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Today is the birthday of Morgan Freeman, Amy Schumer, Brian Cox, Alanis Morissette, Ronnie Wood, Tom Holland, Jonathan Pryce, Rene Auberjonois, Pat Boone, Richard Erdman, Paula Malcomson, Teri Polo, Sarah Wayne Callies, Rick Gomez, Heidi Klum, Gareth Edwards, and the late Marilyn Monroe, Andy Griffith, Powers Boothe, Edward Woodward, Cleavon Little, Frank Morgan, and Aubrey Morris. Leslie Howard died 75 years ago in 1943 at age 50. Adolf Eichmann was hanged 56 years ago in 1962 at age 56. Helen Keller died fifty years ago in 1968 at age 87.

Today Sharon Gless and Joe Namath are 75. Today is also the birthday of Clint Eastwood, Colin Farrell, Brooke Shields, Tom Berenger, Chris Elliott, Lea Thompson, Susie Essman, Paolo Sorrentino, Eric Christian Olsen, Jonathan Tucker, Sebastian Koch, and the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Don Ameche, Walt Whitman, Denholm Elliott, Jim Hutton, Alida Valli, Fred Allen, John Bonham, Jack Holt, Barbara Pepper, Madge Blake, and Menahem Golan. William Castle died 41 years ago in 1977 at age 63. Jean Stapleton died five years ago in 2013 at age 90.

Today Jimmy Lydon is 95, Agnès Varda is 90, and Ted McGinley is 60. Today is also the birthday of Keir Dullea, Idina Menzel, Ruta Lee, Stephen Tobolowsky, Colm Meaney, Michael J. Pollard, Wynonna Judd, CeeLo Green, Duncan Jones, Antoine Fuqua, Ryûhei Kitamura, and the late Mel Blanc, Howard Hawks, Hugh Griffith, Clint Walker, Benny Goodman, Douglas Fowley, Franklin J. Schaffner, Meredith MacRae, Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry), Irving Thalberg, Christine Jorgensen, and Jamie Uys. Dooley Wilson died 65 years ago in 1953 at age 67. Claude Rains died 51 years ago in 1967 at age 77. Michel Simon died 43 years ago in 1975 at age 80.

Today Annette Bening is 60. Today is also the birthday of Rupert Everett, Riley Keough, Laverne Cox, Ted Levine, Helmut Berger, Melissa Etheridge, Danny Elfman, La Toya Jackson, Noel Gallagher, Melanie Brown (Mel B), Justin Chon, Robert Logan, Kevin Conway, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Aaron McGruder, Daniel Tosh, and the late Bob Hope, John F. Kennedy, Josef von Sternberg, Clifton James, Sebastian Shaw, Stacy Keach Sr., and Gregg Toland. John Barrymore died 76 years ago in 1942 at age 60. James Whale died 61 years ago in 1957 at age 67. Mary Pickford died 39 years ago in 1979 at age 87. Harvey Korman died ten years ago in 2008 at age 81. Dennis Hopper died eight years ago in 2010 at age 74.

Today Kylie Minogue is 50, and Jake Johnson is 40. Today is also the birthday of Carey Mulligan, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Sondra Locke, Carroll Baker, Romain Duris, Christa Miller, Anne Reid, Patricia Quinn, Gladys Knight, John Fogerty, Justin Kirk, Nonso Anozie, Irwin Winkler, Rudy Giuliani, Marco Rubio, Steve King, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and the late Ian Fleming, Glenn Quinn, Martha Vickers, Beth Howland, Zelda Rubinstein, Gordon Willis, Hank Mann, Rob Ford, and Edith Massey, who would be 100. Phil Hartman was murdered twenty years in 1998 at age 49. Gary Coleman died eight years ago in 2010 at age 42. Maya Angelou died four years ago in 2014 at age 86.

Today Henry Kissinger and Sumner Redstone are 95, Bruce Weitz is 75, Ken Lerner is 70, and Linnea Quigley is 60. Today is also the birthday of Paul Bettany, Joseph Fiennes, Louis Gossett Jr., André Benjamin, Chris Colfer, Jack McBrayer, Ben Feldman, Richard Schiff, Adam Carolla, Lee Meriwether, Bella Heathcote, Todd Bridges, Peri Gilpin, Jamie Oliver, Jee-woon Kim, Giuseppe Tornatore, Simon Blackwell, Lily-Rose Depp, and the late Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Dashiell Hammett, John Cheever, Steve Franken, Willie Best, Lucile Watson, Antonia Bird, Dolores Hope, Hubert Humphrey, Wild Bill Hickok, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. George Zucco died 58 years ago in 1960 at age 74. Jeff Conway died seven years ago in 2011 at age 60. Gregg Allman died one year ago in 2017 at age 69.

Today Stevie Nicks is 70. Today is also the birthday of Helena Bonham Carter, Pam Grier, Bobcat Goldthwait, Matt Stone, Lenny Kravitz, Lauryn Hill, Alex Garland, Tarsem Singh, Hank Williams Jr., and the late John Wayne, Peter Cushing, Al Jolson, James Arness, Peggy Lee, Jay Silverheels, Robert Morley, and John Dahl, who would be 100. Eddie Albert died 13 years ago in 2005 at age 99. Sydney Pollack died ten years ago in 2008 at age 73.

Today Ken Jacobs is 85, Leslie Uggams is 75, and Kevin Heffernan and Joseph D. Reitman are 50. Today is also the birthday of Ian McKellen, Mike Myers, Octavia Spencer, Cillian Murphy, Anne Heche, Jacki Weaver, Frank Oz, Jamie Kennedy, Ethan Suplee, Demetri Martin, Bobby Slayton, Ray Stevenson, Justin Henry, Erinn Hayes, Neil Marshall, Ann Robinson, and the late Miles Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dixie Carter, Claude Akins, Raymond Carver, Jeanne Crain, Robert Ludlum, Bill Robinson and George Hickenlooper. Vic Tayback died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 60. Charles Nelson Reilly died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 76.

Today Tommy Chong is 80, and Gary Burghoff is 75. Today is also the birthday of Bob Dylan, John C. Reilly, Jim Broadbent, Alfred Molina, Kristin Scott Thomas, Priscilla Presley, Michael Lonsdale, Roger Deakins, Nell Campbell, Patti LaBelle, Rosanne Cash, Doug Jones, Will Sasso, Dana Ashbrook, Dash Mihok, Eric Close, Greg Berlanti, Zhangke Jia, Michael Chabon, and the late Queen Victoria, Mai Zetterling, Peter Whitney, Willis Bouchey, and Seijun Suzuki. Duke Ellington died 44 years ago in 1974 at age 75. Dick Martin died ten years ago in 2008 at age 86.

Today Joan Collins is 85, Drew Carey is 60, and John Ortiz is 50. Today is also the birthday of H. Jon Benjamin, Barbara Barrie, Melissa McBride, Jewel Kilcher, Ryan Coogler, Charles Kimbrough, Tom Tykwer, Samuel Maoz, and the late Douglas Fairbanks, Scatman Crothers, Rosemary Clooney, Betty Garrett, Nigel Davenport, and James Gleason. Jackie “Moms” Mabley died 43 years ago in 1975 at age 81. George Jessel died 37 years ago in 1981 at age 83. Sterling Hayden died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 70. Roger Moore died one year ago in 2017 at age 89.