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Today Gloria Henry is 98, Dr. Demento (Barret Hansen) is 80, and Christopher Meloni is 60. Today is also the birthday of Michael Fassbender, Emmylou Harris, Linda Hunt, Adam Rodriguez, Pedro Pascal, Jesse Plemons, Clark Gregg, Pamela Reed, Allan Corduner, Donald Petrie, Marc Caro, David Frankel, and the late Alec Guinness, Marvin Gaye, Buddy Ebsen, Jack Webb, Hans Christian Andersen, Émile Zola, Giacomo Casanova, Charlemagne, Leon Russell, Dabbs Greer, Debralee Scott, Ron Palillo, and Rodney King. Jean Epstein died 68 years ago in 1953 at age 56. Buddy Rich died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 69. Jesús Franco died eight years ago in 2013 at age 82.

Today Susan Boyle is 60, and Method Man is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jane Powell, David Oyelowo, Asa Butterfield, Rachel Maddow, Mackenzie Davis, Taran Killam, Jane Adams, Ali MacGraw, Bijou Phillips, Barry Sonnenfeld, Tomas Alfredson, Albert and Allen Hughes, Chang-dong Lee, Annette O’Toole, Rob Bottin, Richard Christy, and the late Debbie Reynolds, Toshirô Mifune, Lon Chaney Sr., Wallace Beery, Otto von Bismarck, Grace Lee Whitney, Gordon Jump, and Harry Lewis. Noah Beery died 75 years ago in 1946 at age 64 on the birthday his brother Wallace Beery. Marvin Gaye was murdered 37 years ago in 1984 at age 44, one day before his birthday. Leslie Cheung committed suicide eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 46. Steven Bochco died three years ago in 2018 at age 74. Adam Schlesinger died one year ago in 2020 at age 52.

Today Ewan McGregor is 50. Today is also the birthday of Christopher Walken, Rhea Perlman, Richard Chamberlain, Al Gore, Shirley Jones, Tony Cox, Gabe Kaplan, William Daniels, Marc McClure, Chloé Zhao, Kate Micucci, Daniel Mays, Roy Andersson, Volker Schlöndroff, Alejandro Amenábar, Jack Antonoff, Paul Mecurio, Angus Young, Barney Frank, and the late René Descartes, Nagisa Ôshima, Richard Kiley, Patrick Magee, Cesar Chavez, Eddie Quillan, Dermot Morgan, Henry Morgan, Robert Stevenson, and Ted Post. Brandon Lee died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 28. Nipsey Hussle died two years ago in 2019 at age 33.

Today Peter Marshall is 95, Mark Consuelos is 50, and Katy Mixon is 40. Today is also the birthday of Warren Beatty, Eric Clapton, John Astin, Paul Reiser, Céline Dion, Robbie Coltrane, Kenneth Welsh, Ian Ziering, Juliet Landau, M.C. Hammer, Norah Jones, Tracy Chapman, Maurice LaMarche, Michael Lehmann, Bill Corbett, Piers Morgan, and the late Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Herbert Anderson, Richard Dysart, Anna Q. Nilsson, Anna Sewell, Sydney Chaplin, Jean-Claude Brialy, Shirley Stoler, and Ray McAnally. James Cagney died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 86. Michael Jeter died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 50. Bill Withers died one year ago in 2020 at age 81.

Today Amy Sedaris and Michael Winterbottom are 60. Today is also the birthday of Eric Idle, Brendan Gleeson, Lucy Lawless, Annabella Sciorra, Bud Cort, Vangelis, Marina Sirtis, Ed Skrein, Christopher Lambert, Michel Hazanavicius, Godfrey Reggio, Victor Salva, and the late Pearl Bailey, Arthur O’Connell, Scott Wilson, Jackie Vernon, Dennis O’Keefe, Warner Baxter, Bobby ‘Wheezer’ Hutchins, Onslow Stevens, John McLaughlin, John Tyler, and Sam Walton. Harry Ritz died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 78. Paul Henreid died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 84. Mitch Hedberg died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 37. Patty Duke died five years ago in 2016 at age 69. Agnès Varda died two years ago in 2019 at age 90.

