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Today Goldie Hawn is 75. Today is also the birthday of Björk, Marlo Thomas, Michael Strahan, Jena Malone, Cherry Jones, Nicollette Sheridan, Rain Phoenix, Alexander Siddig, Juliet Mills, Jimmi Simpson, Cynthia Rhodes, Lorna Luft, Thomas Mars, Carly Rae Jepsen, Andrew Davis, and the late Harold Ramis, Eleanor Powell, Joseph Campanella, Vivian Blaine, Ralph Meeker, who would be 100, and Voltaire. Jerry Colonna died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 82. David Cassidy died three years ago in 2017 at age 67.

Today is the birthday of Joe Biden, Dick Smothers, Estelle Parsons, Sean Young, Bo Derek, Joel McHale, Andrea Riseborough, Joe Walsh, Dierks Bentley, Ming-Na Wen, Callie Thorne, Don DeLillo, Larry Karaszewski, Veronica Hamel, Richard Masur, Jerry Hardin, Ned Vaughn, Judy Woodruff, Mie Hama, Samuel E. Wright, Rodger Bumpass, Jeff Dowd, and the late Robert F. Kennedy, Bob Einstein, Richard Dawson, Kaye Ballard, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Robert Armstrong, Evelyn Keyes, Phyllis Thaxter, Reginald Denny, Franklin Cover, and Kon Ichikawa. Allan Sherman died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 48. Richard Loo died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 80. Robert Altman died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 81.

Today is the birthday of Jodie Foster, Adam Driver, Meg Ryan, Allison Janney, Dick Cavett, Larry King, 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, who would be 100, 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 35 years ago in 1985 at age 83. John Neville died nine years ago in 2011 at age 86. Mike Nichols died six years ago in 2014 at age 83. Della Reese and Charles Manson died three years ago in 2017. Reese was 86. Manson was 83.

Today Elizabeth Perkins is 60, and Mike Epps, Peta Wilson, and Megyn Kelly are 50. Today is also the birthday of Owen Wilson, Chloë Sevigny, Kevin Nealon, Delroy Lindo, Damon Wayans Jr., Margaret Atwood, Linda Evans, Romany Malco, Brenda Vaccaro, Alan Moore, Kirk Hammett, Allison Tolman, Nate Parker, Oscar Nuñez, Nasim Pedrad, Miranda Raison, Susan Sullivan, Dom Irrera, Nick Chinlund, Jameson Parker, Dan Bakkedahl, Carter Burwell, Steven Moffat, Kath Soucie, Julia Ducournau, and the late Imogene Coca, Johnny Mercer, Frances Marion, David Hemmings, Katie Johnson, and Joey Forman. Donald Meek died 74 years ago in 1946 at age 68. Jim Jones died 42 years ago in 1978 at age 47. Fritz Feld died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 93. Cab Calloway died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 86. James Coburn died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 74. Sharon Jones died four years ago in 2016 at age 60.

Today Roland Joffé is 75, and RuPaul and Jonathan Ross are 60. Today is also the birthday of Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Lorne Michaels, Rachel McAdams, Gordon Lightfoot, Lauren Hutton, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Stephen Root, Leslie Louise Bibb, Sophie Marceau, Dylan Walsh, Tom Ellis, Zoë Bell, Susan Rice, Harry Lloyd, Robert Brown, 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 49 years ago in 1971 at age 82. Jimmy Ritz died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 81. Esther Rolle died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 78. Ruth Brown died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 78.

Today Steve Railsback is 75, and Martha Plimpton and Jamie Babbit are 50. Today is also the birthday of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lisa Bonet, Clu Gulager, Missi Pyle, Pete Davidson, Harry Lennix, Marg Helgenberger, Miguel Sandoval, 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 sixty years ago in 1960 at age 59. William Holden died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 63. Edward Woodward died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 79. William Goldman died two years ago in 2018 at age 87.

Today Sam Waterston is 80, and Bob Gunton and Roger Donaldson are 75. Today is also the birthday of Ed Asner, Shailene Woodley, Beverly D’Angelo, Yaphet F. Kotto, Petula Clark, Jonny Lee Miller, Joanna Barnes, Judy Gold, Ray McKinnon, Asia Kate Dillon, Kevin J. O’Connor, Sean Murray, John Roberts, François Ozon, James Widdoes, Ildikó Enyedi, and the late Georgia O’Keeffe, Randy Savage, Jack Burns, Lewis Stone, Susanne Lothar, Gloria Foster, John Kerr, Kay Walsh, J.G. Ballard, Francesco Rosi, Jean Hill, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Lionel Barrymore died 66 years ago in 1954 at age 76. Tyrone Power died 62 years ago in 1958 at age 44. Jean Gabin died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 72.

Today Paul Hirsch is 75. Today is also the birthday of Josh Duhamel, Olga Kurylenko, Patrick Warburton, Vanessa Bayer, Russell Tovey, Harland Williams, Sandahl Bergman, Yimou Zhang, Paul McGann, Kathleen Hughes, Laura San Giacomo, Gary Grubbs, Brian Gleeson, Dana Snyder, Chris Noonan, Bill Farmer, Katty Kay, P.J. O’Rourke, Sacheen Littlefeather, Travis Barker, Prince Charles, Condoleezza Rice, and the late Veronica Lake, Louise Brooks, Brian Keith, Dick Powell, McLean Stevenson, Rosemary DeCamp, Claude Monet, Jennifer Jayne, Phyllis Avery, Jack Smith, Astrid Lindgren, Sherwood Schwartz, Aaron Copland, Morton Downey, Mamie Eisenhower, and Joseph McCarthy. Tony Richardson died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 63. Virginia Cherrill died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 88. Eddie Bracken died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 87.

Today Tom Atkins is 85, and Neil Flynn is 60. Today is also the birthday of Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Kimmel, Gerard Butler, Joe Mantegna, Steve Zahn, Chris Noth, Aisha Hinds, Noah Hathaway, Jimmy Hawkins, J.A. Preston, David Zellner, Kentucker Audley, and the late Garry Marshall, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jean Seberg, Oskar Werner, Robert Sterling, Richard Mulligan, Jack Elam, who would be 100, Gunnar Björnstrand, Hermione Baddeley, Don Gordon, Mary Beth Hughes, Adrienne Corri, and Fred Phelps. Vittorio De Sica died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 73. Junior Samples died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 57. Leon Russell died four years ago in 2016 at age 74.

Today Neil Young is 75, Tonya Harding is 50, and Ryan Gosling and Céline Sciamma are 40. Today is also the birthday of Anne Hathaway, Wallace Shawn, Megan Mullally, Radha Mitchell, Booker T. Jones Ashley Williams, Valerie Leon, Alexandra Maria Lara, Hassan Rouhani, and the late Grace Kelly, Kim Hunter, Gwen Lee, Jacques Tourneur, Jack Oakie, Sam Lloyd, Liam Dunn, Ina Balin, Richard Quine, who would be 100, and Charles Manson. William Holden died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 63. Eve Arden died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 82. Penny Singleton died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 95. Lupita Tovar died four years ago in 2016 at age 106. Stan Lee died two years ago in 2018 at age 95.