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Today Lance Henriksen is 80, and Kurt Sutter is 60. Today is also the birthday of Michael Palin, Henry Cavill, Adele, John Rhys-Davies, Richard E. Grant, Michael Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Clark Duke, Pat Carroll, Tina Yothers, Marion Bailey, Jerzy Skolimowski, Brian Williams, Brooke Hogan, Chris Brown, and the late Karl Marx, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Tammy Wynette, Ann B. Davis, Jim Kelly, Roger Rees, Bing Russell, Ben Wright, Robert Foulk, Nellie Bly, and Sage Stallone. John Williams died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 80. The first short The Three Stooges made for Columbia, Woman Haters, was released 86 years ago in 1934.

Today Will Arnett is 50, and Nicholas Hamilton is 20. Today is also the birthday of Richard Jenkins, Ana Gasteyer, Pia Zadora, Randy Travis, Lance Bass, Julian Barratt, Jackie Jackson, Mick Mars, Mike Dirnt, Mary Beth McDonough, Eleanor Coppola, Rolf de Heer, Erin Andrews, George Will, and the late Audrey Hepburn, Dick Dale, Paul Gleason, Eric Sykes, Russi Taylor, and Howard Da Silva. Moe Howard died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 77. Dom DeLuise and Jane Randolph both died eleven years ago in 2009. He was 75. She was 93.

Today Bobby Cannavale is 50. Today is also the birthday of Frankie Valli, Christina Hendricks, Rebecca Hall, Amy Ryan, Chris Mulkey, Rob Brydon, Dulé Hill, Pom Klementieff, Emily V. Gordon, Willie Geist, and the late James Brown, Pete Seeger, Mary Astor, George Gaynes, Robert Osborne, Ann B. Davis, Beulah Bondi, Walter Slezak, Aline MacMahon, Jack La Rue, “Sugar” Ray Robinson, and Robert De Niro Sr., who died on his birthday 27 years ago in 1993 at age 71. Robert Alda died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 72. Christine Jorgensen died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 62. Jackie Cooper died eleven years ago in 2011 at age 88.

Today Stephen Daldry is 60, and Ellie Kemper is 40. Today is also the birthday of Dwayne The Rock Johnson, David Beckham, Christine Baranski, Bruce Robinson, David Suchet, Bruce Glover, Lily Allen, Ari Lehman, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Lone Scherfig, Donatella Versace, and the late Bing Crosby, Satyajit Ray, Theodore Bikel, John Neville, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lesley Gore, and Hedda Hopper. Oliver Reed died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 61. Lynn Redgrave died ten years ago in 2010 at age 67. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. died six years ago in 2014 at age 95.

Today Diahnne Abbott is 75, and Dann Florek and John Diehl are 70. Today is also the birthday of Wes Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Julie Benz, Judy Collins, Joanna Lumley, Bailey Chase, Tim McGraw, James Badge Dale, Stephen Macht, Maia Morgenstern, Kerry Bishé, Madeline Brewer, Nicholas Braun, Anne Fletcher, James Murray, and the late Jack Paar, Glenn Ford, Danielle Darrieux, Dan O’Herlihy, John Meillon, Louis Nye, Joseph Heller, Leila Hyams, Terry Southern, Henry Koster, and Calamity Jane. Joseph Goebbels died 75 years ago in 1945 at age 47. Grant Mitchell died 63 years ago in 1957 at age 82.

Today Burt Young is 80, and Sam Heughan is 40. Today is also the birthday of Cloris Leachman, Kirsten Dunst, Gal Gadot, Lars von Trier, Jane Campion, Johnny Galecki, Kunal Nayyar, Ana de Armas, Adrian Pasdar, Allan Arkush, Jacques Audiard, James Marsh, Bill Plympton, Travis Scott, and the late Eve Arden, Al Lewis, Jill Clayburgh, Gary Collins, and Dick Elliott. Tom Poston died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 85.

Today Phillip Noyce is 70, and Uma Thurman is 50. Today is also the birthday of Daniel Day-Lewis, Jerry Seinfeld, Willie Nelson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kate Mulgrew, Leslie Jordan, Tyler Labine, Richard Kline, Andrew Bujalski, and the late Duke Ellington, Jean Rochefort, Celeste Holm, Fred Zinnemann, Irvin Kershner, Tom Ewell, Maya Deren, Wayne Robson, Tommy Noonan, Richard Carlson, King Hu, William Randolph Hearst, and Dale Earnhardt. Anthony Mann died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 60. Alfred Hitchcock died forty years ago in 1980 at age 80. Bob Hoskins died six years ago in 2014 at age 71.

Today Jay Leno is 70. Today is also the birthday of Ann-Margret, Penélope Cruz, Jessica Alba, Mary McDonnell, Claes Bang, Kim Gordon, Elisabeth Röhm, Jorge Garcia, Bridget Moynahan, Kari Wuhrer, Tony Revolori, Paul Guilfoyle, Harry Shum Jr., Dan Goor, and the late Lionel Barrymore, Carolyn Jones, Bruno Kirby, Harper Lee, Terry Pratchett, Madge Sinclair, Sidney Toler, Richard C. Sarafian, Oskar Schindler, and Saddam Hussein. Ed Begley died fifty years ago in 1970 at age 69.

Today is the birthday of Sally Hawkins, Anouk Aimée, Jenna Coleman, Ari Graynor, James Le Gros, Kevin McNally, Matt Reeves, Ace Frehley, Cristian Mungiu, Rachel Morrison, Cory Booker, and the late Jack Klugman, Sandy Dennis, Robert Donner, Casey Kasem, Cuba Gooding, August Wilson, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Coretta Scott King, and Ulysses S. Grant. Stanley Adams died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 62. Edward R. Murrow died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 57.

Today Melania Trump is 50, and Channing Tatum and Jordana Brewster are 40. Today is also the birthday of Carol Burnett, Jet Li, Kevin James, Giancarlo Esposito, Joan Chen, Pablo Schreiber, Jemima Kirke, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bobby Rydell, Tom Welling, Ivana Milicevic, Debra Wilson, and the late Douglas Sirk, Jean Vigo, Warren Clarke, Edgar Kennedy, Claudine Auger, Stafford Repp, and William Desmond Taylor. Gypsy Rose Lee died fifty years ago in 1970 at age 59. Irene Ryan died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 70. Broderick Crawford died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 74. Lucille Ball died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 77. Jonathan Demme died three years ago in 2017 at age 73.