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Today is the birthday of Peter Dinklage, Hugh Laurie, Shia LaBeouf, Adrienne Barbeau, Joshua Jackson, Sherman Howard, Johnny Brown, Greta Van Susteren, Christina Crawford, and the late Gene Wilder, Chad Everett, Ryan Dunn, Richard Todd, Robert Hutton, Jacques Cousteau, Buddy Baer, Henry Hill, and Wesley Ruggles. John Wayne died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 72. DeForest Kelley died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 79. William Marshall died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 78. Ann Rutherford died nine years ago in 2012 at age 94. Ruby Dee died seven years ago in 2014 at age 91. Ron Moody died six years ago in 2015 at age 91.

Today Jürgen Prochnow is 80, Bobby Jindal is 50, and Sasha Obama is 20. Today is also the birthday of Gina Gershon, Elizabeth Hurley, Bill Burr, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kate Flannery, DJ Qualls, Ben Daniels, Laura Silverman, Tzi Ma, Jeremy Saulnier, Dustin Lance Black, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Andrew Niccol, Timothy Van Patten, Bria Vinaite, Faith Evans, Kate Upton, John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, and the late Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Kevin Corcoran, Sessue Hayakawa, Maurice Sendak, and Prince Philip, who would be 100. Spencer Tracy died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 67. Rainer Werner Fassbinder died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 37. Jo Van Fleet died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 80. Ray Charles died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 73.

Today Jackie Mason is 90, Michael J. Fox and Aaron Sorkin are 60, and Natalie Portman is 40. Today is also the birthday of Johnny Depp, Eddie Marsan, Josh Hamilton, Mae Whitman, Gloria Reuben, David Koepp, Justin Benson, and the late Cole Porter, Robert Cummings, Mona Freeman, Joe Santos, and Robert McNamara. Charles Dickens died 151 years ago in 1870 at age 58. Robert Donat died 63 years ago in 1958 at age 53. Ousmane Sembene died fourteen years ago today in 2007 at age 84. Adam West died four years ago in 2017 at age 88.

Today James Darren is 85, Bonnie Tyler is 70, and Will Smith (writer/actor) and Troy Duffy are 50. Today is also the birthday of Julianna Margulies, Nancy Sinatra, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Kanye West, Frank Grillo, Griffin Dunne, Colin Baker, Kathy Baker, J.P. Manoux, Gabby Giffords, Kevin Farley, Dan Futterman, Matthew Bright, and the late Joan Rivers, Robert Preston, Jerry Stiller, Alexis Smith, who would be 100, Bernie Casey, George Wallace, Don Grady, Charles Tyner, Myron Healey, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Barbara Bush. Robert Taylor died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 57. Anthony Bourdain died three years ago in 2018 at age 61. Bonnie Pointer died one year ago in 2020 at age 69.

Today Fetty Wap is 30. Today is also the birthday of Liam Neeson, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, Karl Urban, Tom Jones, James Ivory, William Forsythe, Colleen Camp, Tom McCarthy, Mick Foley, Bear Grylls, Dave Navarro, Iggy Azalea, Mike Pence, and the late Dean Martin, Jessica Tandy, Prince, Bonnie Lee Bakley, Ken Osmond, Ronald Pickup, Hope Summers, and Dolores Gray. Jean Harlow died 84 years ago in 1937 at age 26. ZaSu Pitts died 68 years ago in 1963 at age 69. Judy Holliday died 56 years ago in 1965 at age 43. Christopher Lee died six years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today is the birthday of Paul Giamatti, Jason Isaacs, Robert Englund, Sandra Bernhard, Colin Quinn, Harvey Fierstein, Max Casella, Danny Webb, Ellie Kendrick, Hirokazu Koreeda, Jonathan Nolan, Danny Strong, Natalie Morales, and the late Billie Whitelaw, Chantal Akerman, Maria Montez, Kenneth Connor, Sam Simon, Judith Barsi, and Thomas Mann. Jack Haley died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 81. Anne Bancroft died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 73. Esther Williams died eight years ago in 2013 at age 91.

