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Today Gretchen Corbett is 75, and Jane Carr is 70. Today is also the birthday of Sebastian Stan, John Slattery, Debi Mazar, Paul Greengrass, Danny Bonaduce, Kevin Tighe, Moritz Bleibtreu, David Crane, Dawnn Lewis, Joshua Marston, Jeff Altman, Philippe Petit, Steve Higgins, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and the late Alfred Hitchcock, Bert Lahr, Neville Brand, who would be 100, Pat Harrington Jr., Sridevi, Regis Toomey, Tom Davis, Annie Oakley, and Fidel Castro. Joe E. Ross died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 68.

Today George Soros is 90. Today is also the birthday of Casey Affleck, George Hamilton, Bruce Greenwood, Cara Delevingne, Peter Krause, Yvette Nicole Brown, Lakeith Stanfield, Isaach De Bankolé, Dana Ivey, Michael Ian Black, Oliver Ford Davies, Elizabeth Shepherd, Ray Abruzzo, and the late Cecil B. DeMille, John Cazale, William Goldman, Cantinflas, Samuel Fuller, Marjorie Reynolds, Jane Wyatt, Marion Lorne, John Derek, and Klara Hitler. Ian Fleming died 56 years ago in 1964 at age 56. Henry Fonda died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 77. Loretta Young died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 87. Merv Griffin died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 82. Lauren Bacall died six years ago in 2014 at age 89.

Today Arlene Dahl is 95, Adam LeFevre, Elya Baskin, and Steve Wozniak are 70, and Merritt Wever is 40. Today is also the birthday of Viola Davis, Chris Hemsworth, Hulk Hogan, Ian McDiarmid, Chris Messina, Anna Gunn, Sophie Okonedo, Embeth Davidtz, Will Friedle, Joe Rogan, Ashley Jensen, Fernando Arrabal, David Brooks, Tomi Lahren, and the late Mike Douglas, who died on his birthday fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 81, Stuart Gordon, Anna Massey, Lloyd Nolan, Jean Parker, Ian Charleson, Stuart Rosenberg, and Jerry Falwell. Jackson Pollock died 64 years ago in 1956 at age 44. Anne Ramsey died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 59. Peter Cushing died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 81. Robin Williams died six years ago in 2014 at age 63.

Today Rhonda Fleming is 97, Antonio Banderas is 60, and Lucas Till is 30. Today is also the birthday of Justin Theroux, Rosanna Arquette, Leo Fitzpatrick, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Diane Venora, Angie Harmon, Ryan Eggold, Murray Melvin, Don Swayze, Brenton Thwaites, Cate Shortland, Rick Overton, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Andrew Sullivan, Kylie Jenner, Mama June Shannon, and the late Norma Shearer, Jack Haley, Eddie Fisher, Jimmy Dean, Herbert Hoover, Lynn Cohen, Martha Hyer, Noah Beery Jr., Jeff Corey, Tom Laughlin, Hugh Herbert, Ken Annakin, and Walter Lang. Isaac Hayes died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 65. Al Freeman Jr. died eight years ago in 2012 at age 81.

Today Thomas Lennon and Chris Cuomo are 50, and Bill Skarsgård is 30. Today is also the birthday of Sam Elliott, Melanie Griffith, Anna Kendrick, Eric Bana, Gillian Anderson, Audrey Tautou, David Steinberg, Kevin McKidd, Burton Gilliam, Toni Servillo, Amanda Bearse, Kenya Barris, McG, Hoda Kotb, and the late Whitney Houston, Robert Shaw, Robert Aldrich, P.L. Travers, Leo Genn, John Stephenson, Nat Pendleton, and Allen ‘Farina’ Hoskins, who would be 100. Sharon Tate was murdered 51 years ago in 1969 at age 26. Jerry Garcia died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 53. Gregory Hines died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 57. Matthew McGrory died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 32. Bernie Mac died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 50.

Today Nita Talbot is 90, and Donald P. Bellisario is 85. Today is also the birthday of Dustin Hoffman, Keith Carradine, Robin Quivers, Connie Stevens, Shawn Mendes, Don Most, Larry Wilcox, Peyton List, Lindsay Sloane, The Edge (David Howell Evans), Martin Brest, Jon Turteltaub, Lee Unkrich, Mamoru Oshii, and the late Esther Williams, Richard Anderson, Sylvia Sidney, Rory Calhoun, Dino De Laurentiis, Earl Cameron, Rosetta LeNoire, William Asher, and Robert Siodmak. Richard Deacon died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 63. Louise Brooks died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 78. Alan Napier died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 85. Fay Wray died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 96. Barbara Bel Geddes died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 82. Patricia Neal died ten years ago in 2010 at age 84. Karen Black died seven years ago in 2013 at age 74. Glen Campbell and Barbara Cook died three years ago in 2017. Campbell was 81. Cook was 89.

Today David Duchovny is 60. Today is also the birthday of Charlize Theron, Michael Shannon, Wayne Knight, Abbie Cornish, Tobin Bell, Garrison Keillor, Brit Marling, Caroline Aaron, Bruce Dickinson, Alexandre Aja, James Randi, Maggie Wheeler, Harold Perrineau, David Rasche, John Glover, Eric Johnson, Anjanette Comer, Robert Mueller, and the late Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer, Billie Burke, Nicholas Ray, Verna Bloom, Edward Hardwicke, Stan Freberg, and Rick Genest. Oliver Hardy died 63 years ago in 1957 at age 65.

Today Leland Orser is 60, and M. Night Shyamalan is 50. Today is also the birthday of Vera Farmiga, Michelle Yeoh, Merrin Dungey, Michael Anderson Jr., Peter Bonerz, Catherine Hicks, Leslie Odom Jr., Peter Simonischek, Inga Landgré, and the late Robert Mitchum, Lucille Ball, Andy Warhol, Frank Finlay, Charles Crichton, Paul Bartel, and Umberto Lenzi. Preston Sturges died 61 years ago in 1959 at age 60. Rick James died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 56. John Hughes died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 59.

Today Loni Anderson is 75. Today is also the birthday of Mark Strong, James Gunn, Janet McTeer, Jesse Williams, Maureen McCormick, Scott William Winters, John Jarratt, Billie Hayes, and the late John Huston, Neil Armstrong, Robert Taylor, John Saxon, Adam Yauch, Joan Hickson, Ja’net DuBois, Reginald Owen, Guy de Maupassant, Bob Clark, Pete Burns, and Joseph Merrick. Carmen Miranda died 65 years ago in 1955 at age 46. Marilyn Monroe died 58 years ago in 1962 at age 36. Richard Burton died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 58. Ralph Meeker died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 67. Alec Guinness died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 86. Charlotte Rae died two years ago in 2018 at age 92. Toni Morrison died one year ago in 2019 at age 88.

Today Carol Arthur is 85, Sapphire is 70, and Chet Hanks is 30. Today is also the birthday of Barack Obama, Billy Bob Thornton, Greta Gerwig, Richard Belzer, Paul Mooney, Meghan Markle, Daniel Dae Kim, Tina Cole, Abigail Spencer, James Tupper, Sebastian Roché, Donald Gibb, Keith Ellison, Dennis Lehane, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, and the late Louis Armstrong, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Don S. Davis, Anita Page, Ron Lester, who would be 50, William Keighley, and Louis Vuitton. Melvyn Douglas died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 80. Victor Mature died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 86.