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Today Brian Cox is 75, Amy Schumer is 40, and Tom Holland is 25. Today is also the birthday of Morgan Freeman, Alanis Morissette, Ronnie Wood, Jonathan Pryce, Pat Boone, Nikki Glaser, Paula Malcomson, Sylvia Hoeks, Sarah Wayne Callies, Rick Gomez, Heidi Klum, Gareth Edwards, and the late Marilyn Monroe, Andy Griffith, Powers Boothe, Edward Woodward, Rene Auberjonois, Cleavon Little, Frank Morgan, Richard Erdman, and Aubrey Morris. Leslie Howard died 78 years ago in 1943 at age 50. Adolf Eichmann died 59 years ago in 1962 at age 56. Helen Keller died 53 years ago in 1968 at age 87.

Today Lea Thompson is 60. Today is also the birthday of Clint Eastwood, Colin Farrell, Brooke Shields, Tom Berenger, Chris Elliott, Susie Essman, Paolo Sorrentino, Eric Christian Olsen, Sharon Gless, Jonathan Tucker, Sebastian Koch, Joe Namath, and the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Don Ameche, Walt Whitman, Denholm Elliott, Jim Hutton, Alida Valli, who would be 100, Fred Allen, John Bonham, Jack Holt, Barbara Pepper, Madge Blake, and Menahem Golan. William Castle died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 63. Jean Stapleton died eight years ago in 2013 at age 90.

Today Jimmy Lydon is 98, Keir Dullea is 85, Stephen Tobolowsky is 70, and Idina Menzel and Duncan Jones are 50. Today is also the birthday of Ruta Lee, Colm Meaney, Wynonna Judd, CeeLo Green, Ted McGinley, Antoine Fuqua, Ryûhei Kitamura, and the late Howard Hawks, Agnès Varda, Mel Blanc, Michael J. Pollard, Hugh Griffith, Clint Walker, Benny Goodman, Douglas Fowley, Franklin J. Schaffner, Meredith MacRae, Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry), Irving Thalberg, Christine Jorgensen, and Jamie Uys, who would be 100. Dooley Wilson died 68 years ago in 1953 at age 67. Claude Rains died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 77. Michel Simon died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 80.

Today Robert Logan is 80, Melissa Etheridge is 60, and Justin Chon is 40. Today is also the birthday of Annette Bening, Rupert Everett, Riley Keough, Laverne Cox, Ted Levine, Helmut Berger, Danny Elfman, La Toya Jackson, Noel Gallagher, Mel B (Melanie Brown), Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Aaron McGruder, Daniel Tosh, and the late Bob Hope, John F. Kennedy, Josef von Sternberg, Clifton James, Sebastian Shaw, Kevin Conway, Stacy Keach Sr., and Gregg Toland. John Barrymore died 79 years ago in 1942 at age 60. James Whale died 64 years ago in 1957 at age 67. Mary Pickford died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 87. Harvey Korman died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 81. Dennis Hopper died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 74.

Today Carroll Baker and Irwin Winkler are 90, and Marco Rubio is 50. Today is also the birthday of Carey Mulligan, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Kylie Minogue, Gladys Knight, Jake Johnson, Romain Duris, Christa Miller, Anne Reid, Patricia Quinn, John Fogerty, Justin Kirk, Nonso Anozie, Rudy Giuliani, Steve King, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and the late Ian Fleming, Sondra Locke, Edith Massey, Glenn Quinn, Martha Vickers, Beth Howland, Zelda Rubinstein, Gordon Willis, Hank Mann, and Rob Ford. Phil Hartman died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 49. Gary Coleman died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 42. Maya Angelou died seven years ago in 2014 at age 86.

Today Henry Kissinger is 98, Louis Gossett Jr. is 85, Peri Gilpin is 60, and Paul Bettany is 50. Today is also the birthday of André Benjamin, Joseph Fiennes, Richard Schiff, Lee Meriwether, Jack McBrayer, Ben Feldman, Adam Carolla, Bella Heathcote, Todd Bridges, Bruce Weitz, Ken Lerner, Linnea Quigley, Jamie Oliver, Chris Colfer, Jee-woon Kim, Giuseppe Tornatore, Simon Blackwell, Lily-Rose Depp, and the late Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Dashiell Hammett, Harlan Ellison, John Cheever, Steve Franken, Willie Best, Lucile Watson, Antonia Bird, Dolores Hope, Hubert Humphrey, Wild Bill Hickok, Sumner Redstone, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. George Zucco died 61 years ago in 1960 at age 74. Jeff Conway died ten years ago in 2011 at age 60. Gregg Allman died four years ago in 2017 at age 69. Larry Kramer died one year ago in 2020 at age 84.

Today Tarsem Singh is 60, and Matt Stone is 50. Today is also the birthday of Helena Bonham Carter, Pam Grier, Lenny Kravitz, Stevie Nicks, Bobcat Goldthwait, Lauryn Hill, Alex Garland, Josh Thomas, Hank Williams Jr., and the late John Wayne, Miles Davis, Peter Cushing, Al Jolson, James Arness, Peggy Lee, Jay Silverheels, Robert Morley, and John Dahl. Eddie Albert died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 99. Sydney Pollack died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 73. Art Linkletter died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 97.

Today Justin Henry is 50, and Zazie Beetz is 30. Today is also the birthday of Ian McKellen, Mike Myers, Octavia Spencer, Cillian Murphy, Anne Heche, Jacki Weaver, Frank Oz, Jamie Kennedy, Ethan Suplee, Demetri Martin, Bobby Slayton, Ray Stevenson, Leslie Uggams, Kevin Heffernan, Erinn Hayes, Joseph D. Reitman, Neil Marshall, Ken Jacobs, Ann Robinson, Robert Greene, and the late Miles Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dixie Carter, Claude Akins, Raymond Carver, Jeanne Crain, Robert Ludlum, Bill Robinson, and George Hickenlooper. Vic Tayback died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 60. Charles Nelson Reilly died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 76.

Today Bob Dylan is 80. Today is also the birthday of John C. Reilly, Jim Broadbent, Alfred Molina, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tommy Chong, Priscilla Presley, Gary Burghoff, Roger Deakins, Nell Campbell, Patti LaBelle, Rosanne Cash, Doug Jones, Will Sasso, Dana Ashbrook, Dash Mihok, Eric Close, Greg Berlanti, Zhangke Jia, Michael Chabon, and the late Michael Lonsdale, Queen Victoria, Mai Zetterling, Peter Whitney, Willis Bouchey, and Seijun Suzuki. Duke Ellington died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 75. Dick Martin died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 86. Burt Kwouk died five years ago in 2016 at age 85. Jerry Maren died three years ago in 2018 at age 98.

Today Barbara Barrie is 90, and Charles Kimbrough is 85. Today is also the birthday of Joan Collins, Drew Carey, Ryan Coogler, H. Jon Benjamin, Richard Ayoade, John Ortiz, Melissa McBride, Jewel Kilcher, Tom Tykwer, Samuel Maoz, and the late Douglas Fairbanks, Scatman Crothers, Rosemary Clooney, Betty Garrett, Nigel Davenport, and James Gleason. Jackie “Moms” Mabley died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 81. George Jessel died forty years ago in 1981 at age 83. Sterling Hayden died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 70. Anne Meara died six years ago in 2015 at age 85. Roger Moore died four years ago in 2017 at age 89.