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Today Woody Allen is 85, Bette Midler is 75, and Sarah Silverman is 50. Today is also the birthday of Emily Mortimer, Janelle Monáe, Treat Williams, Riz Ahmed, Jonathan Katz, Zoë Kravitz, Deep Roy, Nestor Carbonell, Nate Torrence, Larry Charles, David Hornsby, Akiva Schaffer, Andrew Adamson, Rick Scott, and the late Richard Pryor, who would be 80, Dick Shawn, Mary Martin, David Doyle, Paul Picerni, Matthew Shepard, and Pablo Escobar. James Baldwin died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Paul Benedict died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 70. Ken Berry died two years ago in 2018 at age 85.

Today G. Gordon Liddy is 90, and Hiam Abbass is 60. Today is also the birthday of Terrence Malick, Ridley Scott, David Mamet, Ben Stiller, Gael García Bernal, Mandy Patinkin, Billy Idol, Colin Mochrie, Richard Brake, Allison Williams, Mia Goth, Kaley Cuoco, Elisha Cuthbert, Cherie Currie, Marc Forster, Henry Selick, Chris Weitz, Marina Abramovic, Emmanuel Lubezki, Steve Aoki, Robert Kirkman, Michael Hoffman, P.J. Hogan, Lenny Abrahamson, Judith Roberts, William Dear, Clay Aiken, Chrissy Teigen, and the late Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, Winston Churchill, Dick Clark, Robert Guillaume, Billy Drago, Nelsan Ellis, Rex Reason, Allan Sherman, Shirley Chisholm, Jean Eustache, Gordon Parks, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Virginia Mayo, who would be 100, and Abbie Hoffman. Oscar Wilde died 120 years ago in 1900 at age 46. Ernst Lubitsch died 73 years ago in 1947 at age 55. Zeppo Marx died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 78. Lionel Stander died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 86. Evel Knievel died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 69. Paul Walker died seven years ago in 2013 at age 40. Jim Nabors died three years ago in 2017 at age 87. George H.W. Bush died two years ago in 2018 at age 94.

Today Diane Ladd is 85, and Cathy Moriarty and Jackie Hoffman are 60. Today is also the birthday of Don Cheadle, Joel Coen, Anna Faris, Tom Sizemore, Howie Mandel, Lucas Black, Gemma Chan, Jeff Fahey, Brian Baumgartner, Kim Delaney, Tom Wright, Jerry Lawler, Simon Amstell, Ehren McGhehey, and the late Chadwick Boseman, Garry Shandling, Busby Berkeley, C. S. Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, and Yakima Canutt. Godfrey Cambridge died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 43. Natalie Wood died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 43. Cary Grant died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 82. Ralph Bellamy died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 87. George Harrison died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 58. Patrice O’Neal died nine years ago in 2011 at age 41.

Today Ed Harris is 70. Today is also the birthday of Jon Stewart, Randy Newman, Paul Shaffer, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Judd Nelson, Alfonso Cuarón, Joe Dante, Armando Iannucci, Karen Gillan, Martin Clunes, Berry Gordy, S. Epatha Merkerson, Ryan Kwanten, Colman Domingo, Agnieszka Holland, Stephnie Weir, Paul Dinello, Rose Abdoo, Pamela Hayden, and the late Gloria Grahame, James Karen, Hope Lange, Anna Nicole Smith, Michael Ritchie, Lilia Skala, Stefan Zweig, and Max Wagner. Rosalind Russell died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 69. Leslie Nielsen died ten years ago in 2010 at age 84. Marjorie Lord died five years ago in 2015 at age 97.

Today Barbara Anderson is 75, and Paulina García is 60. Today is also the birthday of Kathryn Bigelow, Bill Nye, William Fichtner, Alison Pill, Robin Givens, Steve Oedekerk, Sharlto Copley, Elizabeth Marvel, Jaleel White, Curtis Armstrong, Fisher Stevens, Kimmy Robertson, Gerrit Graham, Callie Khouri, Adam Shankman, Stephen Bannon, and the late Bruce Lee, who would be 80, Jimi Hendrix, James Agee, James Avery, Connie Sawyer, Claude Lanzmann, Les Blank, Ronit Elkabetz, and “Buffalo” Bob Smith. Harvey Milk died 42 years ago in 1978 at age 48. John Carradine died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 82. Irvin Kershner died ten years ago in 2010 at age 87. Ken Russell died nine years ago in 2011 at age 84.

