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February 29 is the birthday of Joss Ackland, Antonio Sabato Jr., Ja Rule, Peter Scanavino, Tony Robbins, Harvey Jason, Margit Carstensen, Shane Johnson, Ken Foree, Jessie T. Usher, and the late Dinah Shore, Dennis Farina, Alex Rocco, Michèle Morgan, Arthur Franz, James Mitchell, Edward Faulkner, William A. Wellman, Richard Ramirez, and Aileen Wuornos. Frank Albertson died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 55. Davy Jones died nine years ago in 2012 at age 66.

Today Gavin MacLeod is 90, and Rae Dawn Chong is 60. Today is also the birthday of John Turturro, Gilbert Gottfried, Bernadette Peters, Mercedes Ruehl, Tommy Tune, Mike Figgis, Rory Cochrane, Geoffrey Arend, Guy Maddin, Paul Krugman, Robert Sean Leonard, Daniel Handler, Sidney J. Furie, and the late Zero Mostel, Charles Durning, Brian Jones, Vincente Minnelli, Bubba Smith, Don Francks, Billie Bird, and Ben Hecht. Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Ishiro Honda died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 81. Jane Russell died twelve years ago in 2011 at age 89.

Today Charlotte Stewart is 80, Bolo Yeung is 75, Charles Baker is 50, and Josh Groban is 40. Today is the birthday of Joanne Woodward, Timothy Spall, Kara Mara, Howard Hesseman, Noah Emmerich, Adam Baldwin, Donal Logue, Bingbing Li, Debra Monk, Barbara Babcock, Ralph Nader, Chelsea Clinton, Mary Jo Pehl, and the late Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, John Steinbeck, William Demarest, Van Williams, Franchot Tone, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Lillian Gish died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 99. Spike Milligan died nineteen years ago in 2002 at 83. Fred Rogers died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 74. Leonard Nimoy died six years ago in 2015 at age 83. George Kennedy died five years ago in 2016 at age 91.

Today Josephine Tewson is 90. Today is also the birthday of Michael Bolton, Bill Duke, James Wan, Marilyn Michaels, Jane Wagner, Greg Germann, Teresa Palmer, Drew Goddard, Michel Houellebecq, Marta Kristen, Steve Agee, Tim Kaine, and the late Johnny Cash, Jackie Gleason, Tony Randall, Fats Domino, Betty Hutton, who would be 100, William Frawley, Godfrey Cambridge, Victor Hugo, Christopher Marlowe, Dub Taylor, Dane Clark, Tex Avery, Michael Pate, Robert Alda, William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), Madeleine Carroll, and Margaret Leighton. Lawrence Tierney died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 82.

Today Sean Astin is 50. Today is also the birthday of Téa Leoni, Rashida Jones, Chelsea Handler, Diane Baker, Neil Jordan, Tom Courtenay, Lee Evans, John Doe, Mark Moses, Scott ‘Carrot Top’ Thompson, Ric Flair, Jameela Jamil, Noah Jupe, and the late George Harrison, Zeppo Marx, Jim Backus, Larry Gelbart, Anthony Burgess, Bobby Riggs, Bert Remsen, and Gert Fröbe. Tennessee Williams died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 71. James Coco died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 56. Erland Josephson died nine years ago in 2012 at age 88. Bill Paxton died four years ago in 2017 at age 61.

Today Dominic Chianese is 90, Michael Radford is 75, Debra Jo Rupp is 70, Emilio Rivera and Kasi Lemmons are 60, Gillian Flynn is 50, and O’Shea Jackson Jr. is 30. Today is also the birthday of Billy Zane, Edward James Olmos, Daniel Kaluuya, Barry Bostwick, Jenny O’Hara, Beth Broderick, Todd Field, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and the late Abe Vigoda, who would be 100, Emmanuelle Riva, John Vernon, Marjorie Main, Steve Jobs, Steven Hill, and Mitch Hedberg. Dinah Shore died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 77. Henny Youngman died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 91. John Randolph died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 88. Don Knotts and Dennis Weaver died fifteen years ago in 2006, both at age 81. Harold Ramis died seven years ago in 2014 at age 69.

Today Patricia Richardson is 70, and Josh Gad is 40. Today is also the birthday of Emily Blunt, Kelly Macdonald, Aziz Ansari, Kristin Davis, Dakota Fanning, Niecy Nash, Paul Morrissey, Marie-Josée Croze, and the late Peter Fonda, Victor Fleming, George Frideric Handel, W.E.B. Du Bois, Diane Varsi, Mary Pat Gleason, Terence Fisher, Norman Taurog, and Jirí Menzel. Mabel Normand died 91 years ago in 1930 at age 37. Stan Laurel died 56 years ago in 1965 at age 74. Katherine Helmond died two years ago in 2019 at age 89.

Today Elizabeth MacRae is 85, and Ellen Greene is 70. Today is also the birthday of Kyle MacLachlan, Drew Barrymore, Thomas Jane, Julie Walters, Rachel Dratch, James Hong, Paul Dooley, Jeri Ryan, Josh Helman, Nicholas Pileggi, Paul Lieberstein, Rebecca Schull, Nigel Planer, and the late George Washington, Luis Buñuel, Jonathan Demme, Giulietta Masina, who would be 100, John Mills, Robert Young, Don Pardo, Dwight Frye, Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter, Karin Dor, Kenneth Williams, Vaughn Taylor, Sheldon Leonard, and Mildred Davis. Andy Warhol died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 58. Simone Simon died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 94.

Today Tyne Daly and Anthony Daniels are 75, Christopher Atkins is 60, and Sophie Turner is 25. Today is also the birthday of Elliot Page, Kelsey Grammer, Jordan Peele, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mélanie Laurent, Kim Coates, William Petersen, Kumail Nanjiani, Tituss Burgess, Bob Rafelson, William Baldwin, Jack Coleman, Margarethe von Trotta, Christine Ebersole, Brendan Sexton III, Chuck Palahniuk, Justin Roiland, Gary Lockwood, Shane Ryan, and the late Alan Rickman, Nina Simone, Sam Peckinpah, John Lewis, David Foster Wallace, Rue McClanahan, Ann Sheridan, Larry Drake, Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Sacha Guitry, and James Beck. Malcolm X was assassinated 56 years ago in 1965 at age 39. Stanley Donen and Peter Tork died two year ago in 2019. Donen was 94. Tork was 77.

Today Brenda Blethyn and Sandy Duncan are 75. Today is also the birthday of Sidney Poitier, Lili Taylor, Miles Teller, Mike Leigh, Joel Hodgson, Richard Beymer, Rihanna, Trevor Noah, Chelsea Peretti, Charles Barkley, Andrea Savage, Willie Garson, Louis Ferreira, Jay Hernandez, Lauren Ambrose, Anthony Head, David Herman, Jack Falahee, Jason Blum, Andrew Bergman, Cindy Crawford, Kliph Nesteroff, Patricia Hearst, Ivana Trump, and the late Robert Altman, Kurt Cobain, Richard Matheson, Brion James, Amanda Blake, Gale Gordon, Pierre Boulle, and Gloria Vanderbilt. Max Schreck died 85 years ago in 1936 at age 56. Dick York died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 63. Sandra Dee died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 62.