampson, Greg Morris, Jayne Meadows, and Miklós Jancsó. Clara Bow died 53 years ago in 1965 at age 60. Donald O’Connor died fifteen years ago in 2003 at age 78. Herbert Lom died six years ago in 2012 at age 95.

Today Jonathan Goldsmith is 80, Olivia Newton-John and Mary Beth Hurt are 70, and Jim Caviezel and Ben Shenkman are 50. Today is also the birthday of Linda Hamilton, Philip Bosco, Serena Williams, Sheri Moon Zombie, Christina Milian, Richard Herd, Melissa Sue Anderson, Kent McCord, Talulah Riley, Jill Soloway, David Slade, Jake Paltrow, Jillian Barberie, and the late George Gershwin, George Raft, Edmund Gwenn, T.S. Eliot, Joyce Jameson, Donna Douglas, Julie London, Patrick O’Neal, Jack LaLanne, John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), and Jerry Weintraub. Bessie Smith died 81 years ago in 1937 at age 43. Anna Magnani died 45 years ago in 1973 at age 65. Arthur Hunnicutt, one of my grandmother’s first cousins, and John Cromwell died 39 years ago in 1979. Hunnictt was 69. Cromwell was 92. Paul Newman died ten years ago in 2008 at age 83. Gloria Stuart died eight years ago in 2010 at age 100.

Today Harold Becker is 90, Robert Walden is 75, Mimi Kennedy and Colleen Atwood are 70, and Will Smith is 50. Today is also the birthday of Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Donald Glover, Mark Hamill, Pedro Almodóvar, Michael Madsen, Heather Locklear, Barbara Walters, Zach Woods, Anson Williams, Tate Donovan, Mikael Persbrandt, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Clea DuVall, T.I., Brian Murphy, Aida Turturro, Chris Owen, Jason Flemyng, David Benioff, Jamie Hyneman, and the late Christopher Reeve, William Faulkner, Robert Bresson, Aldo Ray, Shel Silverstein, and Ronnie Barker. John Bonham and Lewis Milestone died 38 years ago in 1980. Bonham was 32. Milestone was 84. Mary Astor died 31 years ago in 1987 at age 81. Don Adams died thirteen years ago in 2005 at age 82. Andy Williams died six years ago in 2012 at age 84.

Today Bert I. Gordon is 96, Gordon Clapp is 70, Kevin Sorbo is 60, Kyle Sullivan is 30, and Ben Platt is 25. Today is also the birthday of Brad Bird, Ian Bohen, Nia Vardalos, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Harriet Walter, John Logan, David Anspaugh, Kenneth Tigar, Ross Mathews, Bridget Jones, Lou Dobbs, and the late Jim Henson, Phil Hartman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Audra Lindley, who would be 100, Anthony Newley, Arthur Malet, Don Porter, Theresa Merritt, Linda McCartney, and Alan Colmes. Patsy Kelly died 37 years ago in 1981 at age 71. Neil Hamilton died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 85. Theodor Geisel aka Dr. Seuss died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 87.

Today Tom Lester is 80, Julio Iglesias is 75, and Anthony Mackie is 40. Today is also the birthday of Bruce Springsteen, Jason Alexander, Mary Kay Place, Skylar Astin, Kip Pardue, Rosalind Chao, Chi McBride, Hasan Minhaj, Karl Pilkington, Paul Petersen, Alex Proyas, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christopher Miller, and the late Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Mickey Rooney, Walter Pidgeon, Romy Schneider, and Elizabeth Peña. Shirley Clarke died 21 years ago in 1997 at age 77.

Today Toni Basil is 75, and Joan Jett is 60. Today is also the birthday of Nick Cave, Anna Karina, Tatiana Maslany, Tom Felton, Mireille Enos, Bonnie Hunt, Paul Le Mat, Ruth Jones, Art Metrano, Benoît Poelvoorde, Scott Baio, and the late Erich von Stroheim, Paul Muni, John Houseman, Martha Scott, Richard Marquand, Arthur Lowe, and Allan Lane. Marion Davies died 57 years ago in 1961 at age 64. Dan Rowan died 31 years ago in 1987 at age 65. Irving Berlin died 29 years ago in 1989 at age 101. Dorothy Lamour died 22 years ago in 1996 at age 81. George C. Scott died 19 years ago in 1999 at age 71. Marcel Marceau died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 84. Eddie Fisher died eight years ago in 2010 at age 82.

Today Jerry Bruckheimer is 75, and Ricki Lake is 50. Today is also the birthday of Bill Murray, Stephen King, Luke Wilson, Cheryl Hines, Ethan Coen, David Wenham, Rob Morrow, François Cluzet, Maggie Grace, Otis Day, Faith Hill, Ann Elder, Nick Castle, Joseph Mazzello, Nancy Travis, Alfonso Ribeiro, Fannie Flagg, Liam Gallagher, Martha Kauffman, Nicole Richie, and the late Leonard Cohen, Henry Gibson, Larry Hagman, Chuck Jones, and H.G. Wells. Walter Brennan died 34 years ago in 1974 at age 80. Alice Ghostley died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 84.