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Today Bernie Kopell is 85, Ron Ely is 80, and Ian McEwan is 70. Today is also the birthday of Chris Pratt, Juliette Lewis, David Morrissey, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter, Lana Wachowski, Benjamin Walker, Carrie Preston, Mariette Hartley, Jussie Smollett, Josh Pais, Maggie Siff, Lana Del Rey, Michael Bowen, Joe Flaherty, Edward Snowden, Jim Breuer, Prince William, Gretchen Carlson, and the late Judy Holliday, Jane Russell, Maureen Stapleton, Tony Scott, Robert Pastorelli, Eric Douglas, Conrad L. Hall, and Benazir Bhutto. Carroll O’Connor and John Lee Hooker died 17 years ago in 2001. O’Connor was 76. Hooker was 83.

Today Danny Aiello is 85, Robert Rodriguez and Jon Glaser are 50, and Mike Birbiglia is 40. Today is also the birthday of Nicole Kidman, Brian Wilson, John Goodman, Olympia Dukakis, Lionel Richie, Josh Lucas, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dreama Walker, James Tolkan, Candy Clark, Bonnie Bartlett, Stephen Frears, Tress MacNeille, Robert B. Weide, and the late Errol Flynn, Martin Landau, John Mahoney, Ulrich Mühe, Chet Atkins, Audie Murphy, and Terence Young. Estelle Winwood died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 101. Ryan Dunn died seven years ago in 2011 at age 34.

Today Phylicia Rashad is 70, Zoe Saldana is 40, and Atticus Shaffer is 20. Today is also the birthday of Gena Rowlands, Kathleen Turner, Paul Dano, Salman Rushdie, Jean Dujardin, Hugh Dancy, Marisa Pavan, Robin Tunney, Mia Sara, Ryan Hurst, Aidan Turner, Samuel West, Ken Davitian, Derren Nesbitt, Paula Abdul, Macklemore, Boris Johnson, Laura Ingraham, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the late Moe Howard, Charles Coburn, Nick Drake, Nancy Marchand, Mildred Natwick, May Whitty, Pier Angeli, Louis Jourdan, Pat Buttram, Harry Lauter, Kim Walker, Pauline Kael, and Lou Gehrig. Ed Wynn died 52 years ago in 1966 at age 79. Jean Arthur died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 90. James Gandolfini died five years ago in 2013 at age 51. Anton Yelchin died two years ago in 2016 at age 27.

Today is the birthday of Paul McCartney, Isabella Rossellini, Carol Kane, Blake Shelton, Richard Madden, Kim Dickens, Alana De La Garza, Ivonne Coll, Ralph Brown, Max Records, Steve Miner, Rick Famuyiwa, Barbara Broccoli, and the late Roger Ebert, Keye Luke, E.G. Marshall, Maggie McNamara, Mae Busch, and Jeanette MacDonald.

Today Barry Manilow and Newt Gingrich are 75, and Bobby Farrelly is 60. Today is also the birthday of Greg Kinnear, Thomas Haden Church, Kendrick Lamar, Will Forte, Ken Loach, Denis Lavant, Scott Adkins, John Gallagher Jr., Joshua Leonard, Michael Showalter, Jason Patric, Peter Lupus, Arthur Darvill, William Lucking, Joe Piscopo, Venus Williams, Jodie Whittaker, Jon Gries, Jennifer Irwin, Sonny Fox, Louis Leterrier, Phyllida Lloyd, and the late Ralph Bellamy, Lucio Fulci, Russell Simpson, James Shigeta, Setsuko Hara, Grant Mitchell, and M.C. Escher. Cyd Charisse died ten years ago in 2008 at age 86.

Today Joyce Carol Oates is 80, Joan Van Ark is 75, and Daniel Brühl is 40. Today is also the birthday of Laurie Metcalf, John Cho, Clifton Collins Jr., Eileen Atkins, Bill Cobbs, Abby Elliott, Frederick Koehler, Sibel Kekilli, Ian Buchanan, Scott Alexander, and the late Stan Laurel, Jack Albertson, Tupac Shakur, Ilona Massey, and Vilmos Zsigmond. George Reeves died 59 years ago in 1959 at age 45. Nicholas Ray died 39 years ago in 1979 at age 67. John G. Avildsen died one year ago in 2017 at age 81.

Today is the birthday of Helen Hunt, Neil Patrick Harris, Ice Cube, Jim Belushi, Courtney Cox, Leah Remini, Julie Hagerty, Ray Santiago, Laurent Cantet, and the late Jim Varney, Waylon Jennings, Harry Nilsson, Harry Langdon, Herschell Gordon Lewis, and Erland Josephson. Ella Fitzgerald died 22 years ago in 1996 at age 79. Hume Cronyn died fifteen years ago in 2003 at age 91. Stan Winston died ten years ago in 2008 at age 62. Casey Kasem died four years ago in 2014 at age 82.

Today Diablo Cody is 40. Today is also the birthday of Boy George, Louis Garrel, Marla Gibbs, Lucy Hale, Will Patton, Joe Grifasi, Alan Carr, Jay Roach, Aleksandr Sokurov, Donald Trump, and the late Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, Gene Barry, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire, Kay Sutton, Jerzy Kosinski, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Today Malcolm McDowell is 75. Today is also the birthday of Stellan Skarsgård, Chris Evans, Tim Allen, Ally Sheedy, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kat Dennings, Simon Callow, Richard Thomas, Steve-O, Greg Daniels, and the late Paul Lynde, Basil Rathbone, Ben Johnson, who would be 100, Mary Wickes, W.B. Yeats, and Tay Garnett. Geraldine Page died 31 years ago in 1987 at age 62.

Today Richard M. Sherman is 90, and Timothy Simons is 40. Today is also the birthday of Dave Franco, Scott Thompson, Jay Mewes, Abbey Lee, Richard Ayoade, Mel Rodriguez, Timothy Busfield, Eamonn Walker, Jenilee Harrison, Kendra Wilkinson, George H.W. Bush, and the late Anne Frank, Jim Nabors, Priscilla Lane, Vic Damone, Irwin Allen, and Jim Siedow. Norma Shearer died 35 years ago in 1983 at age 80. Gregory Peck died 15 years ago in 2003 at age 87.