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Today Dick Cheney is 80, and Phil Collins and Charles S. Dutton are 70. Today is also the birthday of Gene Hackman, Vanessa Redgrave, Christian Bale, Olivia Colman, Wilmer Valderrama, Ann Dowd, Brett Butler, Gino Conforti, Steven Zaillian, Andy Milonakis, Wayne Wilderson, and the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Ireland, David Wayne, Dick Martin, Hugh Marlowe, Tammy Grimes, Michael Anderson, and Delbert Mann. Mahatma Gandhi and Orville Wright both died 73 years ago in 1948. Gandhi was 78. Wright was 76.

Today is the birthday of Oprah Winfrey, Tom Selleck Heather Graham, Katharine Ross, Sara Gilbert, Edward Burns, Sam Trammell, Justin Hartley, Adam Lambert, and the late W.C. Fields, Anton Chekhov, Victor Mature, Ernst Lubitsch, Dorothy Malone, Paddy Chayefsky, and John Forsythe. Alan Ladd died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 50. Freddie Prinze died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 22. Jacques Rivette died five years ago in 2016 at age 87.

Today Alan Alda is 85, and Elijah Wood is 40. Today is also the birthday of Will Poulter, Joey Fatone, Susan Howard, Frank Darabont, Marthe Keller, Gillian Vigman, Sarah McLachlan, John Beck, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Nicholas Pryor, Jack Hill, Mo Rocca, Ariel Winter, Rick Ross, Nick Carter, and the late John Banner, who died on his birthday 48 years ago in 1973 at age 63, Tom Neal, Lewis Wilson, Richard Glatzer, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Maurice Gosfield. Zora Neale Hurston died 61 years ago in 1960 at age 69. Burt Mustin died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 92. Erle C. Kenton died 41 years ago in 1980 at age 83.

Today is the birthday of James Cromwell, Patton Oswalt, Alan Cumming, Bridget Fonda, Rosamund Pike, Mimi Rogers, Frank Miller, Keith Olbermann, Mike Patton, Phil Rosenthal, Michael Craig, Tricky, and the late Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lewis Carroll, Donna Reed, who would be 100, Troy Donahue, John Witherspoon, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Howard McNear, Ingrid Thulin, Sabu, and Milton Kibbee. Andre the Giant died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 46. Jack Paar died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 85. J.D. Salinger died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 91. Pete Seeger died seven years ago in 2014 at age 94. Emmanuelle Riva died four years ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today is the birthday of Ellen DeGeneres, Scott Glenn, David Strathairn, Angela Davis, Bryan Callen, Bob Uecker, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Mimi Leder, Henry Jaglom, and the late Paul Newman, Eddie Van Halen, Joan Leslie, Gene Siskel, William Hopper, Anne Jeffreys, Roger Vadmin, Maria von Trapp, Charles Lane, and Vito Scotti. Edward G. Robinson died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 79. José Ferrer died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 80. Abe Vigoda died five years ago in 2016 at age 94. Kobe Bryant died one year ago in 2020 at age 41.

Today Diane Salinger is 70, and Alicia Keys is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jenifer Lewis, Dinah Manoff, Whit Stillman, Olivier Assayas, Leigh Taylor-Young, Stephen Chbosky, Don Mancini, and the late Virginia Woolf, Etta James, Dean Jones, Tobe Hooper, Gregory Sierra, Mildred Dunnock, Diana Hyland, Gregg Palmer, King Donovan, Youssef Chahine, W. Somerset Maugham, Carlotta Monti, and Harold Lloyd Jr. Al Capone died years ago 74 in 1947 at age 48. Ava Gardner died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 67. Mary Tyler Moore and John Hurt both died four years ago in 2017. Moore was 80. Hurt was 77.

Today Neil Diamond is 80, Michael Ontkean is 75, Nastassja Kinski is 60, and Carrie Coon is 40. Today is also the birthday of Ed Helms, Matthew Lillard, Daveed Diggs, Kristen Schaal, Justin Baldoni, Daniel Auteuil, Adrian Edmondson, Phil LaMarr, Michael Des Barres, and the late John Belushi, Ernest Borgnine, Sharon Tate, Marvin Kaplan, Estelle Winwood, Edith Wharton, Henry King, and Haji. Winston Churchill died 56 years ago in 1965 at age 90. J. Carrol Naish died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 77. Larry Fine died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 72. George Cukor died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 83. L. Ron Hubbard died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 74. Ted Bundy died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 42. Chris Penn died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 40. Pernell Roberts died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 81. Theodoros Angelopoulos died nine years ago in 2012 at age 76.

Today Arlene Golonka is 85, and David Patrick Kelly and Captain C.B. Sully Sullenberger are 70. Today is also the birthday of Mariska Hargitay, Chita Rivera, Ewen Bremner, Jack Reynor, Gil Gerard, Richard Dean Anderson, Gail O’Grady, Tiffani Thiessen, Mark Boal, Richard Roxburgh, Shin’ichi Chiba, Kyle Newacheck, Lou Antonio, Derek Cianfrance, and the late Ernie Kovacs, Jeanne Moreau, Rutger Hauer, Randolph Scott, Frances Bay, Dan Duryea, Bob Steele, Ralph Graves, Franklin Pangborn, and Django Reinhardt. Paul Robeson died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 77. Jack Oakie died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 74. Johnny Carson died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 79. Jonas Mekas died two year ago in 2019 at age 96.

Today is the birthday of Piper Laurie, Diane Lane, Jim Jarmusch, Linda Blair, Guy Fieri, Christopher Masterson, Min-sik Choi, Tamra Davis, Raquel Cassidy, and the late D.W. Griffith, Sergei M. Eisenstein, John Hurt, Seymour Cassel, Bill Bixby, Conrad Veidt, Ann Southern, and Diana Douglas. Alan Hale died 71 years ago in 1950 at age 57. Telly Savalas died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 72, one day after his birthday. Ann Miller died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 80. Heath Ledger died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 28. Jean Simmons died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 80.

Today Yoshiko Kuga is 90, and Placido Domingo and Victoria Carroll are 80. Today is also the birthday of Geena Davis, Michael Wincott, Charlotte Ross, Robby Benson, Ken Leung, Martin Shaw, Jill Eikenberry, Luke Grimes, John Early, Craig Roberts, Emma Bunton, and the late Telly Savalas, Benny Hill, Paul Scofield, Steve Reeves, Wolfman Jack, Mac Davis, J. Carrol Naish, John Doucette, who would be 100, Arthur Wontner, John M. Stahl, and Blue Iris. George Orwell died 71 years ago in 1950 at age 46. Cecil B. DeMille died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 77. Ann Sheridan died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 51. Peggy Lee died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 81. Michael Winner died eight years ago in 2013 at age 77. Terry Jones died one year ago in 2020 at age 77.