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Today Marilyn Ghigliotti is 60, and Justin Theroux is 50. Today is also the birthday of Antonio Banderas, Rosanna Arquette, Leo Fitzpatrick, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Diane Venora, Angie Harmon, Ryan Eggold, Murray Melvin, Don Swayze, Brenton Thwaites, Cate Shortland, Lucas Till, Rick Overton, Andrew Sullivan, Kylie Jenner, Mama June Shannon, and the late Norma Shearer, Jack Haley, Eddie Fisher, Rhonda Fleming, Jimmy Dean, Herbert Hoover, Lynn Cohen, Martha Hyer, Noah Beery Jr., Jeff Corey, Tom Laughlin, Hugh Herbert, Ken Annakin, and Walter Lang. Isaac Hayes died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 65. Al Freeman Jr. died nine years ago in 2012 at age 81.

Today is the birthday of Sam Elliott, Melanie Griffith, Anna Kendrick, Eric Bana, Gillian Anderson, Audrey Tautou, Bill Skarsgård, David Steinberg, Thomas Lennon, Kevin McKidd, Burton Gilliam, Toni Servillo, Amanda Bearse, Kenya Barris, McG, Chris Cuomo, Hoda Kotb, and the late Whitney Houston, Robert Shaw, Robert Aldrich, P.L. Travers, Leo Genn, John Stephenson, Nat Pendleton, and Allen ‘Farina’ Hoskins. Sharon Tate died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 26. Jerry Garcia died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 53. Gregory Hines died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 57. Matthew McGrory died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 32. Bernie Mac died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 50.

Today Martin Brest and Mamoru Oshii are 70, and The Edge (David Howell Evans) is 60. Today is also the birthday of Dustin Hoffman, Keith Carradine, Robin Quivers, Connie Stevens, Shawn Mendes, Don Most, Larry Wilcox, Peyton List, Lindsay Sloane, Nita Talbot, Jon Turteltaub, Lee Unkrich, Donald P. Bellisario, and the late Esther Williams and William Asher, who would be 100, Richard Anderson, Sylvia Sidney, Rory Calhoun, Dino De Laurentiis, Earl Cameron, Rosetta LeNoire, and Robert Siodmak. Richard Deacon died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 63. Louise Brooks died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 78. Alan Napier died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 85. Fay Wray died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 96. Barbara Bel Geddes died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 82. Patricia Neal died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 84. Karen Black died eight years ago in 2013 at age 74. Glen Campbell and Barbara Cook died four years ago in 2017. Campbell was 81. Cook was 89.

Today Maggie Wheeler is 60. Today is also the birthday of Charlize Theron, Michael Shannon, David Duchovny, Wayne Knight, Abbie Cornish, Tobin Bell, Garrison Keillor, Brit Marling, Caroline Aaron, Bruce Dickinson, Alexandre Aja, Harold Perrineau, David Rasche, John Glover, Eric Johnson, Anjanette Comer, Robert Mueller, and the late Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer, Billie Burke, Nicholas Ray, Verna Bloom, Edward Hardwicke, Stan Freberg, James Randi, and Rick Genest. Oliver Hardy died 64 years ago in 1957 at age 65.

Today Peter Simonischek is 75, Catherine Hicks is 70, Merrin Dungey is 50, and Leslie Odom Jr. is 40. Today is also the birthday of M. Night Shyamalan, Vera Farmiga, Michelle Yeoh, Leland Orser, Michael Anderson Jr., Peter Bonerz, Inga Landgré, and the late Robert Mitchum, Lucille Ball, Andy Warhol, Frank Finlay, Charles Crichton, Paul Bartel, and Umberto Lenzi. Preston Sturges died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 60. Rick James died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 56. John Hughes died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 59.

Today John Jarratt is 70, Janet McTeer is 60, and Jesse Williams is 40. Today is also the birthday of Mark Strong, James Gunn, Loni Anderson, Maureen McCormick, Scott William Winters, and the late John Huston, Neil Armstrong, Robert Taylor, John Saxon, Adam Yauch, Joan Hickson, Billie Hayes, Ja’net DuBois, Reginald Owen, Guy de Maupassant, Bob Clark, Pete Burns, and Joseph Merrick. Carmen Miranda died 66 years ago in 1955 at age 46. Marilyn Monroe died 59 years ago in 1962 at age 36. Richard Burton died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 58. Ralph Meeker died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 67. Alec Guinness died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 86. Charlotte Rae died three years ago in 2018 at age 92. Toni Morrison died two years ago in 2019 at age 88.

Today Barack Obama is 60, and Meghan Markle and Abigail Spencer are 40. Today is also the birthday of Billy Bob Thornton, Greta Gerwig, Richard Belzer, Daniel Dae Kim, Tina Cole, Chet Hanks, James Tupper, Sebastian Roché, Donald Gibb, Keith Ellison, Dennis Lehane, Sapphire, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, and the late Louis Armstrong, Paul Mooney, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Don S. Davis, Anita Page, Ron Lester, William Keighley, Louis Vuitton, who would be 200, and Carol Arthur. Melvyn Douglas died forty years ago in 1981 at age 80. Victor Mature died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 86.

Today Tony Bennett is 95, Martha Stewart is 80, Jay North is 70, and Molly Hagan is 60. Today is also the birthday of Martin Sheen, John C. McGinley, John Landis, Evangeline Lilly, Stephen Graham, James Hetfield, Isaiah Washington, Hannah Simone, Lambert Wilson, Michael Ealy, Jonah Ray, Nick Sandow, Mamie Gummer, Steven Berkoff, Mathieu Kassovitz, Elsa Cárdenas, Justin Kurzel, Tom Brady, Max Landis, and the late Dolores del Rio, Jean Hagen, and Bethel Leslie. Joseph Conrad died 97 years ago in 1924 at age 66. Flannery O’Connor died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 39. Lenny Bruce died 55 years ago in 1966 at age 40. Ida Lupino died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 77.

Today Nehemiah Persoff is 102. Today is also the birthday of Kevin Smith, Mary-Louise Parker, Sam Worthington, Edward Furlong, Joanna Cassidy, Butch Patrick, Victoria Jackson, Matthew Del Negro, Kathryn Harrold, Hallie Eisenberg, Charli XCX, Nathan Zellner, and the late Peter O’Toole, Myrna Loy, Carroll O’Connor, Wes Craven, Beatrice Straight, James Baldwin, Max Wright, Jack L. Warner, and Gary Merrill. Jean-Pierre Melville died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 55. Fritz Lang died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 85. Raymond Carver died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 50. William S. Burroughs died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 83.

Today is the birthday of Jason Momoa, Jack O’Connell, Sam Mendes, Demián Bichir, Steve Schirripa, John Carroll Lynch, Chuck D, Coolio, Giancarlo Giannini, Adrian Dunbar, Eduardo Noriega, Terry Kiser, Adam Duritz, David Wain, Oona Laurence, José Padilha, and the late Jerry Garcia, Dom DeLuise, Claudius, Geoffrey Holder, Yves Saint Laurent, Herman Melville, Taylor Negron, Henry Jones, J. Lee Thompson, and Cookie Mueller. Strother Martin died 41 years ago in 1980 at age 61. Paddy Chayefsky died forty years ago in 1981 at age 58. D.A. Pennebaker died two years ago in 2019 at age 94. Wilford Brimley died one year ago in 2020 at age 85.