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Today Rupert Murdoch is 90, Mark Metcalf is 75, Elias Koteas is 60, Johnny Knoxville is 50, and David Anders is 40. Today is also the birthday of Terrence Howard, Jerry Zucker, Peter Berg, Thora Birch, Jodie Comer, Mircea Monroe, Alex Kingston, Simon Curtis, Rob Paulsen, Joey Buttafuoco, and the late Anton Yelchin, Shemp Howard, Raoul Walsh, Dorothy Gish, Lawrence Welk, Douglas Adams, Timothy Carey, and Eric S. Lynch aka Eric the Actor from The Howard Stern Show. F.W. Murnau died ninety years ago in 1931 at age 42. Richard Brooks died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 79. Betty Hutton died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 86. 

Today Jon Hamm is 50. Today is also the birthday of Sharon Stone, Olivia Wilde, Chuck Norris, Carrie Underwood, Thomas Middleditch, Shannon Tweed Simmons, Edi Gathegi, Robin Thicke, Emily Osment, Rick Rubin, Rafe Spall, Paget Brewster, Aloma Wright, Danny Pudi, Richard Gant, Paul Haggis, Luc Dardenne, Mitchell Lichtenstein, and the late Barry Fitzgerald, Sam Jaffe, Richard Haydn, Joe Viterelli, Gregory La Cava, Dolores Fuller, Barbara Marx, and Osama bin Laden. Ray Milland died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 79. Lloyd Bridges died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 85. Richard Jeni died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 49. Corey Haim died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 38.

Today Masahiro Shinoda is 90, and Emmanuel Lewis is 50. Today is also the birthday of Oscar Isaac, Juliette Binoche, Brittany Snow, Joyce Van Patten, Linda Fiorentino, Shad Moss (aka Bow Wow), Jean Louisa Kelly, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jean-Marc Vallée, Jordan Klepper, Rodney A. Grant, Richard Quest, Steve Wilkos, and the late Raul Julia, Will Geer, Bobby Fischer, Marty Ingels, Joe Franklin, and Keely Smith. George Burns died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 100. Christopher Wallace (aka The Notorious B.I.G.) died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 24. Stan Brakhage died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 70. George Martin died five years ago in 2016 at age 90.

Today Camryn Manheim is 60. Today is also the birthday of Micky Dolenz, James Van Der Beek, Freddie Prinze Jr, Susan Clark, Aidan Quinn, Lester Holt, Alison Becker, Lewis Teague, John Kapelos, Steve James, Sebastián Lelio, and the late Lynn Redgrave, Alan Hale Jr., who would be 100, Cyd Charisse, Claire Trevor, and Louise Beavers. Harold Lloyd died fifty years ago in 1971 at age 77. George Stevens died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 70. Joe DiMaggio died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 84. Max von Sydow died one year ago in 2020 at age 90.

Today Peter Sarsgaard and Matthew Vaughn are 50. Today is also the birthday of Bryan Cranston, Rachel Weisz, Wanda Sykes, Jenna Fischer, Bret Easton Ellis, Tobias Menzies, Brandon T. Jackson, Laura Prepon, Donna Murphy, Jay Duplass, Daniel J. Travanti, Nick Searcy, Bel Powley, Haley Lu Richardson, Andrew Haigh, E.L. James, and the late John Heard, Anna Magnani, Townes van Zandt, Rik Mayall, James Broderick, and Alan Sues. Divine died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 42. Stanley Kubrick died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 70.

Today Alan Greenspan is 95, David Gilmour and Martin Kove are 75, and Tyler the Creator is 30. Today is also the birthday of Rob Reiner, Connie Britton, Tom Arnold, Shaquille O’Neal, D.L. Hughley, Moira Kelly, Eddie Deezen, Alan Davies, and the late Michelangelo, Lou Costello, Ed McMahon, Andrzej Wajda, Hal Needham, Gabriel García Márquez, Virginia Gregg, Alberta Watson, Guy Kibbee, Lewis Gilbert, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Marion Barry. Louisa May Alcott died 133 years ago in 1888 at age 55. Margaret Dumont died 56 years ago in 1965 at age 82. Nelson Eddy died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 65. William Hopper died 51 years ago in 1970 at age 55. Ayn Rand died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 77. Both Georgia O’Keeffe and Adolph Caesar died 35 years ago in 1986. O’Keeffe was 98. Caesar was 52. Teresa Wright died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 86. Nancy Reagan died five years ago in 2016 at age 94. Robert Osbourne died four years ago in 2017 at age 84.

Today Adrian Lyne is 80, and Steven Weber is 60. Today is also the birthday of Catherine O’Hara, Patricia Heaton, Chaz Bono, Mykelti Williamson, Kay Lenz, Daniel Roebuck, James Ellroy, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Paul W.S. Anderson, Dominique Pinon, Scott Hicks, Wash Westmoreland, Paolo Virzì, Agustí Villaronga, Robert Shaye, Dav Pilkey, and the late John Garfield, Joan Greenwood, who would be 100, Gunnar Hansen, and Pearl White. John Candy died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 43. Minnie Pearl died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 83.

Today Charlie Brooker is 50. Today is also the birthday of George Miller, Miranda Richardson, Jessica Biel, Julie Bowen, Laura Harring, Katherine Waterston, Ira Glass, David Faustino, Sandy Martin, Tim Kazurinsky, Gloria Hendry, Eric DaRe, Larry Pine, Aaron Moorhead, and the late Jean Harlow, James Doohan, Bobby Driscoll, Gia Scala, Barney Martin, and Alexander Graham Bell. Lou Costello died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 52. William Frawley died 55 years ago in 1966 at age 79. Danny Kaye died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 76. David Ogden Stiers died three years ago in 2018 at age 75.

Today Bryce Dallas Howard is 40. Today is also the birthday of Daniel Craig, Rebel Wilson, Jon Bon Jovi, Chris Martin, Laraine Newman, John Irving, John Cullum, Gates McFadden, Gordon Thomson, and the late Jennifer Jones, Desi Arnaz, Lou Reed, Karen Carpenter, Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss), Tom Wolfe, Jon Finch, Martin Ritt, and Kenji Misumi, who would be 100. Philip K. Dick died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 53. Randolph Scott died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 89. Sandy Dennis died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 54. Mercedes McCambridge died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 87. James Lipton died one year ago in 2020 at age 93.

Today Robert Clary is 95. Today is also the birthday of Javier Bardem, Ron Howard, Harry Belafonte, Roger Daltrey, Lupita Nyong’o, Zack Snyder, Tim Daly, Dirk Benedict, Chuck Zito, Eddie Huang, Justin Bieber, Kesha, and the late David Niven, Jacques Rivette, Glenn Miller, Alan Thicke, Ralph Ellison, Joan Hackett, Harry Caray, and Jack Clayton, who would be 100. Jackie Coogan died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 69. Joe Besser died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 80. Alain Resnais died seven years ago in 2014 at age 91.