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Today Tom Hiddleston is 40. Today is also the birthday of Joe Pesci, Carole King, Mia Farrow, Judith Light, Michael B. Jordan, Ziyi Zhang, Ciarán Hinds, Charlie Day, David Simon, David Hayman, Margarita Levieva, Jason George, Marianna Hill, Fede Alvarez, Rose Leslie, Charles Shaughnessy, Clive Swift, Janet Suzman, and the late Ronald Colman, Kathryn Grayson, Brian Donlevy, Carmen Miranda, Peggy Wood, Roy Jenson, and William Henry Harrison. George ‘Gabby’ Hayes died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 83. John Gavin and Reg E. Cathey died three years ago in 2018. Gavin was 86. Cathey was 59.

Today Nick Nolte is 80. Today is also the birthday of Mary Steenburgen, John Williams, Mary McCormack, Seth Green, Brooke Adams, Robert Klein, John Grisham, Cecily Strong, Mathilda May, Creed Bratton, William Jackson Harper, Ethan Phillips, and the late James Dean, who would be 90, Jack Lemmon, Lana Turner, who would be 100, Gary Coleman, Audrey Meadows, Jules Verne, King Vidor, Allan Rich, Jack Larson, William Tecumseh Sherman, Betty Field, Burt Mustin, Alejandro Rey, Charles Ruggles, Roger Lloyd Pack, and Bengt Ekerot. Robert Conrad died one year ago in 2020 at age 84.

Today is the birthday of Chris Rock, James Spader, Eddie Izzard, Garth Brooks, Ashton Kutcher, Tina Majorino, Deborah Ann Woll, Robyn Lively, Jason Gedrick, Eric Godon, Robert Smigel, James Deen, and the late Charles Dickens, Miguel Ferrer, Pete Postlethwaite, Eddie Bracken, Gloria Talbott, Jock Mahoney, Buster Crabbe, Wayne Allwine, Dora Bryan, Hector Babenco, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas More, and Puyi. Dale Evans died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 88. Mickey Jones died three years ago in 2018 at age 76. Albert Finney died two year ago in 2019 at age 82. Orson Bean died one year ago in 2020 at age 91.

Today Mamie Van Doren is 90, and Kevin Whately is 70. Today is also the birthday of Kathy Najimy, Dane DeHaan, Axl Rose, Tom Brokaw, Mike Farrell, Josh Stewart, Robert Townsend, Jim Sheridan, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Debra Granik, Fabian, and the late Bob Marley, François Truffaut, Rip Torn, Ronald Reagan, Babe Ruth, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Patrick Macnee, Ramon Novarro, Haskell Wexler, David Gorcey, who would be 100, and Eva Braun. Danny Thomas died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 79. Joseph Cotten died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 88. Irwin Corey died four years ago in 2017 at age 102.

Today David Selby is 80, Charlotte Rampling is 75, Tim Meadows is 60, and Mia Hansen-Løve is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Guest, Michael Sheen, Laura Linney, Barbara Hershey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Mann, Chris Parnell, Darren Criss, Bobby Brown, Errol Morris, Tony Jaa, Benoît Jacquot, David Meunier, Jamie Brewer, Jonathan Freeman, and the late John Carradine, Red Buttons, William S. Burroughs, Hank Aaron, Tim Holt, HR Giger, Stephen J. Cannell, and Stefan Gierasch. Thelma Ritter died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 66. Joseph L. Mankiewicz died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 83. Kirk Douglas died one year ago in 2020 at age 103.

Today Rob Corddry is 50. Today is also the birthday of Alice Cooper, Hannibal Buress, Gabrielle Anwar, Jim O’Heir, Michael Beck, Linda Bassett, John Schuck, Jerry Adler, Dan Quayle, and the late Ida Lupino, George A. Romero, David Brenner, Rosa Parks, Charles Lindbergh, William Talman, Conrad Bain, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Norman Wisdom, James Craig, Nigel Bruce, and Betty Friedan, who died on her 85th birthday fifteen years ago in 2006. Louis Jordan died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 66. Karen Carpenter died 38 year ago in 1983 at age 32. Liberace died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 67. John Mahoney died three years ago in 2018 at age 77.

Today is the birthday of Nathan Lane, Blythe Danner, Isla Fisher, Maura Tierney, Warwick Davis, Kenneth Anger, Morgan Fairchild, Tim Heidecker, Fredric Lehne, Stephen McHattie, Anthony Russo, Amal Clooney, Lizzie Borden, and the late Joey Bishop, Victor Buono, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Michael Cimino, Shelley Berman, Gertrude Stein, Norman Rockwell, Mary Carlisle, John Fielder, James Bridges, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Buddy Holly died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 22. Anna May Wong died sixty years ago in 1961 at age 56. John Cassavetes died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 59. Audrey Meadows died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 73. Al Lewis died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 82. Ben Gazzara died nine years ago in 2012 at age 81. Julie Adams died two years ago in 2019 at age 92.

Today Blake Clark is 75. Today is also the birthday of Graham Nash, Tom Smothers, Bo Hopkins, Christie Brinkley, Zosia Mamet, Shakira, David Jason, Jack McGee, Catherine Flemming, Lori Beth Denberg, Rich Sommer, Laura Poitras, Oz Perkins, Duane “Dog” Chapman, John A. Russo, and the late Farrah Fawcett, James Joyce, James Dickey, Ayn Rand, Elaine Stritch, Tony Jay, S.Z. Sakall, Carol Ann Susi, Frank Albertson, Jackie Burroughs, Eva Cassidy, Bonita Granville, Connie Gilchrist, Frank Lloyd, Duane Jones, and Vera Chytilová. Boris Karloff died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 81. Sid Vicious died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 21. Donald Pleasence died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 75. Gene Kelly died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 83. Philip Seymour Hoffman died seven years ago in 2014 at age 46. Bob Elliott died five years ago in 2016 at age 92.

Today Michael C. Hall is 50, and John Gemberling is 40. Today is also the birthday of Don Everly, Garrett Morris, Pauly Shore, Julia Garner, Harry Styles, Lisa Marie Presley, Abbi Jacobson, Sherilyn Fenn, Linus Roache, Bill Mumy, Ronda Rousey, Anna Biller, and the late Clark Gable, John Ford, Terry Jones, Langston Hughes, Sherman Hemsley, Brandon Lee, Stuart Whitman, Rick James, Nancy Gates, Boris Yeltsin, Peter Sallis, who would be 100, Paul Carr, Bibi Besch, and Lee Thompson Young. Buster Keaton and Hedda Hopper died 55 years ago in 1966. Keaton was 70. Hopper was 80. John Vernon died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 72. Maximilian Schell died seven years ago in 2014 at age 83.

Today Jessica Walter is 80, Patricia Velasquez is 50, and Justin Timberlake is 40. Today is also the birthday of Minnie Driver, Kerry Washington, Jonathan Banks, Portia de Rossi, Bobby Moynihan, John Lydon, Philip Glass, Kelly Lynch, Stuart Margolin, Paul Scheer, Anthony Lapaglia, Peter McRobbie, Nick DiPaolo, Dexter Fletcher, Megan Ellison, Michael St. Michaels, and the late Jean Simmons, Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing and Mario Lanza, who would both be 100, Norman Mailer, Jackie Robinson, Suzanne Pleshette, Franz Schubert, Eddie Cantor, Joanne Dru, Percy Helton, and Derek Jarman. Samuel Goldwyn died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 94. George Abbott died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 107.