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Today Vernon Wells is 75. Today is also the birthday of Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley, Val Kilmer, Tim Matheson, James Remar, Bebe Neuwirth, Li Gong, Taylor Hackford, Sarah Miles, Michael McDonald, Nicholas Sparks, Psy, Sean S. Cunningham, Erich Bergen, Chris Terrio, George Schlatter, Adam Rifkin, Scott Ian, Donald Trump Jr., and the late John Denver, Donna Summer, Theresa Harris, Rhys Williams, and Jason Robards Sr. Raoul Walsh died forty years ago in 1980 at age 93. Ricky Nelson died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 45. Woody Strode died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 80. Wayne Rogers died five years ago in 2015 at age 82. William Christopher died four years ago in 2016 at age 84.

Today Sandy Koufax is 85, James Burrows is 80, Lloyd Kaufman is 75, and Kelli Maroney is 60. Today is also the birthday of Patti Smith, Tracey Ullman, Russ Tamblyn, Fred Ward, Michael Nesmith, Tyrese Gibson, Lucy Punch, Betty Aberlin, LeBron James, Tiger Woods, Bennett Miller, Lav Diaz, Pedro Costa, Dave England, George Newbern, Sheryl Lee, Ellen Sandweiss, Ralph, Jeff Lynee, Meredith Vieira, Andrew Fleming, Matt Lauer, Sean Hannity, and the late Rudyard Kipling, Bo Diddley, Jack Lord, who would be 100, Davy Jones, Jack Riley, Carol Reed, Jeanette Nolan, and Joseph Bologna. Lew Ayres died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 88. Luise Rainer died six years ago in 2014 at age 104.

Today Kevin Weisman is 50, and Ross Lynch is 25. Today is also the birthday of Jon Voight, Jude Law, Ted Danson, Alison Brie, Diego Luna, Danny McBride, Patricia Clarkson, Barbara Steele, Jennifer Ehle, Paula Poundstone, Lilly Wachowski, Michael Cudlitz, Mekhi Phifer, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Patrick Fischler, Maria Dizzia, Bernard Cribbins, Tarita, Oliver Hirschbiegel, and the late Mary Tyler Moore, Dina Merrill, Jo Van Fleet, Viveca Lindfors, who would be 100, Jon Polito, George Marshall, and Andrew Johnson. Andrei Tarkovsky died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 54.

Today is the birthday of Denzel Washington, Maggie Smith, Sienna Miller, Noomi Rapace, John Legend, Seth Meyers, Jessie Buckley, Joe Manganiello, Nichelle Nichols, André Holland, Gayle King, Jan Bijvoet, Lior Ashkenazi, James Foley, and the late F.W. Murnau, Stan Lee, Lew Ayres, Martin Milner, Billy Chapin, Hildegard Knef, Lou Jacobi, Charmian Carr, Frank Kelly, Mikhail Kalatozov, and Woodrow Wilson. Dennis Wilson died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 39. Sam Peckinpah died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 59. Jerry Orbach died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 69. Debbie Reynolds died four years ago in 2016 at age 84. Rose Marie died three years ago in 2017 at age 94.

Today Harry Goaz is 60, and Timothée Chalamet is 25. Today is also the birthday of Gerard Depardieu, John Amos, Barbara Crampton, Salman Khan, Gaspar Noé, Olivia Cooke, Lily Cole, Sarah Vowell, Savannah Guthrie, Masi Oka, Jay Ellis, Wilson Cruz, Tovah Feldshuh, and the late Marlene Dietrich, Michel Piccoli, Sydney Greenstreet, Oscar Levant, Heather O’Rourke, Louis Pasteur, and Chyna. Hal Ashby died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 59. George Roy Hill died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 81. Alan Bates died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 69. Haskell Wexler died five years ago in 2015 at age 93. Carrie Fisher died four years ago in 2016 at age 60.