Today Julia Stiles is 40, and Mya Taylor is 30. Today is also the birthday of Lady Gaga, Reba McEntire, Vince Vaughn, Dianne Wiest, Nick Frost, Brett Ratner, Richard Kelly, Mike Newell, Richard Eyre, Michael Parkinson, Alexandra Billings, James Bidgood, Albert S. Ruddy, and the late Dirk Bogarde, who would be 100, Conchata Ferrell, Ken Howard, Freddie Bartholomew, and Flora Robson. Virginia Woolf died eighty years ago in 1941 at age 59. Peter Ustinov died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 82.

Today Nathan Fillion is 50. Today is also the birthday of Quentin Tarantino, Michael York, Mariah Carey, Fergie, Kevin Corrigan, Elizabeth Mitchell, Pauley Perrette, Stephen Dillane, Austin Pendleton, Julian Glover, Holliday Grainger, Brenda Song, Jessie J, and the late Gloria Swanson, Maria Schneider, Anne Ramsey, David Janssen, Richard Marner and Harold Nicholas, who would both be 100, Mary Treen, Budd Schulberg, and Lorenzo Semple Jr. Dudley Moore, Milton Berle, and Billy Wilder all died nineteen years ago in 2002. Moore was 66, Berle was 93, and Wilder was 95.

Today Richard Dawkins is 80, Johnny Crawford is 75, and Francis Lawrence is 50. Today is also the birthday of Alan Arkin, James Caan, Martin Short, Diana Ross, Keira Knightley, Steven Tyler, Jennifer Grey, Leslie Mann, Vicki Lawrence, Jonathan Groff, T.R. Knight, Amy Smart, Michael Imperioli, Todd Barry, Martin McDonagh, Carly Chaikin, Natasha Leggero, Jonathan Glazer, Tinto Brass, Bob Woodward, Nancy Pelosi, and the late Tennessee Williams, Robert Frost, Leonard Nimoy, Sterling Hayden, Strother Martin, Bob Elliott, Will Wright, and Luke Askew. Ludwig van Beethoven died 194 years ago in 1827 at age 56. Eazy-E died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 31.

Today Gene Shalit is 95, and John Stockwell is 60. Today is also the birthday of Elton John, Gloria Steinem, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lee Pace, Jenny Slate, Edgar Ramírez, Richard O’Brien, Doug Stanhope, Mary Gross, Marcia Cross, Brenda Strong, LisaGay Hamilton, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Michael Glaser, Domenick Lombardozzi, James McDaniel, Amy Pascal, Katharine McPhee, Ben Mankiewicz, Anita Bryant, and the late Aretha Franklin, David Lean, Simone Signoret and Nancy Kelly, who would both be 100, Ed Begley, Hoyt Axton, Howard Cosell, John Laurie, Machiko Kyô, Patrick Troughton, Jean Rogers, Jean Epstein, Toshio Matsumoto, Matthew Garber, and Marcin Wrona. Max Ophüls died 64 years ago in 1957 at age 54.

Today Tommy Hilfiger is 70, and Tig Notaro is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jessica Chastain, Jim Parsons, Alyson Hannigan, Louie Anderson, Lake Bell, Lara Flynn Boyle, Robert Carradine, William Smith, Finn Jones, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Mary Berry, Peter Jacobson, Meiko Kaji, Star Jones, Peyton Manning, Undertaker (Mark William Calaway), Tabitha King, and the late Steve McQueen, Norman Fell, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Harry Houdini, R. Lee Ermey, Curtis Hanson, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Barbera, Richard Conte, and Connie Hines. Garry Shandling died five years ago in 2016 at age 66.