Today Suze Orman is 70, and Mark Wahlberg and Susan Lynch are 50. Today is also the birthday of Jeff Garlin, Ron Livingston, Nick Kroll, Chad Allen, Kenny G, Liza Weil, Laurie Anderson, Troye Sivan, Pete Wentz, Lisa Cholodenko, Kathleen Kennedy, Roger Michell, David Hare, and the late Tony Richardson, Jacques Demy, Spalding Gray, Robert Lansing, William Boyd, Peggy Stewart, Warren Frost, Daniel von Bargen, John Abbott, Herb Vigran, Henry Levin, and Pancho Villa. Vito Scotti died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 78. Mel Tormé died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 73. Ronald Reagan died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 93. Ray Bradbury died nine years ago in 2012 at age 91.

Today Bruce Dern is 85, Noah Wyle and James Callis are 50, T.J. Miller is 40, and Maria Bakalova is 25. Today is also the birthday of Angelina Jolie, Russell Brand, Keith David, Rob Huebel, Horatio Sanz, Robin Lord Taylor, Sean Pertwee, Michelle Phillips, Theo Rossi, Oona Chaplin, and the late Rosalind Russell, Dennis Weaver, Geoffrey Palmer, Clara Blandick, Don Diamond, who would be 100, and Russell Hicks. Dorothy Gish died 53 years ago in 1968 at age 70. Massimo Troisi died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 41.

Today Penelope Wilton is 75. Today is also the birthday of Imogen Poots, Anderson Cooper, Jason Jones, James Purefoy, Bill Paterson, Sebastian Armesto, Irma P. Hall, Masami Nagasawa, Daniela Vega, Tate Taylor, and the late Tony Curtis, Josephine Baker, Larry McMurtry, Paulette Goddard, Leo Gorcey, Chuck Barris, Allen Ginsberg, Curtis Mayfield, Ellen Corby, Maurice Evans, Colleen Dewhurst, Alain Resnais, Robert Z’Dar, Edward Winter, John Kellogg, Roy Glenn, Melissa Mathison, Anthony Harvey, and Herk Harvey. Franz Kafka died 97 years ago in 1924 at age 40. Ozzie Nelson died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 69. Roberto Rossellini died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Robert Morley died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 84. Anthony Quinn died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 86. David Carradine died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 72. Rue McClanahan died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 76. James Arness died ten years ago in 2011 at age 88. Muhammad Ali died five years ago in 2016 at age 74.

Today Stacy Keach and Charlie Watts are 80, Lasse Hallström is 75, and Liam Cunningham is 60. Today is also the birthday of Dana Carvey, Zachary Quinto, Dominic Cooper, Justin Long, Dennis Haysbert, Wentworth Miller, Morena Baccarin, Wayne Brady, Jerry Mathers, Sally Kellerman, Charles Haid, James Ransone, Dr. Cornel West, Joanna Gleason, Navid Negahban, A.J. Styles, Beetlejuice, Kevin Feige, Lisandro Alonso, and the late Johnny Weissmuller, Marvin Hamlisch, Thomas Hardy, The Marquis de Sade, Milo O’Shea, Max Showalter, Chief John Big Tree, Bruno S., and Lotte Reiniger. Jean Hersholt died 65 years ago in 1956 at age 69. George S. Kaufman died sixty years ago in 1961 at age 71. Leo Gorcey died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 51. Stephen Boyd died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 45. Jim Hutton died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 45. Rex Harrison and Jack Gilford died 31 years ago in 1990. Harrison was 82. Gilford was 81. Imogene Coca died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 92. Mel Ferrer and Bo Diddley died thirteen years ago in 2008. Ferrer was 90. Diddley was 79. Richard Dawson and Kathryn Joosten died nine years ago in 2012. Dawson was 79. Joosten was 72. Peter Sallis died four years ago in 2017 at age 96.