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Today James Caan and Nancy Pelosi are 80, Martin Short is 70, Jennifer Grey is 60, Martin McDonagh is 50, and Carly Chaikin is 30. Today is also the birthday of Alan Arkin, Diana Ross, Keira Knightley, Steven Tyler, Leslie Mann, Vicki Lawrence, Jonathan Groff, T.R. Knight, Amy Smart, Michael Imperioli, Todd Barry, Johnny Crawford, Natasha Leggero, Francis Lawrence, Richard Dawkins, Jonathan Glazer, Tinto Brass, Bob Woodward, and the late Tennessee Williams, Robert Frost, Leonard Nimoy, Sterling Hayden, Strother Martin, Bob Elliott, Will Wright, and Luke Askew. Ludwig van Beethoven died 193 years ago in 1827 at age 56. Eazy-E died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 31.

Today Anita Bryant is 80, and Brenda Strong is 60. Today is also the birthday of Elton John, Gloria Steinem, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lee Pace, Jenny Slate, Edgar Ramírez, Gene Shalit, Richard O’Brien, Doug Stanhope, Mary Gross, Marcia Cross, LisaGay Hamilton, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Michael Glaser, John Stockwell, Domenick Lombardozzi, James McDaniel, Amy Pascal, Katharine McPhee, Ben Mankiewicz, and the late Aretha Franklin, David Lean, Simone Signoret, Ed Begley, Hoyt Axton, Howard Cosell, John Laurie, Machiko Kyô, Patrick Troughton, who would be 100, Nancy Kelly, Jean Rogers, Jean Epstein, Toshio Matsumoto, Matthew Garber, and Marcin Wrona. Max Ophüls died 63 years ago in 1957 at age 54.

Today Mary Berry is 85, Lara Flynn Boyle is 50, and Keisha Castle-Hughes is 30. Today is also the birthday of Jessica Chastain, Jim Parsons, Alyson Hannigan, Louie Anderson, Lake Bell, Tig Notaro, Robert Carradine, William Smith, Finn Jones, Peter Jacobson, Meiko Kaji, Star Jones, Peyton Manning, Tommy Hilfiger, Undertaker (Mark William Calaway), Tabitha King, and the late Steve McQueen, Norman Fell, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Harry Houdini, R. Lee Ermey, Curtis Hanson, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Barbera, Richard Conte, and Connie Hines. Garry Shandling died four years ago in 2016 at age 66.

Today David Milch is 75, and Terry Sweeney is 70. Today is also the birthday of Catherine Keener, Keri Russell, Michael Haneke, Michelle Monaghan, Hope Davis, Amanda Plummer, Nicholle Tom, Mark Rydell, Teresa Ganzel, Marc Cherry, Lodge Kerrigan, Larry Fessenden, Jaume Collet-Serra, Rex Tillerson, Perez Hilton, and the late Akira Kurosawa, Joan Crawford, Marty Allen, Tony Burton, Kenneth Tobey, and Philip Ober. Peter Lorre died 56 years ago in 1964 at age 59. Giulietta Masina died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 73. Elizabeth Taylor died nine years ago in 2011 at age 79.

Today Stephen Sondheim and Pat Robertson are 90, M. Emmet Walsh is 85, Eric Roth is 75, Nicole Holofcener is 60, and Nick Robinson is 25. Today is also the birthday of Reese Witherspoon, William Shatner, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Matthew Modine, Keegan-Michael Key, Bob Costas, Wolf Blitzer, Constance Wu, Lena Olin, Will Yun Lee, James Wolk, Cole Hauser, Angelo Badalamenti, Carlton Cuse, James Patterson, Tyler Oakley, May Britt, and the late Ross Martin and Werner Klemperer, who would both be 100, Karl Malden, Chico Marx, Bruno Ganz, Marcel Marceau, Virginia Grey, James Westerfield, Haing S. Ngor, Joseph Schildkraut, and Lew Wasserman. William Hanna died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 90.

Today Peter Brook is 95, and Cenk Uygur is 50. Today is also the birthday of Gary Oldman, Matthew Broderick, Timothy Dalton, Rosie O’Donnell, Scott Eastwood, Jaye Davidson, Brad Hall, Rhys Darby, Karyn Kusama, Greg Ellis, Sonequa Martin-Green, Santino Fontana, Slavoj Zizek, Kevin Federline, and the late Russ Meyer, James Coco, Al Freeman Jr., Virginia Weidler, Peter Bull, W.S. Van Dyke, and Sidney Franklin. Robert Preston died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 68. Chuck Barris died three years ago in 2017 at age 87.

Today Vera Lynn is 103, Carl Reiner is 98, William Hurt is 70, Michael Rapaport is 50, and Mikey Day is 40. Today is also the birthday of Holly Hunter, Spike Lee, David Thewlis, Hal Linden, Xavier Dolan, Liza Snyder, Christy Carlson Romano, Theresa Russell, Cedric Yarbrough, Kathy Ireland, Murray Bartlett, Ramin Bahrani, Duke Johnson, Bruce Wagner, Louis Sachar, Ruby Rose, Barron Trump, and the late Fred Rogers, Henrik Ibsen, Jerry Reed, Jack Kruschen, Michael Redgrave, Ozzie Nelson, Edmund Goulding, Ted Bessell, Edgar Buchanan, and Anne Bradstreet. Carl Theodor Dreyer died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 79.

Today is the birthday of Bruce Willis, Glenn Close, Ursula Andress, Renée Taylor, Neil LaBute, Jake Weber, Jorma Taccone, Nicholas Stoller, Harvey Weinstein, and the late Philip Roth, Patricia Morison, Patrick McGoohan, Kent Smith, Fred Clark, Roy Roberts, Tige Andrews, who would be 100, Eric Christmas, Wyatt Earp, and Adolf Eichmann. Paul Scofield and Arthur C. Clarke both died twelve years ago in 2008. Scofield was 86, and Clarke was 90.

Today Brad Dourif is 70, and Queen Latifah is 50. Today is also the birthday of Vanessa Williams, Luc Besson, Lily Collins, Dane Cook, Adam Pally, Chris Geere, Adam Levine, Mike Rowe, Lykke Li, and the late Susan Tyrrell, Peter Graves, Robert Donat, Edward Everett Horton, John Updike, René Clément, Grover Cleveland, and Neville Chamberlain. Anthony Minghella died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 54. Natasha Richardson died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 45. Chuck Berry died three years ago in 2017 at age 90.

Today Katie Morgan is 40, and Hozier is 30. Today is also the birthday of Kurt Russell, Rob Lowe, Gary Sinise, John Boyega, Patrick Duffy, Lesley-Anne Down, Mark Boone Junior, Natalie Zea, Pattie Boyd, Mia Hamm, Grimes, Stormy Daniels, and the late Nat King Cole, Brigitte Helm, Frank DeKova, Alexander McQueen, and John Wayne Gacy. Luchino Visconti died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 69. Helen Hayes died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 92.