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Today Don King is 90, and David Walliams is 50. Today is also the birthday of Amy Adams, Andrew Garfield, Robert Plant, Joan Allen, Ray Wise, David O. Russell, John Noble, Demi Lovato, Al Roker, Sylvester McCoy, James Marsters, Colin Cunningham, Billy Gardell, Eddie Paskey, Peter Horton, Fred Durst, Mark Borchardt, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Sally Yates, Ron Paul, and the late Isaac Hayes, H. P. Lovecraft, Alan Reed, Jim Reeves, André Morell, and Mikio Naruse. Kim Stanley died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 76. Phyllis Diller died nine years ago in 2012 at age 95. Elmore Leonard died eight years ago in 2013 at age 87. Jerry Lewis died four years ago in 2017 at age 91.

Today Bill Clinton is 75. Today is also the birthday of Matthew Perry, Kyra Sedgwick, John Stamos, L.Q. Jones, Kevin Dillon, Jonathan Frakes, Peter Gallagher, Jill St. John, Gerald McRaney, Jim Carter, Maria de Medeiros, Melissa Fumero, Ian McElhinney, Adam Arkin, Debra Paget, Diana Muldaur, Manny Jacinto, Tracie Thoms, Pablo Larraín, and the late Gene Roddenberry, who would be 100, Coco Chanel, Fred Dalton Thompson, William Marshall, Angus Scrimm, Olga Baclanova, and Orville Wright, who would be 150. Alastair Sim died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 75. Groucho Marx died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 86. Raoul Ruiz died ten years ago in 2011 at age 70. Tony Scott died nine years ago in 2012 at age 68. Jack Riley died five years ago in 2016 at age 80. Dick Gregory died four years ago in 2017 at age 84.

Today Robert Redford is 85. Today is also the birthday of Roman Polanski, Edward Norton, Christian Slater, Andy Samberg, Denis Leary, Martin Mull, Craig Bierko, Madeleine Stowe, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Kaitlin Olson, Sarita Choudhury, and the late Shelley Winters, Patrick Swayze, Don Keefer, Reg E. Cathey, Marcel Carné, and Alan Mowbray. Elmer Bernstein died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 82.

Today Martha Coolidge is 75, Robert Joy is 70, Larry B. Scott is 60, and Austin Butler is 30. Today is also the birthday of Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Donnie Wahlberg, Taissa Farmiga, Brady Corbet, Julian Fellowes, Belinda Carlisle, Tim Bagley, Jonathan Franzen, Giuliana Rancic, and the late Mae West, Maureen O’Hara, Davy Crockett, Samuel Goldwyn, Helen McCrory, Monty Woolley, Glenn Corbett, Evelyn Ankers, and Mark Felt. Vivian Vance died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 70. Ira Gershwin died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 86. Pearl Bailey died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 72. Yvonne Craig died six years ago in 2015 at age 78. Arthur Hiller died five years ago in 2016 at age 92.

Today Lesley Ann Warren is 75. Today is also the birthday of Steve Carell, James Cameron, Madonna, Angela Bassett, Bob Balaban, Timothy Hutton, Taika Waititi, Ann Blyth, Julie Newmar, Reginald VelJohnson, Laura Innes, Cristin Milioti, Cameron Monaghan, Jeff Perry, Bruce Beresford, Kathie Lee Gifford, and the late Robert Culp, Glenn Strange, Lois Nettleton, Charles Bukowski, Carole Shelley, Christine Cavanaugh, Mae Clarke, and T. E. Lawrence. Robert Johnson died 83 years ago in 1938 at age 27. Bela Lugosi died 65 years ago in 1956 at age 73. Elvis Presley died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 42. Aretha Franklin died three years ago in 2018 at age 76. Peter Fonda died two years ago in 2019 at age 79.

Today Pat Priest is 85, and Jimmy Webb is 75. Today is also the birthday of Jennifer Lawrence, Ben Affleck, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Anthony Anderson, Debra Messing, Maxine Waters, Natasha Henstridge, Zeljko Ivanek, Barbara Bouchet, Tess Harper, Jim Dale, Joe Jonas, and the late Rose Marie, Ethel Barrymore, Wendy Hiller, Julia Child, Mike Connors, Nicolas Roeg, Napoleon Bonaparte, Janice Rule, Huntz Hall, Stieg Larsson, and Scott Kalvert. Will Rogers died 86 years ago in 1935 in a plane crash at age 55.

Today David Crosby is 80, and Antonio Fargas and Susan Saint James are 75. Today is also the birthday of Steve Martin, Halle Berry, Mila Kunis, Marcia Gay Harden, Wim Wenders, Lina Wertmüller, Magic Johnson, Emmanuelle Béart, James Buckley, Lamorne Morris, Tom DiCillo, Preston Lacy, Danielle Steel, and the late Andrea Leeds, Alice Ghostly, Liz Fraser, and Alma Reville. Bruno Kirby died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 57. Fyvush Finkel died five years ago in 2016 at age 93.

Today Jeff Altman is 70, Dawnn Lewis is 60, and Moritz Bleibtreu is 50. Today is also the birthday of Sebastian Stan, John Slattery, Debi Mazar, Paul Greengrass, Danny Bonaduce, Kevin Tighe, Gretchen Corbett, Jane Carr, David Crane, Joshua Marston, Philippe Petit, Steve Higgins, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and the late Alfred Hitchcock, Bert Lahr, Neville Brand, Pat Harrington Jr., Sridevi, Regis Toomey, Tom Davis, Annie Oakley, and Fidel Castro. Joe E. Ross died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 68. Julia Child died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 91.

Today Elizabeth Shepherd is 85, Dana Ivey is 80, Yvette Nicole Brown and Michael Ian Black are 50, and Lakeith Stanfield is 30. Today is also the birthday of Casey Affleck, George Hamilton, Bruce Greenwood, Cara Delevingne, Peter Krause, Isaach De Bankolé, Oliver Ford Davies, Ray Abruzzo, George Soros, and the late Cecil B. DeMille, John Cazale, William Goldman, Cantinflas, Samuel Fuller, Marjorie Reynolds, Jane Wyatt, Marion Lorne, John Derek, and Klara Hitler. Ian Fleming died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 56. Henry Fonda died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 77. Loretta Young died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 87. Merv Griffin died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 82. Lauren Bacall died seven years ago in 2014 at age 89.

Today Arlene Dahl is 96, and David Brooks is 60. Today is also the birthday of Viola Davis, Chris Hemsworth, Hulk Hogan, Ian McDiarmid, Chris Messina, Anna Gunn, Merritt Wever, Sophie Okonedo, Embeth Davidtz, Will Friedle, Joe Rogan, Ashley Jensen, Adam LeFevre, Elya Baskin,  Steve Wozniak, Fernando Arrabal, Tomi Lahren, and the late Mike Douglas, who died on his birthday fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 81, Stuart Gordon, Anna Massey, Lloyd Nolan, Jean Parker, Ian Charleson, Stuart Rosenberg, and Jerry Falwell. Jackson Pollock died 65 years ago in 1956 at age 44. Anne Ramsey died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 59. Peter Cushing died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 81. Robin Williams died seven years ago in 2014 at age 63.