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Today Barbara Boxer is 80, Stanley Tucci is 60, and Kris Rey is 40. Today is also the birthday of Leonardo DiCaprio, Demi Moore, Scoot McNairy, Calista Flockhart, Tye Sheridan, Adam Beach, Bill Moseley, Peaches, Frank John Hughes, Carson Kressley, and the late Jonathan Winters, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Ryan, Bibi Andersson, Vincent Schiavelli, Pat O’Brien, Patric Knowles, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Roland Young, George S. Patton, John Guillermin, and René Clair. Dayton Allen died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 85. Robert Vaughn died four years ago in 2016 at age 83.

Today Terence Davies is 75, and Neil Gaiman is 60. Today is also the birthday of Taron Egerton, Tracy Morgan, Walton Goggins, Ellen Pompeo, Hugh Bonneville, Chris Lilley, Heather Matarazzo, Miranda Lambert, Eve, Diplo, Sinbad, Tommy Davidson, Michael Schultz, Kieran Shipka, Josh Peck, Zoey Deutch, Stephen Herek, Michael Jai White, Roland Emmerich, Sylvain Chomet, Tim Rice, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Daniel Waters, and the late Richard Burton, Claude Rains, Roy Scheider, Ennio Morricone, Mabel Normand, Martin Luther, Brittany Murphy, François Périer, Russell Means, Russell Johnson, Harry Andrews, Debra Hill, Steven Geray, Esther Dale, and Leo White. Abel Gance died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 92. Jackie Vernon died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Chuck Connors died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 71. Jack Palance died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 87. Norman Mailer died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 84.

Today Charles Robinson is 75, and Chris Jericho is 50. Today is also the birthday of Ryan Murphy, Eric Dane, Lou Ferrigno, Analeigh Tipton, Teryl Rothery, SisQó, Robert Duncan McNeill, Nick Lachey, Ryo Kase, Fernando Meirelles, Billie August, Karen Dotrice, Nikki Blonsky, Mary Vivian Pearce, and the late Hedy Lamarr, Dorothy Dandridge, Ed Wynn, Carl Sagan, Marie Dressler, Robert Frank, Edna May Oliver, who died on her birthday 78 years ago in 1942 at age 59, Robert Douglas, Anne Sexton, Mae Marsh, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Anthony Asquith, Ivan Turgenev, and Spiro Agnew. Edgar Kennedy died 72 years ago in 1948 at age 58. Charles Bickford died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 76. Art Carney died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 85.

Today Norman Lloyd is 106, Alain Delon is 85, Mary Hart is 70, and Anne Dorval is 60. Today is also the birthday of Alfre Woodard, Parker Posey, Gretchen Mol, Matthew Rhys, Bonnie Raitt, Kazuo Ishiguro, Phil Fondacaro, Richard Curtis, Jack Osbourne, Tara Reid, Gordon Ramsay, Paolo Taviani, Leif Garrett, Don McManus, A.D. Miles, and the late Bram Stoker, Michael Nyqvist, who would be 60, Robert Strauss, Stéphane Audran, Bob Schiller, Esther Rolle, who would be 100, Morley Safer, Darla Hood, Joe Flynn, Ken Dodd, Gene Saks, Margaret Mitchell, Patti Page, Martha Gellhorn, and Milton Bradley. Michael O’Donoghue died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 54. Jean Marais died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 84. Lucille Bliss died eight years ago in 2012 at age 96.

Today Judy Parfitt is 85, Dakin Matthews is 80, Lindsay Duncan is 70, and Morgan Spurlock is 50. Today is also the birthday of Joni Mitchell, Lorde, Adam Devine, Jason and Jeremy London, Christopher Knight, Jackie Joseph, Earl Boen, Michael Byrne, Lawrence O’Donnell, David Petraeus, and the late Marie Curie, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Dean Jagger, Dana Plato, Joe Cobb, Miriam Cooper, Lucille La Verne, Edith Bouvier Beale, James Cook, Billy Graham, Edward F. Cline, Edward Sedgwick, and Leon Trotsky. Dwight Frye died 77 years ago in 1943 at age 44. Victor McLaglen died 61 years ago in 1959 at age 72. Steve McQueen died forty years ago in 1980 at age 50. Slappy White died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 74. Howard Keel died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 85. Gunnar Hansen died five years ago in 2015 at age 68. Leonard Cohen died four years ago in 2016 at age 82.

