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Today Roger Corman is 94. Today is also the birthday of Hayley Atwell, Lily James, Pharrell Williams, Krista Allen, Michael Moriarty, Jane Asher, Max Gail, Stewart Lee, Mitch Pileggi, Peter Greenaway, Andrea Arnold, General Colin L. Powell, and the late Spencer Tracy, Gregory Peck, Bette Davis, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Frank Gorshin, Nigel Hawthorne, John Le Mesurier, Christopher Hewett, Michael V. Gazzo, Grady Sutton, Robert Bloch, and Albert R. Broccoli. Howard Hughes died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 70. Kurt Cobain died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 27. Allen Ginsberg died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 70. Charlton Heston died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 84.

Today Christine Lahti is 70, Hugo Weaving and Lorraine Toussaint are 60, and Barry Pepper is 50. Today is also the birthday of Robert Downey Jr., David Cross, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Gadon, Natasha Lyonne, Clive Davis, Estelle Harris, Graham Norton, David Blaine, David E. Kelley, Nancy McKeon, Aki Kaurismäki, Jill Scott, Rachel Korine, Jamie Lynn Spears, and the late Heath Ledger, Anthony Perkins, Andrei Tarkovsky, Muddy Waters, Maya Angelou, Kenneth Mars, Elmer Bernstein, Marguerite Duras, Peter Vaughan, Elizabeth Wilson, Gene Reynolds, Bea Benaderet, and David White. Jason Robards Sr. died 57 years ago in 1963 at age 70. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 52 years ago in 1968 at age 39. Gloria Swanson died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 84. Roger Ebert died seven years ago in 2013 at age 70.

Today is the birthday of Eddie Murphy, Alec Baldwin, David Hyde Pierce, Matthew Goode, Sofia Boutella, Marsha Mason, Ben Mendelsohn, Cobie Smulders, Adam Scott, Amanda Bynes, Dr. Jane Goodall, Tony Orlando, Wayne Newton, Rachel Bloom, Jamie Bamber, Catherine McCormack, Eric Braeden, Marisa Paredes, Josh Safdie, Cristi Puiu, Lamberto Bava, Alice Lowe, Pat Proft, and the late Marlon Brando, Doris Day, Leslie Howard, Dooley Wilson, Washington Irving, Jan Sterling, Richard Manuel, Iron Eyes Cody, George Jessel, Ray Combs, Mary Anderson, Harry Earles, and Allan Dwan. Conrad Veidt died 77 years ago in 1943 at age 50. Warren Oates died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 53.

Today Gloria Henry is 97, Linda Hunt is 75, and Allan Corduner is 70. Today is also the birthday of Michael Fassbender, Chris Meloni, Emmylou Harris, Adam Rodriguez, Dr. Demento (Barret Hansen), Pedro Pascal, Jesse Plemons, Clark Gregg, Pamela Reed, Donald Petrie, Marc Caro, David Frankel, and the late Alec Guinness, Marvin Gaye, Buddy Ebsen, Jack Webb, who would be 100, Hans Christian Andersen, Émile Zola, Giacomo Casanova, Charlemagne, Leon Russell, Dabbs Greer, Debralee Scott, Ron Palillo, and Rodney King. Jean Epstein died 67 years ago in 1953 at age 56. Buddy Rich died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 69. Jesús Franco died seven years ago in 2013 at age 82.

Today Bijou Phillips is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jane Powell, David Oyelowo, Asa Butterfield, Method Man, Rachel Maddow, Mackenzie Davis, Taran Killam, Jane Adams, Ali MacGraw, Barry Sonnenfeld, Tomas Alfredson, Albert and Allen Hughes, Chang-dong Lee, Annette O’Toole, Rob Bottin, Susan Boyle, Richard Christy, and the late Toshirô Mifune and Harry Lewis, who would both be 100, Debbie Reynolds, Lon Chaney Sr., Wallace Beery, Otto von Bismarck, Grace Lee Whitney, and Gordon Jump. Noah Beery died 74 years ago in 1946 at age 64 on the birthday his brother, Wallace Beery. Marvin Gaye was murdered 36 years ago in 1984 at age 44, one day before his birthday. Leslie Cheung committed suicide seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 46. Steven Bochco died two years ago in 2018 at age 74.

