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Today Jamie Kennedy and Neil Marshall are 50. Today is also the birthday of Ian McKellen, Mike Myers, Octavia Spencer, Cillian Murphy, Anne Heche, Jacki Weaver, Frank Oz, Ethan Suplee, Demetri Martin, Bobby Slayton, Ray Stevenson, Leslie Uggams, Kevin Heffernan, Justin Henry, Erinn Hayes, Joseph D. Reitman, Ken Jacobs, Ann Robinson, Robert Greene, and the late Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dixie Carter, Claude Akins, Raymond Carver, Jeanne Crain, Robert Ludlum, Bill Robinson, and George Hickenlooper. Vic Tayback died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 60. Charles Nelson Reilly died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 76.

Today Priscilla Presley is 75, Kristin Scott Thomas and Doug Jones are 60, and Zhangke Jia is 50. Today is also the birthday of Bob Dylan, John C. Reilly, Jim Broadbent, Alfred Molina, Tommy Chong, Gary Burghoff, Michael Lonsdale, Roger Deakins, Nell Campbell, Patti LaBelle, Rosanne Cash, Will Sasso, Dana Ashbrook, Dash Mihok, Eric Close, Greg Berlanti, Michael Chabon, and the late Queen Victoria, Mai Zetterling, Peter Whitney, Willis Bouchey, and Seijun Suzuki. Duke Ellington died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 75. Dick Martin died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 86. Burt Kwouk died four years ago in 2016 at age 85. Jerry Maren died two years ago in 2018 at age 98.

Today is the birthday of Joan Collins, Drew Carey, H. Jon Benjamin, Richard Ayoade, Barbara Barrie, John Ortiz, Melissa McBride, Jewel Kilcher, Ryan Coogler, Charles Kimbrough, Tom Tykwer, Samuel Maoz, and the late Douglas Fairbanks, Scatman Crothers, Rosemary Clooney, Betty Garrett, Nigel Davenport, and James Gleason. Jackie “Moms” Mabley died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 81. George Jessel died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 83. Sterling Hayden died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 70. Roger Moore died three years ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today Thomas Schlamme is 70, and Naomi Campbell is 50. Today is also the birthday of Morrissey, Richard Benjamin, Ginnifer Goodwin, Maggie Q, Brooke Smith, Ann Cusack, Sean Gunn, Michael Kelly, Barbara Parkins, Michael Constantine, Max Brooks, and the late Laurence Olivier, Paul Winfield, Harvey Milk, who would be 90, Michael Sarrazin, who would be 80, Sid Melton, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Langston Hughes died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 65. Dina Merrill died three years ago in 2017 at age 93.

Today Jeffrey Toobin is 60. Today is also the birthday of Al Franken, Mr. T, Fairuza Balk, Judge Reinhold, Jonathan Hyde, Lisa Edelstein, Nick Cassavetes, Noel Fielding, Tom Daley, J. Elvis Weinstein, and the late Raymond Burr, The Notorious B.I.G., Robert Montgomery, Richard Hatch, Jeffrey Dahmer, Alice Drummond, Brent Briscoe, Richard Libertini, Kay Kendall, Dennis Day, Peggy Cass, and Jeanne Bates. John Garfield died 68 years ago in 1952 at age 39. Alejandro Rey died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 57. John Gielgud died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 96. Howard Morris died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 85.

Today Alan Zweibel is 70, Tony Goldwyn and John Billingsley are 60, and Louis Theroux is 50. Today is also the birthday of Cher, Timothy Olyphant, Dave Thomas, Bronson Pinchot, Mindy Cohn, Busta Rhymes, Matt McCoy, Allen Maldonado, David Proval, Jack Gleeson, Anton Corbijn, Mike Flanagan, Jon Amiel, and the late James Stewart, Joe Cocker, and David Hedison. Gilda Radner died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 42. Robin Gibb died eight years ago in 2012 at age 62.

Today Pete Townshend is 75. Today is also the birthday of Grace Jones, Polly Walker, James Fox, Nancy Kwan, Dusty Hill, Sam Smith, Eric Lloyd, Thomas Vinterberg, Morten Tyldum, and the late Malcolm X, Nora Ephron, Andre the Giant, Joey Ramone, Peter Mayhew, Lorraine Hansberry, Bruce Bennett, Daniel Gélin, and Pol Pot. Ronald Colman died 62 years ago in 1958 at age 67. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Henry Morgan both died 26 years ago in 1994. Onassis was 64. Morgan was 79. Alan Young died four years ago in 2016 at age 96.

Today Priscilla Pointer is 96, Mark Mothersbaugh is 70, and Tina Fey is 50. Today is also the birthday of Robert Morse, Yun-Fat Chow, George Strait, Miriam Margolyes, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Patrick St. Esprit, Terry Zwigoff, and the late Frank Capra, Pernell Roberts, Perry Como, Bill Macy, Richard Brooks, and Robert J. Wilke. Jill Ireland died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 54. Elizabeth Montgomery and Elisha Cook Jr. both died 25 years ago in 1995. Montgomery was 62. Cook Jr. was 91.

Today Peter Gerety is 80. Today is also the birthday of Craig Ferguson, Bob Saget, Trent Reznor, Grace Zabriskie, Lena Waithe, David Eigenberg, Sugar Ray Leonard, Derek Hough, Tabatha Coffey, and the late Dennis Hopper, Bill Paxton, Jean Gabin, Maureen O’Sullivan, and Matthew McGrory. Tony Randall died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 84. Frank Gorshin died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 72.

Today Thomas Brodie-Sangster is 30. Today is also the birthday of Debra Winger, Pierce Brosnan, Danny Trejo, Kevin McDonald, Melanie Lynskey, Janet Jackson, Megan Fox, Jesper Christensen, Mare Winningham, David Boreanaz, Jim Sturgess, Tori Spelling, Stephen Mangan, Rebecca Front, Jason ‘Wee-Man’ Acuña, and the late Henry Fonda, Kenji Mizoguchi, Liberace, Yvonne Craig, Margaret Sullavan, and Harry Carey Jr. Django Reinhardt died 67 years ago in 1953 at age 43. Andy Kaufman died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 35. Margaret Hamilton died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 82. Jim Henson and Sammy Davis Jr. both died thirty years ago in 1990. Henson was 53, and Davis Jr. was 64.