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Today Dan Hedaya is 80. Today is also the birthday of Jennifer Lopez, Anna Paquin, Elisabeth Moss, Rose Byrne, Lynda Carter, Michael Richards, Ruth Buzzi, Kristin Chenoweth, Gus Van Sant, Chris Sarandon, Laura Leighton, Mara Wilson, Doug Liman, Summer Glau, Laura Fraser, Patty Jenkins, Gallagher, Paul Ben-Victor, Robert Hays, Mark Goddard, Danny Dyer, Bindi Irwin, and the late Peter Yates, Alexandre Dumas, Amelia Earhart, Robert Emhardt, Mabel Albertson, Chief Dan George, Zelda Fitzgerald, Ermanno Olmi, Delmer Daves, and Robert Graves. Constance Bennett died 65 years ago in 1965 at age 60. Peter Sellers died forty years ago in 1980 at age 54. Alan Clarke died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 54. Sherman Hemsley died eight years ago in 2012 at age 74.

Today Edie McClurg is 75, and Charisma Carpenter is 50. Today is also the birthday of Woody Harrelson, Daniel Radcliffe, Slash, Marlon Wayans, Eriq La Salle, Kathryn Hahn, Larry Manetti, Ronny Cox, Jan Troell, Pepe Serna, Jo Brand, Monica Lewinsky, Anthony Kennedy, Shawn Levy, and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Raymond Chandler, Gloria DeHaven, Emil Jannings, Don Imus, John Rutsey, Hank Worden, Karl Swenson, Robert Brown, and Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy. D.W. Griffith died 72 years ago in 1948 at age 73. Montgomery Clift died 54 years ago in 1966 at age 45. Vic Morrow, Myca Dinh Le, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen died 38 years ago in 1982. Morrow was 53. Le was 7. Chen was 6. Amy Winehouse died nine years ago in 2011 at age 27.

Today Bob Dole is 97, and Alex Trebek is 80. Today is also the birthday of Willem Dafoe, Albert Brooks, Danny Glover, Terence Stamp, John Leguizamo, Louise Fletcher, Paul Schrader, David Spade, Selena Gomez, Rhys Ifans, Alan Menken, Jaime Camil, Adam Godley, Peter Jason, Skyler Gisondo, Olivier Gourmet, and the late James Whale, Dan Rowan, and Orson Bean. Ulrich Mühe died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 54. Estelle Getty died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 84. Dennis Farina died seven years ago in 2013 at age 69.

Today Alysia Reiner is 50, and Sprague Grayden is 40. Today is also the birthday of Yusuf / Cat Stevens, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Josh Hartnett, Juno Temple, Jon Lovitz, Norman Jewison, George Wallace, Justin Bartha, Béla Tarr, Godfrey, Rory Culkin, Betty Gilpin, David Dastmalchian, Diane Guerrero, Ike Eisenmann, Adrienne King, and the late Robin Williams, Don Knotts, Ernest Hemingway, Edward Herrmann, Paul Burke, Karel Reisz, Maria Falconetti, and Janet Reno. Basil Rathbone died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 75. Theodore Bikel died five years ago in 2015 at age 91. John Heard died three years ago in 2017 at age 71.

Today Sally Ann Howes is 90, and Naseeruddin Shah and Tantoo Cardinal are 70. Today is also the birthday of Cormac McCarthy, Diana Rigg, Sandra Oh, Judy Greer, Omar Epps, Josh Holloway, John Francis Daley, Carlos Santana, Julianne Hough, Frank Whaley, Dean Winters, Simon Rex, Rodney Eastman, Camille Keaton, Randal Kleiser, and the late Natalie Wood, Alexander the Great, Verna Felton, Lola Albright, Aleksey German, and Billy Mays. Franklin Pangborn died 62 years ago in 1958 at age 69. Bruce Lee died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 32.