Today Ethan Hawke is 50. Today is also the birthday of Sally Field, Emma Stone, Thandie Newton, Maria Shriver, June Squibb, Kelly Rutherford, Rebecca Romijn, Nigel Havers, Ron Underwood, Trace Beaulieu, Taryn Manning, Frank DeCaro, Sal Vulcano, Conchita Wurst, Lamar Odom, and the late Mike Nichols, Glenn Frey, Brad Davis, Edward Yang, James Jones, Jonathan Harris, Francis Lederer, John Philip Sousa, and Pat Tillman. Gene Tierney died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 70.

Today Elke Sommer is 80, and Tilda Swinton is 60. Today is also the birthday of Art Garfunkel, Sam Rockwell, Famke Janssen, Tatum O’Neal, Robert Patrick, Jonny Greenwood, Harris Yulin, Judy Reyes, Eddie Pepitone, Seth Gilliam, Chris Addison, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Armin Shimerman, Ryan Adams, Bryan Adams, Michael Gaston, Kevin Jonas, Kris Jenner, and the late Vivien Leigh, Sam Shepard, Joel McCrea, Roy Rogers, Ike Turner, John McGiver, Victor Argo, Herb Edelman, Natalie Schafer, Ralph Moody, Charles Bradley, and Jessie Ralph, who would be 150. George M. Cohan died 78 years ago in 1942 at age 64. Mack Sennett and Ward Bond both sixty died years ago in 1960. Sennett was 80. Bond was 57. Reginald Owen died 48 years ago in 1972 at age 85. Georges Franju died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 75. Fred MacMurray died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 83. Jill Clayburgh died ten years ago in 2010 at age 66.

Today Markie Post is 70, Kathy Griffin is 60, and Anthony Ruivivar, Tabu, and Bethenny Frankel are 50. Today is also the birthday of Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Macchio, Sean Diddy Combs, Loretta Swit, Peter Lord, Jeff Probst, Laura W. Bush, and the late Art Carney, Will Rogers, Gig Young, Walter Cronkite, Doris Roberts, Martin Balsam, Leonardo Cimino, Darla Hood, Cameron Mitchell, Virginia Field, Ian Wolfe, and Forbes Murray. Michael Crichton died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 66.

Today Lois Smith is 90. Today is also the birthday of Roseanne Barr, Dennis Miller, Dolph Lundgren, Monica Vitti, Tom Savini, Anna Wintour, Kathy Kinney, Dylan Moran, Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, Colin Kaepernick, Vincent Franklin, Kate Capshaw, Hal Hartley, Gary Ross, Jim Cummings, Brian Henson, Kevin Murphy, Davis Guggenheim, Kendall Jenner, and the late Charles Bronson, Ken Berry, Jeremy Brett, Aneta Corsaut, John Barry, Wanda Hendrix, Mike Evans, Peggy McCary, and Jean Rollin. Mary Martin died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 76. Bob Kane died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 83. Sondra Locke died two years ago in 2018 at age 74.

Today is the birthday of David Schwimmer, Stefanie Powers, Peter Mullan, Marisol Nichols, Katharine Isabelle, Shah Rukh Khan, Luna Lauren Velez, Nelly, Jon Dore, Ron McGovney, David Andrews, Jon M. Chu, Patrick J. Buchanan, and the late Burt Lancaster, Luchino Visconti, Ray Walston, Marie Antoinette, Ann Rutherford, Paul Ford, Alice Brady, Warren Stevens, Patrice Chéreau, Jack Starrett, James Dunn, Claire McDowell, Warren G. Harding, James K. Polk, Steve Ditko, Walter Woolf King, and Sidney Luft. George Bernard Shaw died seventy years ago in 1950 at age 94. Pier Paolo Pasolini died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 53. Irwin Allen died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 75. Hal Roach died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 100. Theo van Gogh died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 47. Sid Melton died nine years ago in 2011 at age 94.