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Today Jane Lynch and Kyle Gass are 60. Today is also the birthday of Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Fox, Nancy Olson, David Mitchell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Stan Shaw, Vincent Pastore, Joel Silver, Scott Rudin, Conor McGregor, Franklin Graham, and the late Ingmar Bergman, Harry Dean Stanton, Woody Guthrie, Sid Haig, Polly Bergen, Terry-Thomas, William Hanna, Dale Robertson, Donald Meek, Laurie Mitchell, George Tobias, Gerald Ford, and Gustav Klimt. Meredith MacRae died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 56.

Today Patrick Stewart is 80, and Sharon Horgan is 50. Today is also the birthday of Harrison Ford, Cheech Marin, Cameron Crowe, Tom Kenny, Ken Jeong, Aya Cash, Colton Haynes, Daphne Reid, Catherine Breillat, Gil Birmingham, Michael Jace, Kenny Johnson, Didi Conn, Michael Mando, Jacques Perrin, Robert Gant, Kari Wahlgren, Steven R. McQueen, and the late Robert Forster, Bob Crane, Sidney Blackmer, James Anderson, and René Laloux. Red Buttons died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 87. Cory Monteith died seven years ago in 2013 at age 31.

Today Edwin Neal is 75, Byung-Hun Lee is 50, and Rachel Brosnahan is 30. Today is also the birthday of Bill Cosby, Topher Grace, Michelle Rodriguez, Richard Simmons, Malala Yousafzai, Cheryl Ladd, Cheyenne Jackson, Monte Hellman, Brian Grazer, Phil Lord, Anna Friel, Steve Howey, Natalie Martinez, Tamsin Greig, Erik Per Sullivan, Jamey Sheridan, Mel Harris, Denise Nicholas, and the late Milton Berle, Tod Browning, Joe DeRita, Jay Thomas, Beah Richards, who would be 100, Charlie Murphy, Louis B. Meyer, Jean Hersholt, George Eastman, Henry David Thoreau, Pablo Neruda, and Donald E. Westlake. Lon Chaney Jr. died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 67.

Today Bruce McGill is 70, Jafar Panahi is 60, and Justin Chambers is 50. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Lang, Richie Sambora, Lil’ Kim, Tom Holland, Sela Ward, Michael Rosenbaum, Rachael Taylor, Mindy Sterling, Greg Grunberg, Greg Mottola, Giorgio Armani, and the late Yul Brynner, who would be 100, Tab Hunter, John Quincy Adams, David Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Brett Somers, and E.B. White. Robert Ryan died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 63. Laurence Olivier died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 82.

Today Jessica Simpson and Thomas Ian Nicholas are 40. Today is also the birthday of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sofia Vergara, Adrian Grenier, Arlo Guthrie, Fiona Shaw, Robert Pine, Peter Serafinowicz, Golshifteh Farahani, Wyatt Russell, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Alice Munro, Annie Mumolo, Mavis Staples, Marco Rodríguez, Joel Potrykus, and the late Fred Gwynne, Marcel Proust, Nikola Tesla, Sue Lyon, Ivan Passer, Jake LaMotta, Ron Glass, David Brinkley, who would be 100, Tura Satana, Nick Adams, John Gilbert, and Jerry Nelson. Mel Blanc died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 81. Omar Sharif died five years ago in 2015 at age 83.

Today Dean Koontz is 75, and Jodi Arias is 40. Today is also the birthday of Tom Hanks, Jack White, Jimmy Smits, Chris Cooper, Courtney Love, Pamela Adlon, Kelly McGillis, Fred Savage, Douglas Booth, Richard Roundtree, Ed Ames, Fred Norris, David O’Hara, David Hockney, Scott Grimes, Kevin Nash, Richard Wilson, Nigel Lythgoe, O.J. Simpson, Jordan Belfort, Steven Avery, Amanda Knox, and the late Brian Dennehy, Vince Edwards and Elem Klimov. Rod Steiger died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 77. Charles Lane died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 102. Rip Torn died one year ago in 2019 at age 88.

Today Steve Lawrence is 85, and Beck is 50. Today is also the birthday of Angelica Huston, Kevin Bacon, Jeffrey Tambor, Billy Crudup, Michael Weatherly, Kim Darby, Milo Ventimiglia, Sophia Bush, Robert Knepper, Toby Keith, Kathleen Robertson, Jamie Blackley, Lee Tergesen, Wolfgang Puck, Jaden Smith, Michael Cuesta, Joe Russo, Wally Pfister, Maya Hawke, and the late Marty Feldman, John D. Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller, Mary Ellen Trainor, Craig Stevens, Jerry Vale, Louis Jordan, Billy Eckstine, Percy Grainger, Barbara Loden, Eugene Pallette, and Jean Rouverol. Vivien Leigh died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 53. Dick Sargent died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 64. June Allyson died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 88. Betty Ford died nine years ago in 2011 at age 93. Ernest Borgnine died eight years ago in 2012 at age 95. Nelsan Ellis died three years ago in 2017 at age 39. Tab Hunter died two years ago in 2018 at age 86.

Today Ringo Starr is 80, and Michelle Kwan is 40. Today is also the birthday of Shelley Duvall, Jim Gaffigan, Bérénice Bejo, Doc Severinsen, Nina Hoss, Billy Campbell, Hamish Linklater, Mo Collins, Patricia Hitchcock, Robin Weigert, Eve Hewson, Jorja Fox, Jack Whitehall, Amy Carlson, Kirsten Vangsness, Christian Camargo, Joe Spano, Martin Wallström, Blondie Chaplin, Jonathan Dayton, and the late Vittorio De Sica, George Cukor, Gustav Mahler, Jon Pertwee, Robert A. Heinlein, and Satchel Paige. Arthur Conan Doyle died ninety years ago in 1930 at age 71. Veronica Lake died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 50. Fred Neil died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 65.

Today The Dalai Lama is 85, Burt Ward is 75, Geraldine James is 70, and Eva Green is 40. Today is also the birthday of Sylvester Stallone, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin Hart, Jennifer Saunders, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Ned Beatty, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Tia Mowry-Hardict, Fred Dryer, Allyce Beasley, Brian Posehn, Peter Hedges, George W. Bush, and the late Janet Leigh, Frida Kahlo, Nancy Reagan, Merv Griffin, Della Reese, William Schallert, Sebastian Cabot, Cathy O’Donnell, and Misty Upham. William Faulkner died 58 years ago today in 1962 at 64. Chief John Big Tree died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 90. Louis Armstrong died 49 years ago in 1971 at age 69. Brandon De Wilde died 48 years ago in 1972 at age 30. Joe E. Brown died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 80. Alma Reville died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 82. Marsha P. Johnson died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 46. Roy Rogers died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 86. John Frankenheimer died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 72. Buddy Ebsen died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 95.

Today Huey Lewis is 70, and Pruitt Taylor Vince is 60. Today is also the birthday of Edie Falco, Robbie Robertson, RZA, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jillian Armenante, Kathryn Erbe, Louis Herthum, Don Stark, Jenji Kohan, Peter Tolan, Bill Watterson, and the late Warren Oates, Jean Cocteau, Katherine Helmond, Shirley Knight, P.T. Barnum, Milburn Stone, John Wood, and William Hootkins. Leo McCarey died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 70.