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Today Susanne Bier is 60, Damien Dante Wayans is 40, and Emma Watson is 30. Today is also the birthday of Emma Thompson, Seth Rogen, Luke Evans, Claudia Cardinale, Maisie Williams, Andrew Daly, Thomas F. Wilson, Linda Perry, Trine Dyrholm, Reed Morano, Richard Rush, Sam McMurray, Tom Kane, Chris Stapleton, Olivier Nakache, and the late Leonardo da Vinci, Elizabeth Montgomery, Hans Conried, John Williams, Roy Clark, Michael Ansara, Frank Vincent, Jean Willes, Henry James, Wallace Reid, and Bessie Smith. Abraham Lincoln died 155 years ago in 1865 at age 56. Wallace Beery died 71 years ago in 1949 at age 64. Jean Genet died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 75. Greta Garbo died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 84. Joey Ramone died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 49. R. Lee Ermey died two years ago in 2018 at age 74.

Today Julie Christie is 80, and Brad Garrett is 60. Today is also the birthday of Loretta Lynn, Adrien Brody, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Abigail Breslin, Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Carlyle, Peter Capaldi, Rob McElhenney, James Gray, Daniel Clowes, Gina McKee, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, and the late Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Richard Jeni, Bradford Dillman, Arlene Martel, Gloria Jean, Berry Berenson, Lee Tracy, Michelle McNamara, who would be 50, Philip Stone, Gerry Anderson, John Howard, Liz Renay, and Anne Sullivan. Fredric March died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 77. Burl Ives died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 85. Bibi Andersson died one year ago in 2019 at age 83.

Today Tony Dow is 75, and Ron Perlman and William Sadler are 70. Today is also the birthday of Allison Williams, Edward Fox, Glenn Howerton, Caroline Rhea, Charles Burnett, Ruben Östlund, Bokeem Woodbine, Paul Sorvino, Al Green, Erick Avari, Saundra Santiago, Peter Davison, Gary Kroeger, Hannah Marks, Yance Ford, and the late Don Adams, Samuel Beckett, Stanley Donen, Thomas Jefferson, Howard Keel, Lyle Waggoner, Maurice Ronet, and Christopher Hitchens. Milos Forman died two year ago in 2018 at age 86.

Today Herbie Hancock is 80. Today is also the birthday of David Letterman, Claire Danes, Andy Garcia, Ed O’Neill, Saoirse Ronan, Shannen Doherty, Nicholas Brendon, Ilana Glazer, Paul Rust, Marley Shelton, Jennifer Morrison Matt McGorry, Hardy Krüger, Dan Lauria, Jane Withers, Magda Szubanski, Walter Salles, Robert Durst, and the late Ann Miller, Charles Napier, Tom Clancy, David Cassidy, who would be 70, Tiny Tim, Movita, Virginia Cherrill, John Dunsworth, Georges Franju, and Robert Harron. Paul Ford died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 74. Boxer Joe Louis died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 66, and boxer “Sugar” Ray Robinson died 29 years ago in 1989 at age 67.

Today Bill Irwin is 70, and Jeremy Clarkson is 60. Today is also the birthday of Joel Grey, John Milius, Vincent Gallo, Louise Lasser, Lisa Stansfield, Jennifer Esposito, Tricia Helfer, Peter Riegert, Mason Reese, Carl Franklin, and the late Johnny Sheffield and Meshach Taylor. Dolores del Rio died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 78. Roscoe Lee Browne died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 84. Jonathan Winters died seven years ago in 2013 at age 87.

Today Christophe Honoré is 50, Charlie Hunnam is 40, and Alex Pettyfer is 30. Today is also the birthday of Daisy Ridley, Mandy Moore, Steven Seagal, David Harbour, Haley Joel Osment, Michael Pitt, Guillaume Canet, Peter MacNicol, Orlando Jones, Liz Sheridan, Barkhad Abdi, Deborah Rush, Peter Morgan, and the late Max Von Sydow, Delphine Seyrig, Omar Sharif, Chuck Connors, Harry Morgan, George Arliss, and Junior Samples. Michael Curtiz died 58 years ago in 1962 at age 75. Marjorie Main died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 85. Sam Kinison died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 38. Little Eva died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 59. Dixie Carter died ten years ago in 2010 at age 70.

Today Isabel Coixet is 60, and Kristin Stewart is 30. Today is also the birthday of Dennis Quaid, Cynthia Nixon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Elle Fanning, Jay Baruchel, Jay Chandrasekhar, Michael Learned, Jenna Jameson, David Gordon Green, Sebastián Silva, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Marty Krofft, Mark Pellegrino, and the late Hugh M. Hefner, Michel Simon, Ward Bond, Paul Robeson, Brad Dexter, and Brandon De Wilde. Sidney Lumet died nine years ago in 2011 at age 86.

Today Shecky Greene is 94, and John Schneider is 60. Today is also the birthday of Patricia Arquette, Robin Wright, Taylor Kitsch, Dean Norris, Julian Lennon, Ana De La Reguera, Sung Kang, Douglas Trumbull, Kane Hodder, Jim Piddock, John Madden, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Joan Tewkesbury, and the late Mary Pickford, John Gavin, Edward Mulhare, Betty Ford, and María Félix, who died on her birthday eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 88. Pablo Picasso died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 91. Annette Funicello died seven years ago in 2013 at age 70.

Today Sandy Powell is 60. Today is also the birthday of Francis Ford Coppola, Russell Crowe, Jackie Chan, Eric Wareheim, Roberta Shore, Kevin Alejandro, Clarke Peters, Heather Burns, Patricia Belcher, Matt Servitto, Ted Kotcheff, Michael Almereyda, Jennifer Lynch, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Jason Ralph, Ed Speleers, Ismael Cruz Cordova, and the late Billie Holiday, James Garner, Alan J. Pakula, David Frost, Andrew Sachs, Wayne Rogers, Ian Richardson, William Wordsworth, R.G. Armstrong, Anthony Caruso, Stanley Adams, Stan Winston, Ravi Shankar, who would be 100, and Walter Winchell. Walter Huston died seventy years ago in 1950 at age 67. Beatrice Straight died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 86. Barry Nelson died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 89. Mike Wallace died eight years ago in 2012 at age 93. Seymour Cassel died one year ago in 2019 at age 84.

Today Charlie McDermott is 30. Today is also the birthday of Zach Braff, Billy Dee Williams, John Ratzenberger, Barry Levinson, Michael Rooker, Marilu Henner, Candace Cameron Bure, Jason Hervey, Philippe Garrel, Eliza Coupe, Teddy Sears, and the late Merle Haggard, who died on his birthday four years ago in 2016 at age 79, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Joi Lansing, Ivan Dixon, and Phil Leeds. Isaac Asimov died 28 year ago in 1992 at age 72. Greer Garson died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 91. Tammy Wynette died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 55. Mickey Rooney died six years ago in 2014 at age 93. Don Rickles died three years ago in 2017 at age 90.