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Today is the birthday of Catherine Keener, Keri Russell, Michael Haneke, Michelle Monaghan, Hope Davis, Amanda Plummer, Nicholle Tom, Mark Rydell, Terry Sweeney, Teresa Ganzel, David Milch, Marc Cherry, Lodge Kerrigan, Larry Fessenden, Jaume Collet-Serra, Rex Tillerson, Perez Hilton, and the late Akira Kurosawa, Joan Crawford, Marty Allen, Tony Burton, Kenneth Tobey, and Philip Ober. Peter Lorre died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 59. Giulietta Masina died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 73. Elizabeth Taylor died ten years ago in 2011 at age 79.

Today William Shatner is 90, and Keegan-Michael Key and Will Yun Lee are 50. Today is also the birthday of Reese Witherspoon, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Matthew Modine, M. Emmet Walsh, Bob Costas, Wolf Blitzer, Constance Wu, Nick Robinson, Lena Olin, James Wolk, Nicole Holofcener, Eric Roth, Cole Hauser, Angelo Badalamenti, Carlton Cuse, James Patterson, Tyler Oakley, May Britt, Pat Robertson, and the late Karl Malden, Chico Marx, Bruno Ganz, Marcel Marceau, Ross Martin, Werner Klemperer, Virginia Grey, James Westerfield, Haing S. Ngor, Joseph Schildkraut, and Lew Wasserman. William Hanna died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 90.

Today Peter Brook is 96, and Timothy Dalton is 75. Today is also the birthday of Gary Oldman, Matthew Broderick, Rosie O’Donnell, Scott Eastwood, Jaye Davidson, Brad Hall, Rhys Darby, Karyn Kusama, Greg Ellis, Sonequa Martin-Green, Santino Fontana, Slavoj Zizek, Cenk Uygur, Kevin Federline, and the late Éric Rohmer, Russ Meyer, James Coco, Al Freeman Jr., Virginia Weidler, Peter Bull, W.S. Van Dyke, and Sidney Franklin. Robert Preston died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 68. Chuck Barris died four years ago in 2017 at age 87.

Today Hal Linden is 90, Murray Bartlett is 50, and Barron Trump is 15. Today is also the birthday of William Hurt, Holly Hunter, Spike Lee, David Thewlis, Michael Rapaport, Xavier Dolan, Liza Snyder, Christy Carlson Romano, Theresa Russell, Cedric Yarbrough, Kathy Ireland, Mikey Day, Ramin Bahrani, Duke Johnson, Bruce Wagner, Louis Sachar, Ruby Rose, and the late Carl Reiner, Fred Rogers, Henrik Ibsen, Jerry Reed, Jack Kruschen, Michael Redgrave, Ozzie Nelson, Vera Lynn, Edmund Goulding, Ted Bessell, Edgar Buchanan, and Anne Bradstreet. Carl Theodor Dreyer died 53 years ago in 1968 at age 79. Kenny Rogers died one year ago in 2020 at age 81.

Today Ursula Andress is 85. Today is also the birthday of Glenn Close, Bruce Willis, Harvey Weinstein, Renée Taylor, Rachel Blanchard, Neil LaBute, Jorma Taccone, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Fred Stoller, Jan Shepard, Nicholas Stoller, and the late Philip Roth, Moms Mabley, Patricia Morison, Patrick McGoohan, Kent Smith, Fred Clark, Roy Roberts, Tige Andrews, Eric Christmas, Wyatt Earp, William Jennings Bryan, and Adolf Eichmann. Paul Scofield and Arthur C. Clarke both died thirteen years ago in 2008. Scofield was 86, and Clarke was 90.

Today Chris Geere is 40. Today is also the birthday of Brad Dourif, Queen Latifah, Vanessa Williams, Luc Besson, Lily Collins, Dane Cook, Adam Pally, Adam Levine, Mike Rowe, Lykke Li, and the late Susan Tyrrell, Peter Graves, Robert Donat, Edward Everett Horton, John Updike, René Clément, Grover Cleveland, and Neville Chamberlain. Anthony Minghella died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 54. Natasha Richardson died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 45. Chuck Berry died four years ago in 2017 at age 90.

Today Mike Love is 80. Today is also the birthday of Judd Hirsch, Eva Longoria Baston, David Cronenberg, Dee Snider, Kim Raver, Joaquim de Almeida, Jai Courtney, Brian Tee, Mark McGrath, Monica Dolan, Bret Michaels, Fabio, will.i.am, Renny Harlin, Greg Nicotero, Khosrow Vaziri (The Iron Sheik), Jimmy Swaggart, and the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lawrence Tierney, Joe. E. Ross, Andrew Jackson, George Brent, Macdonald Carey, J. Pat O’Malley, Walter Gotell, and Philippe de Broca. H. P. Lovecraft died 84 years ago in 1937 at age 46. Ann Southern died twenty years in 2001 at age 92. David Brenner died seven years ago in 2014 at age 78.

Today Wolfgang Petersen is 80, and Gary Dell’Abate is 60. Today is also the birthday of Michael Caine, Billy Crystal, Quincy Jones, Jamie Bell, Ansel Elgort, Corey Stoll, Meredith Salenger, Chris Klein, Betsy Brandt, Raymond J. Barry, Johnny Flynn, Stephen Curry, Kevin Williamson, Gary Anthony Williams, Bruno Dumont, Sasha Grey, Bertrand Blier, and the late Albert Einstein and Diane Arbus. Susan Hayward died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 57. Busby Berkeley died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 80. Howard Ashman died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 40. Fred Zinnemann died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 89. Peter Graves died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 83.

Today Al Jaffee is 100, Charo is 70, and Annabeth Gish is 50. Today is also the birthday of William H. Macy, Common, Emile Hirsch, Adam Clayton, Dana Delany, Danny Masterson, Neil Sedaka, George MacKay, Harry Melling, Tim Story, André Téchiné, and the late L. Rob Hubbard, Douglas Rain, Glenne Headly, Paul Fix, Joseph Mascolo, Paul Stewart, Henry Hathaway, and Peaches Geldof. Krzysztof Kieslowski and Lucio Fulci both died 25 years ago in 1996. Kieslowski was 54. Fulci was 68.

Today Liza Minnelli and Frank Welker are 75. Today is also the birthday of James Taylor, Aaron Eckhart, Barbara Feldon, Lesley Manville, Courtney B. Vance, Ron Jeremy, Titus Welliver, Jason Beghe, Jaimie Alexander, Samm Levine, Jake Tapper, Dave Eggers, Luenell, Marlon Jackson, Rob Cohen, Jim Sharman, Tammy Duckworth, Mitt Romney, and the late Edward Albee, Jack Kerouac, Takashi Shimura, and Billie ‘Buckwheat’ Thomas. Charlie Parker died 66 years ago in 1955 at age 34. John Cazale died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 41.