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Today is the birthday of Stephen Lang, Bruce McGill, Richie Sambora, Lil’ Kim, Tom Holland, Sela Ward, Michael Rosenbaum, Rachael Taylor, Justin Chambers, Mindy Sterling, Greg Grunberg, Jafar Panahi, Greg Mottola, Giorgio Armani, and the late Yul Brynner, Tab Hunter, John Quincy Adams, David Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Brett Somers, and E.B. White. Robert Ryan died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 63. Laurence Olivier died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 82.

Today Alice Munro is 90, Robert Pine is 80, and Isabela Merced is 20. Today is also the birthday of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sofia Vergara, Adrian Grenier, Arlo Guthrie, Fiona Shaw, Peter Serafinowicz, Golshifteh Farahani, Jessica Simpson, Wyatt Russell, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Annie Mumolo, Mavis Staples, Marco Rodríguez, Joel Potrykus, and the late Fred Gwynne, Marcel Proust, who would be 150, Nikola Tesla, Sue Lyon, Ivan Passer, Jake LaMotta, Ron Glass, David Brinkley, Tura Satana, Nick Adams, John Gilbert, and Jerry Nelson. Mel Blanc died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 81. Omar Sharif died six years ago in 2015 at age 83.

Today Dick Richards is 85, Richard Wilson is 75, Chris Cooper is 70, and Scott Grimes is 50. Today is also the birthday of Tom Hanks, Jack White, Jimmy Smits, Courtney Love, Pamela Adlon, Kelly McGillis, Fred Savage, Douglas Booth, Richard Roundtree, Ed Ames, Fred Norris, O.J. Simpson, David O’Hara, David Hockney, Kevin Nash, Dean Koontz, Nigel Lythgoe, Jordan Belfort, Steven Avery, Jodi Arias, Amanda Knox, and the late Brian Dennehy, Vince Edwards and Elem Klimov. Rod Steiger died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 77. Charles Lane died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 102. Rip Torn died two years ago in 2019 at age 88.

Today Angelica Huston is 70, Toby Keith and Wally Pfister are 60, Joe Russo is 50, and Jamie Blackley is 30. Today is also the birthday of Kevin Bacon, Jeffrey Tambor, Billy Crudup, Michael Weatherly, Kim Darby, Milo Ventimiglia, Sophia Bush, Robert Knepper, Kathleen Robertson, Lee Tergesen, Steve Lawrence, Beck, Wolfgang Puck, Jaden Smith, Michael Cuesta, Maya Hawke, and the late Marty Feldman, John D. Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller, Mary Ellen Trainor, Craig Stevens, Jerry Vale, Louis Jordan, Billy Eckstine, Percy Grainger, Barbara Loden, Eugene Pallette, and Jean Rouverol. Vivien Leigh died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 53. Dick Sargent died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 64. June Allyson died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 88. Betty Ford died ten years ago in 2011 at age 93. Ernest Borgnine died nine years ago in 2012 at age 95. Nelsan Ellis died four years ago in 2017 at age 39. Tab Hunter died three years ago in 2018 at age 86.

Today Joe Spano is 75, Blondie Chaplin is 70, Christian Camargo is 50, and Eve Hewson is 30. Today is also the birthday of Ringo Starr, Shelley Duvall, Jim Gaffigan, Bérénice Bejo, Doc Severinsen, Robert Eggers, Nina Hoss, Billy Campbell, Hamish Linklater, Mo Collins, Patricia Hitchcock, Robin Weigert, Michelle Kwan, Jorja Fox, Jack Whitehall, Amy Carlson, Kirsten Vangsness, Martin Wallström, Jonathan Dayton, and the late Vittorio De Sica, George Cukor, Gustav Mahler, Jon Pertwee, Robert A. Heinlein, and Satchel Paige. Arthur Conan Doyle died 91 years ago in 1930 at age 71. Veronica Lake died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 50. Fred Neil died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 65.

