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Today Charlaine Harris is 70, Christina Applegate is 50, and Amy Seimetz, Barbara Bush, and Jenna Bush Hager are 40. Today is also the birthday of John Larroquette, Joel Kinnaman, Ben Stein, Jill Hennessy, Dougray Scott, Billy Burke, Mary Jo Deschanel, Tracey Walter, Kathryn Grant, Gaspard Ulliel, Beverly Washburn, Mark Frost, Gregg Turkington, Amy Grant, Bruno Tonioli, and the late Ricardo Montalban, Joe DiMagggio, John Kennedy Jr., Jeffrey Hunter, Noel Neill, Jessie Royce Landis, and Augusto Pinochet. Bill “Bojangles” Robinson died 72 years ago in 1949 at age 72. Upton Sinclair died 53 years ago in 1968 at age 90. Jack Albertson died forty years ago in 1981 at age 74. Flip Wilson died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 64. Fidel Castro and Ron Glass died five years ago in 2016. Castro was 90. Glass was 71. Rance Howard died four years ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today is the birthday Billy Connolly, Katherine Heigl, Stephen Merchant, Shirley Henderson, Colin Hanks, Garret Dillahunt, Thierry Lhermitte, Danielle Nicolet, Sarah Hyland, Stanley Livingston, 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 58 years ago in 1963 at age 24. George Raft died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 79. Freddie Mercury died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 45. Pat Morita died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 73. Ricky Jay died three years ago in 2018 at age 72.

Today Franco Nero is 80, and Chris Hardwick is 50. Today is also the birthday of Vincent Cassel, Robert Towne, Miley Cyrus, Robin Roberts, James Toback, Brennan Brown, Bruce Vilanch, Oded Fehr, Joe Eszterhas, Destin Daniel Cretton, Danny Hoch, Chuck Schumer, 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. Merle Oberon died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 68. Roald Dahl died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 74. Klaus Kinski died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 65. Louis Malle died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 63. Larry Hagman died nine years ago in 2012 at age 81. Nicolas Roeg died three years ago in 2018 at age 90.

Today Robert M. Young is 97, and Mariel Hemingway is 60. Today is also the birthday of Scarlett Johansson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mark Ruffalo, Terry Gilliam, Mads Mikkelsen, Steven Van Zandt, Alden Ehrenreich, Richard Kind, Billie Jean King, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Karen O, Leos Carax, Marjane Satrapi, and the late Rodney Dangerfield, who would be 100, Geraldine Page, Michael Kenneth Williams, Robert Vaughn, Allen Garfield, Lee Patrick, Arthur Hiller, Andrzej Zulawski, Charles de Gaulle, Elizabeth Patterson, and Paul A. Partain. Jack London died 105 years ago in 1916 at age 40. Shemp Howard died 66 years ago in 1955 at age 60. John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley died 58 years ago in 1963. Kennedy was 46, Lewis was 64, and Huxley was 69. Mae West died 41 years ago in 1980 at age 87. Michael Conrad died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 58. Scatman Crothers died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 76. Sterling Holloway died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 87. Bill Bixby and Anthony Burgess died 28 years ago in 1993. Bixby was 59. Burgess was 76. Florence Henderson died five years ago in 2016 at age 82.

Today Juliet Mills is 80, Andrew Davis is 75, and Michael Strahan is 50. Today is also the birthday of Goldie Hawn, Björk, Marlo Thomas, Jena Malone, Cherry Jones, Nicollette Sheridan, Rain Phoenix, Alexander Siddig, Jimmi Simpson, Cynthia Rhodes, Lorna Luft, Thomas Mars, Carly Rae Jepsen, and the late Harold Ramis, Eleanor Powell, Joseph Campanella, Vivian Blaine, who would be 100, Ralph Meeker, and Voltaire. Jerry Colonna died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 82. Bill Bixby died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 59. David Cassidy died four years ago in 2017 at age 67.

