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Today Hiroyuki Sanada is 60, and Kirk Cameron is 50. Today is also the birthday of Hugh Jackman, Josh Hutcherson, Lin Shaye, Deborah Foreman, Tony Cavalero, David Threlfall, Les Dennis, Richard Price, Tom Guiry, Iris Apatow, Chris Wallace, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (Carlos the Jackal), and the late Dick Gregory, Luciano Pavarotti, Daliah Lavi, Satoshi Kon, Josephine Hutchinson, and Randy Stuart. John Denver died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 53. Gillo Pontecorvo died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 86.

Today Amos Gitai is 70, and Constance Zimmer is 50. Today is also the birthday of Joan Cusack, Artie Lange, Matt Bomer, Dawn French, Emily Deschanel, Stephen Moyer, David Morse, Jane Krakowski, Michelle Trachtenberg, Cardi B, Sean Patrick Flanery, John Nettles, Lennie James, Michael J. Nelson, Justin Lin, Doona Bae, Amitabh Bachchan, Brett Morgen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Hany Abu-Assad, Shawn Ryan, and the late Luke Perry, Elmore Leonard, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ron Leibman, Sig Ruman, Jean Vander Pyl, Earle Hyman, Jerome Robbins, and Fred Trump. Chico Marx died 59 years ago in 1961. Edith Piaf and Jean Cocteau died 57 years ago in 1963. Piaf was 47. Cocteau was 74. Redd Foxx died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 68. Robert Forster died one year ago in 2019 at age 78.

Today is the birthday of Dan Stevens, Bai Ling, Julia Sweeney, Ben Vereen, Bradley Whitford, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Charles Dance, Mario Lopez, Jessica Harper, David Lee Roth, Peter Coyote, Joelle Carter, Rose McIver, Rebecca Pidgeon, Carlos Reygadas, Jodi Benson, Chiaki Kuriyama, Morgan Neville, Michael Oliver, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Brett Favre, and the late Edward D. Wood Jr., Helen Hayes, John Prine, Thelonious Monk, Harold Pinter, Chris Penn, Richard Jaeckel, Anita Mui, Dana Elcar, and Daniel Massey. Eddie Cantor died 56 years ago in 1964 at age 72. Ralph Richardson died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 80. Orson Welles and Yul Brynner died 35 years ago in 1985. Welles was 70. Brynner was 65. Christopher Reeve died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 52.

Today is the birthday of Guillermo del Toro, Tony Shalhoub, Sharon Osbourne, Brandon Routh, Scott Bakula, Nick Swardson, Chris O’Dowd, Steve McQueen, John O’Hurley, Michael Paré, Robert Wuhl, Lorna Raver, Brian Blessed, Tyler James Williams, Jodelle Ferland, Steve Burns, Melissa Villaseñor, Peter Docter, Sean Lennon, and the late John Lennon, who would be 80, Jacques Tati, Alastair Sim, Fyvush Finkel, Edward Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hank Patterson, Jason Wingreen, who would be 100, and Donald Sinden. Miriam Hopkins died 48 years ago in 1972 at age 69. Andrzej Wajda died four years ago in 2016 at age 90. Jean Rochefort died three years ago in 2017 at age 87.

Today Matt Damon, Robert Kelly, and Soon-Yi Previn are 50, and Nick Cannon is 40. Today is also the birthday of Sigourney Weaver, Chevy Chase, Darrell Hammond, Bruno Mars, Paul Hogan, Jeremy Davis, Peter Greene, Bella Thorne, R.L. Stine, Ian Hart, Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., Angus T. Jones, Edward Zwick, David Yates, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Burr Steers, Shira Piven, Sal Governale, and the late Frank Herbert, who would be 100, and Rouben Mamoulian. Larry Semon died 92 years ago in 1928 at age 39.

Today Nicole Ari Parker is 50. Today is also the birthday of John Mellencamp, Thom Yorke, Joy Behar, Yo-Yo Ma, Desmond Tutu, Dylan Baker, Omar Benson Miller, Shawn and Aaron Ashmore, Mary Badham, Simon Cowell, Amber Stevens West, Andrew Dominik, Bree Olson, Vladimir Putin, and the late June Allyson, Andy Devine, Al Martino, Elijah Muhammad, and Robert Z. Leonard. Edgar Allan Poe died 171 years ago in 1849 at age 40. Charles Rocket died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 56.

Today is the birthday of Elisabeth Shue, Ioan Gruffudd, Britt Ekland, Olivia Thirlby, Jeremy Sisto, Brett Gellman, Wendy Robie, Ellen Travolta, Jsu Garcia, Matt Porterfield, Leslie Moonves, and the late Carole Lombard, Janet Gaynor, Fay Spain, Jerome Cowan, and Mitchell Leisen. Tod Browning died 58 years ago in 1962 at age 82. Dennis Price died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 58. Bette Davis died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 81. Denholm Elliott died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 70. Richard Farnsworth died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 80. Scott Wilson died two years ago in 2018 at age 76. Rip Taylor died one year ago in 2019 at age 88.

Today Glynis Johns is 97, Laura Gemser is 70, Daniel Baldwin is 60, and Ti West is 40. Today is also the birthday of Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Jesse Eisenberg, Karen Allen, Jacob Tremblay, Clive Barker, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Parminder Nagra, Tom Hooper, Scott Weinger, and the late Larry Fine, Donald Pleasence, Bernie Mac, Louis Lumière, Jeff Conaway, Bill Dana, Diane Cilento, Gail Davis, Skip Homeier, John Hoyt, and Allen Ludden. Jean Vigo died 86 years ago in 1934 at age 29. Barbara Nichols died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 47. Gloria Grahame died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 57. Rodney Dangerfield died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 82. Steve Jobs and Charles Napier died nine years ago in 2011. Jobs was 56. Napier was 75. Geoffrey Holder died six years ago in 2014 at age 84. Chantal Ackerman died five years ago in 2015 at age 65.

Today is the birthday of Susan Sarandon, Liev Schreiber, Christoph Waltz, Alicia Silverstone, Dakota Johnson, Anne Rice, Melissa Benoist, Russell Simmons, Mick Jackson, Caitriona Balfe, Abraham Benrubi, Armand Assante, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Lancashire, Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the late Buster Keaton, Charlton Heston, Jackie Collins, George Sidney, John Larch, Scotty Beckett, Philip Van Zandt, and Stan Dragoti. Janis Joplin died fifty years ago in 1970 at age 27. Graham Chapman died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 48. Buddy Lester died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 87. Diahann Carroll died one year ago in 2019 at age 84.

Today John Patrick Shanley is 70. Today is also the birthday of Clive Owen, Alicia Vikander, Neve Campbell, Seann William Scott, Tessa Thompson, Denis Villeneuve, Lena Headey, Chubby Checker, Tommy Wiseau, Reverend Al Sharpton, Greg Proops, Gwen Stefani, Janel Moloney, Tommy Lee, and the late Gore Vidal, Leo McCarey, Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Michael Hordern, Charles Middleton, Julien Duvivier, and Gertrude Berg. Woody Guthrie died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 55. Roddy McDowall died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 70. Janet Leigh died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 77.