Today Sylvester Stallone, Fred Dryer, and George W. Bush are 75, and Geoffrey Rush and Allyce Beasley are 70. Today is also the birthday of The Dalai Lama, Kevin Hart, Jennifer Saunders, Eva Green, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Burt Ward, Geraldine James, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Tia Mowry-Hardict, Brian Posehn, Peter Hedges, and the late Janet Leigh, Ned Beatty, Frida Kahlo, Nancy Reagan, who would be 100, Merv Griffin, Della Reese, William Schallert, Sebastian Cabot, Cathy O’Donnell, and Misty Upham. William Faulkner died 59 years ago today in 1962 at 64. Chief John Big Tree died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 90. Louis Armstrong died fifty years ago in 1971 at age 69. Brandon De Wilde died 49 years ago in 1972 at age 30. Joe E. Brown died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 80. Alma Reville died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 82. Marsha P. Johnson died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 46. Roy Rogers died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 86. John Frankenheimer died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 72. Buddy Ebsen died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 95. Ennio Morricone died one year ago in 2020 at age 91.

Today Ryan Hansen is 40. Today is also the birthday of Edie Falco, Robbie Robertson, Huey Lewis, RZA, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jillian Armenante, François Arnaud, Kathryn Erbe, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Louis Herthum, Don Stark, Tommy Cook, Jenji Kohan, Peter Tolan, Bill Watterson, Joe Brown, and the late Warren Oates, Jean Cocteau, Katherine Helmond, Shirley Knight, P.T. Barnum, Milburn Stone, John Wood, and William Hootkins. Leo McCarey died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 70.

Today Eva Marie Saint is 97, Ron Kovic is 75, and Tahar Rahim is 40. Today is also the birthday of Gina Lollobrigida, Tracy Letts, Geraldo Rivera, Stephen Rannazzisi, Ed O’Ross, Mo McRae, Oren Moverman, Malia Obama, and the late Neil Simon, Gloria Stuart, Stephen Boyd, Bill Withers, Calvin Coolidge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Eric Fleming, Colin Welland, Rube Goldberg, and Meyer Lansky. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died 195 years ago in 1826. Adams was 90, and Jefferson was 83. James Monroe died 190 years ago in 1831 at age 73. Eva Gabor died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 76. Barry White died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 58. Abbas Kiarostami died five years ago in 2016 at age 76.

Today Gloria Allred is 80, and Julian Assange is 50. Today is also the birthday of Tom Cruise, Olivia Munn, Patrick Wilson, Connie Nielsen, Kurtwood Smith, Tommy Flanagan, Yeardley Smith, Thomas Gibson, Audra McDonald, Corey Sevier, Bruce Altman, Dave Barry, Tom Stoppard, Peyton Reed, Michele Soavi, and the late Franz Kafka, George M. Cohan, Ken Russell, George Sanders, Kinji Fukasaku, Susan Peters, who would be 100, Rick Ducommun, and Don Haggerty. Jim Morrison died fifty years ago in 1971 at age 27. Rudy Vallée died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 84. Jim Backus died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 76. “Curly” Joe DeRita died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 83. Andy Griffith died nine years ago in 2012 at age 86. Noel Neill died five years ago in 2016 at age 95. Arte Johnson died two years ago in 2019 at age 90.

Today Frank Williams is 90, and Samy Naceri is 60. Today is also the birthday of Larry David, Margot Robbie, Lindsay Lohan, Ashley Tisdale, Scott Aukerman, Doug Benson, Polly Holliday, Wendy Schaal, Saul Rubinek, Andrew Divoff, Erin Burnett, Richard Petty, Keith Morrison, Mark Kermode, Johnny Weir, and the late Thurgood Marshall, Ron Silver, Ken Curtis, Brock Peters, Kenneth McMillan, Jenni Rivera, and Dave Thomas. Franklin Schaffner died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 69. Lee Remick died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 55. Fred Gwynne died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 66. James Stewart died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 89. Mario Puzo died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 78. Jan Murray died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 89. Michael Cimino died five years ago in 2016 at age 77.