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Today Art Garfunkel is 80, and Jonny Greenwood and Chris Addison are 50. Today is also the birthday of Tilda Swinton, Sam Rockwell, Famke Janssen, Tatum O’Neal, Robert Patrick, Elke Sommer, Harris Yulin, Judy Reyes, Eddie Pepitone, Seth Gilliam, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Armin Shimerman, Ryan Adams, Bryan Adams, Michael Gaston, Kevin Jonas, Kris Jenner, and the late Vivien Leigh, Sam Shepard, Joel McCrea, Roy Rogers, Ike Turner, John McGiver, Victor Argo, Herb Edelman, Natalie Schafer, Ralph Moody, Charles Bradley, and Jessie Ralph. George M. Cohan died 79 years ago in 1942 at age 64. Mack Sennett and Ward Bond both 61 died years ago in 1960. Sennett was 80. Bond was 57. Reginald Owen died 49 years ago in 1972 at age 85. Georges Franju died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 75. Fred MacMurray died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 83. Jill Clayburgh died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 66.

Today Laura W. Bush is 75, and Ralph Macchio and Jeff Probst are 60. Today is also the birthday of Matthew McConaughey, Kathy Griffin, Sean Diddy Combs, Loretta Swit, Anthony Ruivivar, Tabu, Peter Lord, Bethenny Frankel, and the late Art Carney, Will Rogers, Gig Young, Walter Cronkite, Doris Roberts, Martin Balsam, Leonardo Cimino, Darla Hood, Cameron Mitchell, Virginia Field, Markie Post, Ian Wolfe, and Forbes Murray. Michael Crichton died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 66. Andy Rooney died ten years ago in 2011 at age 92.

Today Monica Vitti is 90, Tom Savini is 75, and Dylan Moran is 50. Today is also the birthday of Roseanne Barr, Lois Smith, Dennis Miller, Dolph Lundgren, Anna Wintour, Kathy Kinney, Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, Vincent Franklin, Kate Capshaw, Hal Hartley, Gary Ross, Jim Cummings, Brian Henson, Kevin Murphy, Davis Guggenheim, Colin Kaepernick, Kendall Jenner, and the late Charles Bronson, who would be 100, Ken Berry, Jeremy Brett, Aneta Corsaut, John Barry, Wanda Hendrix, Mike Evans, Peggy McCary, and Jean Rollin. Mary Martin died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 76. Bob Kane died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 83. Sondra Locke died three years ago in 2018 at age 74.

Today Katharine Isabelle is 40. Today is also the birthday of David Schwimmer, Stefanie Powers, Peter Mullan, Marisol Nichols, Shah Rukh Khan, Luna Lauren Velez, Nelly, Jon Dore, Ron McGovney, David Andrews, Jon M. Chu, Patrick J. Buchanan, and the late Burt Lancaster, Luchino Visconti, Ray Walston, Marie Antoinette, Ann Rutherford, Paul Ford, Alice Brady, Warren Stevens, Patrice Chéreau, Jack Starrett, James Dunn, Claire McDowell, Warren G. Harding, James K. Polk, Steve Ditko, Walter Woolf King, and Sidney Luft. George Bernard Shaw died 71 years ago in 1950 at age 94. Pier Paolo Pasolini died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 53. Paul Frees died 35 years agon in 1986 at age 66. Irwin Allen died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 75. Hal Roach died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 100. Theo van Gogh died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 47. Sid Melton died ten years ago in 2011 at age 94.

Today Robert Foxworth is 80, Matt Jones is 40, and Anthony Ramos is 30. Today is also the birthday of Toni Collette, Lyle Lovett, Anthony Kiedis, Logan Marshall-Green, Jeannie Berlin, Natalia Tena, Alex Wolff, Barbara Bosson, Tim Cook, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Rachel Ticotin, Penn Badgley, Marcel Ophüls, Kinky Friedman, David Foster, Jenny McCarthy, Peter Ostrum, Helene Udy, Lucky McKee, and the late Marcia Wallace, Larry Flynt, Edward Van Sloan, Betsy Palmer, Emmaline Henry, Laura La Plante, and Lil Peep. Ezra Pound died 49 years ago in 1972 at age 87. King Vidor died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 88. Phil Silvers died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 74. Adrienne Shelly died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 40. Fred Thompson died six years ago in 2015 at age 73.

