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Today Olivia de Havilland is 102, Jordi Mollà is 50, and Storm Reid is 15. Today is also the birthday of Dan Aykroyd, Debbie Harry, Liv Tyler, Léa Seydoux, Andre Braugher, Geneviève Bujold, Jamie Farr, Pamela Anderson, Julianne Nicholson, Leslie Caron, Missy Elliott, Sufjan Stevens, Alan Ruck, Thomas Sadoski, David Gulpilil, Hannah Murray, Fortune Feimster, David Prowse, Brian George, Peter Cattaneo, David Duke, and the late Charles Laughton, Princess Diana, William Wyler, Karen Black, Sydney Pollack, Farley Granger, and Alice Guy. Michael Landon died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 54. Robert Mitchum died 21 years in 1997 at age 79. Sylvia Sidney died 19 years ago in 1999 at age 88. Walter Matthau died 18 years ago in 2000 at age 79. Marlon Brando died 14 years ago in 2004 at age 80. Luther Vandross died 13 years ago in 2005 at age 54. Karl Malden died nine years ago in 2009 at age 97.

Today is the birthday of Vincent D’Onofrio, Lizzy Caplan, Mike Tyson, Rupert Graves, David Alan Grier, Monica Potter, Marton Csokas, Molly Parker, Leonard Whiting, Rick Gonzalez, Víctor Erice, Angela Sarafyan, Michael Phelps, Fantasia Barrino, Mark Waters, and the late Lena Horne, Susan Hayward, Anthony Mann, Glenda Farrell, Ted Ross, Pat McCormick, John Harmon, George Chandler, Florence Ballard, and Dave Van Ronk. George “Spanky” McFarland died 25 years ago in 1993 at age 65. Gale Gordon died 23 years ago in 1995 at age 89. Pina Bausch died nine years ago in 2009 at age 68. Paul Mazursky died four years ago in 2014 at age 84.

Today Cara Williams is 93, Fred Grandy is 70, and Brian d’Arcy James is 50. Today is also the birthday of Richard Lewis, Gary Busey, Robert Evans, Melora Hardin, Lily Rabe, Colin Jost, Bret McKenzie, Matthew Weiner, Sharon Lawrence, Jeff Baena, and the late Slim Pickens, Ray Harryhausen, Bernard Herrmann, Ian Bannen, Corey Allen, Ruth Warrick, Joan Davis, and Nelson Eddy. Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle died 85 years ago in 1933 at age 46. Jayne Mansfield died 51 years ago in 1967 at age 34. Bob Crane died forty years ago in 1978 at age 49. Lana Turner died 23 years ago in 1995 at age 74. William Hickey died 21 years ago in 1997 at age 69. Vittorio Gassman died 18 years ago in 2000 at age 77. Rosemary Clooney died 16 years ago in 2002 at age 74. Katharine Hepburn died fifteen years ago in 2003 at age 96. Edward Yang died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 59. Don S. Davis died ten years ago in 2008 at age 65. Jim Kelly died five years ago in 2013 at age 67.

Today Mel Brooks is 92, John Byner is 80, and Kathy Bates is 70. Today is also the birthday of John Cusack, Mary Stuart Masterson, Felicia Day, Bruce Davison, Alice Krige, Mike White, Alessandro Nivola, Ayelet Zurer, Aileen Quinn, Elon Musk, Kellie Pickler, Jon Watts, and the late Gilda Radner, Pat Morita, Richard Rodgers, Henry VIII of England, Richard Bright, and John Inman. Frank Sutton died 44 years ago in 1974 at age 50. GG Allin died 25 years ago in 1993 at age 36. Jack Carter died three years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today Muriel Pavlow is 97, and Shirley Anne Field and Kathryn Beaumont are 80. Today is also the birthday of Tobey Maguire, J.J. Abrams, Isabelle Adjani, Sam Claflin, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Wagner Moura, Julia Duffy, Matthew Lewis, Chandler Riggs, Drake Bell, Ed Westwick, Courtney Ford, Vera Wang, Ross Perot, Janusz Kaminski, Jo Frost, Khloé Kardashian, and the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, Helen Keller, Robert Keeshan, John McIntire, Billy Curtis, Skelton Knaggs, and I.A.L. Diamond. Jack Lemmon died 17 years ago in 2001 at age 76. Gale Storm died nine years ago in 2009 at age 87.

