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Today Karl Lagerfeld is 85, Chris Columbus is 60, and Guy Ritchie is 50. Today is also the birthday of Colin Firth, Ryan Phillippe, Amy Irving, Philip Baker Hall, Kate Burton, Kyle Bornheimer, Misty Copeland, Bill O’Reilly, and the late Edmond O’Brien, Robert Wise, Dennis Burkley, Bessie Love, and Aleksandr Dovzhenko. Dalton Trumbo died 42 years ago in 1976 at age 70. Yves Montand died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 70. Jane Wyman did eleven years ago in 2007 at age 90. Cliff Robertson died seven years ago in 2011, one day after his birthday, at age 88. Richard Kiel died four years ago in 2014 at age 74.

Today Sylvia Miles is 94, and Julia Sawalha is 50. Today is also the birthday of Michelle Williams, Adam Sandler, Hugh Grant, Eric Stonestreet, Zoe Kazan, Topol, Jeffrey Combs, Henry Thomas, Tom Wopat, Goran Visnjic, Charles Esten, Michael Bublé, and the late Cliff Robertson, Neil Hamilton, Otis Redding, Harland Sanders, and Arthur Freed. John McGiver died 43 years ago in 1975 at age 61. Burgess Meredith died 21 years ago in 1997 at age 89.

Today Susan Blakely is 70. Today is also the birthday of Dario Argento, Evan Rachel Wood, Leslie Jones, Toby Jones, Sonny Rollins, Chrissie Hynde, Gloria Gaynor, 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 67 years ago in 1951 at age 39. Katrin Cartlidge died sixteen years ago in 2002 at age 41.

Today Roger Waters is 75, Jeff Foxworthy is 60, and Matthew Horne is 40. Today is also the birthday of Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Rosie Perez, Jane Curtin, Jo Anne Worley, Macy Gray, Swoosie Kurtz, Anne Lockhart, David Allan Coe, Chris Christie, and the late John Mitchum, John Ridgely, and Max Schreck. Edmund Gwenn died 59 years ago in 1959 at age 81. Akira Kurosawa died twenty years ago in 1998 at age 88.

Today is the birthday of Werner Herzog, Bob Newhart, Michael Keaton, Raquel Welch, George Lazenby, Rose McGowan, Paddy Considine, Carice van Houten, William Devane, Christopher Morris, Carol Lawrence, Dennis Dugan, Sergey Loznitsa, and the late Freddie Mercury, Jesse James, Gloria Holden, Darryl F. Zanuck, Jack Valenti, and Moshé Mizrahi. Barbara Loden died 38 years ago in 1980 at age 48. Mother Teresa died 21 years ago in 1997 at age 87. Setsuko Hara died three years ago in 2015 at age 95. Hugh O’Brian died two years ago in 2016 at age 91.

Today Michael Berryman is 70, Dr. Drew Pinsky is 60, John DiMaggio and Phill Lewis are 50, and Wes Bentley is 40. Today is also the birthday of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Damon Wayans, Whitney Cummings, Mitzi Gaynor, Max Greenfield, Kyle Mooney, Noah Taylor, Ione Skye, Jan Svankmajer, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Anthony Weiner, and the late Howard Morris, Dick York, Richard S. Castellano, Leonard Frey, Edward Dmytryk, Richard Wright, and Paul Harvey, who would be 100. George O’Brien died 33 years ago in 1985 at age 86. Irene Dunne died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 91. Dottie West died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 58. Hervé Villechaize committed suicide 25 years ago in 1993 at age 50. Steve Irwin died twelve years ago in 2006 at age 44. Joan Rivers died four years ago in 2014 at age 81.

Today Irene Papas is 92, Pilar Pallete is 90, and Valerie Perrine is 75. Today is also the birthday of Charlie Sheen, Garrett Hedlund, Paz de la Huerta, Maria Bamford, Pauline Collins, Holt McCallany, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Noah Baumbach, Shaun White, Al Jardine, Steve Jones, Redfoo, Malcolm Gladwell, Whitey Bulger, and the late Alan Ladd, Eileen Brennan, Anne Jackson, Mary Grace Canfield, Kitty Carlisle, Mantan Moreland, and Freddie King. Frank Capra died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 94. Michael Clarke Duncan died six years ago in 2012 at age 54.

Today Marge Champion is 99, Mary Jo Catlett is 80, and Terry Bradshaw is 70. Today is also the birthday of Keanu Reeves, Salma Hayek, Katt Williams, Mark Harmon, Eugenio Derbez, Robert Shapiro, Keith Allen, Harvey Levin, and the late Hal Ashby, Chuck McCann, Mel Stuart, and Sue Mengers. J.R.R. Tolkien died 45 years ago in 1973 at age 81. Troy Donahue died seventeen years ago in 2001 at age 65. Bob Denver died thirteen years ago in 2005 at age 70.

Today George Maharis is 90, Don Stroud is 75, and Zak Penn is 50. Today is also the birthday of Lily Tomlin, Barry Gibb, Scott Speedman, Boyd Holbrook, Gloria Estefan, Burn Gorman, Zendaya, 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 41 years ago in 1977 at age 80. Murray Hamilton died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 63. Dean Jones died three years ago in 2015 at age 84.

Today is the birthday of Richard Gere, Van Morrison, Chris Tucker, Sara Ramirez, Jonathan Cake, Dee Bradley Baker, Zack Ward, Larry Hankin, Joe Swanberg, Marc Webb, Stephen 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 45 years ago in 1973 at age 79. Richard Anderson died one year ago in 2017 at age 91.