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Today Al Pacino is 80, Björn Ulvaeus is 75, and Jason Lee is 50. Today is also the birthday of Renée Zellweger, Talia Shire, Hank Azaria, Marguerite Moreau, Gina Torres, Melonie Diaz, Jillian Bell, Jeffrey DeMunn, Bertrand Tavernier, Dinesh D’Souza, and the late Ella Fitzgerald, Paul Mazursky, Edward R. Murrow, Russ Conway, Cy Twombly, and Oliver Cromwell. Ginger Rogers died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 83. Bea Arthur died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 86.

Today Richard Donner is 90, and Austin Nichols is 40. Today is also the birthday of Shirley MacLaine, Barbra Streisand, Djimon Hounsou, Eric Bogosian, Cedric The Entertainer, Eric Balfour, Kelly Clarkson, Aidan Gillen, Derek Luke, Michael O’Keefe, Bruce Kirby, Rory McCann, Glenn Morshower, Peter Friedman, Damon Lindelof, and the late Michael Parks, William Castle, Jill Ireland, Jack E. Leonard, and Robert Wiene. Louise Dresser died 65 years ago in 1965 at age 86. Bud Abbott died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 78.

Today Anne Douglas is 101, Alan Oppenheimer is 90, Valerie Bertinelli is 60, and Dev Patel is 30. Today is also the birthday of John Oliver, Judy Davis, Lee Majors, Michael Moore, John Cena, Kal Penn, George Lopez, Jaime King, Joyce DeWitt, John Hannah, Gemma Whelan, Eric Edelstein, D.B. Weiss, John Lutz, Bubba the Love Sponge (Todd Alan Clem), and the late William Shakespeare, who died 404 years ago on his birthday in 1616 at age 52, Shirley Temple, Sandra Dee, Roy Orbison, Jan Hooks, Hervé Villechaize, Simone Simon, Sheila Gish, Kevin Meaney, James Hayter, Frank Borzage, Ronald Neame, J.M.W. Turner, and James Buchanan. Otto Preminger died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 80. Satyajit Ray died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 70.

Today Peter Frampton and Lee Tamahori are 70. Today is also the birthday of Jack Nicholson, John Waters, Amber Heard, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sheryl Lee, Sherri Shepherd, Johnnie To, Robin Bartlett, Roman Coppola, and the late Eddie Albert, Glen Campbell, Charles Mingus, Jason Miller, Bettie Page, Charlotte Rae, Immanuel Kant, Vladimir Lenin, who would be 150, Vladimir Nabokov, Aaron Spelling, Rondo Hatton, Kaneto Shindô, Byron Haskin, and Marilyn Chambers. Linda Lovelace died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 53.

Today Queen Elizabeth II is 94, Charles Grodin is 85, and Nicole Sullivan, Rob Riggle, Jeff Anderson, and Glen Hansard are 50. Today is also the birthday Elaine May, Iggy Pop, Robert Smith, James McAvoy, Patti LuPone, Andie MacDowell, Tony Danza, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, John Cameron Mitchell, Claire Denis, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Brian White, Bridget Everett, Frank Dillane, Peter Kosminsky, Anna Muylaert, and the late Anthony Quinn, Charlotte Brontë, Marcel Camus, Sammee Tong, Edwin S. Porter, who would be 150, and Gilbert Taylor. Mark Twain died 110 years ago in 1910 at age 74. Gummo Marx died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 84. Nina Simone died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 70. Prince and Michelle McNamara died four years ago in 2016. He was 57. She was 46. Verne Troyer died two years ago in 2018 at age 49.

Today Leslie Phillips is 96, Gary Raymond is 85, Judith O’Dea is 75, and Shemar Moore is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jessica Lange, Ryan O’Neal, George Takei, Crispin Glover, Andy Serkis, Veronica Cartwright, Clint Howard, Billy Magnussen, Michael Render (Killer Mike GTO), Clayne Crawford, Joey Lawrence, Carmen Electra, Chrysta Bell, and the late Harold Lloyd, Luther Vandross, Nina Foch, Elena Verdugo, Robert DoQui, Harris Wittels, Edie Sedgwick, Bruce Cabot, Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr. (Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf), and Adolf Hitler. Bram Stoker died 108 years ago today in 1912 at age 64. Don Siegel died 29 years ago today in 1991 at age 78. Benny Hill died 28 years ago today in 1992 at age 68. Cantinflas died 27 years ago today in 1993 at age 81.

Today Nicoletta Braschi is 60. Today is also the birthday of Tim Curry, James Franco, Kate Hudson, Ashley Judd, Hayden Christensen, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Elinor Donahue, Ali Wong, Tony Plana, Arshad Warsi, Alan Price, Arshad Warsi, Michael Dowse, William Klein, Suge Knight, Jesse James, and the late Jayne Mansfield, Dudley Moore, Hugh O’Brian, Dick Sargent, George O’Brien, May Robson, Constance Talmadge, Barry Brown, and Bernie Worrell. Ruth Hussey died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 93.

Today Clive Revill is 90, and Britt Robertson is 30. Today is also the birthday of Rick Moranis, Conan O’Brien, James Woods, Eric Roberts, Hayley Mills, Edgar Wright, Eli Roth, Maria Bello, Eric McCormack, David Tennant, Jane Leeves, America Ferrera, Melissa Joan Hart, Alia Shawkat, David Hewlett, Jeff Dunham, Kourtney Kardashian, and the late James Drury, Barbara Hale, Miklós Rózsa, Clarence Darrow, and Gabriel Axel and André Bazin. Dick Clark died eight years ago in 2012 at age 82.

Today Redman is 50. Today is also the birthday of Rooney Mara, Jennifer Garner, Sean Bean, Olivia Hussey, Adam McKay, David Bradley, Maïwenn, William Mapother, Joel Murray, Michael Forest, Nick Hornby, Victoria Beckham, and the late William Holden, Anne Shirley, Roddy Piper, Lindsay Anderson, Arthur Lake, Paul Langton, Joan Lorring, Señor Wences, Louis Jean Heydt, and George Seaton. Eddie Cochran died sixty years ago in 1960 at age 21. Dick Shawn died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Kitty Carlisle died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 96. Doris Roberts died four years ago in 2016 at age 90.

Today Bobby Vinton is 85. Today is also the birthday of Ellen Barkin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Claire Foy, Jon Cryer, Martin Lawrence, Lukas Haas, Gina Carano, Anya Taylor-Joy, Peter Billingsley, Chance the Rapper, AKON, Jay O. Sanders, Hayes MacArthur, Qi Shu, Billy West, Marshall R. Teague, Erik Bleaman (aka High Pitch Erik), and the late Charles Chaplin, Peter Ustinov, Spike Milligan, Barry Nelson, Edie Adams, Selena Quintanilla-Perez, Henry Mancini, David Graf, George ‘The Animal’ Steele, Catherine Scorsese, Les Tremayne, and Dusty Springfield. David Lean died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 83.