Today John Beasley is 75, and Ariana Grande is 25. Today is also the birthday of Paul Thomas Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Sean Hayes, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris O’Donnell, Mark McKinney, Robert Davi, Chris Isaak, Matt Letscher, Josef Sommer, Gedde Watanabe, Michael Paul Chan, Jerry Schatzberg, Derek Jeter, Harley Quinn Smith, and the late Peter Lorre, Eleanor Parker, Dick Smith, and Wolfgang Reitherman. Nora Ephron died six years ago in 2012 at age 71.

Today is the birthday of Ricky Gervais, Linda Cardellini, Jimmie Walker, Carly Simon, June Lockhart, Busy Philipps, John Benjamin Hickey, Larry Kramer, Jason Lewis, Angela Kinsey, Rain, Timur Bekmambetov, Denys Arcand, Ernest R. Dickerson, Sonia Sotomayor, and the late Sidney Lumet, Anthony Bourdain, George Michael, George Orwell, Roger Livesey, Charlotte Greenwood, George Murdock, and Anne Revere. Colin Clive died 81 years ago in 1937 at age 37. Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died nine years ago in 2009. Jackson was 50. Fawcett was 62. Patrick Macnee died three years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today Georg Stanford Brown is 75, and Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister is 60. Today is also the birthday of Mick Fleetwood, Mindy Kaling, Peter Weller, Robert Downey Sr., Nancy Allen, Solange Knowles, Minka Kelly, Vanessa Ray, Michele Lee, Iain Glen, Sherry Stringfield, Joe Penny, Dan Gilroy, Vittorio Storaro, and the late Claude Chabrol, Adrienne Shelly, Al Molinaro, Phil Harris, and Jack Carter. Tony Hancock committed suicide fifty years ago in 1968 at age 44. Jackie Gleason died 31 years ago in 1987 at age 71. Brian Keith committed suicide 21 years ago in 1997 at age 75. David Tomlinson died 18 years ago in 2000 at age 83. Paul Winchell died 13 years ago in 2005 at age 82. Eli Wallach died four years ago in 2014 at age 98.

Today Clarence Thomas is 70. Today is also the birthday of Frances McDormand, Joel Edgerton, Selma Blair, Joss Whedon, Melissa Rauch, Randy Jackson, Bryan Brown, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Martin Klebba, John Amplas, Russell Mulcahy, and the late Bob Fosse, June Carter Cash, Dennis Price, Alan Vega, Alfred Kinsey, and Alan Turing. Maureen O’Sullivan died twenty years ago in 1998 at age 87. Peter Falk died seven years ago in 2011 at age 83.

Today Dianne Feinstein is 85, Bruce Campbell is 60, and Portia Doubleday is 30. Today is also the birthday of Meryl Streep, Kris Kristofferson, Cyndi Lauper, Emmanuelle Seigner, Stephen Chow, Amy Brenneman, Elizabeth Warren, Michael Lerner, Prunella Scales, Donald Faison, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Joe Dempsie, Lindsay Wagner, Graham Greene, Carson Daly, Douglas Smith, Alicia Goranson, Tim Russ, Uwe Boll, David L. Lander, Joie Lee, Dan Brown, Erin Brockovich, Wayne Federman, Adam Schiff, Wolfgang Becker, and the late Billy Wilder, Abbas Kiarostami, Freddie Prinze, John Dillinger, Michael Todd, Ralph Waite, Amrish Puri, Erich Maria Remarque, and Octavia Butler. David O. Selznick died 53 years ago in 1965 at age 63. Judy Garland died 49 years ago in 1969 at age 47. Joseph Losey died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 75. Fred Astaire died 31 years ago in 1987 at age 88. George Carlin died ten years ago in 2008 at age 71.