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Today Jay Mohr is 50, and Joanne Froggatt is 40. Today is also the birthday of Vera Miles, Shelley Long, Barbara Eden, Chan-wook Park, Andrew Rannells, Scott Caan, Ray Park, Rick Springfield, Lexi Alexander, Kirby Dick, Roger Avary, Alexandre Desplat, Leslie Van Houten, Jared Fogle, and the late Gene Kelly, Keith Moon, River Phoenix, who would be 50, Kobe Bryant, Marian Seldes, Robert Mulligan, and James Millhollin. Francis X. Bushman died 54 years ago in 1966 at age 83. Kathleen Freeman died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 82. Brock Peters died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 78.

Today Micheline Presle is 98, and David Chase is 75. Today is also the birthday of Kristen Wiig, Cindy Williams, James Corden, Ty Burrell, Richard Armitage, Rodrigo Santoro, Colm Feore, Chia-Hui Liu, Mark Williams, Courtney Gains, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Tori Amos, Andrew Wilson, Robert Wall, Rick Yune, Casper Christensen, Roy Guerra, Kay Cannon, and the late Valerie Harper, Ray Bradbury, who would be 100, John Lee Hooker, Leni Riefenstahl, Dorothy Parker, Honor Blackman, Claude Debussy, Cecil Kellaway, Elisabeth Bergner, Sylvia Koscina, John Lupton, and Andréas Voutsinas. Huey P. Newton died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 47.

Today Patty McCormack is 75, Marc Evan Jackson is 50, and Bo Burnham is 30. Today is also the birthday of Kim Cattrall, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hayden Panettiere, Melvin Van Peebles, Kacey Musgraves, Loretta Devine, Alicia Witt, Clarence Williams III, Cleo King, Peter Weir, RJ Mitte, and the late Kenny Rogers, Joe Strummer, Jack Weston, Tom Tully, Marie Blake, Frank Perry, and David Lochary. Danny Lockin died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 34. Barbara Harris died two years ago in 2018 at age 83.

Today Ron Paul is 85, Sally Yates is 60, and Fred Durst is 50. Today is also the birthday of Amy Adams, Andrew Garfield, Robert Plant, Joan Allen, Ray Wise, David O. Russell, Don King, John Noble, Demi Lovato, Al Roker, David Walliams, Sylvester McCoy, James Marsters, Colin Cunningham, Billy Gardell, Eddie Paskey, Peter Horton, Mark Borchardt, Andrey Konchalovskiy, and the late Isaac Hayes, H. P. Lovecraft, Alan Reed, Jim Reeves, André Morell, and Mikio Naruse. Kim Stanley died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 76. Phyllis Diller died eight years ago in 2012 at age 95. Elmore Leonard died seven years ago in 2013 at age 87. Jerry Lewis died three years ago in 2017 at age 91.

Today Jill St. John is 80. Today is also the birthday of President Bill Clinton, Matthew Perry, Kyra Sedgwick, John Stamos, L.Q. Jones, Kevin Dillon, Jonathan Frakes, Peter Gallagher, Gerald McRaney, Jim Carter, Maria de Medeiros, Melissa Fumero, Ian McElhinney, Adam Arkin, Debra Paget, Diana Muldaur, Tracie Thoms, Pablo Larraín, and the late Gene Roddenberry, Coco Chanel, Fred Dalton Thompson, William Marshall, Angus Scrimm, Olga Baclanova, and Orville Wright. Alastair Sim died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 75. Groucho Marx died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 86. Raoul Ruiz died nine years ago in 2011 at age 70. Tony Scott died eight years ago in 2012 at age 68. Jack Riley died four years ago in 2016 at age 80. Dick Gregory died three years ago in 2017 at age 84.

Today Malcolm-Jamal Warner is 50. Today is also the birthday of Robert Redford, Roman Polanski, Edward Norton, Christian Slater, Andy Samberg, Denis Leary, Martin Mull, Craig Bierko, Madeleine Stowe, Kaitlin Olson, Sarita Choudhury, and the late Shelley Winters, who would be 100, Patrick Swayze, Don Keefer, Reg E. Cathey, Marcel Carné, and Alan Mowbray. Elmer Bernstein died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 82.

Today Sean Penn is 60. Today is also the birthday of Robert De Niro, Donnie Wahlberg, Taissa Farmiga, Brady Corbet, Austin Butler, Julian Fellowes, Belinda Carlisle, Helen McCrory, Larry B. Scott, Tim Bagley, Robert Joy, Jonathan Franzen, Martha Coolidge, Giuliana Rancic, and the late Mae West, Maureen O’Hara, who would be 100, Davy Crockett, Samuel Goldwyn, Monty Woolley, Glenn Corbett, Evelyn Ankers, and Mark Felt. Vivian Vance died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 70. Ira Gershwin died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 86. Pearl Bailey died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 72. Yvonne Craig died five years ago in 2015 at age 78. Arthur Hiller died four years ago in 2016 at age 92.

Today Bruce Beresford is 80, Bob Balaban is 75, and Timothy Hutton is 60. Today is also the birthday of Steve Carell, James Cameron, Madonna, Angela Bassett, Taika Waititi, Lesley Ann Warren, Ann Blyth, Julie Newmar, Reginald VelJohnson, Laura Innes, Cristin Milioti, Cameron Monaghan, Jeff Perry, Kathie Lee Gifford, and the late Robert Culp, Glenn Strange, Lois Nettleton, Charles Bukowski, who would be 100, Carole Shelley, Christine Cavanaugh, Mae Clarke, and T. E. Lawrence. Robert Johnson died 82 years ago in 1938 at age 27. Bela Lugosi died 64 years ago in 1956 at age 73. Elvis Presley died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 42. Aretha Franklin died two years ago in 2018 at age 76. Peter Fonda died one year ago in 2019 at age 79.

Today Jim Dale is 85, Tess Harper is 70, Anthony Anderson is 50, and Jennifer Lawrence is 30. Today is also the birthday of Ben Affleck, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Debra Messing, Jimmy Webb, Maxine Waters, Natasha Henstridge, Zeljko Ivanek, Barbara Bouchet, Pat Priest, Joe Jonas, and the late Rose Marie, Ethel Barrymore, Wendy Hiller, Julia Child, Mike Connors, Nicolas Roeg, Napoleon Bonaparte, Janice Rule, Huntz Hall, who would be 100, Stieg Larsson, and Scott Kalvert. Will Rogers died 85 years ago in 1935 in a plane crash at age 55.

Today Steve Martin and Wim Wenders are 75. Today is also the birthday of David Crosby, Halle Berry, Mila Kunis, Marcia Gay Harden, Lina Wertmüller, Magic Johnson, Emmanuelle Béart, James Buckley, Antonio Fargas, Susan Saint James, Lamorne Morris, Tom DiCillo, Preston Lacy, Danielle Steel, and the late Andrea Leeds, Alice Ghostly, Liz Fraser, and Alma Reville. Bruno Kirby died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 57. Fyvush Finkel died four years ago in 2016 at age 93.