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Today Leslie Caron is 90, and Julianne Nicholson and Missy Elliott are 50. Today is also the birthday of Dan Aykroyd, Debbie Harry, Liv Tyler, Léa Seydoux, Andre Braugher, Geneviève Bujold, Jamie Farr, Pamela Anderson, Sufjan Stevens, Alan Ruck, Thomas Sadoski, David Gulpilil, Hannah Murray, Storm Reid, Fortune Feimster, Jordi Mollà, Brian George, Peter Cattaneo, David Duke, and the late Charles Laughton, Olivia de Havilland, Princess Diana, who would be 60, William Wyler, Karen Black, Sydney Pollack, Farley Granger, Alice Guy-Blaché, and David Prowse. Michael Landon died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 54. Robert Mitchum died 24 years in 1997 at age 79. Sylvia Sidney died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 88. Walter Matthau died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 79. Marlon Brando died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 80. Luther Vandross died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 54. Karl Malden died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 97.

Today Monica Potter is 50. Today is also the birthday of Vincent D’Onofrio, Lizzy Caplan, Mike Tyson, Rupert Graves, David Alan Grier, Molly Parker, Marton Csokas, Leonard Whiting, Rick Gonzalez, Víctor Erice, Angela Sarafyan, Michael Phelps, Fantasia Barrino, Mark Waters, and the late Lena Horne, Susan Hayward, Pat McCormick, Anthony Mann, Glenda Farrell, Ted Ross, John Harmon, George Chandler, Florence Ballard, and Dave Van Ronk. George ‘Spanky’ McFarland died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 65. Gale Gordon died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 89. Pina Bausch died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 68. Paul Mazursky died seven years ago in 2014 at age 84.

Today Cara Williams is 96, and Sharon Lawrence is 60. Today is also the birthday of Richard Lewis, Gary Busey, Melora Hardin, Lily Rabe, Colin Jost, Bret McKenzie, Brian d’Arcy James, Fred Grandy, Matthew Weiner, Jeff Baena, and the late Slim Pickens, Ray Harryhausen, Robert Evans, Bernard Herrmann, Ian Bannen, Corey Allen, Ruth Warrick, Joan Davis, and Nelson Eddy. Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle died 88 years ago in 1933 at age 46. Jayne Mansfield died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 34. Bob Crane died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 49. Lana Turner died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 74. William Hickey died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 69. Vittorio Gassman died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 77. Rosemary Clooney died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 74. Katharine Hepburn died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 96. Edward Yang died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 59. Don S. Davis died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 65. Jim Kelly died eight years ago in 2013 at age 67. Steve Ditko died three years ago in 2018 at age 90. Carl Reiner died one year ago in 2020 at age 98.

Today Mel Brooks is 95, Bruce Davison is 75, Aileen Quinn and Elon Musk are 50, and Jon Watts is 40. Today is also the birthday of Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Mary Stuart Masterson, Felicia Day, Alice Krige, Mike White, Alessandro Nivola, John Byner, Ayelet Zurer, Kellie Pickler, and the late Gilda Radner, Pat Morita, Richard Rodgers, Henry VIII of England, Richard Bright, and John Inman. Frank Sutton died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 50. Rod Serling died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 50. GG Allin died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 36. Jack Carter died six years ago in 2015 at age 93. Harlan Ellison died three years ago in 2018 at age 84.

Today Julia Duffy is 70, and Jo Frost is 50. Today is also the birthday of Tobey Maguire, J.J. Abrams, Isabelle Adjani, Sam Claflin, Vera Wang, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Wagner Moura, Matthew Lewis, Chandler Riggs, Drake Bell, Ed Westwick, Courtney Ford, Shirley Anne Field, Kathryn Beaumont, Janusz Kaminski, Khloé Kardashian, and the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, who would be 80, Helen Keller, Robert Keeshan, Ross Perot, Muriel Pavlow, who would be 100, John McIntire, Billy Curtis, Skelton Knaggs, and I.A.L. Diamond. Jack Lemmon died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 76. Gale Storm died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 87.