Today George Dzundza is 75, Tommy McLoughlin is 70, Atom Egoyan is 60, and Josh Fadem is 40. Today is also the birthday of Benedict Cumberbatch, Abel Ferrara, Anthony Edwards, Jim Norton, Brian May, Jared Padalecki, Vinessa Shaw, Kaitlin Doubleday, Lisa Lampanelli, Mark Holton, Campbell Scott, Nancy Carell, Saïd Taghmaoui, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hideo Nakata, Juan José Campanella, Matthew Libatique, Shane Dawson, and the late Pat Hingle, Richard Jordan, Max Fleischer, George McGovern, and Lizzie Borden. Joe Flynn died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 49. Jack Warden died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 85. Mel Smith died seven years ago in 2013 at age 60. James Garner died six years ago in 2014 at age 86. Garry Marshall died four years ago in 2016 at age 81. Rutger Hauer died one year ago in 2019 at age 75.

Today James Brolin is 80, Richard Branson is 70, Ann-Marie Johnson is 60, and Kristen Bell is 40. Today is also the birthday of Vin Diesel, Margo Martindale, Elizabeth McGovern, Paul Verhoeven, Wendy Williams, Kelly Reilly, Michiel Huisman, Andre Royo, James Faulkner, Priyanka Chopra, Chace Crawford, Hampton Fancher, Grant Bowler, Audrey Landers, Lee Arenberg, Jared Hess, and the late Nelson Mandela, Red Skelton, Hunter S. Thompson, Hume Cronyn, Chill Wills, John Glenn, Richard Dix, Gene Lockhart, Harriet Nelson, Lupe Velez, Burt Kwouk, and William Makepeace Thackeray. Jane Austen died 203 years ago in 1817 at age 41. Nico died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 49. Alex Rocco died five years ago in 2015 at age 79.

Today Donald Sutherland is 85, P.J. Soles is 70, and Mark Burnett is 60. Today is also the birthday of Jason Clarke, Kar-Wai Wong, David Hasselhoff, Alex Winter, Heather Langenkamp, Mélanie Thierry, Cécile de France, Elena Anaya, Billie Lourd, F. Gary Gray, Lucie Arnaz, John Ventimiglia, Robert Romanus, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Angela Merkel, and the late James Cagney, Phyllis Diller, Diahann Carroll, Art Linkletter, Barbara O’Neil, William Gargan, and Jack Conway. Billie Holiday died 61 years ago in 1959 at age 44. John Coltrane died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 40. Geraldine Fitzgerald died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 91. Elaine Stritch died six years ago in 2014 at age 89.

Today Apichatpong Weerasethakul is 50. Today is also the birthday of Will Ferrell, Corey Feldman, Phoebe Cates, Tony Kushner, Rubén Blades, Rosa Salazar, Jayma Mays, Milly Shapiro, Chris Pontius, Daryl Mitchell, Scott Derrickson, Rain Pryor, and the late Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, Percy Kilbride, Jerry Doyle, Vincent Sherman, Barnard Hughes, Corin Redgrave, Larry Semon, Orville Redenbacher, and Ida B. Wells. George A. Romero died three years ago in 2017 at age 77.

Today Arianna Huffington is 70. Today is also the birthday of Linda Ronstadt, Forest Whitaker, Diane Kruger, Brigitte Nielsen, Travis Fimmel, Eddie Griffin, Jesse Ventura, Terry O’Quinn, Scott Foley, Celia Imrie, Brian Austin Green, Joe Turkel, Laura Benanti, Adam Savage, Patrick Wayne, Greg Sestero, Jim Rash, Tony Hendra, Gabriel Iglesias, Beth Stern, and the late Rembrandt, D.A. Pennebaker, Larry Cohen, Ian Curtis, Alex Karras, William Dieterle, and Bill Gunn. Anton Chekhov died 116 years ago in 1904 at age 44. Dana Hill died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 32. Gianni Versace died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 50. Celeste Holm died eight years ago in 2012 at age 95. Martin Landau died three years ago in 2017 at age 89.