Today Barney Frank is 80, Gabe Kaplan is 75, Kate Micucci is 40. Today is also the birthday of Christopher Walken, Ewan McGregor, Rhea Perlman, Richard Chamberlain, Al Gore, Shirley Jones, Tony Cox, William Daniels, Marc McClure, Daniel Mays, Roy Andersson, Volker Schlöndroff, Alejandro Amenábar, Jack Antonoff, Paul Mecurio, Angus Young, and the late René Descartes, Nagisa Ôshima, Richard Kiley, Patrick Magee, Cesar Chavez, Eddie Quillan, Dermot Morgan, Henry Morgan, Robert Stevenson, and Ted Post. Brandon Lee died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 28. Nipsey Hussle died one year ago in 2019 at age 33.

Today John Astin is 90, Eric Clapton is 75, Robbie Coltrane is 70, and Bill Corbett is 60. Today is also the birthday of Warren Beatty, Paul Reiser, Céline Dion, Kenneth Welsh, Peter Marshall, Katy Mixon, Ian Ziering, Juliet Landau, M.C. Hammer, Norah Jones, Tracy Chapman, Maurice LaMarche, Michael Lehmann, Mark Consuelos, Piers Morgan, and the late Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Herbert Anderson, Richard Dysart, Anna Q. Nilsson, Anna Sewell, who would be 200, Sydney Chaplin, Jean-Claude Brialy, Shirley Stoler, and Ray McAnally. James Cagney died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 86. Michael Jeter died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 50.

Today Godfrey Reggio is 80, and Annabella Sciorra is 60. Today is also the birthday of Eric Idle, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Sedaris, Lucy Lawless, Bud Cort, Vangelis, Marina Sirtis, Ed Skrein, Christopher Lambert, Michael Winterbottom, Michel Hazanavicius, Victor Salva, and the late Pearl Bailey, Arthur O’Connell, Scott Wilson, Jackie Vernon, Dennis O’Keefe, Warner Baxter, Bobby ‘Wheezer’ Hutchins, Onslow Stevens, John McLaughlin, John Tyler, and Sam Walton. Harry Ritz died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 78. Paul Henreid died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 84. Mitch Hedberg died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 37. Patty Duke died four years ago in 2016 at age 69. Agnès Varda died one year ago in 2019 at age 90.

Today Al Ruddy is 90, Michael Parkinson is 85, and Vince Vaughn is 50. Today is also the birthday of Lady Gaga, Reba McEntire, Dianne Wiest, Nick Frost, Julia Stiles, Conchata Ferrell, Brett Ratner, Richard Kelly, Mike Newell, Richard Eyre, Alexandra Billings, Mya Taylor, James Bidgood, and the late Ken Howard, Dirk Bogarde, Freddie Bartholomew, and Flora Robson. Virginia Woolf died 79 years ago in 1941 at age 59. Peter Ustinov died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 82.

Today Julian Glover is 85, Austin Pendleton is 80, and Mariah Carey and Elizabeth Mitchell are 50. Today is also the birthday of Quentin Tarantino, Michael York, Nathan Fillion, Fergie, Kevin Corrigan, Pauley Perrette, Stephen Dillane, Holliday Grainger, Brenda Song, Jessie J, and the late Gloria Swanson, Maria Schneider, Anne Ramsey, David Janssen, Richard Marner, Mary Treen, Harold Nicholas, Budd Schulberg, and Lorenzo Semple Jr. Dudley Moore, Milton Berle, and Billy Wilder all died eighteen years ago in 2002. Moore was 66, Berle was 93, and Wilder was 95.