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Today David Mazouz is 20. Today is also the birthday of Benicio Del Toro, Jeff Daniels, Ray Winstone, Smokey Robinson, Justine Bateman, Seal, Amy Tan, Sam Reid, Millie Bobby Brown, Leslie David Baker, Josh Trank, Victoria Justice, Zach Clark, and the late Lee Marvin, John Frankenheimer, Ann Savage, who would be 100, Cedric Hardwicke, Louis Feuillade, Merle Oberon, David Margulies, and Louis Calhern. Michael Powell died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 84. Derek Jarman died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 52. Stanley Kramer died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 87. Harper Lee died five years ago in 2016 at age 89.

Today is the birthday of John Travolta, Matt Dillon, Cybil Shepherd, Yoko Ono, Molly Ringwald, Dr. Dre, Ike Barinholtz, Vanna White, Logan Miller, Greta Scacchi, Regina Spektor, László Nemes, Jeff Orlowski, and the late John Hughes, Toni Morrison, Milos Forman, George Kennedy, Jack Palance, Mary Ure, Adolphe Menjou, Allan Melvin, Edward Arnold, Bill Cullen, and Nikos Kazantzakis. Martin Luther died 475 years ago in 1546 at age 62. Michelangelo died 457 years ago in 1564 at age 88. Andy Devine died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Harry Caray died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 83. Dale Earnhardt died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 49. Jean Rouch died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 86.

Today Jim Brown is 85, Denise Richards is 50, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Paris Hilton are 40, and Ed Sheeran and Bonnie Wright are 30. Today is also the birthday of Michael Jordan, Rene Russo, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michael Bay, Lou Diamond Phillips, Brenda Fricker, Larry The Cable Guy, Jerry O’Connell, Jason Ritter, Lucy Davis, Billie Joe Armstrong, Rory Kinnear, Richard Karn, Patricia Routledge, Christina Pickles, Barry Humphries, Becky Ann Baker, Don Coscarelli, and the late Alan Bates, Hal Holbrook, Arthur Kennedy, Kathleen Freeman, Arthur Hunnicutt, Huey P. Newton, Dieter Laser, Jeremy Slate, and Ralphie May. Lee Strasberg died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 80. Andrzej Zulawski died five years ago in 2016 at age 75.

Today William Katt is 70. Today is also the birthday of Mahershala Ali, LeVar Burton, Ice-T, Elizabeth Olsen, Troy Evans, John McEnroe, The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye), Christopher Eccleston, Agyness Deyn, Janice Dickinson, Lisa Loring, Yoshishige Yoshida, and the late Sonny Bono, Edgar Bergen, John Schlesinger, Chester Morris, Hugh Beaumont, Brian Bedford, Robert J. Flaherty, James Baskett, Ken Takakura, Carlos Rivas, Vernon Dent, Mack Swain, and Kim Jong-il. Len Lesser died ten years ago in 2011 at age 88. Lesley Gore died six years ago in 2015 at age 68. 

Today Claire Bloom is 90, Jane Seymour is 70, and Alex Borstein is 50. Today is also the birthday of Matt Groening, Sherry Jackson, Marisa Berenson, Christopher McDonald, Miranda July, Amber Riley, Brendon Small, Samira Makhmalbaf, Omarosa Manigault Newman, and the late Chris Farley, Cesar Romero, Harvey Korman, Kevin McCarthy, John Barrymore, Allan Arbus, Galileo Galilei, Susan B. Anthony, Arthur Shields, Meg Wyllie, and Gale Sondergaard. Wally Cox and Tim Holt died 48 years ago in 1973. Cox was 48, and Holt was 54. Ethel Merman died 37 years in 1984 at age 76. George Gaynes died five years ago in 2016 at age 98.

Today Joan O’Brien and Andrew Prine are 85, Terry Gross is 70, and Angela Robinson is 50. Today is also the birthday of Simon Pegg, Meg Tilly, Freddie Highmore, Carl Bernstein, Michael Bloomberg, Harriet Andersson, Teller, Danai Gurira, Andrew Robinson, Zach Galligan, Jackie Martling, Rob Thomas, Anton Lesser, Sakina Jaffrey, Frank Collison, Brett Dier, Allan Miller, and the late Jack Benny, Florence Henderson, Thelma Ritter, Vic Morrow, Gregory Hines, Lois Maxwell, Alan Parker, Edward Platt, Jimmy Hoffa, Woody Hayes, Hugh Downs, who would be 100, Tim Buckley, Stuart Erwin, and Masaki Kobayashi. Sig Ruman died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 82. Louis Jourdan died six years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today Bo Svenson is 80, Joe Estevez is 75, David Naughton is 70, and Henry Rollins and Richard Tyson are 60. Today is also the birthday of Kim Novak, George Segal, Stockard Channing, Jerry Springer, Peter Gabriel, Robbie Williams, Mena Suvari, Neal McDonough, Donald Sumpter, and the late Oliver Reed, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Chuck Yeager, Peter Tork, and Carol Lynley. Martin Balsam died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 76. Stacy Keach Sr. died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 88. Seijun Suzuki died four years ago in 2017 at age 93.

Today Joe Don Baker is 85. Today is also the birthday of Josh Brolin, Christina Ricci, Darren Aronofsky, Costa-Gavras, John Michael Higgins, Arsenio Hall, Judy Blume, Lochlyn Munro, Michael Ironside, Tara Strong, Raphael Sbarge, Iko Uwais, Josef Altin, Cliff De Young, Zach Grenier, Annette Crosbie, and the late Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, both born today in 1809, Franco Zeffirelli, Forrest Tucker, Louis Zorich, Lorne Greene, Simon MacCorkindale, Richard Lynch, Ann Gillis, Wallace Ford, and Joseph Kearns. Dziga Vertov died 67 years ago in 1954 at age 58. Sal Mineo died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 37. Jean Renoir died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 84. Charles M. Schulz died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 77. Sid Caesar died seven years ago in 2014 at age 91. Marty Allen died three years ago in 2018 at age 95.

Today Damian Lewis is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jennifer Aniston, Sheryl Crow, Taylor Lautner, Brandy Norwood, Tina Louise, Diane Franklin, Natalie Dormer, Q’orianka Kilcher, Jeb Bush, Sarah Palin, Alex Jones, and the late Burt Reynolds, Leslie Nielsen, Eva Gabor, Thomas A. Edison, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Kim Stanley, Sonny Landham, Billy Halop, Max Baer, and Sidney Sheldon. Sergei Eisenstein died 73 years ago in 1948 at age 50. Sylvia Plath died 58 years ago in 1963 at age 30. Lee J. Cobb died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 64. Whitney Houston died nine years ago in 2012 at age 48.

Today Alexander Payne and George Stephanopoulos are 60, Uzo Aduba and Stephanie Beatriz are 40, and Emma Roberts is 30. Today is also the birthday of Laura Dern, Robert Wagner, Elizabeth Banks, Chloë Grace Moretz, Vince Gilligan, Rupert Vansittart, Meadow Williams, Glenn Beck, and the late Lon Chaney Jr., Jimmy Durante, Alan Hale, Judith Anderson, Jerry Goldsmith, Stella Adler, Bertolt Brecht, Michael Apted, John Dierkes, Hazel Court, John Farrow, and Douglas Slocombe. Jim Varney died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 50. Arthur Miller died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 89. Roy Scheider died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 75. Shirley Temple died seven years ago in 2014 at age 85.