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Today Timothy Bottoms is 70. Today is also the birthday of Cameron Diaz, Michael Chiklis, Lewis Black, Warren Buffett, David Paymer, Robert Crumb, Elizabeth Ashley, Frank Conniff, Lisa Ling, and the late Fred MacMurray, Joan Blondell, Raymond Massey, Peggy Lipton, Shirley Booth, Bill Daily, Mary Shelley, Kitty Wells, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, and Huey Long. Charles Coburn died sixty years ago in 1961 at age 84. Lindsay Anderson died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 71. Charles Bronson died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 81. Glenn Ford died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 90. Wes Craven died six years ago in 2015 at age 76. Valerie Harper died two years ago in 2019 at age 80.

Today Iris Apfel is 100, Betty Lynn is 95, and Carla Gugino is 50. Today is also the birthday of Elliott Gould, William Friedkin, Rebecca De Mornay, Lea Michele, Frank Henenlotter, Tom Six, Dr. Temple Grandin, Liam Payne, Lucas Cruikshank, and the late Ingrid Bergman, who died 39 years ago on her birthday in 1982 at age 67, Michael Jackson, Richard Attenborough, Preston Sturges, Dinah Washington, Charlie Parker, Joel Schumacher, John McCain, Charles Gray, Isabel Sanford, John Locke, and GG Allin. Lee Marvin died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Gene Wilder died five years ago in 2016 at age 83.

Today Jennifer Coolidge is 60. Today is also the birthday of Jack Black, Armie Hammer, David Fincher, Luis Guzmán, Daniel Stern, Ai Weiwei, Billy Boyd, Brian Thompson, David Soul, Ken Jenkins, Florence Welch, Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, Quvenzhane Wallis, Sheryl Sandberg, Alana Thompson (Honey Boo Boo), and the late Donald O’Connor, Charles Boyer, Ben Gazzara, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Rocket, Nancy Kulp, who would be 100, Simon Oakland, Roxie Roker, Jack Kirby, and James Wong Howe. Emmett Till died 66 years ago in 1955 at age 14. Ruth Gordon died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 88. John Huston died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 81. Chadwick Boseman died one year ago in 2020 at age 43.

Today Tom Ford is 60, and Patrick J. Adams is 40. Today is also the birthday of Paul Reubens, Aaron Paul, Tuesday Weld, Peter Stormare, Sarah Chalke, Diana Scarwid, G.W. Bailey, Alexa PenaVega, Shaun Weiss, Ellar Coltrane, Chandra Wilson, Charles Fleischer, Tommy Sands, Robert Richardson, Cesar Millan, and the late Martha Raye, Lyndon Johnson, Lynn Shelton, Harry Reems, James Finlayson, Ira Levin, Theodore Dreiser, who would be 150, Man Ray, and Ed Gein. Gracie Allen died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 69. Robert Shaw died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 51.

Today Barbet Schroeder is 80, Alison Steadman is 75, and Dylan O’Brien is 30. Today is also the birthday of Melissa McCarthy, Chris Pine, Macaulay Culkin, John Mulaney, Wanda De Jesus, Mike Colter, Brett Cullen, Kirk Fox, Chris Burke, and the late Michael Jeter, Katherine Johnson, Jim Davis, Yvette Vickers, Ben Bradlee, who would be 100, and Mother Teresa. Lon Chaney died 91 years ago in 1930 at age 47. Larry Keating died 58 years ago in 1963 at age 67. Kay Francis died 53 years ago in 1968 at age 63. Charles Boyer died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 78. Ted Knight died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 62. Tobe Hooper died four years ago in 2017 at age 74. Neil Simon died three years ago in 2018 at age 91.

Today Hugh Hudson is 85, and Billy Ray Cyrus is 60. Today is also the birthday of Elvis Costello, Tim Burton, Alexander Skarsgård, Gene Simmons, Tom Skerritt, Blake Lively, Tom Hollander, John Savage, Rachael Ray, Ben Falcone, Blair Underwood, Simon McBurney, Kel Mitchell, Mink Stole, Jeff Tweedy, Joe Wright, John Badham, Fatih Akin, and the late Sean Connery, Regis Philbin, Leonard Bernstein, Mel Ferrer, Van Johnson, Michael Rennie, Don DeFore, Monty Hall, who would be 100, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and George Wallace. Paul Muni died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 71. Truman Capote died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 59. Aaliyah died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 22. Marvin Kaplan died five years ago in 2016 at age 89.

Today Jared Harris is 60. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Fry, Dave Chappelle, Marlee Matlin, Ava DuVernay, Steve Guttenberg, David Koechner, Ronee Blakley, Dana Gould, Elizabeth Debicki, Rupert Grint, James D’Arcy, Anne Archer, Kevin Dunn, Takashi Miike, Craig Kilborn, Vince McMahon, David Gregory, Rodrigo García, and the late Kenny Baker, Hal Smith, Yasser Arafat, and Christine Chubbuck. Kenji Mizoguchi died 65 years ago in 1956 at age 58. Louis Prima died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 67. E.G. Marshall died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 84. Julie Harris died eight years ago in 2013 at age 87. Richard Attenborough died seven years ago in 2014 at age 90. Jay Thomas died four years ago in 2017 at age 69.

Today Barbara Eden is 90, and Alexandre Desplat is 60. Today is also the birthday of Vera Miles, Shelley Long, Chan-wook Park, Jay Mohr, Andrew Rannells, Scott Caan, Ray Park, Rick Springfield, Joanne Froggatt, Lexi Alexander, Kirby Dick, Roger Avary, Leslie Van Houten, Jared Fogle, and the late Gene Kelly, Keith Moon, River Phoenix, Kobe Bryant, Marian Seldes, Robert Mulligan, and James Millhollin. Francis X. Bushman died 55 years ago in 1966 at age 83. Kathleen Freeman died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 82. Brock Peters died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 78.

Today Micheline Presle is 99, Ruy Guerra is 90, Chia-Hui Liu is 70, and Richard Armitage and Rick Yune are 50. Today is also the birthday of Kristen Wiig, Cindy Williams, James Corden, Ty Burrell, David Chase, Rodrigo Santoro, Colm Feore, Mark Williams, Courtney Gains, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Tori Amos, Andrew Wilson, Robert Wall, Casper Christensen, Kay Cannon, and the late Valerie Harper, Ray Bradbury, John Lee Hooker, Leni Riefenstahl, Dorothy Parker, Honor Blackman, Claude Debussy, Cecil Kellaway, Elisabeth Bergner, Sylvia Koscina, John Lupton, and Andréas Voutsinas. Huey P. Newton died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 47.

Today is the birthday of Kim Cattrall, Carrie-Anne Moss, Patty McCormack, Hayden Panettiere, Melvin Van Peebles, Bo Burnham, Kacey Musgraves, Loretta Devine, Alicia Witt, Marc Evan Jackson, Cleo King, Peter Weir, RJ Mitte, and the late Kenny Rogers, Joe Strummer, Clarence Williams III, Jack Weston, Tom Tully, Marie Blake, Frank Perry, and David Lochary. Danny Lockin died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 34. Barbara Harris died three years ago in 2018 at age 83.