Today Robert Davi is 70. Today is also the birthday of Paul Thomas Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Nick Offerman, Sean Hayes, Aubrey Plaza, Ariana Grande, Chris O’Donnell, Chris Isaak, John Beasley, Mark McKinney, Matt Letscher, Josef Sommer, Gedde Watanabe, Michael Paul Chan, Jerry Schatzberg, Derek Jeter, Harley Quinn Smith, and the late Peter Lorre, Eleanor Parker, Dick Smith, and Wolfgang Reitherman. Nora Ephron died nine years ago in 2012 at age 71. Edith Scob died two years ago in 2019 at age 81.

Today June Lockhart is 96, Denys Arcand is 80, Ernest R. Dickerson is 70, Ricky Gervais and Timur Bekmambetov are 60, and Jason Lewis and Angela Kinsey are 50. Today is also the birthday of Linda Cardellini, Jimmie Walker, Carly Simon, Busy Philipps, John Benjamin Hickey, Rain, Sonia Sotomayor, and the late Sidney Lumet, Anthony Bourdain, George Michael, George Orwell, Larry Kramer, Roger Livesey, Charlotte Greenwood, George Murdock, and Anne Revere. Colin Clive died 84 years ago in 1937 at age 37. Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died twelve years ago in 2009. Jackson was 50. Fawcett was 62. Patrick Macnee died six years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today Iain Glen is 60, and Vanessa Ray is 40. Today is also the birthday of Mick Fleetwood, Mindy Kaling, Peter Weller, Robert Downey Sr., Nancy Allen, Solange Knowles, Minka Kelly, Michele Lee, Sherry Stringfield, Georg Stanford Brown, Joe Penny, Dan Gilroy, Vittorio Storaro, and the late Claude Chabrol, Adrienne Shelly, Al Molinaro, Phil Harris, Jack Carter, and Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister. Tony Hancock died 53 years ago in 1968 at age 44. Jackie Gleason died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 71. Brian Keith died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 75. David Tomlinson died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 83. Paul Winchell died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 82. Eli Wallach died seven years ago in 2014 at age 98.

Today is the birthday of Frances McDormand, Joel Edgerton, Selma Blair, Joss Whedon, Melissa Rauch, Randy Jackson, Bryan Brown, Jason Mraz, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Martin Klebba, John Amplas, David Dobkin, Russell Mulcahy, Clarence Thomas, and the late Bob Fosse, June Carter Cash, Dennis Price, Alan Vega, Alfred Kinsey, and Alan Turing. Maureen O’Sullivan died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 87. Peter Falk died ten years ago in 2011 at age 83.

Today Kris Kristofferson is 85, Michael Lerner is 80, and Mary Lynn Rajskub is 50. Today is also the birthday of Meryl Streep, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Campbell, Emmanuelle Seigner, Stephen Chow, Amy Brenneman, Elizabeth Warren, Prunella Scales, Donald Faison, Joe Dempsie, Lindsay Wagner, Graham Greene, Portia Doubleday, Carson Daly, Douglas Smith, Alicia Goranson, Tim Russ, Uwe Boll, Joie Lee, Dan Brown, Erin Brockovich, Wayne Federman, Dianne Feinstein, Adam Schiff, Adam Schiff, Wolfgang Becker, and the late Billy Wilder, Abbas Kiarostami, Freddie Prinze, John Dillinger, Michael Todd, David L. Lander, Ralph Waite, Amrish Puri, Erich Maria Remarque, and Octavia Butler. David O. Selznick died 56 years ago in 1965 at age 63. Judy Garland died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 47. Joseph Losey died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 75. Fred Astaire died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 88. George Carlin died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 71. Joel Schumacher died one year ago in 2020 at age 80.