Today Don DeLillo is 85, Judy Woodruff is 75, Rodger Bumpass is 70, Larry Karaszewski is 60, Joel McHale is 50, and Andrea Riseborough is 40. Today is also the birthday of Joe Biden, Dick Smothers, Estelle Parsons, Sean Young, Bo Derek, Joe Walsh, Dierks Bentley, Ming-Na Wen, Callie Thorne, Veronica Hamel, Richard Masur, Jerry Hardin, Ned Vaughn, Mie Hama, Jeff Dowd, and the late Robert F. Kennedy, Bob Einstein, Richard Dawson, Kaye Ballard, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Robert Armstrong, Evelyn Keyes, Samuel E. Wright, Phyllis Thaxter, Reginald Denny, Franklin Cover, and Kon Ichikawa. Allan Sherman died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 48. Richard Loo died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 80. Robert Altman died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 81. Michael J. Pollard died two years ago in 2019 at age 80.

Today Dick Cavett is 85, and Meg Ryan is 60. Today is also the birthday of Jodie Foster, Adam Driver, Allison Janney, Charlie Kaufman, Barry Jenkins, Reid Scott, Kathleen Quinlan, Terry Farrell, Sandrine Holt, Jason Scott Lee, Robert Beltran, Paul Weitz, Calvin Klein, Ted Turner, Ann Curry, and the late Gene Tierney, Larry King, Clifton Webb, Alan Young, Dan Haggerty, Gillo Pontecorvo, Tommy Dorsey, Nancy Carroll, Eleanor Audley, Alan Baxter, Anton Walbrook, Erskine Sanford, Dick Wesson, Ned Sparks, and James A. Garfield. Stepin Fetchit died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 83. Alan J. Pakula died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 70. John Neville died ten years ago in 2011 at age 86. Mike Nichols died seven years ago in 2014 at age 83. Della Reese and Charles Manson died four years ago in 2017. Reese was 86. Manson was 83.

Today Nick Chinlund and Steven Moffat are 60, and Allison Tolman and Nasim Pedrad are 40. Today is also the birthday of Owen Wilson, Chloë Sevigny, Kevin Nealon, Delroy Lindo, Damon Wayans Jr., Margaret Atwood, Linda Evans, Elizabeth Perkins, and Mike Epps, Romany Malco, Brenda Vaccaro, Alan Moore, Kirk Hammett, Nate Parker, Oscar Nuñez, Miranda Raison, Susan Sullivan, Peta Wilson, Dom Irrera, Jameson Parker, Dan Bakkedahl, Carter Burwell, Kath Soucie, Julia Ducournau, Megyn Kelly, and the late Imogene Coca, Johnny Mercer, Frances Marion, David Hemmings, Katie Johnson, and Joey Forman. Donald Meek died 75 years ago in 1946 at age 68. Jim Jones died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 47. Fritz Feld died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 93. Cab Calloway died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 86. James Coburn died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 74. Sharon Jones died five years ago in 2016 at age 60.

Today Robert Brown is 95, and Stephen Root is 70. Today is also the birthday of Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Lorne Michaels, Rachel McAdams, RuPaul, Gordon Lightfoot, Lauren Hutton, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Leslie Louise Bibb, Sophie Marceau, Dylan Walsh, Tom Ellis, Zoë Bell, Susan Rice, Jonathan Ross, Roland Joffé, Harry Lloyd, Jon Avnet, Steven E. de Souza, Duwayne Dunham, Bill Morrison, John Boehner, and the late Rock Hudson, Peter Cook, Lee Strasberg, Rance Howard, Jeff Buckley, Mischa Auer, Sara Haden, Frank Maxwell, Lester Allen, and Charles Walters. Gladys Cooper died fifty years ago in 1971 at age 82. Jimmy Ritz died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 81. Esther Rolle died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 78. Ruth Brown died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 78.

Today Miguel Sandoval is 70. Today is also the birthday of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Martha Plimpton, Lisa Bonet, Clu Gulager, Missi Pyle, Pete Davidson, Steve Railsback, Harry Lennix, Marg Helgenberger, Francesca Scorsese, Jamie Babbit, Allison Anders, Ron Chaney, and the late Burgess Meredith, Guy Stockwell, Royal Dano, Ellen Albertini Dew, Richard Hale, Daws Butler, George Petrie, George S. Kaufman, Henri Charrière, and Thomas H. Ince. Clark Gable died 61 years ago in 1960 at age 59. Edward Woodward died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 79. William Goldman died three years ago in 2018 at age 87.