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Today Bill Daily is 91, and Lewis Black is 70. Today is also the birthday of Cameron Diaz, Michael Chiklis, Peggy Lipton, Warren Buffett, David Paymer, Elizabeth Ashley, Timothy Bottoms, Frank Conniff, Lisa Lang, and the late Fred MacMurray, Joan Blondell, Raymond Massey, Shirley Booth, Mary Shelley, Kitty Wells, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, and Huey Long. Charles Coburn died 57 years ago in 1961 at age 84. Lindsay Anderson died 24 years ago in 1994 at age 71. Charles Bronson died fifteen years ago in 2003 at age 81. Glenn Ford died twelve years ago in 2006 at age 90. Wes Craven died three years ago in 2015 at age 76.

Today Iris Apfel is 97, Betty Lynn is 92, Elliott Gould is 80, and Liam Payne and Lucas Cruikshank are 25. Today is also the birthday of William Friedkin, Joel Schumacher, Carla Gugino, Rebecca De Mornay, Lea Michele, Frank Henenlotter, Tom Six, Dr. Temple Grandin, and the late Ingrid Bergman, who died on her birthday in 1982 at age 67, Michael Jackson, Richard Attenborough, Preston Sturges, Dinah Washington, Charlie Parker, John McCain, Charles Gray, Isabel Sanford, John Locke, and GG Allin. Lee Marvin died 31 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Gene Wilder died two years ago in 2016 at age 83.

Today David Soul is 75, Billy Boyd is 50, and Quvenzhané Wallis is 15. Today is also the birthday of Jack Black, Armie Hammer, David Fincher, Jennifer Coolidge, Luis Guzmán, Daniel Stern, Ai Weiwei, Brian Thompson, Ken Jenkins, Florence Welch, Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, Sheryl Sandberg, Alana Thompson (Honey Boo Boo), and the late Donald O’Connor, Charles Boyer, Ben Gazzara, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Rocket, Nancy Kulp, Simon Oakland, Roxie Roker, Jack Kirby, and James Wong Howe. Emmett Till was murdered 63 years ago in 1955 at age 14. Ruth Gordon died 83 years ago in 1985 at age 88. John Huston died 31 years ago in 1987 at age 81.

Today Tuesday Weld is 75, Shaun Weiss is 40, and Alexa PenaVega is 30. Today is also the birthday of Paul Reubens, Aaron Paul, Tom Ford, Peter Stormare, Sarah Chalke, Patrick J. Adams, Diana Scarwid, G.W. Bailey, Ellar Coltrane, Chandra Wilson, Charles Fleischer, Tommy Sands, Robert Richardson, Cesar Millan, and the late Martha Raye, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Reems, James Finlayson, Ira Levin, Theodore Dreiser, Man Ray, and Ed Gein. Gracie Allen died 54 years ago in 1964 at age 69. Robert Shaw died forty years ago in 1978 at age 51.

Today Wanda De Jesus is 60. Today is also the birthday of Melissa McCarthy, Chris Pine, Macaulay Culkin, John Mulaney, Dylan O’Brien, Alison Steadman, Barbet Schroeder, Mike Colter, Brett Cullen, Kirk Fox, Chris Burke, and the late Michael Jeter, Jim Davis, Yvette Vickers, Ben Bradlee, and Mother Teresa. Lon Chaney died 88 years ago in 1930 at age 47. Larry Keating died 55 years ago in 1963 at age 67. Kay Francis died fifty years ago in 1968 at age 63. Charles Boyer died forty years ago in 1978 at age 78. Ted Knight died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 62.

Today Sean Connery is 88, Regis Philbin is 87, Tom Skerritt is 85, Tim Burton is 60, Rachael Ray is 50, and Kel Mitchell is 40. Today is also the birthday of Elvis Costello, Alexander Skarsgård, Gene Simmons, Blake Lively, Tom Hollander, John Savage, Ben Falcone, Blair Underwood, Simon McBurney, Mink Stole, Jeff Tweedy, Billy Ray Cyrus, Joe Wright, John Badham, Fatih Akin, Hugh Hudson, and the late Leonard Bernstein, who would be 100, Mel Ferrer, Van Johnson, Michael Rennie, Don DeFore, Monty Hall, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and George Wallace. Paul Muni died 51 years ago in 1967 at age 71. Truman Capote died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 59. Aaliyah died seventeen years ago in 2001 in a plane crash at age 22. Marvin Kaplan died two years ago in 2016 at age 89.

Today Steve Guttenberg is 60, and Rupert Grint is 30. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Fry, Dave Chappelle, Marlee Matlin, David Koechner, Jared Harris, James D’Arcy, Anne Archer, Ava DuVernay, Ronee Blakley, Dana Gould, 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 62 years ago in 1956 at age 58. Louis Prima died forty years ago in 1978 at age 67. E.G. Marshall died twenty years ago in 1998 at age 84. Julie Harris died five years ago in 2013 at age 87. Richard Attenborough died four years ago in 2014 at age 90. Jay Thomas died one year ago in 2017 at age 69.

Today Vera Miles is 89, Barbara Eden is 87, and Kobe Bryant and Andrew Rannells are 40. Today is also the birthday of Shelley Long, Chan-wook Park, Jay Mohr, Scott Caan, Ray Park, Rick Springfield, Joanne Froggatt, Lexi Alexander, Kirby Dick, Roger Avary, Alexandre Desplat, Leslie Van Houten, Jared Fogle, and the late Gene Kelly, Keith Moon, River Phoenix, Marian Seldes, Robert Mulligan, and James Millhollin. Francis X. Bushman died 52 years ago in 1966 at age 83. Kathleen Freeman died seventeen years ago in 2001 at age 82. Brock Peters died thirteen years ago in 2005 at age 78.

Today Micheline Presle is 94, Honor Blackman is 93, Roy Guerra is 87, Colm Feore is 60, Casper Christensen is 50, and James Corden is 40. Today is also the birthday of Kristen Wiig, Valerie Harper, Cindy Williams, Ty Burrell, David Chase, Richard Armitage, Rodrigo Santoro, Chia-Hui Liu, Mark Williams, Courtney Gains, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Tori Amos, Andrew Wilson, Robert Wall, Rick Yune, Kay Cannon, and the late Ray Bradbury, John Lee Hooker, Leni Riefenstahl, Dorothy Parker, Claude Debussy, Cecil Kellaway, Elisabeth Bergner, Sylvia Koscina, John Lupton, and Andréas Voutsinas.

Today Melvin Van Peebles is 86, Kenny Rogers is 80, and Kacey Musgraves is 30. Today is also the birthday of Kim Cattrall, Carrie-Anne Moss, Patty McCormack, Hayden Panettiere, Bo Burnham, Loretta Devine, Alicia Witt, Marc Evan Jackson, Clarence Williams III, Cleo King, Peter Weir, RJ Mitte, and the late Joe Strummer, Jack Weston, Tom Tully, Marie Blake, Frank Perry, and David Lochary. Danny Lockin died 41 years ago in 1977 at age 34 after being stabbed over 100 times.