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Today Angelina Jolie and Russell Brand are 45. Today is also the birthday of Bruce Dern, T.J. Miller, Keith David, Noah Wyle, Rob Huebel, Horatio Sanz, Robin Lord Taylor, Sean Pertwee, Michelle Phillips, Oona Chaplin, Geoffrey Palmer, and the late Rosalind Russell, Dennis Weaver, Clara Blandick, and Russell Hicks. Dorothy Gish died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 70. Massimo Troisi died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 41.

Today Irma P. Hall is 85, and Bill Paterson is 75. Today is also the birthday of Imogen Poots, Anderson Cooper, Penelope Wilton, Jason Jones, James Purefoy, Sebastian Armesto, Masami Nagasawa, Larry McMurtry, Daniela Vega, Tate Taylor, and the late Tony Curtis, Josephine Baker, Paulette Goddard, Leo Gorcey, Chuck Barris, Allen Ginsberg, Curtis Mayfield, Ellen Corby, Maurice Evans, Colleen Dewhurst, Alain Resnais, Robert Z’Dar, Edward Winter, John Kellogg, Roy Glenn, Melissa Mathison, Anthony Harvey, and Herk Harvey. Franz Kafka died 96 years ago in 1924 at age 40. Ozzie Nelson died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 69. Roberto Rossellini died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Robert Morley died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 84. Anthony Quinn died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 86. David Carradine died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 72. Rue McClanahan died ten years ago in 2010 at age 76. James Arness died nine years ago in 2011 at age 88. Muhammad Ali died four years ago in 2016 at age 74.

Today Joanna Gleason is 70. Today is also the birthday of Dana Carvey, Zachary Quinto, Stacy Keach, Dominic Cooper, Justin Long, Charlie Watts, Dennis Haysbert, Wentworth Miller, Morena Baccarin, Liam Cunningham, Wayne Brady, Jerry Mathers, Sally Kellerman, Charles Haid, James Ransone, Dr. Cornel West, Navid Negahban, A.J. Styles, Lasse Hallström, Beetlejuice, Kevin Feige, Lisandro Alonso, and the late Johnny Weissmuller, Marvin Hamlisch, Thomas Hardy, The Marquis de Sade, Milo O’Shea, Max Showalter, Chief John Big Tree, Bruno S., and Lotte Reiniger. Jean Hersholt died 64 years ago in 1956 at age 69. George S. Kaufman died 59 years ago in 1961 at age 71. Leo Gorcey died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 51. Stephen Boyd died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 45. Jim Hutton died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 45. Rex Harrison and Jack Gilford died thirty years ago in 1990. Harrison was 82. Gilford was 81. Imogene Coca died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 92. Mel Ferrer and Bo Diddley died twelve years ago in 2008. Ferrer was 90. Diddley was 79. Richard Dawson and Kathryn Joosten died eight years ago in 2012. Dawson was 79. Joosten was 72. Peter Sallis died three years ago in 2017 at age 96.

Today Paula Malcomson is 50. Today is also the birthday of Morgan Freeman, Amy Schumer, Brian Cox, Alanis Morissette, Ronnie Wood, Tom Holland, Jonathan Pryce, Pat Boone, Sylvia Hoeks, Sarah Wayne Callies, Rick Gomez, Heidi Klum, Gareth Edwards, and the late Marilyn Monroe, Andy Griffith, Powers Boothe, Edward Woodward, Rene Auberjonois, Cleavon Little, Frank Morgan, Richard Erdman, and Aubrey Morris. Leslie Howard died 77 years ago in 1943 at age 50. Adolf Eichmann died 58 years ago in 1962 at age 56. Helen Keller died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 87.

Today Clint Eastwood is 90, Chris Elliott is 60, and Paolo Sorrentino is 50. Today is also the birthday of Colin Farrell, Brooke Shields, Tom Berenger, Lea Thompson, Susie Essman, Eric Christian Olsen, Sharon Gless, Jonathan Tucker, Sebastian Koch, Joe Namath, and the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who would be 75, Don Ameche, Walt Whitman, Denholm Elliott, Jim Hutton, Alida Valli, Fred Allen, John Bonham, Jack Holt, Barbara Pepper, Madge Blake, and Menahem Golan. William Castle died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 63. Jean Stapleton died seven years ago in 2013 at age 90.