Today John Walsh is 75, and David Lowery is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jared Leto, Kit Harington, Phil Spector, David Sedaris, Beth Behrs, Lars Ulrich, Chuck Hicks, Shane Meadows, Bill Lawrence, Fred Schepisi, and the late Steve Allen, Alan King, Caroll Spinney, Richard Widmark, Elisha Cook Jr., Donald Moffat, Henry Miller, Vladimir Sokoloff, and Mao Zedong. Jack Benny died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 80. Howard Hawks died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 81. Elsa Lanchester died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 84. Jason Robards died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 78. Nigel Hawthorne died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 72.

Today Gary Sandy and Paul Willson are 75, and Karl Rove is 70. Today is also the birthday of Sissy Spacek, Jimmy Buffet, Justin Trudeau, Hanna Schygulla, Stuart Wilson, CCH Pounder, Annie Lennox, Nicholas Hope, John Capodice, Stefan Ruzowitzky, and the late Humphrey Bogart, Cab Calloway, Rod Serling, Dick Miller, Mabel King, Mike Mazurki, Ismail Merchant, Frank Ferguson, Barton MacLane, Tony Martin, J. Edward Bromberg, and Conrad Hilton. W.C. Fields died 74 years ago in 1946 at age 66. Charlie Chaplin died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 88. Joan Blondell died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 73. Dean Martin died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 78. Denver Pyle died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 77. James Brown died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 73. Eartha Kitt died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 81. George Michael died four years ago in 2016 at age 53.

Today Nicholas Meyer is 75. Today is also the birthday of Ricky Martin, Ryan Seacrest, Lee Daniels, Thure Lindhardt, Diedrich Bader, Michael Raymond-James, Anil Kapoor, Austin Stowell, Gavin O’Connor, Louis Tomlinson, Stephenie Meyer, Scott Spiegel, Jeff Sessions, and the late Ava Gardner, Michael Curtiz, Howard Hughes, Jonas Mekas, Ruth Chatterton, and Franz Waxman. Bernard Herrmann died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 64. Peter Lawford died 36 years ago in 1984 at 61. Toshirô Mifune died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 77. Harold Pinter died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 78. Charles Durning and Jack Krugman died eight years ago in 2012. Durning was 89. Klugman was 90.

Today Anatole Taubman and The Naked Cowboy (Robert John Burck) are 50. Today is also the birthday of Harry Shearer, Eddie Vedder, Susan Lucci, Ronnie Schell, Frederic Forrest, Finn Wolfhard, Alison Sudol, Carla Bruni, Noël Wells, Nick Moran, Jess Harnell, Peter Medak, William Kristol, Holly Madison,, and the late Corey Haim, Chet Baker, Joseph Smith, James Stacy, Elizabeth Hartman, James Gregory, Harry Guardino, Dino Risi, John Cromwell, and Kumar Pallana. Jack Webb died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 62. Billy Barty died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 76.

Today Diane Sawyer is 75, Ted Cruz is 50, and Chris Carmack is 40. Today is also the birthday of Ralph Fiennes, Hector Elizondo, David S. Goyer, Lenny von Dohlen, Heather Donahue, Sergi López, Gregor Fisher, Graham Beckel, Jay Brazeau, Meghan Trainor, Jordin Sparks, Jim McBride (Mr. Skin), and the late Barbara Billingsley, Jean Michel Basquiat, who would be 60, Robin and Maurice Gibb, Peggy Ashcroft, Ruth Roman, Gene Rayburn, Lady Bird Johnson, Pierre Brasseur, Emil Sitka, Peggie Castle, Lynne Thigpen, Frankie Darro, Minor Watson, Alan Carney, Freddie Francis, and Károly Makk. Beatrix Potter died 77 years ago in 1943 at age 77. Harry Langdon died 76 years ago in 1944 at age 60. Al Ritz died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 64. Josef von Sternberg died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 75. Samuel Beckett died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 83. Butterfly McQueen died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 84. Joe Cocker died six years ago in 2014 at age 70.