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Today Martin Sheen is 80, John Landis is 70, and Hannah Simone is 40. Today is also the birthday of Tony Bennett, John C. McGinley, Evangeline Lilly, Stephen Graham, James Hetfield, Isaiah Washington, Martha Stewart, Molly Hagan, Lambert Wilson, Michael Ealy, Jonah Ray, Nick Sandow, Mamie Gummer, Steven Berkoff, Mathieu Kassovitz, Jay North, Elsa Cárdenas, Justin Kurzel, Tom Brady, Max Landis, and the late Dolores del Rio, Jean Hagen, and Bethel Leslie. Joseph Conrad died 96 years ago in 1924 at age 66. Flannery O’Connor died 56 years ago in 1964 at age 39. Lenny Bruce died 54 years ago in 1966 at age 40. Ida Lupino died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 77.

Today Nehemiah Persoff is 101, Joanna Cassidy is 75, Kathryn Harrold is 70, and Kevin Smith is 50. Today is also the birthday of Mary-Louise Parker, Sam Worthington, Edward Furlong, Butch Patrick, Victoria Jackson, Matthew Del Negro, Hallie Eisenberg, Charli XCX, Nathan Zellner, and the late Peter O’Toole, Myrna Loy, Carroll O’Connor, Wes Craven, Beatrice Straight, James Baldwin, Max Wright, Jack L. Warner, and Gary Merrill. Jean-Pierre Melville died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 55. Fritz Lang died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 85. Raymond Carver died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 50. William S. Burroughs died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 83.

Today Chuck D is 60, and Jack O’Connell is 30. Today is also the birthday of Jason Momoa, Sam Mendes, Demián Bichir, Steve Schirripa, John Carroll Lynch, Coolio, Giancarlo Giannini, Adrian Dunbar, Eduardo Noriega, Terry Kiser, Adam Duritz, David Wain, Oona Laurence, José Padilha, and the late Jerry Garcia, Dom DeLuise, Claudius, Geoffrey Holder, Yves Saint Laurent, Herman Melville, Taylor Negron, Henry Jones, J. Lee Thompson, and Cookie Mueller. Strother Martin died forty years ago in 1980 at age 61. Paddy Chayefsky died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 58. D.A. Pennebaker died one year ago in 2019 at age 94.

Today Ben Chaplin is 50. Today is also the birthday of Wesley Snipes, J.K. Rowling, Geraldine Chaplin, Don Murray, Pat Cooper, Michael Biehn, B.J. Novak, Dean Cain, Mark Cuban, Emilia Fox, France Nuyen, Jessica Williams, Rico Rodriguez, Paul Provenza, Dirk Blocker, Barry Van Dyke, Al Sapienza, Alan Autry, Cassi Davis, and the late Mario Bava, Richard Griffiths, Geoffrey Lewis, Ted Cassidy, Louis de Funès, Percy Herbert, who would be 100, and Paul ‘Mousie’ Garner. Gore Vidal died eight years ago in 2012 at age 86. Roddy Piper died five years ago in 2015 at age 61. Jeanne Moreau died three years ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today Frank Stallone is 70, Richard Linklater is 60, and Christopher Nolan is 50. Today is also the birthday of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hilary Swank, Lisa Kudrow, Laurence Fishburne, Peter Bogdanovich, Jean Reno, Terry Crews, Vivica A. Fox, Gina Rodriguez, Tom Green, Simon Baker, Buddy Guy, Martin Starr, Jaime Pressly, Christine Taylor, Joey King, Sofie Gråbøl, Kerry Fox, Frances de la Tour, Phil Davis, Barbara Kopple, Sid Krofft, Michael Bell, Yvonne Strahovski, Javier Botet, William Atherton, Paul Anka, Alton Brown, Richard Burgi, Carel Struycken, Delta Burke, Derek Waters, Ken Olin, Kate Bush, Erwin Leder, Ted Sarandos, and the late Henry Ford, Edd Byrnes, Richard Johnson, John P. Ryan, Dick Wilson, Emily Brontë, and John Cason. Claudette Colbert died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 92. Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni both died thirteen years ago in 2007. Bergman was 89. Antonioni was 94. Gloria DeHaven died four years ago in 2016 at age 91.

Today Mike Starr is 70. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Dorff, David Warner, Tim Gunn, Wil Wheaton, Robert Fuller, Timothy Omundson, Leslie Easterbrook, Ken Burns, Tony Sirico, Josh Radnor, Allison Mack, Ato Essandoh, Bill Forsyth, Mike Hodges, and the late William Powell, Maria Ouspenskaya, Chris Marker, Clara Bow, Lloyd Bochner, Thelma Todd, Irwin Corey, Peter Jennings, Charles Hallahan, Budd Boetticher, Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia, William Cameron Menzies, and Benito Mussolini. “Mama” Cass Elliot died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 32. Luis Buñuel, Raymond Massey, and David Niven all died 37 years ago in 1983. Buñuel was 83, Massey was 86, and Niven was 73.

Today is the birthday of Peter Cullen, Elizabeth Berkley, Sally Struthers, Lori Loughlin, Darryl Hickman, Dustin Milligan, Frances Lee McCain, Michael Hitchcock, Dey Young, Linda Kelsey, Carlos Jacott, Dick Ebersol, Francis Veber, and the late Jacqueline Kennedy, Joe E. Brown, Rudy Vallee, Georgia Engel, Richard Wright, Beatrix Potter, Alexis Arquette, Ann Doran, and Hugo Chávez. Marie Dressler died 86 years ago in 1934 at age 65. Eileen Brennan died seven years ago in 2013 at age 80.

Today Norman Lear is 98, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maya Rudolph, Taylor Schilling, Donnie Yen, Betty Thomas, Rade Serbedzija, Bill Engvall, Roger Guenveur Smith, Bryan Fuller, Cliff Curtis, Carol Leifer, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Takashi Shimizu, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, and the late Keenan Wynn, Jerry Van Dyke, Donald Crisp, Will Jordan, Maury Chaykin, who died on his birthday ten years ago in 2010 at age 61, Lupita Tovar, and Charles Vidor. Gertrude Stein died 74 years ago in 1946 at age 72. William Wyler died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 79. James Mason died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 75. Bob Hope died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 100. R.G. Armstrong died eight years ago in 2012 at age 95. Sam Shepard died three years ago in 2017 at age 73.

Today Helen Mirren and Linda Harrison are 75, and Susan George is 70. Today is also the birthday of Mick Jagger, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Jason Statham, Kate Beckinsale, Olivia Williams, Jeremy Piven, Roger Taylor, Darlene Love, Peter Hyams, Juliet Rylance, Danny Woodburn, Dito Montiel, Andy Goldsworthy, and the late Stanley Kubrick, Jason Robards, Gracie Allen, Blake Edwards, Vivian Vance, Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Jung, James Best, Marjorie Lord, Suzanna Leigh, and Joe Jackson. Ed Gein died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 77. June Foray died three years ago in 2017 at age 99.

Today is the birthday of Matt LeBlanc, Illeana Douglas, Iman, David Denman, Jay R. Ferguson, D.B. Woodside, Darren Star, Ana Lily Amirpour, and the late Walter Brennan, Estelle Getty, Brad Renfro, Jack Gilford, Woody Strode, Barbara Harris, Janet Margolin, Emmett Till, August Schellenberg, Jerry Paris, Harold Peary, Lila Lee, and Raoul Ruiz. Vincente Minnelli died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 83. John Schlesinger died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 77.