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Today Lainie Kazan is 80, Nicholas Hammond is 70, and Julian Jarrold is 60. Today is also the birthday of Chazz Palminteri, David Krumholtz, Caroline Dhavernas, Alexandra Breckenridge, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Madeleine Albright, Brian Eno, John Glen, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, and the late James Mason, Joseph Cotten, L. Frank Baum, Joseph Wiseman, Katrin Cartlidge, Arletty, Jûzô Itami, Peter Shaffer, André De Toth, Mario Monicelli, and Pierre Curie. June Carter Cash died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 73.

Today Francesca Annis is 75. Today is also the birthday of Cate Blanchett, George Lucas, Tim Roth, David Byrne, Robert Zemeckis, Sofıa Coppola, Danny Huston, Amber Tamblyn, Miranda Cosgrove, Greg Davies, Siân Phillips, Rob Tapert, Mark Zuckerberg, and the late Bobby Darin, Anne Wiazemsky, Richard Deacon, Oona O’Neill Chaplin, Sidney Bechet, and Mrinal Sen. Rita Hayworth died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 68. Frank Sinatra died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 82. Wendy Hiller and Robert Stack both died seventeen years ago in 2003. She was 90. He was 84. B.B. King died five years ago in 2015 at age 89. Powers Boothe died three years ago in 2017 at age 68. Tom Wolfe died two years ago in 2018 at age 88.

Today Stevie Wonder and Joe Johnston are 70, and David Simon is 60. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Colbert, Harvey Keitel, Samantha Morton, Robert Pattinson, Lena Dunham, Alan Ball, Fred Melamed, Buck Taylor, Brian Geraghty, Iwan Rheon, Zoë Wanamaker, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Dennis Rodman, and the late Bea Arthur, Daphne Du Maurier, Ritchie Valens, Beverly Owen, Herbert Ross, Chishû Ryû, Joe Louis, Mary Wells, and Jim Jones. Gary Cooper died 59 years ago in 1961 at age 60. Margot Kidder died two years ago in 2018 at age 69. Doris Day died one year ago in 2019 at age 97.

Today Bob Burns is 85, Gabriel Byrne is 70, and Samantha Mathis is 50. Today is also the birthday of Rami Malek, Burt Bacharach, Jason Biggs, Emilio Estevez, Ving Rhames, Malin Akerman, Domhnall Gleeson, Nathan Fielder, Bruce McCulloch, Catherine Tate, Lindsay Crouse, Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen Baldwin, Richard Riehle, Kim Greist, Emily VanCamp, Steve Winwood, Millie Perkins, Tony Hawk, and the late Katharine Hepburn, George Carlin, Jesús Franco, Tom Snyder, Frank Pierson, Yogi Berra, and Florence Nightingale, who would be 200. Erich von Stroheim died 63 years ago in 1957 at age 71. Tor Johnson died 49 years ago in 1971 at age 67. Robert Reed died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 59. Perry Como died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 88. H.R. Giger died six years ago in 2014 at age 74.

Today Mort Sahl is 93, and Yvonne Furneaux is 92. Today is also the birthday of Tim Blake Nelson, Pam Ferris, Frances Fisher, Jeffrey Donovan, Benoît Magimel, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Jonathan Jackson, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Andre Gregory, Mark Neveldine, and the late Salvador Dalí, Irving Berlin, Phil Silvers, Natasha Richardson, Cory Monteith, Denver Pyle, who would be 100, Doug McClure, Doodles Weaver, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Fox, and David Gest. Bob Marley died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 36. Douglas Adams died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 49.

Today Joseph Ruben is 70, Bono is 60, Dallas Roberts is 50, and Lauren Potter is 30. Today is also the birthday of Donovan, Kenan Thompson, Erik Palladino, Mike Hagerty, Meg Foster, Alex Jennings, Françoise Fabian, Jim Abrahams, David Mackenzie, and the late Fred Astaire, Sid Vicious, David O. Selznick, George Coe, Nancy Walker, Ettore Scola, Anatole Litvak, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, and John Wilkes Booth. Joan Crawford died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Shel Silverstein died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 68.

Today James L. Brooks is 80, and Ghostface Killah is 50. Today is also the birthday of Glenda Jackson, Candice Bergen, Billy Joel, Rosario Dawson, Grace Gummer, Chris Diamantopoulos, Daniel Franzese, Wendy Crewson, Alan Bennett, Amy Hill, Joe Carnahan, J.A. Bayona, and the late Albert Finney, Mike Wallace, Pedro Armendáriz, Richard Barthelmess, J.M. Barrie, William Moulton Marston, and Emile Ardolino. Lena Horne died ten years ago in 2010 at age 92. Michael Parks died three years ago in 2017 at age 77.

Today Mark Blankfield is 70. Today is also the birthday of David Attenborough, Melissa Gilbert, Thomas Pynchon, David Keith, Enrique Iglesias, Phyllida Law, Michel Gondry, Stephen Amell, Sebastian Schipper, and the late Saul Bass and Touko Laaksonen (Tom of Finland), who would both be 100, Ricky Nelson and Peter Benchley, who would both be 80, Don Rickles, Roberto Rossellini, Stephen Furst, Sidney James, Robert Johnson, Miyoshi Umeki, Fernandel, and Harry S. Truman. Edmond O’Brien died 35 years ago in 1985 at age 69. Dirk Bogarde died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 78.

Today John Irvin is 80, and Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb is 70. Today is also the birthday of Traci Lords, Breckin Meyer, Asghar Farhadi, Amy Heckerling, Mark O’Brien, Ned Bellamy, Michael Rosen, Ruggero Deodato, Nicholas Hytner, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, and the late Gary Cooper, Anne Baxter, Val Lewton, David Tomlinson, Darren McGavin, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Ishirô Honda, Robert Hegyes, Marilyn Burns, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, and Robert Browning. Ray Harryhausen died seven years ago in 2013 at age 92.

Today Bob Seger is 75, and Anne Parillaud is 60. Today is also the birthday of George Clooney, Willie Mays, Gabourey Sidibe, Adrianne Palicki, Gregg Henry, Lars Mikkelsen, Sasheer Zamata, Tom Bergeron, Naomi Scott, Stephen Gaghan, LuLu Roman, Tony Blair, and the late Orson Welles, Rudolph Valentino, Max Ophüls, Sigmund Freud, Raymond Bailey, and Dana Hill. Marlene Dietrich died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 90.