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Today is the birthday of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, David Beckham, Christine Baranski, Bruce Robinson, Ellie Kemper, David Suchet, Bruce Glover, Lily Allen, Stephen Daldry, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Lone Scherfig, Donatella Versace, and the late Bing Crosby, Satyajit Ray, Theodore Bikel, John Neville, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lesley Gore, and Hedda Hopper. Oliver Reed died 19 years ago in 1999 at age 61. Lynn Redgrave died eight years ago in 2010 at age 67. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. died four years ago in 2014 at age 95.

Today James Badge Dale is 40. Today is also the birthday of Wes Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Julie Benz, Judy Collins, Joanna Lumley, Bailey Chase, Tim McGraw, Diahnne Abbott, Stephen Macht, Dann Florek, Maia Morgenstern, and the late Jack Paar, who would be 100, Glenn Ford, Danielle Darrieux, Dan O’Herlihy, John Meillon, Louis Nye, Joseph Heller, Leila Hyams, Terry Southern, Henry Koster, and Calamity Jane.

Today Allan Arkush is 70, and Ana de Armas is 30. Today is also the birthday of Cloris Leachman, Kirsten Dunst, Gal Gadot, Lars von Trier, Jane Campion, Burt Young, Johnny Galecki, Kunal Nayyar, Adrian Pasdar, Jacques Audiard, James Marsh, Bill Plympton, and the late Eve Arden, Jill Clayburgh, Al Lewis, Alice B. Toklas, Johnny Horton, and Dick Elliott. Agnes Moorehead died 44 years ago in 1974 at age 73. Muddy Waters died 35 years ago in 1983 at age 68. Sergio Leone died 29 years ago in 1989 at age 60. Tom Poston died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 85. Ben E. King died three years ago in 2015 at age 76.

Today Willie Nelson is 85, Michelle Pfeiffer is 60, and Tyler Labine is 40. Today is also the birthday of Daniel Day-Lewis, Jerry Seinfeld, Uma Thurman, Kate Mulgrew, Leslie Jordan, Richard Kline, Phillip Noyce, Andrew Bujalski, and the late Duke Ellington, Jean Rochefort, Celeste Holm, Fred Zinnemann, Irvin Kershner, Tom Ewell, Maya Deren, Wayne Robson, Richard Carlson, King Hu, William Randolph Hearst, and Dale Earnhardt. Anthony Mann died 51 years ago in 1967 at age 60. Alfred Hitchcock died 38 years ago in 1980 at age 80. Bob Hoskins died four years ago in 2014 at age 71.

Today is the birthday of Ann-Margret, Penélope Cruz, Jay Leno, Jessica Alba, Mary McDonnell, Elisabeth Röhm, Jorge Garcia, Tony Revolori, Paul Guilfoyle, and the late Lionel Barrymore, Carolyn Jones, Bruno Kirby, Harper Lee, Terry Pratchett, Oskar Schindler, and Saddam Hussein.

Today Cristian Mungiu is 50. Today is also the birthday of Sally Hawkins, Anouk Aimée, Jenna Coleman, Ari Graynor, James Le Gros, Kevin McNally, Matt Reeves, Ace Frehley, Cory Booker, and the late Jack Klugman, Sandy Dennis, Robert Donner, Casey Kasem, Cuba Gooding, August Wilson, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Coretta Scott King, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Today Carol Burnett is 85, Giancarlo Esposito is 60, and Pablo Schreiber is 40. Today is also the birthday of Channing Tatum, Jet Li, Kevin James, Joan Chen, Jemima Kirke, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bobby Rydell, Jordana Brewster, Claudine Auger, Tom Welling, Ivana Milicevic, Debra Wilson, Melania Trump, and the late Douglas Sirk, Jean Vigo, Warren Clarke, Edgar Kennedy, William Desmond Taylor, and Stafford Repp, who would be 100. Gypsy Rose Lee died 48 years ago in 1970 at age 59. Irene Ryan died 45 years ago in 1973 at age 70. Broderick Crawford died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 74. Lucille Ball died 29 years ago in 1989 at age 77. Jonathan Demme died one year ago in 2017 at age 73.

Today is the birthday of Al Pacino, Renée Zellweger, Thalia Shire, Hank Azaria, Jason Lee, Marguerite Moreau, Gina Torres, Melonie Diaz, Jillian Bell, Björn Ulvaeus, Jeffrey DeMunn, Bertrand Tavernier, Dinesh D’Souza, and the late Ella Fitzgerald, Paul Mazursky, Edward R. Murrow, Russ Conway, Cy Twombly, and Oliver Cromwell. Ginger Rogers died 23 years ago in 1995 at age 83. Bea Arthur died nine years ago in 2009 at age 86.

Today Bruce Kirby is 90, and Aidan Gillen is 50. Today is also the birthday of Shirley MacLaine, Barbra Streisand, Djimon Hounsou, Eric Bogosian, Richard Donner, Cedric the Entertainer, Eric Balfour, Kelly Clarkson, Derek Luke, Michael O’Keefe, Rory McCann, Austin Nichols, Glenn Morshower, Peter Friedman, Damon Lindelof, and the late Michael Parks, William Castle, Jill Ireland, Jack E. Leonard, and Robert Wiene. Louise Dresser died 53 years ago in 1965 at age 86. Bud Abbott died 44 years ago in 1974 at age 78.

Today Anne Douglas is 99. Today is also the birthday of John Oliver, Judy Davis, Dev Patel, Lee Majors, Michael Moore, John Cena, Kal Penn, George Lopez, Valerie Bertinelli, Jaime King, Joyce DeWitt, John Hannah, Gemma Whelan, Eric Edelstein, Alan Oppenheimer, D.B. Weiss, John Lutz, Bubba the Love Sponge (Todd Alan Clem), and the late William Shakespeare (who died on his birthday in 1616 at age 52), Shirley Temple, Sandra Dee, Roy Orbison, Jan Hooks, Hervé Villechaize, Simone Simon, Sheila Gish, Kevin Meaney, James Hayter, Frank Borzage, Ronald Neame, J.M.W. Turner, and James Buchanan. Otto Preminger died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 80. Satyajit Ray died 26 years ago in 1992 at age 70.