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Today John Waters is 75, and Robin Bartlett is 70. Today is also the birthday of Jack Nicholson, Peter Frampton, Amber Heard, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sheryl Lee, Sherri Shepherd, Johnnie To, Roman Coppola, Lee Tamahori, and the late Eddie Albert, Glen Campbell, Charles Mingus, Jason Miller, Bettie Page, Charlotte Rae, Immanuel Kant, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Nabokov, Aaron Spelling, Rondo Hatton, Kaneto Shindô, Byron Haskin, and Marilyn Chambers. Linda Lovelace died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 53.

Today Queen Elizabeth II is 95, Claire Denis is 75, Tony Danza and Jean-Pierre Dardenne are 70, and Frank Dillane is 30. Today is also the birthday Elaine May, Iggy Pop, Robert Smith, Charles Grodin, James McAvoy, Patti LuPone, Andie MacDowell, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, John Cameron Mitchell, Nicole Sullivan, Rob Riggle, Brian White, Bridget Everett, Jeff Anderson, Peter Kosminsky, Anna Muylaert, Glen Hansard, and the late Anthony Quinn, Charlotte Brontë, Marcel Camus, Sammee Tong, Edwin S. Porter, and Gilbert Taylor. Mark Twain died 111 years ago in 1910 at age 74. Gummo Marx died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 84. Nina Simone died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 70. Prince and Michelle McNamara died five years ago in 2016. He was 57. She was 46. Verne Troyer died three years ago in 2018 at age 49.

Today Leslie Phillips is 97, and Ryan O’Neal is 80. Today is also the birthday of Jessica Lange, George Takei, Crispin Glover, Andy Serkis, Veronica Cartwright, Clint Howard, Shemar Moore, Billy Magnussen, Michael Render (Killer Mike GTO), Clayne Crawford, Gary Raymond, Judith O’Dea, Joey Lawrence, Carmen Electra, Chrysta Bell, and the late Harold Lloyd, Luther Vandross, Nina Foch, Elena Verdugo, Robert DoQui, Harris Wittels, Edie Sedgwick, Bruce Cabot, Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr. (Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf), and Adolf Hitler. Bram Stoker died 109 years ago today in 1912 at age 64. Don Siegel died thirty years ago today in 1991 at age 78. Benny Hill died 29 years ago today in 1992 at age 68. Cantinflas died 28 years ago today in 1993 at age 81.

Today Tim Curry is 75, and Hayden Christensen and Catalina Sandino Moreno are 40. Today is also the birthday of James Franco, Kate Hudson, Ashley Judd, Elinor Donahue, Ali Wong, Tony Plana, Arshad Warsi, Alan Price, Nicoletta Braschi, Arshad Warsi, Michael Dowse, William Klein, Christopher Miles, Suge Knight, Jesse James, and the late Jayne Mansfield, Dudley Moore, Hugh O’Brian, Dick Sargent, George O’Brien, May Robson, Constance Talmadge, Barry Brown, and Bernie Worrell. Ruth Hussey died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 93.

Today Hayley Mills is 75, Jane Leeves is 60, and David Tennant is 50. Today is also the birthday of Rick Moranis, Conan O’Brien, James Woods, Eric Roberts, Edgar Wright, Eli Roth, Maria Bello, Eric McCormack, America Ferrera, Vanessa Kirby, Melissa Joan Hart, Alia Shawkat, Britt Robertson, David Hewlett, Clive Revill, Jeff Dunham, Kourtney Kardashian, and the late James Drury, Barbara Hale, Miklós Rózsa, Clarence Darrow, Gabriel Axel, and André Bazin. Albert Einstein died 66 years ago in 1955 at age 76. Dick Clark died nine years ago in 2012 at age 82.

Today Olivia Hussey is 70. Today is also the birthday of Rooney Mara, Jennifer Garner, Sean Bean, Adam McKay, David Bradley, Maïwenn, William Mapother, Joel Murray, Michael Forest, Nick Hornby, Redman, Victoria Beckham, and the late William Holden, Anne Shirley, Roddy Piper, Lindsay Anderson, Arthur Lake, Paul Langton, Joan Lorring, Señor Wences, Louis Jean Heydt, and George Seaton. Eddie Cochran died 61 years ago in 1960 at age 21. Dick Shawn died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Kitty Carlisle died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 96. Doris Roberts died five years ago in 2016 at age 90.

Today Peter Billingsley and Erik Bleaman (aka High Pitch Erik) are 50, and Anya Taylor-Joy is 25. Today is also the birthday of Ellen Barkin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Claire Foy, Jon Cryer, Martin Lawrence, Lukas Haas, Gina Carano, Bobby Vinton, Chance the Rapper, AKON, Jay O. Sanders, Hayes MacArthur, Qi Shu, Billy West, Marshall R. Teague, and the late Charles Chaplin, Peter Ustinov, who would be 100, Spike Milligan, Barry Nelson, Edie Adams, Selena Quintanilla-Perez, who would be 50, Henry Mancini, David Graf, George ‘The Animal’ Steele, Catherine Scorsese, Les Tremayne, and Dusty Springfield. David Lean died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 83.

Today Andrew Daly is 50. Today is also the birthday of Emma Thompson, Seth Rogen, Emma Watson, Luke Evans, Claudia Cardinale, Maisie Williams, Thomas F. Wilson, Linda Perry, Trine Dyrholm, Susanne Bier, Reed Morano, Sam McMurray, Tom Kane, Damien Dante Wayans, Chris Stapleton, Olivier Nakache, and the late Leonardo da Vinci, Elizabeth Montgomery, Hans Conried, John Williams, Roy Clark, Michael Ansara, Frank Vincent, Jean Willes, Henry James, Richard Rush, Wallace Reid, and Bessie Smith. Abraham Lincoln died 156 years ago in 1865 at age 56. Wallace Beery died 72 years ago in 1949 at age 64. Jean Genet died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 75. Greta Garbo died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 84. Joey Ramone died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 49. R. Lee Ermey died three years ago in 2018 at age 74. Brian Dennehy died one year ago in 2020 at age 81.

Today Robert Carlyle and Daniel Clowes are 60, and Abigail Breslin is 25. Today is also the birthday of Julie Christie, Loretta Lynn, Adrien Brody, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Anthony Michael Hall, Brad Garrett, Peter Capaldi, Rob McElhenney, James Gray, Gina McKee, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Allen Baron, and the late Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Richard Jeni, Bradford Dillman, Arlene Martel, Gloria Jean, Berry Berenson, Lee Tracy, Michelle McNamara, Philip Stone, Gerry Anderson, John Howard, Liz Renay, and Anne Sullivan. Fredric March died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 77. Burl Ives died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 85. Jonathan Frid died nine years ago in 2012 at age 87. Bibi Andersson died two years ago in 2019 at age 83.

Today Al Green is 75, and Peter Davison is 70. Today is also the birthday of Ron Perlman, Allison Williams, Edward Fox, Glenn Howerton, Tony Dow, Caroline Rhea, Charles Burnett, Ruben Östlund, Bokeem Woodbine, William Sadler, Paul Sorvino, Erick Avari, Saundra Santiago, Ricky Schroder, Gary Kroeger, Hannah Marks, Yance Ford, and the late Don Adams, Samuel Beckett, Stanley Donen, Thomas Jefferson, Howard Keel, Lyle Waggoner, Maurice Ronet, Christopher Hitchens, Jonathan Brandis, and Clark Middleton. Milos Forman died three year ago in 2018 at age 86.