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Today Barry Van Dyke is 70. Today is also the birthday of Wesley Snipes, J.K. Rowling, Geraldine Chaplin, Don Murray, Pat Cooper, Michael Biehn, Ben Chaplin, B.J. Novak, Dean Cain, Wunmi Mosaku, Mark Cuban, Emilia Fox, France Nuyen, Jessica Williams, Rico Rodriguez, Paul Provenza, Dirk Blocker, Al Sapienza, Alan Autry, Cassi Davis, and the late Mario Bava, Richard Griffiths, Geoffrey Lewis, Ted Cassidy, Louis de Funès, Percy Herbert, and Paul ‘Mousie’ Garner. Gore Vidal died nine years ago in 2012 at age 86. Roddy Piper died six years ago in 2015 at age 61. Jeanne Moreau died four years ago in 2017 at age 89. Alan Parker died one year ago in 2020 at age 76.

Today Buddy Guy is 85, Paul Anka is 80, Barbara Kopple is 75, Erwin Leder is 70, Laurence Fishburne is 60, and Tom Green and Christine Taylor are 50. Today is also the birthday of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hilary Swank, Lisa Kudrow, Christopher Nolan, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Linklater, Jean Reno, Terry Crews, Vivica A. Fox, Gina Rodriguez, Simon Baker, Martin Starr, Jaime Pressly, Joey King, Sofie Gråbøl, Kerry Fox, Frances de la Tour, Phil Davis, Sid Krofft, Michael Bell, Yvonne Strahovski, Javier Botet, William Atherton, Alton Brown, Richard Burgi, Carel Struycken, Delta Burke, Derek Waters, Ken Olin, Kate Bush, Frank Stallone, Ted Sarandos, and the late Henry Ford, Edd Byrnes, Richard Johnson, John P. Ryan, Dick Wilson, Emily Brontë, and John Cason. Claudette Colbert died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 92. Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni both died fourteen years ago in 2007. Bergman was 89. Antonioni was 94. Gloria DeHaven died five years ago in 2016 at age 91.

Today David Warner is 80, and Bill Forsyth is 75. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Dorff, Tim Gunn, Wil Wheaton, Robert Fuller, Timothy Omundson, Leslie Easterbrook, Ken Burns, Tony Sirico, Josh Radnor, Allison Mack, Ato Essandoh, Mike Starr, Mike Hodges, and the late William Powell, Maria Ouspenskaya, Chris Marker, who would be 100 today and who died on his birthday nine years ago in 2012 at age 91, Clara Bow, Lloyd Bochner, Thelma Todd, Irwin Corey, Peter Jennings, Charles Hallahan, Budd Boetticher, Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia, William Cameron Menzies, and Benito Mussolini. “Mama” Cass Elliot died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 32. Luis Buñuel, Raymond Massey, and David Niven all died 38 years ago in 1983. Buñuel was 83, Massey was 86, and Niven was 73.

Today Darryl Hickman is 90, Peter Cullen is 80, and Linda Kelsey is 75. Today is also the birthday of Elizabeth Berkley, Sally Struthers, Lori Loughlin, Dustin Milligan, Frances Lee McCain, Michael Hitchcock, Dey Young, Carlos Jacott, Dick Ebersol, Francis Veber, and the late Jacqueline Kennedy, Joe E. Brown, Rudy Vallee, Georgia Engel, Richard Wright, Beatrix Potter, Alexis Arquette, Ann Doran, and Hugo Chávez. Marie Dressler died 87 years ago in 1934 at age 65. Eileen Brennan died eight years ago in 2013 at age 80.

Today Norman Lear is 99, and Rade Serbedzija is 75. Today is also the birthday of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maya Rudolph, Taylor Schilling, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Donnie Yen, Betty Thomas, Bill Engvall, Roger Guenveur Smith, Bryan Fuller, Cliff Curtis, Carol Leifer, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Takashi Shimizu, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, and the late Keenan Wynn, Jerry Van Dyke, Donald Crisp, Will Jordan, Maury Chaykin, who died on his birthday eleven years ago in 2010 at age 61, Lupita Tovar, and Charles Vidor. Gertrude Stein died 75 years ago in 1946 at age 72. William Wyler died forty years ago in 1981 at age 79. James Mason died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 75. Bob Hope died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 100. R.G. Armstrong died nine years ago in 2012 at age 95. Sam Shepard died four years ago in 2017 at age 73.

