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Today Beverly D’Angelo is 70, and Shailene Woodley is 30. Today is also the birthday of Sam Waterston, Petula Clark, Jonny Lee Miller, Joanna Barnes, Judy Gold, Ray McKinnon, Asia Kate Dillon, Kevin J. O’Connor, Sean Murray, John Roberts, François Ozon, Bob Gunton, Roger Donaldson, James Widdoes, Ildikó Enyedi, and the late Ed Asner, Yaphet F. Kotto, Georgia O’Keeffe, Randy Savage, Jack Burns, Lewis Stone, Susanne Lothar, Gloria Foster, John Kerr, Kay Walsh, J.G. Ballard, Francesco Rosi, Jean Hill, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Lionel Barrymore died 67 years ago in 1954 at age 76. Tyrone Power died 63 years ago in 1958 at age 44. Jean Gabin died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 72.

Today Sacheen Littlefeather is 75, Sandahl Bergman and Yimou Zhang are 70, and Vanessa Bayer and Russell Tovey are 40. Today is also the birthday of Josh Duhamel, Olga Kurylenko, Patrick Warburton, Harland Williams, Paul McGann, Kathleen Hughes, Laura San Giacomo, Gary Grubbs, Brian Gleeson, Dana Snyder, Chris Noonan, Bill Farmer, Katty Kay, P.J. O’Rourke, Paul Hirsch, Travis Barker, Prince Charles, Condoleezza Rice, and the late Veronica Lake, Louise Brooks, Brian Keith, who would be 100, Dick Powell, McLean Stevenson, Rosemary DeCamp, Claude Monet, Jennifer Jayne, Phyllis Avery, Jack Smith, Astrid Lindgren, Sherwood Schwartz, Aaron Copland, Morton Downey, Mamie Eisenhower, and Joseph McCarthy. Tony Richardson died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 63. Virginia Cherrill died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 88. Eddie Bracken died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 87.

Today Jimmy Hawkins is 80, Noah Hathaway is 50, and Kentucker Audley is 40. Today is also the birthday of Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Kimmel, Gerard Butler, Joe Mantegna, Steve Zahn, Neil Flynn, Chris Noth, Aisha Hinds, Tom Atkins, J.A. Preston, David Zellner, and the late Garry Marshall, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jean Seberg, Oskar Werner, Robert Sterling, Richard Mulligan, Jack Elam, Gunnar Björnstrand, Hermione Baddeley, Don Gordon, Mary Beth Hughes, Adrienne Corri, and Fred Phelps. Vittorio De Sica died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 73. Junior Samples died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 57. Leon Russell died five years ago in 2016 at age 74.

Today is the birthday of Ryan Gosling, Anne Hathaway, Neil Young, Wallace Shawn, Megan Mullally, Radha Mitchell, Booker T. Jones Ashley Williams, Valerie Leon, Alexandra Maria Lara, Céline Sciamma, Tonya Harding, Hassan Rouhani, and the late Grace Kelly, Kim Hunter, Gwen Lee, Jacques Tourneur, Jack Oakie, Sam Lloyd, Liam Dunn, Ina Balin, Richard Quine, and Charles Manson. William Holden died forty years ago in 1981 at age 63. Eve Arden died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 82. Penny Singleton and Jonathan Brandis died eighteen years ago in 2003. Singleton was 95. Brandis was 27. Liz Smith and Lupita Tovar died five years ago in 2016. Smith was 95. Tovar was 106. Stan Lee died three years ago in 2018 at age 95.

Today Bill Moseley is 70, and Tye Sheridan is 25. Today is also the birthday of Leonardo DiCaprio, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Scoot McNairy, Calista Flockhart, Adam Beach, Peaches, Frank John Hughes, Barbara Boxer, Carson Kressley, Kris Rey, and the late Jonathan Winters, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Ryan, Bibi Andersson, Vincent Schiavelli, Pat O’Brien, Patric Knowles, Fyodor Dostoevsky, who would be 200, Roland Young, George S. Patton, John Guillermin, and René Clair. Dayton Allen died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 85. Robert Vaughn died five years ago in 2016 at age 83.

