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Today Paul Le Mat is 75, and Scott Baio is 60. Today is also the birthday of Nick Cave, Joan Jett, Tatiana Maslany, Tom Felton, Mireille Enos, Bonnie Hunt, Toni Basil, Ruth Jones, Art Metrano, Benoît Poelvoorde, and the late Erich von Stroheim, Paul Muni, Anna Karina, John Houseman, Martha Scott, Richard Marquand, Arthur Lowe, and Allan Lane. Marion Davies died 59 years ago in 1961 at age 64. Dan Rowan died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 65. Irving Berlin died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 101. Dorothy Lamour died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 81. George C. Scott died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 71. Marcel Marceau died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 84. Eddie Fisher died ten years ago in 2010 at age 82.

Today Bill Murray is 70. Today is also the birthday of Stephen King, Luke Wilson, Cheryl Hines, Ethan Coen, David Wenham, Rob Morrow, Ricki Lake, Jerry Bruckheimer, François Cluzet, Maggie Grace, Otis Day, Faith Hill, Ann Elder, Nick Castle, Joseph Mazzello, Nancy Travis, Alfonso Ribeiro, Fannie Flagg, Liam Gallagher, Martha Kauffman, Drew Friedman, Nicole Richie, and the late Leonard Cohen, Henry Gibson, Larry Hagman, Chuck Jones, and H.G. Wells. Walter Brennan died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 80. Alice Ghostley died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 84.

Today is the birthday of Sophia Loren, Jon Bernthal, George R.R. Martin, Maggie Cheung, Asia Argento, Gary Cole, Charlie Weber, David Haig, Van Jones, Kristen Johnston, Aldis Hodge, Robert LaSardo, Chad Stahelski, Sabine Azéma, Ryan Fleck, and the late Anne Meara, Kenneth More, Fernando Rey, Victor Sjöström, Jay Ward, who would be 100, Upton Sinclair, William Finley, Slappy White, Vittorio Taviani, and Norman Z. McLeod. Glenn Strange died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 74. Roy Kinnear died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 54. Polly Bergen and Eric Lynch aka Eric the Actor aka Eric the Midget died six years ago in 2014. Bergan was 84. Lynch was 39. Curtis Hanson died four years ago in 2016 at age 71.

Today Paul Williams is 80, Randolph Mantooth is 75, Mario Batali is 60, and Victor Williams is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jeremy Irons, Jimmy Fallon, Rosemary Harris, David McCallum, Cheri Oteri, Twiggy, Danielle Panabaker, Sanaa Lathan, Alison Sweeney, Kim Richards, David Bamber, Sally Potter, Jean-Claude Carrière, Soledad O’Brien, and the late Adam West, Cass Elliot, James Lipton, Frances Farmer, Ben Turpin, William Hickey, Ray Danton, and Jóhann Jóhannsson. Rex Ingram died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 73. Bernie Casey and Jake LaMotta died three years ago in 2017. Casey was 78. LaMotta was 95.

Today Anna Deavere Smith is 70, and Aisha Tyler is 50. Today is also the birthday of James Marsden, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jason Sudeikis, Frankie Avalon, Robert Blake, Billy Eichner, Alison Lohman, Xzibit, Lance Armstrong, Anna Thomson, Beth Grant, Christopher Heyerdahl, Nina Arianda, Gailard Sartain, Mark Romanek, David Mirkin, Ben Carson, and the late Greta Garbo, James Gandolfini, Fred Willard, Jack Warden, who would be 100, Samuel Johnson, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, June Foray, Grayson Hall, Rossano Brazzi, and Jack Cardiff. Frank Morgan died 71 years ago in 1949 at age 59. Franchot Tone died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 63. Jimi Hendrix died fifty years ago in 1970 at age 27. Russ Meyer died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 82.

Today Bruce Spence is 75, Narendra Modi is 70, Kevin Clash is 60, and Mark Osborne is 50. Today is also the birthday of Kyle Chandler, Cassandra Peterson (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark), Baz Luhrmann, Bryan Singer, Paul Feig, Neill Blomkamp, Bobby Lee, Rita Rudner, Matthew Settle, Pat Crowley, Sam Esmail, Nate Berkus, and the late Hank Williams, Anne Bancroft, John Ritter, Roddy McDowall, Lupe Ontiveros, David Huddleston, Ken Kesey, Paul Benedict, Dolores Costello, Jerry Colonna, Harold Bennett, George Cleveland, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Richard Basehart died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 70. Grady Sutton died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 89. Red Skelton died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 84.

Today Janis Paige is 98, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is 70, and Danny John-Jules and Jayne Brook are 60. Today is also the birthday of Amy Poehler, Mickey Rourke, Molly Shannon, Ed Begley Jr., George Chakiris, Jennifer Tilly, Nick Jonas, Marc Anthony, David Copperfield, Bingbing Fan, Alexis Bledel, Max Minghella, Madeline Zima, Richard Marx, Kurt Fuller, Linda Henning, Jim McBride, Roger Ross Williams, and the late Lauren Bacall, Peter Falk, BB King, Anne Francis, Morgan Woodward, Tommy Bond, Allen Funt, and Guy Hamilton. Mary Travers died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 72. Edward Albee died four years ago in 2016 at age 88.

Today Carmen Maura and Ron Shelton 75, and Lisa Vanderpump is 60. Today is also the birthday of Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Hardy, Oliver Stone, Josh Charles, Rebecca Miller, Henry Silva, Norm Crosby, Jimmy Carr, Danny Nucci, Pawel Pawlikowski, Mike Reiss, Margaret Keane, Prince Harry, Heidi Montag, and the late Jean Renoir, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray, Nipsey Russell, Agatha Christie, Robert Benchley, Penny Singleton, Margaret Lockwood, Jacques Becker, William Howard Taft, Wendie Jo Sperber, and Shôhei Imamura. Richard Wright died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 65. Frances Bay died nine years ago in 2011 at age 92. Harry Dean Stanton died three years ago in 2017 at age 91. Ric Ocasek died one year ago in 2019 at age 75.

Today Howard Deutch is 70, Melissa Leo, Callum Keith Rennie, and Christian Petzold are 60, and Robert Ben Garant is 50. Today is also the birthday of Sam Neill, Andrew Lincoln, Walter Koenig, Joon-ho Bong, Robert Wisdom, Faith Ford, NAS, Joey Heatherton, Corneliu Porumboiu, and the late Amy Winehouse, Nicol Williamson, Harve Presnell, Kay Medford, Clayton Moore, Jack Hawkins, and Robert Florey. Irving Thalberg died 84 years ago in 1936 at age 37. Grace Kelly died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 52. Janet Gaynor died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 77. Patrick Swayze and Henry Gibson died eleven years ago in 2009. Swayze was 57. Gibson was 73.

Today is the birthday of Jacqueline Bisset, Jean Smart, Jeffrey Ross, Tyler Perry, Barbara Bain, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Fiona Apple, Don Bluth, Tavis Smiley, Colin Trevorrow, Frank Marshall, Travis Knight, Nick Vallelonga, Niall Horan, and the late Claudette Colbert, Roald Dahl, Richard Kiel, Nell Carter, Mel Tormé, Scott Brady, Gladys George, John Crawford, who would be 100, Reta Shaw, Mae Questel, and Maurice Jarre. Tupac Shakur died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 25. Frank Vincent died three years ago in 2017 at age 80.