Today is the birthday of Mick Jagger, Helen Mirren, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Jason Statham, Kate Beckinsale, Olivia Williams, Jeremy Piven, Roger Taylor, Darlene Love, Peter Hyams, Linda Harrison, Juliet Rylance, Susan George, Danny Woodburn, Dito Montiel, Andy Goldsworthy, and the late Stanley Kubrick, Jason Robards, Gracie Allen, Blake Edwards, Vivian Vance, Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Jung, James Best, Marjorie Lord, Suzanna Leigh, and Joe Jackson. Ed Gein died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 77. June Foray died four years ago in 2017 at age 99. Olivia de Havilland died one year ago in 2020 at age 104.

Today Darren Star is 60. Today is also the birthday of Matt LeBlanc, Illeana Douglas, Iman, David Denman, Jay R. Ferguson, D.B. Woodside, Ana Lily Amirpour, and the late Walter Brennan, Estelle Getty, Brad Renfro, Jack Gilford, Woody Strode, Barbara Harris, Janet Margolin, Emmett Till, August Schellenberg, Jerry Paris, Harold Peary, Lila Lee, and Raoul Ruiz. Vincente Minnelli died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 83. John Schlesinger died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 77. John Saxon and Peter Green died one year ago in 2020. Saxon was 83. Green was 73.

Today Ruth Buzzi and Mark Goddard are 85, Gallagher is 75, Lynda Carter is 70, Patty Jenkins is 50, and Summer Glau is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jennifer Lopez, Anna Paquin, Elisabeth Moss, Rose Byrne, Michael Richards, Kristin Chenoweth, Gus Van Sant, Chris Sarandon, Dan Hedaya, Laura Leighton, Mara Wilson, Doug Liman, Laura Fraser, Paul Ben-Victor, Robert Hays, Danny Dyer, Bindi Irwin, and the late Peter Yates, Alexandre Dumas, Amelia Earhart, Robert Emhardt, Mabel Albertson, Chief Dan George, Zelda Fitzgerald, Ermanno Olmi, Delmer Daves, and Robert Graves. Constance Bennett died 66 years ago in 1965 at age 60. Peter Sellers died 41 years ago in 1980 at age 54. Alan Clarke died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 54. Sherman Hemsley died nine years ago in 2012 at age 74. Regis Philbin died one year ago in 2020 at age 88.

Today Jan Troell is 90, Anthony Kennedy is 85, and Woody Harrelson is 60. Today is also the birthday of Daniel Radcliffe, Slash, Marlon Wayans, Eriq La Salle, Kathryn Hahn, Charisma Carpenter, Edie McClurg, Larry Manetti, Ronny Cox, Pepe Serna, Jo Brand, Monica Lewinsky, Shawn Levy, and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Raymond Chandler, Gloria DeHaven, Emil Jannings, Don Imus, John Rutsey, Hank Worden, Karl Swenson, Robert Brown, who would be 100, and Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy. D.W. Griffith died 73 years ago in 1948 at age 73. Montgomery Clift died 55 years ago in 1966 at age 45. Vic Marrow, Myca Dinh Le, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen died 39 years ago in 1982. Marrow was 53. Le was 7. Chen was 6. Amy Winehouse died ten years ago in 2011 at age 27.

Today Bob Dole is 98, Danny Glover and Paul Schrader are 75, and Skyler Gisondo is 25. Today is also the birthday of Willem Dafoe, Albert Brooks, Terence Stamp, John Leguizamo, Louise Fletcher, David Spade, Selena Gomez, Rhys Ifans, Alan Menken, Jaime Camil, Adam Godley, Peter Jason, Olivier Gourmet, and the late Alex Trebek, James Whale, Dan Rowan, and Orson Bean. Ulrich Mühe died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 54. Estelle Getty died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 84. Dennis Farina died eight years ago in 2013 at age 69.