Today Lee Grant is 96, Dan Rather is 90, Sally Kirkland is 80, Stephen Rea is 75, Peter Jackson is 60, and Nora Twomey is 50. Today is also the birthday of Rob Schneider, Dermot Mulroney, Ron Rifkin, Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock), Johnny Marr, Brian Doyle-Murray, Letitia Wright, Piper Perabo, David Dencik, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kether Donohue, Mike O’Malley, Michael J. Anderson, Jane Pauley, Arnaud Desplechin, Ruben Fleischer, Jim Cummings, Willow Smith, Vanilla Ice, and the late John Candy, Ethel Waters, Dale Evans, Michael Landon, John Keats, David Ogden Stiers, Bud Spencer, Barbara Bel Geddes, Frank Silva, Eduard Franz, Sara Allgood, Ollie Johnston, and Jimmy Savile. Harry Houdini died 95 years ago in 1926 at age 52. John Houseman died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 86. Federico Fellini and River Phoenix died 28 years ago in 1993. Fellini was 73. Phoenix was 23. Sean Connery died one year ago in 2020 at age 90.

Today Andrea Mitchell is 75, Harry Hamlin is 70, Larry Wilmore and Joe Berlinger are 60, and Fiona Dourif and Ivanka Trump are 40. Today is also the birthday of Henry Winkler, Kevin Pollak, Nia Long, Matthew Morrison, Gavin Rossdale, Maria Thayer, Michael Beach, Leon Rippy, Mark Steven Johnson, Claude Lelouch, Jessica Hynes, Juliet Stevenson, Richard LaGravenese, Charles Martin Smith, Brett Kelly, and the late John Adams, Ruth Gordon, Louis Malle, Ezra Pound, Ruth Hussey, Jane Randolph, Herschel Bernardi, Fyodor Dostoevsky, who would be 200, Michael Winner, Ed Lauter, and Dick Gautier. Samuel Fuller died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 85. Steve Allen died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 78. Jam Master Jay died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 37. Robert Goulet died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 73. Al Molinaro died six years ago in 2015 at age 96.

Today Winona Ryder is 50. Today is also the birthday of Richard Dreyfuss, Ben Foster, Gabrielle Union, Dan Castellaneta, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kate Jackson, Rufus Sewell, Joely Fisher, Lee Child, Ralph Bakshi, Peter Watkins, Michael Schur, and the late Bob Ross, Fanny Brice, Peter Green, Beth Chapman, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Hardy, Geraldine Brooks, Eddie Constantine, Isao Takahata, and Joseph Goebbels. Louis B. Mayer died 64 years ago in 1957 at age 73. Adolphe Menjou died 58 years ago in 1963 at age 73. Terry Southern died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 71. Vaughn Meader died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 68. John Witherspoon died two years ago in 2019 at age 77.

Today Joe R. Lansdale is 70. Today is also the birthday of Julia Roberts, Joaquin Phoenix, Andy Richter, Joan Plowright, Gwendoline Christie, Jane Alexander, Dennis Franz, Frank Ocean, Bill Gates, Matt Smith, Daphne Zuniga, Finn Wittrock, Brad Paisley, Ben Harper, Telma Hopkins, Lauren Holly, Annie Potts, Joe Thomas, Chris Bauer, Jami Gertz, Sheryl Underwood, Kevin Macdonald, Jake Kasdan, Michael Dougherty, Caitlyn Jenner, Ronnie Mund, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the late Elsa Lanchester, Edith Head, Alan Clarke, Joe Spinell, Jack Soo, Dody Goodman, and Evelyn Waugh. Alice Brady died 82 years ago in 1939 at age 46. James MacArthur died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 72.

Today Ivan Reitman is 75, and Joanna Scanlan is 60. Today is also the birthday of John Cleese, Roberto Benigni, Fran Lebowitz, Patrick Fugit, Peter Firth, David Walton, Kelly Osbourne, Robert Picardo, Simon Le Bon, Michael Shamus Wiles, Lara Parker, Ming-liang Tsai, Theodore Melfi, Brontis Jodorowsky, Marla Maples, and the late Theodore Roosevelt, Sylvia Plath, Ruby Dee, Teresa Wright, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Dylan Thomas, Nanette Fabray, Scott Weiland, Carrie Snodgress, Jack Carson, Carolyn Craig, Frederick De Cordova, Leif Erickson, Bernie Wrightson, and John Gotti. Sammee Tong died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 63. Allan “Rocky” Lane died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 64. James M. Cain died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 85. Lou Reed died eight years ago in 2013 at age 71.