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Today Joe Flaherty is 80. Today is also the birthday of Chris Pratt, Juliette Lewis, Bernie Kopell, David Morrissey, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter, Lana Wachowski, Benjamin Walker, Carrie Preston, Mariette Hartley, Ron Ely, Josh Pais, Maggie Siff, Lana Del Rey, Michael Bowen, Ian McEwan, Edward Snowden, Jim Breuer, Prince William, Jussie Smollett, Gretchen Carlson, and the late Judy Holliday and Jane Russell, who would both be 100, Maureen Stapleton, Tony Scott, Robert Pastorelli, Eric Douglas, Conrad L. Hall, and Benazir Bhutto. Carroll O’Connor and John Lee Hooker died twenty years ago in 2001. O’Connor was 76. Hooker was 83.

Today James Tolkan is 90, Stephen Frears is 80, Tress MacNeille is 70, and Josh Lucas is 50. Today is also the birthday of Nicole Kidman, Brian Wilson, John Goodman, Lionel Richie, Robert Rodriguez, Mike Birbiglia, Jon Glaser, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dreama Walker, Candy Clark, Bonnie Bartlett, Robert B. Weide, and the late Errol Flynn, Martin Landau, Olympia Dukakis, John Mahoney, Danny Aiello, Ulrich Mühe, Chet Atkins, Audie Murphy, and Terence Young. Estelle Winwood died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 101. Ryan Dunn died ten years ago in 2011 at age 34.

Today Ayman al-Zawahiri is 70. Today is also the birthday of Gena Rowlands, Kathleen Turner, Paul Dano, Zoe Saldana, Salman Rushdie, Jean Dujardin, Phylicia Rashad, Hugh Dancy, Atticus Shaffer, Marisa Pavan, Robin Tunney, Mia Sara, Ryan Hurst, Aidan Turner, Samuel West, Ken Davitian, Derren Nesbitt, Paula Abdul, Macklemore, Boris Johnson, Laura Ingraham, and the late Moe Howard, Charles Coburn, Nick Drake, Nancy Marchand, Mildred Natwick, May Whitty, Pier Angeli, Louis Jourdan, who would be 100, Pat Buttram, Harry Lauter, Kim Walker, Pauline Kael, and Lou Gehrig. Ed Wynn died 65 years ago in 1966 at age 79. Jean Arthur died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 90. James Gandolfini died eight years ago in 2013 at age 51. Anton Yelchin died five years ago in 2016 at age 27. Ian Holm died one year ago in 2020 at age 88.

Today Steve Miner is 70. Today is also the birthday of Paul McCartney, Isabella Rossellini, Carol Kane, Blake Shelton, Richard Madden, Kim Dickens, Alana De La Garza, Ivonne Coll, Ralph Brown, Max Records, Rick Famuyiwa, Barbara Broccoli, and the late Roger Ebert, Keye Luke, E.G. Marshall, Maggie McNamara, Mae Busch, and Jeanette MacDonald. Ethel Barrymore died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 79. Pedro Armendáriz died 58 years ago in 1963 at age 51. Terence Fisher died 41 years ago in 1980 at age 76. Nancy Marchand died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 71. Vera Lynn died one year ago in 2020 at age 103.

Today Ken Loach is 85, William Lucking is 80, Joe Piscopo is 70, and Denis Lavant is 60. Today is also the birthday of Greg Kinnear, Thomas Haden Church, Kendrick Lamar, Barry Manilow, Will Forte, Bobby Farrelly, Scott Adkins, John Gallagher Jr., Joshua Leonard, Michael Showalter, Jason Patric, Peter Lupus, Arthur Darvill, Venus Williams, Jodie Whittaker, Jon Gries, Jennifer Irwin, Louis Leterrier, Phyllida Lloyd, Newt Gingrich, and the late Ralph Bellamy, Lucio Fulci, Russell Simpson, James Shigeta, Setsuko Hara, Grant Mitchell, M.C. Escher, and Sonny Fox. Cyd Charisse died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 86.

Today is the birthday of Laurie Metcalf, John Cho, Clifton Collins Jr., Eileen Atkins, Daniel Brühl, Bill Cobbs, Joyce Carol Oates, Abby Elliott, Frederick Koehler, Joan Van Ark, Sibel Kekilli, Ian Buchanan, Scott Alexander, and the late Stan Laurel, Jack Albertson, Tupac Shakur, who would be 50, Ilona Massey, and Vilmos Zsigmond. George Reeves died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 45. Nicholas Ray died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 67. John G. Avildsen died four years ago in 2017 at age 81.

Today Laurent Cantet is 60, and Jake Busey is 50. Today is also the birthday of Helen Hunt, Neil Patrick Harris, Ice Cube, Jim Belushi, Courtney Cox, Leah Remini, Julie Hagerty, Polly Draper, Jorge Rivero, Denzel Whitaker, Ray Santiago, Andy Tennant, John Toll, and the late Jim Varney, Waylon Jennings, Harry Nilsson, Erland Josephson, Harry Langdon, Alberto Sordi, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, and James Robertson Justice. Ella Fitzgerald died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 79. Hume Cronyn died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 91. Stan Winston died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 62. Casey Kasem died seven years ago in 2014 at age 82. Franco Zeffirelli died two years in 2019 at age 96.

Today Marla Gibbs is 90, Donald Trump is 75, Aleksandr Sokurov is 70, and Boy George is 60. Today is also the birthday of Louis Garrel, Lucy Hale, Will Patton, Diablo Cody, Joe Grifasi, Alan Carr, Jay Roach, and the late Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, Gene Barry, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire, Kay Sutton, Jerzy Kosinski, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Alan Reed died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 69. Henry Mancini died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 70. Richard Jaeckel died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 70. Ann Morgan Guilbert died five years ago in 2016 at age 87.

Today Stellan Skarsgård and Richard Thomas are 70, Chris Evans is 40, and Kodi Smit-McPhee is 25. Today is also the birthday of Malcolm McDowell, Tim Allen, Ally Sheedy, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Steve-O, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Kat Dennigs, Simon Callow, Kate Lyn Sheil, Greg Daniels, and the late Paul Lynde, Basil Rathbone, Ben Johnson, Mary Wickes, W.B. Yeats, and Tay Garnett. Geraldine Page died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 62.

Today is the birthday of Dave Franco, Scott Thompson, Jay Mewes, Richard M. Sherman, Abbey Lee, Timothy Simons, Richard Ayoade, Mel Rodriguez, Timothy Busfield, Eamonn Walker, Jenilee Harrison, Kendra Wilkinson, and the late Anne Frank, Jim Nabors, Priscilla Lane, George H.W. Bush, Vic Damone, Irwin Allen, and Jim Siedow. Norma Shearer died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 80. Gregory Peck died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 87. Sylvia Miles died two years ago in 2019 at age 94.