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Today Norman Jewison is 95, and Charlotte Gainsbourg is 50. Today is also the birthday of Yusuf / Cat Stevens, Josh Hartnett, Juno Temple, Jon Lovitz, George Wallace, Justin Bartha, Béla Tarr, Godfrey, Rory Culkin, Betty Gilpin, David Dastmalchian, Diane Guerrero, Sprague Grayden, Alysia Reiner, Ike Eisenmann, Adrienne King, and the late Robin Williams, who would be 70, Don Knotts, Ernest Hemingway, Edward Herrmann, Paul Burke, Karel Reisz, Maria Falconetti, and Janet Reno. Basil Rathbone died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 75. Theodore Bikel died six years ago in 2015 at age 91. John Heard died four years ago in 2017 at age 71.

Today Randal Kleiser is 75, and Sandra Oh is 50. Today is also the birthday of Cormac McCarthy, Judy Greer, Omar Epps, Josh Holloway, John Francis Daley, Carlos Santana, Julianne Hough, Frank Whaley, Dean Winters, Naseeruddin Shah, Sally Ann Howes, Simon Rex, Tantoo Cardinal, Rodney Eastman, Camille Keaton, Chloe Fineman, and the late Natalie Wood, Diana Rigg, Alexander the Great, Verna Felton, Lola Albright, Aleksey German, and Billy Mays. Franklin Pangborn died 63 years ago in 1958 at age 69. Bruce Lee died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 32.

Today Abel Ferrara is 70, and Lisa Lampanelli, Campbell Scott, and Hideo Nakata are 60. Today is also the birthday of Benedict Cumberbatch, Anthony Edwards, Jim Norton, Brian May, Jared Padalecki, Vinessa Shaw, Kaitlin Doubleday, Mark Holton, Nancy Carell, Saïd Taghmaoui, George Dzundza, Josh Fadem, Atom Egoyan, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Juan José Campanella, Tommy McLoughlin, Matthew Libatique, Shane Dawson, and the late Pat Hingle, Richard Jordan, Max Fleischer, George McGovern, and Lizzie Borden. Joe Flynn died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 49. Jack Warden died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 85. Mel Smith died eight years ago in 2013 at age 60. James Garner died seven years ago in 2014 at age 86. Garry Marshall died five years ago in 2016 at age 81. Rutger Hauer died two years ago in 2019 at age 75.

Today Margo Martindale is 70, Elizabeth McGovern is 60, and Michiel Huisman is 40. Today is also the birthday of Vin Diesel, Kristen Bell, James Brolin, Paul Verhoeven, Wendy Williams, Kelly Reilly, Andre Royo, James Faulkner, Priyanka Chopra, Chace Crawford, Hampton Fancher, Ann-Marie Johnson, Grant Bowler, Richard Branson, Audrey Landers, Lee Arenberg, Jared Hess, and the late Nelson Mandela, Red Skelton, Hunter S. Thompson, Hume Cronyn, Chill Wills, John Glenn, who would be 100, Richard Dix, Gene Lockhart, Harriet Nelson, Lupe Velez, Burt Kwouk, and William Makepeace Thackeray. Jane Austen died 204 years ago in 1817 at age 41. Nico died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 49. Alex Rocco died six years ago in 2015 at age 79.

Today Lucie Arnaz is 70, and Mélanie Thierry is 40. Today is also the birthday of Donald Sutherland, Jason Clarke, Kar-Wai Wong, David Hasselhoff, Alex Winter, Heather Langenkamp, P.J. Soles, Cécile de France, Elena Anaya, Billie Lourd, F. Gary Gray, John Ventimiglia, Robert Romanus, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Mark Burnett, Angela Merkel, and the late James Cagney, Phyllis Diller, Diahann Carroll, Art Linkletter, Barbara O’Neil, William Gargan, and Jack Conway. Billie Holiday died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 44. John Coltrane died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 40. Geraldine Fitzgerald died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 91. Elaine Stritch died seven years ago in 2014 at age 89. John Lewis died one year ago in 2020 at age 80.

Today Corey Feldman is 50. Today is also the birthday of Will Ferrell, Phoebe Cates, Tony Kushner, Rubén Blades, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Rosa Salazar, Jayma Mays, Milly Shapiro, Chris Pontius, Daryl Mitchell, Scott Derrickson, Rain Pryor, and the late Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, Percy Kilbride, Jerry Doyle, Vincent Sherman, Barnard Hughes, Corin Redgrave, Larry Semon, Orville Redenbacher, and Ida B. Wells. George A. Romero died four years ago in 2017 at age 77.

Today Linda Ronstadt is 75, Jesse Ventura is 70, Forest Whitaker and Lolita Davidovich are 60, and Jim Rash is 50. Today is also the birthday of Diane Kruger, Brigitte Nielsen, Travis Fimmel, Eddie Griffin, Ari Aster, Terry O’Quinn, Scott Foley, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Celia Imrie, Brian Austin Green, Joe Turkel, Laura Benanti, Adam Savage, Patrick Wayne, Greg Sestero, Arianna Huffington, Gabriel Iglesias, Beth Stern, and the late Rembrandt, D.A. Pennebaker, Larry Cohen, Ian Curtis, Alex Karras, Tony Hendra, William Dieterle, and Bill Gunn.

Today Vincent Pastore is 75, and Jackie Earle Haley is 60. Today is also the birthday of Jane Lynch, Matthew Fox, Nancy Olson, David Mitchell, Kyle Gass, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Stan Shaw, Joel Silver, Scott Rudin, Conor McGregor, Franklin Graham, and the late Ingmar Bergman, Harry Dean Stanton, Woody Guthrie, Sid Haig, Polly Bergen, Terry-Thomas, William Hanna, Dale Robertson, Donald Meek, Laurie Mitchell, George Tobias, Gerald Ford, and Gustav Klimt. Preston Foster died 51 years ago in 1970 at age 69. Meredith MacRae died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 56.

Today Jacques Perrin is 80, Cheech Marin is 75, Didi Conn is 70, and Michael Mando is 40. Today is also the birthday of Harrison Ford, Patrick Stewart, Cameron Crowe, Tom Kenny, Ken Jeong, Aya Cash, Colton Haynes, Daphne Reid, Catherine Breillat, Gil Birmingham, Sharon Horgan, Michael Jace, Kenny Johnson, Robert Gant, Kari Wahlgren, Steven R. McQueen, and the late Robert Forster, Bob Crane, Sidney Blackmer, James Anderson, who would be 100, and René Laloux. Red Buttons died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 87. Cory Monteith died eight years ago in 2013 at age 31.

Today Cheryl Ladd, Brian Grazer, and Jamey Sheridan are 70, and Erik Per Sullivan is 30. Today is also the birthday of Bill Cosby, Topher Grace, Michelle Rodriguez, Rachel Brosnahan, Richard Simmons, Malala Yousafzai, Cheyenne Jackson, Phil Lord, Anna Friel, Steve Howey, Natalie Martinez, Byung-Hun Lee, Tamsin Greig, Mel Harris, Denise Nicholas, Edwin Neal, and the late Milton Berle, Tod Browning, Joe DeRita, Jay Thomas, Monte Hellman, Beah Richards, Charlie Murphy, Louis B. Meyer, Jean Hersholt, George Eastman, Henry David Thoreau, Pablo Neruda, and Donald E. Westlake. Lon Chaney Jr. died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 67. Kelly Preston died one year ago in 2020 at age 57.