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Today Robert John Burke is 60, and Will Chase is 50. Today is also the birthday of Louis C.K., Jennifer Hudson, Joe Pantoliano, Paul F. Tompkins, Ben McKenzie, Hans Zimmer, Amy Yasbeck, Emmy Rossum, Alfie Allen, Ben Folds, Peter Scolari, 2 Chainz, and the late Maurice Chevalier, Ian Holm, Paul Walker, Barry White, George Jones, Jesse Owens, Freddie Jones, Bill McKinney, Desmond Llewelyn, Neil Peart, Dickie Moore, Leslie Cheung, Edward Binns, Billy Gilbert, Ben Blue, H.L. Mencken, and Stanislaw Lem. William Boyd died 48 years ago in 1972 at age 77. Frank Nelson died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 75. Anthony Perkins died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 60. Raymond Burr died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 76. Johnny Cash died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 71. David Foster Wallace died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 46. Claude Chabrol died ten years ago in 2010 at age 80.

Today Brian De Palma is 80, Amy Madigan is 70, John Curran is 60, and Taraji P. Henson is 50. Today is also the birthday of Virginia Madsen, John Hawkes, Harry Connick Jr., Moby, Ludacris, Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Daily, Kristy McNichol, Tom Dreesen, Lola Falana, Roxann Dawson, Earl Holliman, Tony Gilroy, Bertrand Bonello, Bashar al-Assad, and the late Herbert Lom, Ian Abercrombie, O. Henry, and Robert Day. Lorne Greene died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 72. Jessica Tandy died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 85. Kim Hunter died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 79. John Ritter died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 54. Kevin McCarthy and Harold Gould died ten years ago in 2010. McCarthy was 96. Gould was 86. Andy Whitfield died nine years ago in 2011 at age 39.

Today Colin Firth is 60. Today is also the birthday of Ryan Phillippe, Amy Irving, Philip Baker Hall, Guy Ritchie, Kate Burton, Chris Columbus, Kyle Bornheimer, Misty Copeland, Bill O’Reilly, and the late Edmond O’Brien, Robert Wise, Dennis Burkley, Karl Lagerfeld, Bessie Love, and Aleksandr Dovzhenko. Dalton Trumbo died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 70. Yves Montand died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 70. Jane Wyman did thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 90. Cliff Robertson died nine years ago in 2011, one day after his birthday, at age 88. Richard Kiel died six years ago in 2014 at age 74.

Today Topol is 85, Hugh Grant is 60, and Michelle Williams is 40. Today is also the birthday of Adam Sandler, Eric Stonestreet, Zoe Kazan, Jeffrey Combs, Michael Bublé, Henry Thomas, Tom Wopat, Julia Sawalha, Goran Visnjic, Charles Esten, and the late Cliff Robertson, Sylvia Miles, Neil Hamilton, Otis Redding, Harland Sanders, and Arthur Freed. John McGiver died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 61. Burgess Meredith died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 89.

Today Aimee Mann is 60. Today is also the birthday of Bernie Sanders, Martin Freeman, David Arquette, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Pink, Brian Huskey, Larenz Tate, Thomas Kretschmann, Julien Richings, Gaten Matarazzo, Wiz Khalifa, and the late Peter Sellers, Sid Caesar, Patsy Cline, Alexander Mackendrick, Hillary Brooke, Frank Cady, and David R. Ellis. Dorothy Dandridge died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 42. Zero Mostel died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 62. Leni Riefenstahl died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 101.

Today Sonny Rollins is 90, Dario Argento is 80, and Julie Kavner is 70. Today is also the birthday of Evan Rachel Wood, Leslie Jones, Toby Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Gloria Gaynor, Susan Blakely, Shannon Elizabeth, Michael Emerson, Corbin Bernsen, Angie Everhart, W. Earl Brown, Diane Warren, James Schamus, Doug Bradley, and the late Buddy Holly, Peter Lawford, Elia Kazan, Anthony Quayle, Elizabeth I of England, Don Messick, and Eazy-E. Maria Montez died 69 years ago in 1951 at age 39. Katrin Cartlidge died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 41. Mac Miller died two years ago in 2018 at age 26.

Today is the birthday of Roger Waters, Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Rosie Perez, Jane Curtin, Jeff Foxworthy, Jo Anne Worley, Macy Gray, Swoosie Kurtz, Kimberly Peirce, Anne Lockhart, Matthew Horne, David Allan Coe, Chris Christie, and the late John Mitchum, John Ridgely, and Max Schreck. Edmund Gwenn died 61 years ago in 1959 at age 81. Akira Kurosawa died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 88. Burt Reynolds died two years ago in 2018 at age 82.

Today Raquel Welch is 80. Today is also the birthday of Werner Herzog, Bob Newhart, Michael Keaton, George Lazenby, Rose McGowan, Paddy Considine, Carice van Houten, William Devane, Annabelle Wallis, Carol Lawrence, Christopher Morris, Dennis Dugan, Sergey Loznitsa, and the late Freddie Mercury, Jesse James, Gloria Holden, Darryl F. Zanuck, Jack Valenti, and Moshé Mizrahi. Barbara Loden died forty years ago in 1980 at age 48. Mother Teresa died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 87. Setsuko Hara died five years ago in 2015 at age 95. Hugh O’Brian died four years ago in 2016 at age 91.

Today Damon Wayans and Jocelyn Moorhouse are 60, Ione Skye is 50, and Max Greenfield is 40. Today is also the birthday of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Whitney Cummings, Mitzi Gaynor, Wes Bentley, Noah Taylor, Kyle Mooney, Jan Švankmajer, Michael Berryman, John DiMaggio, Anthony Weiner, Dr. Drew Pinsky, and the late Howard Morris, Dick York, Richard S. Castellano, Leonard Frey, Edward Dmytryk, Richard Wright, and Paul Harvey. George O’Brien died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 86. Irene Dunne died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 91. Dottie West died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 58. Hervé Villechaize died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 50. Steve Irwin died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 44. Joan Rivers died six years ago in 2014 at age 81. Bill Daily died two years ago in 2018 at age 91.

Today Pauline Collins is 80, and Maria Bamford is 50. Today is also the birthday of Charlie Sheen, Valerie Perrine, Garrett Hedlund, Noah Baumbach, Holt McCallany, Paz de la Huerta, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Irene Papas, Shaun White, Al Jardine, Steve Jones, Redfoo, Malcolm Gladwell, Pilar Pallete, and the late Alan Ladd, Eileen Brennan, Anne Jackson, Mary Grace Canfield, Kitty Carlisle, Mantan Moreland, Freddie King, and Whitey Bulger. Frank Capra died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 94. Michael Clarke Duncan died eight years ago in 2012 at age 54.