Today Walton Goggins is 50. Today is also the birthday of Taron Egerton, Tracy Morgan, Ellen Pompeo, Hugh Bonneville, Chris Lilley, Heather Matarazzo, Miranda Lambert, Eve, Diplo, Neil Gaiman, Sinbad, Tommy Davidson, Michael Schultz, Kieran Shipka, Josh Peck, Zoey Deutch, Stephen Herek, Michael Jai White, Roland Emmerich, Terence Davies, Sylvain Chomet, Tim Rice, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Daniel Waters, and the late Richard Burton, Claude Rains, Roy Scheider, Ennio Morricone, Mabel Normand, Martin Luther, Brittany Murphy, François Périer, Russell Means, Russell Johnson, Harry Andrews, Debra Hill, Steven Geray, Esther Dale, and Leo White. Abel Gance died forty years ago in 1981 at age 92. Jackie Vernon died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Chuck Connors died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 71. Ken Kesey died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 66. Jack Palance died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 87. Norman Mailer and Laraine Day died fourteen years ago in 2007. Mailer was 84. Day was 87. Dino De Laurentiis died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 91.

Today Lou Ferrigno is 70. Today is also the birthday of Ryan Murphy, Eric Dane, Lio Tipton, Teryl Rothery, SisQó, Robert Duncan McNeill, Chris Jericho, Nick Lachey, Ryo Kase, Fernando Meirelles, Marco Bellocchio, Billie August, Karen Dotrice, Nikki Blonsky, Mary Vivian Pearce, and the late Hedy Lamarr, Dorothy Dandridge, Ed Wynn, Carl Sagan, Marie Dressler, Robert Frank, Edna May Oliver, who died on her birthday 79 years ago in 1942 at age 59, Charles Robinson, Robert Douglas, Anne Sexton, Mae Marsh, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Anthony Asquith, Ivan Turgenev, and Spiro Agnew. Edgar Kennedy died 73 years ago in 1948 at age 58. Dylan Thomas died 68 years ago in 1953 at age 39. Charles Bickford died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 76. Yves Montand died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 70. Mabel King died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 66. Art Carney died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 85. Stieg Larsson died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 50.

Today Walter Mirisch is 100, Paolo Taviani is 90, Leif Garrett is 60, and A.D. Miles is 50. Today is also the birthday of Alain Delon, Alfre Woodard, Parker Posey, Gretchen Mol, Matthew Rhys, Bonnie Raitt, Kazuo Ishiguro, Phil Fondacaro, Richard Curtis, Jack Osbourne, Tara Reid, Mary Hart, Gordon Ramsay, Anne Dorval, Don McManus, and the late Norman Lloyd, Bram Stoker, Michael Nyqvist, Robert Strauss, Stéphane Audran, Bob Schiller, Esther Rolle, Morley Safer, Darla Hood, Joe Flynn, Ken Dodd, Gene Saks, who would be 100, Margaret Mitchell, Patti Page, Martha Gellhorn, and Milton Bradley. Michael O’Donoghue died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 54. Jean Marais died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 84. Lucille Bliss died nine years ago in 2012 at age 96. Alex Trebek died one year ago in 2020 at age 80.

Today Earl Boen is 80, Lawrence O’Donnell is 70, and Lorde is 25. Today is also the birthday of Joni Mitchell, Adam Devine, Jason and Jeremy London, Morgan Spurlock, Lindsay Duncan, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Knight, Dakin Matthews, Jackie Joseph, Michael Byrne, David Petraeus, and the late Marie Curie, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Dean Jagger, Dana Plato, Joe Cobb, Miriam Cooper, Lucille La Verne, Edith Bouvier Beale, James Cook, Billy Graham, Edward F. Cline, Edward Sedgwick, and Leon Trotsky. Dwight Frye died 78 years ago in 1943 at age 44. Victor McLaglen died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 72. Steve McQueen died 41 years ago in 1980 at age 50. Slappy White died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 74. Howard Keel died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 85. Gunnar Hansen died six years ago in 2015 at age 68. Leonard Cohen died five years ago in 2016 at age 82. Norm Crosby died one year ago in 2020 at age 93.

Today Sally Field is 75, and Nigel Havers is 70. Today is also the birthday of Ethan Hawke, Emma Stone, Thandie Newton, Maria Shriver, June Squibb, Kelly Rutherford, Rebecca Romijn, Ron Underwood, Trace Beaulieu, Taryn Manning, Frank DeCaro, Sal Vulcano, Conchita Wurst, Lamar Odom, and the late Mike Nichols, Glenn Frey, Brad Davis, Edward Yang, James Jones, who would be 100, Jonathan Harris, Francis Lederer, John Philip Sousa, and Pat Tillman. Gene Tierney died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 70.