Today Jimmy Lydon is 97, and Ruta Lee is 85. Today is also the birthday of Keir Dullea, Idina Menzel, Stephen Tobolowsky, Colm Meaney, Wynonna Judd, CeeLo Green, Ted McGinley, Duncan Jones, Antoine Fuqua, Ryûhei Kitamura, and the late Howard Hawks, Agnès Varda, Mel Blanc, Michael J. Pollard, Hugh Griffith, Clint Walker, Benny Goodman, Douglas Fowley, Franklin J. Schaffner, who would be 100, Meredith MacRae, Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry), Irving Thalberg, Christine Jorgensen, and Jamie Uys. Dooley Wilson died 67 years ago in 1953 at age 67. Claude Rains died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 77. Michel Simon died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 80.

Today Melanie Brown (Mel B) and Daniel Tosh are 45. Today is also the birthday of Annette Bening, Rupert Everett, Riley Keough, Laverne Cox, Ted Levine, Helmut Berger, Melissa Etheridge, Danny Elfman, La Toya Jackson, Noel Gallagher, Justin Chon, Robert Logan, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Aaron McGruder, and the late Bob Hope, John F. Kennedy, Josef von Sternberg, Clifton James, who would be 100, Sebastian Shaw, Kevin Conway, Stacy Keach Sr., and Gregg Toland. John Barrymore died 78 years ago in 1942 at age 60. James Whale died 63 years ago in 1957 at age 67. Mary Pickford died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 87. Harvey Korman died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 81. Dennis Hopper died ten years ago in 2010 at age 74.

Today Anne Reid is 85. Today is also the birthday of Carey Mulligan, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Kylie Minogue, Carroll Baker, Gladys Knight, Jake Johnson, Romain Duris, Christa Miller, Patricia Quinn, John Fogerty, Justin Kirk, Nonso Anozie, Irwin Winkler, Rudy Giuliani, Marco Rubio, Steve King, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and the late Ian Fleming, Sondra Locke, Edith Massey, Glenn Quinn, who would be 50, Martha Vickers, Beth Howland, Zelda Rubinstein, Gordon Willis, Hank Mann, and Rob Ford. Phil Hartman died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 49. Gary Coleman died ten years ago in 2010 at age 42. Maya Angelou died six years ago in 2014 at age 86.

Today Henry Kissinger and Sumner Redstone are 97, Lee Meriwether is 85, Joseph Fiennes is 50, Ben Feldman is 40, and Chris Colfer is 30. Today is also the birthday of Paul Bettany, André Benjamin, Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Schiff, Jack McBrayer, Adam Carolla, Bella Heathcote, Todd Bridges, Bruce Weitz, Ken Lerner, Peri Gilpin, Linnea Quigley, Jamie Oliver, Jee-woon Kim, Giuseppe Tornatore, Simon Blackwell, Lily-Rose Depp, and the late Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Dashiell Hammett, Harlan Ellison, John Cheever, Steve Franken, Willie Best, Lucile Watson, Antonia Bird, Dolores Hope, Hubert Humphrey, Wild Bill Hickok, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. George Zucco died sixty years ago in 1960 at age 74. Jeff Conway died nine years ago in 2011 at age 60. Gregg Allman died three years ago in 2017 at age 69.

Today Alex Garland is 50. Today is also the birthday of Helena Bonham Carter, Pam Grier, Lenny Kravitz, Stevie Nicks, Bobcat Goldthwait, Matt Stone, Lauryn Hill, Tarsem Singh, Hank Williams Jr., and the late John Wayne, Miles Davis, Peter Cushing, Al Jolson, James Arness, Peggy Lee, who would be 100, Jay Silverheels, Robert Morley, and John Dahl. Eddie Albert died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 99. Sydney Pollack died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 73. Art Linkletter died ten years ago in 2010 at age 97.