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Today Marge Champion is 101, and Harvey Levin is 70. Today is also the birthday of Keanu Reeves, Salma Hayek Pinault, Katt Williams, Mark Harmon, Terry Bradshaw, Mary Jo Catlett, Eugenio Derbez, Robert Shapiro, Keith Allen, and the late Hal Ashby, Chuck McCann, Mel Stuart, and Sue Mengers. J.R.R. Tolkien died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 81. Troy Donahue died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 65. Bob Denver died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 70.

Today Phil McGraw is 70. Today is also the birthday of Lily Tomlin, Barry Gibb, George Maharis, Scott Speedman, Boyd Holbrook, Zak Penn, Gloria Estefan, Don Stroud, Burn Gorman, Zendaya, Craig Gillespie, and the late Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Farnsworth, who would be 100, Vittorio Gassman, Ron O’Neal, James Rebhorn, and Conway Twitty. Ethel Waters died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 80. Murray Hamilton died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 63. Dean Jones died five years ago in 2015 at age 84. Shelley Berman died three years ago in 2017 at age 92.

Today Larry Hankin is 80, Van Morrison and Itzhak Perlman are 75, Zack Ward and Debbie Gibson are 50, and Leo Bill is 40. Today is also the birthday of Richard Gere, Chris Tucker, Sara Ramirez, Jonathan Cake, Dee Bradley Baker, Joe Swanberg, Marc Webb, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Marcia Clark, and the late James Coburn, Buddy Hackett, Fredric March, Richard Basehart, Arthur Godfrey, Noble Willingham, Maurice Pialat, and Caligula. John Ford died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 79. Richard Anderson died three years ago in 2017 at age 91.

Today Warren Buffett is 90. Today is also the birthday of Cameron Diaz, Michael Chiklis, Lewis Black, David Paymer, Robert Crumb, Elizabeth Ashley, Timothy Bottoms, Frank Conniff, Lisa Ling, and the late Fred MacMurray, Joan Blondell, Raymond Massey, Peggy Lipton, Shirley Booth, Bill Daily, Mary Shelley, Kitty Wells, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, and Huey Long. Charles Coburn died 59 years ago in 1961 at age 84. Lindsay Anderson died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 71. Charles Bronson died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 81. Glenn Ford died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 90. Wes Craven died five years ago in 2015 at age 76. Valerie Harper died one year ago in 2019 at age 80.

Today Iris Apfel is 99, William Friedkin is 85, and Frank Henenlotter is 70. Today is also the birthday of Elliott Gould, Carla Gugino, Rebecca De Mornay, Lea Michele, Betty Lynn, Tom Six, Dr. Temple Grandin, Liam Payne, Lucas Cruikshank, and the late Ingrid Bergman, who died 38 years ago on her birthday in 1982 at age 67, Michael Jackson, Richard Attenborough, Preston Sturges, Dinah Washington, Charlie Parker, who would be 100, Joel Schumacher, John McCain, Charles Gray, Isabel Sanford, John Locke, and GG Allin. Lee Marvin died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Gene Wilder died four years ago in 2016 at age 83.

Today Ken Jenkins is 80, and Alana Thompson (Honey Boo Boo) is 15. Today is also the birthday of Jack Black, Armie Hammer, David Fincher, Jennifer Coolidge, Luis Guzmán, Daniel Stern, Ai Weiwei, Billy Boyd, Brian Thompson, David Soul, Florence Welch, Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, Quvenzhane Wallis, Sheryl Sandberg, and the late Donald O’Connor, Charles Boyer, Ben Gazzara, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Rocket, Nancy Kulp, Simon Oakland, Roxie Roker, Jack Kirby, and James Wong Howe. Emmett Till died 65 years ago in 1955 at age 14. Ruth Gordon died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 88. John Huston died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 81.

Today Charles Fleischer is 70. Today is also the birthday of Paul Reubens, Aaron Paul, Tom Ford, Tuesday Weld, Peter Stormare, Sarah Chalke, Patrick J. Adams, Diana Scarwid, G.W. Bailey, Alexa PenaVega, Shaun Weiss, Ellar Coltrane, Chandra Wilson, Tommy Sands, Robert Richardson, Cesar Millan, and the late Martha Raye, Lyndon Johnson, Lynn Shelton, Harry Reems, James Finlayson, Ira Levin, Theodore Dreiser, Man Ray, and Ed Gein. Gracie Allen died 56 years ago in 1964 at age 69. Robert Shaw died 42 years ago in 1978 at age 51.

Today Melissa McCarthy is 50, and Chris Pine and Macaulay Culkin are 40. Today is also the birthday of John Mulaney, Dylan O’Brien, Alison Steadman, Barbet Schroeder, Wanda De Jesus, Mike Colter, Brett Cullen, Kirk Fox, Chris Burke, and the late Michael Jeter, Katherine Johnson, Jim Davis, Yvette Vickers, Ben Bradlee, and Mother Teresa. Lon Chaney died ninety years ago in 1930 at age 47. Larry Keating died 57 years ago in 1963 at age 67. Kay Francis died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 63. Charles Boyer died 42 years ago in 1978 at age 78. Ted Knight died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 62. Tobe Hooper died three years ago in 2017 at age 74. Neil Simon died two years ago in 2018 at age 91.

Today Sean Connery is 90. Today is also the birthday of Elvis Costello, Tim Burton, Alexander Skarsgård, Gene Simmons, Tom Skerritt, Blake Lively, Tom Hollander, John Savage, Rachael Ray, Ben Falcone, Blair Underwood, Simon McBurney, Kel Mitchell, Mink Stole, Jeff Tweedy, Billy Ray Cyrus, Joe Wright, John Badham, Fatih Akin, Hugh Hudson, and the late Regis Philbin, Leonard Bernstein, Mel Ferrer, Van Johnson, Michael Rennie, Don DeFore, Monty Hall, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and George Wallace. Paul Muni died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 71. Truman Capote died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 59. Aaliyah died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 22. Marvin Kaplan died four years ago in 2016 at age 89.

Today Ronee Blakley and Vince McMahon are 75, Takashi Miike is 60, David Gregory is 50, and Elizabeth Debicki is 30. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Fry, Dave Chappelle, Marlee Matlin, Ava DuVernay, Steve Guttenberg, David Koechner, Jared Harris, Dana Gould, Rupert Grint, James D’Arcy, Anne Archer, Kevin Dunn, Craig Kilborn, Rodrigo García, and the late Kenny Baker, Hal Smith, Yasser Arafat, and Christine Chubbuck. Kenji Mizoguchi died 64 years ago in 1956 at age 58. Louis Prima died 42 years ago in 1978 at age 67. E.G. Marshall died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 84. Julie Harris died seven years ago in 2013 at age 87. Richard Attenborough died six years ago in 2014 at age 90. Jay Thomas died three years ago in 2017 at age 69.