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Today is the birthday of Donald Trump, Boy George, Louis Garrel, Marla Gibbs, Lucy Hale, Will Patton, Diablo Cody, Joe Grifasi, Alan Carr, Jay Roach, Aleksandr Sokurov, and the late Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, Gene Barry, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire, Kay Sutton, Jerzy Kosinski, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Alan Reed died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 69. Henry Mancini died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 70. Richard Jaeckel died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 70. Ann Morgan Guilbert died four years ago in 2016 at age 87.

Today Aaron Taylor-Johnson is 30. Today is also the birthday of Malcolm McDowell, Stellan Skarsgård, Chris Evans, Tim Allen, Ally Sheedy, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kat Dennigs, Simon Callow, Richard Thomas, Steve-O, Greg Daniels, and the late Paul Lynde, Basil Rathbone, Ben Johnson, Mary Wickes, W.B. Yeats, and Tay Garnett. Geraldine Page died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 62.

Today Dave Franco and Kendra Wilkinson are 35. Today is also the birthday of Scott Thompson, Jay Mewes, Richard M. Sherman, Abbey Lee, Timothy Simons, Richard Ayoade, Mel Rodriguez, Timothy Busfield, Eamonn Walker, Jenilee Harrison, and the late Anne Frank, Jim Nabors, Priscilla Lane, George H.W. Bush, Vic Damone, Irwin Allen, and Jim Siedow, who would be 100. Norma Shearer died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 80. Gregory Peck died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 87. Sylvia Miles died one year ago in 2019 at age 94.

Today Adrienne Barbeau is 75. Today is also the birthday of Peter Dinklage, Hugh Laurie, Shia LaBeouf, Joshua Jackson, Sherman Howard, Johnny Brown, Greta Van Susteren, Christina Crawford, and the late Gene Wilder, Chad Everett, Ryan Dunn, Richard Todd, Robert Hutton, who would be 100, Jacques Cousteau, Buddy Baer, Henry Hill, and Wesley Ruggles. John Wayne died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 72. DeForest Kelley died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 79. William Marshall died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 78. Ann Rutherford eight years ago in 2012 at age 94. Ruby Dee died six years ago in 2014 at age 91. Ron Moody died five years ago in 2015 at age 91.

Today Prince Philip is 99. Today is also the birthday of Gina Gershon, Elizabeth Hurley, Bill Burr, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kate Flannery, DJ Qualls, Jürgen Prochnow, Ben Daniels, Laura Silverman, Tzi Ma, Jeremy Saulnier, Dustin Lance Black, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Andrew Niccol, Timothy Van Patten, Bria Vinaite, Faith Evans, Kate Upton, Sasha Obama, John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, Bobby Jindal, and the late Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Kevin Corcoran, Sessue Hayakawa, and Maurice Sendak. Spencer Tracy died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 67. Rainer Werner Fassbinder died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 37. Jo Van Fleet died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 80. Ray Charles died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 73.

Today is the birthday of Johnny Depp, Natalie Portman, Michael J. Fox, Aaron Sorkin, Jackie Mason, Eddie Marsan, Josh Hamilton, Mae Whitman, Gloria Reuben, Justin Benson, and the late Cole Porter, Robert Cummings, Mona Freeman, Joe Santos, and Robert McNamara. Ousmane Sembene died thirteen years ago today in 2007 at age 84. Adam West died three years ago in 2017 at age 88.

Today Nancy Sinatra is 80, Kathy Baker is 70, and Gabby Giffords is 50. Today is also the birthday of Julianna Margulies, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Kanye West, Frank Grillo, Griffin Dunne, Bonnie Tyler, Colin Baker, James Darren, J.P. Manoux, Kevin Farley, Dan Futterman, Matthew Bright, Will Smith, Troy Duffy, and the late Joan Rivers, Robert Preston, Jerry Stiller, Alexis Smith, Bernie Casey, George Wallace, Don Grady, Charles Tyner, Myron Healey, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Barbara Bush. Robert Taylor died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 57. Anthony Bourdain died two years ago in 2018 at age 61.

Today Tom Jones and Ronald Pickup are 80, and Iggy Azalea is 30. Today is also the birthday of Liam Neeson, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, Karl Urban, James Ivory, William Forsythe, Colleen Camp, Tom McCarthy, Mick Foley, Bear Grylls, Dave Navarro, Fetty Wap, Mike Pence, and the late Dean Martin, Jessica Tandy, Prince, Bonnie Lee Bakley, Ken Osmond, Hope Summers, and Dolores Gray. Jean Harlow died 83 years ago in 1937 at age 26. ZaSu Pitts died 67 years ago in 1963 at age 69. Judy Holliday died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 43. Christopher Lee died five years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today Ellie Kendrick is 30. Today is also the birthday of Paul Giamatti, Jason Isaacs, Robert Englund, Sandra Bernhard, Colin Quinn, Harvey Fierstein, Max Casella, Danny Webb, Hirokazu Koreeda, Jonathan Nolan, Danny Strong, Natalie Morales, and the late Billie Whitelaw, Chantal Akerman, who would be 70, Maria Montez, Kenneth Connor, Sam Simon, Judith Barsi, and Thomas Mann. Jack Haley died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 81. Anne Bancroft died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 73. Esther Williams died seven years ago in 2013 at age 91.

Today Troye Sivan is 25. Today is also the birthday of Mark Wahlberg, Jeff Garlin, Ron Livingston, Nick Kroll, Susan Lynch, Chad Allen, Kenny G, Liza Weil, Laurie Anderson, Suze Orman, Pete Wentz, Lisa Cholodenko, Kathleen Kennedy, Roger Michell, David Hare, and the late Tony Richardson, Jacques Demy, Spalding Gray, Robert Lansing, William Boyd, Peggy Stewart, Warren Frost, Daniel von Bargen, John Abbott, Herb Vigran, Henry Levin, and Pancho Villa. Vito Scotti died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 78. Mel Tormé died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 73. Ronald Reagan died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 93. Ray Bradbury died eight years ago in 2012 at age 91.