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Today Ann Cusack is 60. Today is also the birthday of Morrissey, Richard Benjamin, Ginnifer Goodwin, Maggie Q, Naomi Campbell, Brooke Smith, Sean Gunn, Michael Kelly, Barbara Parkins, Michael Constantine, Thomas Schlamme, Max Brooks, and the late Laurence Olivier, Paul Winfield, Harvey Milk, Michael Sarrazin, Sid Melton, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Langston Hughes died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 65. Dina Merrill died four years ago in 2017 at age 93.

Today Al Franken is 70, and J. Elvis Weinstein is 50. Today is also the birthday of Mr. T, Fairuza Balk, Judge Reinhold, Jonathan Hyde, Lisa Edelstein, Nick Cassavetes, Noel Fielding, Jeffrey Toobin, Tom Daley, and the late Raymond Burr, The Notorious B.I.G., Robert Montgomery, Richard Hatch, Jeffrey Dahmer, Alice Drummond, Brent Briscoe, Richard Libertini, Kay Kendall, Dennis Day, Peggy Cass, and Jeanne Bates. John Garfield died 69 years ago in 1952 at age 39. Alejandro Rey died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 57. John Gielgud died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 96. Howard Morris died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 85.

Today Cher is 75. Today is also the birthday of Timothy Olyphant, Tony Goldwyn, Dave Thomas, Bronson Pinchot, Mindy Cohn, Louis Theroux, Busta Rhymes, John Billingsley, Matt McCoy, Allen Maldonado, David Proval, Jack Gleeson, Anton Corbijn, Mike Flanagan, Jon Amiel, Alan Zweibel, and the late James Stewart, Joe Cocker, and David Hedison. Gilda Radner died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 42. Robin Gibb died nine years ago in 2012 at age 62.

Today is the birthday of Pete Townshend, Grace Jones, Polly Walker, James Fox, Nancy Kwan, Dusty Hill, Sam Smith, Eric Lloyd, Thomas Vinterberg, Morten Tyldum, and the late Malcolm X, Nora Ephron, Andre the Giant, Joey Ramone, Peter Mayhew, Lorraine Hansberry, Bruce Bennett, Daniel Gélin, who would be 100, and Pol Pot. Ronald Colman died 63 years ago in 1958 at age 67. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Henry Morgan both died 27 years ago in 1994. Onassis was 64. Morgan was 79. Alan Young died five years ago in 2016 at age 96.

Today Priscilla Pointer is 97, Robert Morse is 90, and Miriam Margolyes is 80. Today is also the birthday of Tina Fey, Yun-Fat Chow, George Strait, Patrick St. Esprit, Terry Zwigoff, Mark Mothersbaugh, and the late Frank Capra, Pernell Roberts, Perry Como, Bill Macy, Richard Brooks, Hugh Keays-Byrne, and Robert J. Wilke. Jill Ireland died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 54. Elizabeth Montgomery and Elisha Cook Jr. both died 26 years ago in 1995. Montgomery was 62. Cook Jr. was 91.

Today Grace Zabriskie is 80. Today is also the birthday of Craig Ferguson, Bob Saget, Trent Reznor, Lena Waithe, David Eigenberg, Peter Gerety, Sugar Ray Leonard, Derek Hough, Tabatha Coffey, and the late Dennis Hopper, Bill Paxton, Jean Gabin, Maureen O’Sullivan, and Matthew McGrory. Tony Randall died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 84. Frank Gorshin died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 72.

Today Kevin McDonald is 60. Today is also the birthday of Debra Winger, Pierce Brosnan, Danny Trejo, Melanie Lynskey, Janet Jackson, Megan Fox, Jesper Christensen, Mare Winningham, David Boreanaz, Jim Sturgess, Tori Spelling, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Stephen Mangan, Rebecca Front, Jason ‘Wee-Man’ Acuña, and the late Henry Fonda, Kenji Mizoguchi, Liberace, Yvonne Craig, Margaret Sullavan, and Harry Carey Jr., who would be 100. Django Reinhardt died 68 years ago in 1953 at age 43. Andy Kaufman died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 35. Margaret Hamilton died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 82. Jim Henson and Sammy Davis Jr. died 31 years ago in 1990. Henson was 53, and Davis Jr. was 64. Lynn Shelton died one year ago in 2020 at age 54.

Today Jamie-Lynn Sigler is 40. Today is also the birthday of Lainie Kazan, Chazz Palminteri, David Krumholtz, Caroline Dhavernas, Alexandra Breckenridge, Nicholas Hammond, Madeleine Albright, Brian Eno, John Glen, Julian Jarrold, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, and the late James Mason, Joseph Cotten, L. Frank Baum, Joseph Wiseman, Katrin Cartlidge, Arletty, Jûzô Itami, Peter Shaffer, André De Toth, Mario Monicelli, and Pierre Curie. June Carter Cash died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 73. Fred Willard died one year ago in 2020 at age 86.

Today Robert Zemeckis is 70, Tim Roth is 60, and Sofıa Coppola is 50. Today is also the birthday of Cate Blanchett, George Lucas, David Byrne, Danny Huston, Amber Tamblyn, Francesca Annis, Miranda Cosgrove, Greg Davies, Siân Phillips, Rob Tapert, Mark Zuckerberg, and the late Bobby Darin, Anne Wiazemsky, Richard Deacon, who would be 100, Oona O’Neill Chaplin, Sidney Bechet, and Mrinal Sen. Rita Hayworth died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 68. Frank Sinatra died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 82. Wendy Hiller and Robert Stack both died eighteen years ago in 2003. Hiller was 90. Stack was 84. B.B. King died six years ago in 2015 at age 89. Powers Boothe died four years ago in 2017 at age 68. Tom Wolfe died three years ago in 2018 at age 88.

Today Dennis Rodman and Siobhan Fallon Hogan are 60. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Colbert, Harvey Keitel, Stevie Wonder, Samantha Morton, Robert Pattinson, Lena Dunham, David Simon, Alan Ball, Fred Melamed, Buck Taylor, Joe Johnston, Brian Geraghty, Iwan Rheon, Zoë Wanamaker, and the late Bea Arthur, Daphne Du Maurier, Ritchie Valens, Beverly Owen, Herbert Ross, Chishû Ryû, Joe Louis, Mary Wells, and Jim Jones. Gary Cooper died sixty years ago in 1961 at age 60. Margot Kidder died three years ago in 2018 at age 69. Doris Day died two years ago in 2019 at age 97.