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Today Millie Perkins is 85, Bruce McCulloch is 60, and Rami Malek 40. Today is also the birthday of Gabriel Byrne, Burt Bacharach, Jason Biggs, Emilio Estevez, Ving Rhames, Malin Akerman, Domhnall Gleeson, Nathan Fielder, Catherine Tate, Lindsay Crouse, Samantha Mathis, Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen Baldwin, Richard Riehle, Kim Greist, Emily VanCamp, Steve Winwood, Tony Hawk, Bob Burns, and the late Katharine Hepburn, George Carlin, Jesús Franco, Tom Snyder, Frank Pierson, Yogi Berra, and Florence Nightingale. Erich von Stroheim died 64 years ago in 1957 at age 71. Tor Johnson died fifty years ago in 1971 at age 67. Robert Reed died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 59. Perry Como died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 88. H.R. Giger died seven years ago in 2014 at age 74.

Today is the birthday of Mort Sahl, Tim Blake Nelson, Yvonne Furneaux, Pam Ferris, Frances Fisher, Jeffrey Donovan, Benoît Magimel, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Jonathan Jackson, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Andre Gregory, Mark Neveldine, Matías Piñeiro, and the late Salvador Dalí, Irving Berlin, Phil Silvers, Natasha Richardson, Cory Monteith, Denver Pyle, Doug McClure, Doodles Weaver, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Fox, and David Gest. Bob Marley died forty years ago in 1981 at age 36. Douglas Adams died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 49. Jerry Stiller died one year ago in 2020 at age 92.

Today Donovan is 75. Today is also the birthday of Bono, Kenan Thompson, Erik Palladino, Mike Hagerty, Dallas Roberts, Meg Foster, Alex Jennings, Françoise Fabian, Jim Abrahams, David Mackenzie, Joseph Ruben, Lauren Potter, and the late Fred Astaire, Sid Vicious, David O. Selznick, George Coe, Nancy Walker, Ettore Scola, Anatole Litvak, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, and John Wilkes Booth. Joan Crawford died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Shel Silverstein died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 68.

Today Glenda Jackson is 85, and Candice Bergen is 75. Today is also the birthday of Billy Joel, Rosario Dawson, James L. Brooks, Grace Gummer, Chris Diamantopoulos, Daniel Franzese, Wendy Crewson, Alan Bennett, Amy Hill, Ghostface Killah, Joe Carnahan, J.A. Bayona, and the late Albert Finney, Mike Wallace, Pedro Armendáriz, Richard Barthelmess, J.M. Barrie, William Moulton Marston, and Emile Ardolino. Lena Horne died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 92. Michael Parks died four years ago in 2017 at age 77. Little Richard died one year ago in 2020 at age 87.

Today David Attenborough is 95, and Stephen Amell is 40. Today is also the birthday of Melissa Gilbert, Thomas Pynchon, David Keith, Enrique Iglesias, Phyllida Law, Mark Blankfield, Michel Gondry, Sebastian Schipper, and the late Don Rickles, Roberto Rossellini, Ricky Nelson, Stephen Furst, Sidney James, Saul Bass, Touko Laaksonen (Tom of Finland), Peter Benchley, Robert Johnson, Miyoshi Umeki, Fernandel, and Harry S. Truman. Edmond O’Brien died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 69. Dirk Bogarde died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 78.

Today Michael Rosen is 75, and Lucile Hadzihalilovic is 60. Today is also the birthday of Traci Lords, Breckin Meyer, Asghar Farhadi, Amy Heckerling, Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb, Mark O’Brien, Ned Bellamy, Ruggero Deodato, John Irvin, Nicholas Hytner, and the late Gary Cooper, Anne Baxter, Val Lewton, David Tomlinson, Darren McGavin, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Ishirô Honda, Robert Hegyes, Marilyn Burns, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, and Robert Browning. Ray Harryhausen died eight years ago in 2013 at age 92.

Today Willie Mays is 90, LuLu Roman is 75, and George Clooney is 60. Today is also the birthday of Bob Seger, Gabourey Sidibe, Adrianne Palicki, Gregg Henry, Lars Mikkelsen, Sasheer Zamata, Anne Parillaud, Tom Bergeron, Naomi Scott, Stephen Gaghan, Tony Blair, and the late Orson Welles, Rudolph Valentino, Max Ophüls, Sigmund Freud, Raymond Bailey, and Dana Hill. Marlene Dietrich died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 90.

Today Marion Bailey is 70. Today is also the birthday of Michael Palin, Henry Cavill, Adele, John Rhys-Davies, Lance Henriksen, Richard E. Grant, Michael Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Kurt Sutter, Clark Duke, Pat Carroll, Tina Yothers, Jerzy Skolimowski, Brian Williams, Brooke Hogan, Chris Brown, and the late Karl Marx, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Tammy Wynette, Ann B. Davis, Jim Kelly, Roger Rees, Bing Russell, Ben Wright, Robert Foulk, Nellie Bly, and Sage Stallone. John Williams died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 80. The first short The Three Stooges made for Columbia, Woman Haters, was released 87 years ago in 1934.

Today Eleanor Coppola is 85, George Will is 80, Jackie Jackson, Mick Mars, and Rolf de Heer are 70, and Mary Beth McDonough is 60. Today is also the birthday of Will Arnett, Richard Jenkins, Ana Gasteyer, Pia Zadora, Randy Travis, Lance Bass, Julian Barratt, Mike Dirnt, Nicholas Hamilton, Erin Andrews, and the late Audrey Hepburn, Dick Dale, Paul Gleason, Eric Sykes, Russi Taylor, and Howard Da Silva. Moe Howard died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 77. Dom DeLuise and Jane Randolph both died twelve years ago in 2009. DeLuise was 75. Randolph was 93.

Today is the birthday of Frankie Valli, Bobby Cannavale, Christina Hendricks, Rebecca Hall, Amy Ryan, Chris Mulkey, Rob Brydon, Dulé Hill, Pom Klementieff, Emily V. Gordon, Willie Geist, and the late James Brown, Pete Seeger, Mary Astor, George Gaynes, Robert Osborne, Ann B. Davis, Beulah Bondi, Walter Slezak, Aline MacMahon, Jack La Rue, “Sugar” Ray Robinson, who would be 100, and Robert De Niro Sr., who died on his birthday 28 years ago in 1993 at age 71. Robert Alda died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 72. Christine Jorgensen died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 62. Jackie Cooper died ten years ago in 2011 at age 88.