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Today Kate Nelligan is 70. Today is also the birthday of Isabelle Huppert, Victor Garber, Lauren Graham, Nancy Wilson, Paul Schneider, Jerome Flynn, Alan Tudyk, Judah Friedlander, Brooke Burns, Erik Estrada, Gore Verbinski, Flavor Flav, Clifton Powell, and the late Jerry Lewis, Mercedes McCambridge, Henny Youngman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Rossen, James Madison, Irwin Keyes, Victor Maddern, Henry B. Walthall, and Pat Nixon. Bebe Daniels died 49 years ago in 1971 at age 70. Arthur Godfrey died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 79. Ivan Dixon died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 76.

Today Judd Hirsch and Jimmy Swaggart are 85. Today is also the birthday of Mike Love, Eva Longoria Baston, David Cronenberg, Dee Snider, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kim Raver, Joaquim de Almeida, Jai Courtney, Brian Tee, Mark McGrath, Monica Dolan, Bret Michaels, Fabio, will.i.am, Renny Harlin, Greg Nicotero, Khosrow Vaziri (The Iron Sheik), and the late Lawrence Tierney, Joe. E. Ross, Andrew Jackson, George Brent, Macdonald Carey, J. Pat O’Malley, Walter Gotell, and Philippe de Broca. H. P. Lovecraft died 83 years ago in 1937 at age 46. Ann Southern died nineteen years in 2001 at age 92. David Brenner died six years ago in 2014 at age 78.

Today Meredith Salenger is 50. Today is also the birthday of Michael Caine, Billy Crystal, Quincy Jones, Jamie Bell, Ansel Elgort, Corey Stoll, Chris Klein, Betsy Brandt, Raymond J. Barry, Gary Dell’Abate, Stephen Curry, Wolfgang Petersen, Kevin Williamson, Gary Anthony Williams, Bruno Dumont, Sasha Grey, and the late Albert Einstein and Diane Arbus. Susan Hayward died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 57. Busby Berkeley died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 80. Howard Ashman died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 40. Fred Zinnemann died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 89. Peter Graves died ten years ago in 2010 at age 83.

Today Al Jaffee is 99, William H. Macy is 70, Adam Clayton is 60, and Tim Story is 50. Today is also the birthday of Common, Emile Hirsch, Dana Delany, Danny Masterson, Neil Sedaka, Charo, George MacKay, Annabeth Gish, Harry Melling, André Téchiné, and the late L. Rob Hubbard, Douglas Rain, Glenne Headly, Paul Fix, Joseph Mascolo, Paul Stewart, Henry Hathaway, and Peaches Geldof. Krzysztof Kieslowski and Lucio Fulci both died 24 years ago in 1996. Kieslowski was 54. Fulci was 68.

Today Jim Sharman is 75, Courtney B. Vance and Jason Beghe are 60, and Dave Eggers is 50. Today is also the birthday of Liza Minnelli, James Taylor, Aaron Eckhart, Barbara Feldon, Lesley Manville, Mitt Romney, Ron Jeremy, Titus Welliver, Jaimie Alexander, Samm Levine, Jake Tapper, Frank Welker, Luenell, Marlon Jackson, Rob Cohen, Tammy Duckworth, and the late Edward Albee, Jack Kerouac, Takashi Shimura, and Billie ‘Buckwheat’ Thomas. Charlie Parker died 65 years ago in 1955 at age 34. John Cazale died 42 years ago in 1978 at age 41.

Today Jerry Zucker is 70, Simon Curtis is 60. Today is also the birthday of Terrence Howard, Johnny Knoxville, Elias Koteas, Peter Berg, Thora Birch, Mircea Monroe, Alex Kingston, Mark Metcalf, David Anders, Rob Paulsen, Joey Buttafuoco, Rupert Murdoch, and the late Anton Yelchin, Shemp Howard, Raoul Walsh, Dorothy Gish, Lawrence Welk, Douglas Adams, Timothy Carey, and Eric S. Lynch aka Eric the Actor from The Howard Stern Show. F.W. Murnau died in a car accident 89 years ago in 1931 at age 42. Richard Brooks died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 79. Betty Hutton died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 86.

Today Chuck Norris is 80, and Aloma Wright is 70. Today is also the birthday of Sharon Stone, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde, Carrie Underwood, Thomas Middleditch, Shannon Tweed Simmons, Edi Gathegi, Robin Thicke, Emily Osment, Rick Rubin, Rafe Spall, Paget Brewster, Danny Pudi, Richard Grant, Paul Haggis, Luc Dardenne, Mitchell Lichtenstein, and the late Barry Fitzgerald, Sam Jaffe, Richard Haydn, Joe Viterelli, Gregory La Cava, Dolores Fuller, Barbara Marx, and Osama bin Laden. Ray Milland died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 79. Lloyd Bridges died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 85. Richard Jeni committed suicide thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 49. Corey Haim died ten years ago in 2010 at age 38.

Today Matthew Gray Gubler is 40. Today is also the birthday of Oscar Isaac, Juliette Binoche, Brittany Snow, Joyce Van Patten, Linda Fiorentino, Emmanuel Lewis, Shad Moss (aka Bow Wow), Jean Louisa Kelly, Jean-Marc Vallée, Jordan Klepper, Rodney A. Grant, Masahiro Shinoda, Richard Quest, Steve Wilkos, and the late Raul Julia, Will Geer, Bobby Fischer, Marty Ingels, Joe Franklin, and Keely Smith. George Burns died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 100. Christopher Wallace (aka The Notorious B.I.G.) died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 24. Stan Brakhage died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 70. George Martin died four years ago in 2016 at age 90.

Today Micky Dolenz is 75. Today is also the birthday of Camryn Manheim, James Van Der Beek, Freddie Prinze Jr, Susan Clark, Aidan Quinn, Lester Holt, Alison Becker, Lewis Teague, John Kapelos, Steve James, Sebastián Lelio, and the late Lynn Redgrave, Alan Hale Jr., Cyd Charisse, Claire Trevor, and Louise Beavers. Harold Lloyd died 49 years ago in 1971 at age 77. George Stevens died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 70. Joe DiMaggio died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 84.

Today Daniel J. Travanti is 80, Rachel Weisz is 50, Laura Prepon is 40, and Haley Lu Richardson is 25. Today is also the birthday of Bryan Cranston, Peter Sarsgaard, Wanda Sykes, Jenna Fischer, Bret Easton Ellis, Tobias Menzies, Brandon T. Jackson, Donna Murphy, Jay Duplass, Nick Searcy, Bel Powley, Matthew Vaughn, Andrew Haigh, E.L. James, and the late John Heard, Anna Magnani, Townes van Zandt, Rik Mayall, James Broderick, and Alan Sues. Divine died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 42. Stanley Kubrick died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 70.