Today is the birthday of Tina Turner, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Mark Margolis, DJ Khaled, Scott Adsit, Rich Little, Jessica Camacho, Lia Williams, Don Lake, Marianne Muellerleile, Julien Temple, Mark L. Lester, and the late Robert Goulet, Charles M. Schultz, Albert Maysles, Cyril Cusack, Frances Dee, Daniel Petrie, who would be 100, and Charles Brackett. Tommy Dorsey died 64 years ago in 1956 at age 51. Mel Tolkin died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 94. Bernardo Bertolucci and Stephen Hillenburg died two years ago in 2018. Bertolucci was 77. Hillenburg was 57.

Today Mary Jo Deschanel is 75, and Amy Grant is 60. Today is also the birthday of Christina Applegate, John Larroquette, Joel Kinnaman, Ben Stein, Jill Hennessy, Dougray Scott, Billy Burke, Tracey Walter, Kathryn Grant, Gaspard Ulliel, Beverly Washburn, Mark Frost, Amy Seimetz, Gregg Turkington, Bruno Tonioli, Charlaine Harris, Barbara Bush, Jenna Bush Hager, and the late Ricardo Montalban and Noel Neill, who would both be 100, Joe DiMagggio, John Kennedy Jr., Jeffrey Hunter, Jessie Royce Landis, and Augusto Pinochet. Bill “Bojangles” Robinson died 71 years ago in 1949 at age 72. Upton Sinclair died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 90. Jack Albertson died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 74. Flip Wilson died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 64. Fidel Castro and Ron Glass died four years ago in 2016. Castro was 90. Glass was 71. Rance Howard died three years ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today Stanley Livingston is 70, and Sarah Hyland is 30. Today is also the birthday Billy Connolly, Katherine Heigl, Stephen Merchant, Shirley Henderson, Colin Hanks, Garret Dillahunt, Thierry Lhermitte, Danielle Nicolet, Conleth Hill, Dwight Schultz, Ulrich Seidl, Emir Kusturica, and the late William F. Buckley, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Cathleen Nesbitt, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Forrest J. Ackerman, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Garson Kanin, Zachary Taylor, and Ted Bundy. Lee Harvey Oswald died 57 years ago in 1963 at age 24. George Raft died 42 years ago in 1978 at age 79. Freddie Mercury died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 45. Pat Morita died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 73. Ricky Jay died two years ago in 2018 at age 72.

Today Chuck Schumer is 70, Robin Roberts is 60, and Oded Fehr and Danny Hoch are 50. Today is also the birthday of Vincent Cassel, Robert Towne, Franco Nero, Miley Cyrus, James Toback, Brennan Brown, Bruce Vilanch, Chris Hardwick, Joe Eszterhas, Destin Daniel Cretton, Sara Karloff, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, and the late Boris Karloff, Harpo Marx, Michael Gough, Robert Easton, Paula Raymond, Steve Landesberg, Elmarie Wendel, Run Run Shaw, Pierre Étaix, Bess Flowers, and Franklin Pierce. Klaus Kinski died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 65. Louis Malle died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 63. Larry Hagman died eight years ago in 2012 at age 81. Nicolas Roeg died two years ago in 2018 at age 90.

Today Robert M. Young is 96, Terry Gilliam is 80, Steven Van Zandt is 70, and Leos Carax is 60. Today is also the birthday of Scarlett Johansson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mark Ruffalo, Mads Mikkelsen, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Kenneth Williams, Alden Ehrenreich, Richard Kind, Billie Jean King, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Karen O, Marjane Satrapi, and the late Rodney Dangerfield, Geraldine Page, Robert Vaughn, Allen Garfield, Lee Patrick, Arthur Hiller, Andrzej Zulawski, Charles de Gaulle, Elizabeth Patterson, and Paul A. Partain. Jack London died 104 years ago in 1916 at age 40. Shemp Howard died 65 years ago in 1955 at age 60. John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley died 57 years ago in 1963. Kennedy was 46, Lewis was 64, and Huxley was 69. Mae West died forty years ago in 1980 at age 87. Michael Conrad died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 58. Scatman Crothers died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 76. Sterling Holloway died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 87. Bill Bixby and Anthony Burgess died 27 years ago in 1993. Bixby was 59. Burgess was 76. Florence Henderson died four years ago in 2016 at age 82.