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Today is the birthday of Rob Reiner, David Gilmour, Connie Britton, Tom Arnold, Shaquille O’Neal, D.L. Hughley, Tyler the Creator, Moira Kelly, Alan Greenspan, Martin Kove, Eddie Deezen, Alan Davies, and the late Michelangelo, Lou Costello, Ed McMahon, Andrzej Wajda, Hal Needham, Gabriel García Márquez, Virginia Gregg, Alberta Watson, Guy Kibbee, Lewis Gilbert, who would be 100, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Marion Barry. Louisa May Alcott died 132 years ago in 1888 at age 55. Margaret Dumont died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 82. Nelson Eddy died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 65. William Hopper died fifty years ago in 1970 at age 55. Ayn Rand died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 77. Both Georgia O’Keeffe and Adolph Caesar died 34 years ago in 1986. O’Keeffe was 98. Caesar was 52. Teresa Wright died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 86. Nancy Reagan died four years ago in 2016 at age 94. Robert Osbourne died three years ago in 2017 at age 84.

Today is the birthday of Eva Mendes, Dean Stockwell, Fred Williamson, Penn Jillette, Samantha Eggar, Matt Lucas, Aasif Mandvi, Talia Balsam, Riki Lindhome, Kevin Connolly, Adriana Barraza, Rena Riffel, James Sikking, Michael Warren, Lauren Weedman, Simon Abkarian, Jake Lloyd, Joel Osteen, and the late Rex Harrison, Jack Cassidy, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andy Gibb, Virginia Christine, who would be 100, Henry Daniell, Henry Travers, and Laslo Benedek. Patsy Cline died 57 years ago in 1963 at age 30. John Belushi died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 33.

Today is the birthday of Catherine O’Hara, Steven Weber, Patricia Heaton, Chaz Bono, Mykelti Williamson, Kay Lenz, Daniel Roebuck, Adrian Lyne, James Ellroy, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Paul W.S. Anderson, Dominique Pinon, Scott Hicks, Wash Westmoreland, Paolo Virzì, Agustí Villaronga, Robert Shaye, Dav Pilkey, and the late John Garfield, Joan Greenwood, Gunnar Hansen, and Pearl White. John Candy died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 43. Minnie Pearl died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 83.

Today George Miller and Larry Pine are 75, Tim Kazurinsky is 70, Julie Bowen is 50, and Katherine Waterston is 40. Today is also the birthday of Miranda Richardson, Jessica Biel, Laura Harring, Ira Glass, David Faustino, Sandy Martin, Gloria Hendry, Charlie Brooker, Eric DaRe, Aaron Moorhead, and the late Jean Harlow, James Doohan, who would be 100, Bobby Driscoll, Gia Scala, Barney Martin, and Alexander Graham Bell. Lou Costello died 59 years ago in 1959 at age 52. William Frawley died 54 years ago in 1966 at age 79. Danny Kaye died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 76. David Ogden Stiers died two years ago in 2018 at age 75.

Today John Cullum is 90, Gordon Thomson is 75, and Rebel Wilson is 40. Today is also the birthday of Daniel Craig, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jon Bon Jovi, Chris Martin, Laraine Newman, John Irving, Gates McFadden, and the late Jennifer Jones, Desi Arnaz, Lou Reed, Karen Carpenter, who would be 70, Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss), Tom Wolfe, Jon Finch, Martin Ritt, and Kenji Misumi. Philip K. Dick died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 53. Randolph Scott died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 89. Sandy Dennis died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 54. Mercedes McCambridge died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 87.

Today Harvey Jason and Margit Carstensen are 80, Tony Robbins is 60, and Peter Scanavino is 40. Today is also the birthday of Joss Ackland, Antonio Sabato Jr., Ja Rule, Shane Johnson, Ken Foree, Jessie T. Usher, and the late Michèle Morgan, Arthur Franz, and James Mitchell, who would all be 100, Dinah Shore, Dennis Farina, Alex Rocco, Edward Faulkner, William A. Wellman, Richard Ramirez, and Aileen Wuornos. Frank Albertson died 56 years ago in 1964 at age 55. Davy Jones died eight years ago in 2012 at age 66.

Today Daniel Handler is 50. Today is also the birthday of John Turturro, Gilbert Gottfried, Bernadette Peters, Mercedes Ruehl, Gavin MacLeod, Tommy Tune, Mike Figgis, Rory Cochrane, Geoffrey Arend, Guy Maddin, Paul Krugman, Robert Sean Leonard, Rae Dawn Chong, and the late Zero Mostel, Charles Durning, Brian Jones, Vincente Minnelli, Bubba Smith, Don Francks, Billie Bird, and Ben Hecht. Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Ishiro Honda died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 81. Jane Russell died eleven years ago in 2011 at age 89.

Today Joanne Woodward is 90, Howard Hesseman is 80, Mary Jo Pehl is 60, and Chelsea Clinton is 40. Today is the birthday of Timothy Spall, Kara Mara, Josh Groban, Noah Emmerich, Adam Baldwin, Donal Logue, Bingbing Li, Debra Monk, Barbara Babcock, Bolo Yeung, Ralph Nader, Charles Baker, Charlotte Stewart, and the late Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, John Steinbeck, William Demarest, Van Williams, Franchot Tone, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Lillian Gish died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 99. Spike Milligan died eighteen years ago in 2002 at 83. Fred Rogers died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 74. Leonard Nimoy died five years ago in 2015 at age 83. George Kennedy died four years ago in 2016 at age 91.

Today Jane Wagner is 85, and Marta Kristen is 75. Today is also the birthday of Michael Bolton, Bill Duke, James Wan, Marilyn Michaels, Greg Germann, Josephine Tewson, Teresa Palmer, Drew Goddard, Michel Houellebecq, Steve Agee, Tim Kaine, and the late Tony Randall and Michael Pate, who would both be 100, Johnny Cash, Jackie Gleason, Fats Domino, Betty Hutton, William Frawley, Godfrey Cambridge, Victor Hugo, Christopher Marlowe, Dub Taylor, Dane Clark, Tex Avery, Robert Alda, William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), Madeleine Carroll, and Margaret Leighton. Lawrence Tierney died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 82.

Today Neil Jordan is 70, and Noah Jupe is 15. Today is also the birthday of Téa Leoni, Rashida Jones, Sean Astin, Chelsea Handler, Diane Baker, Tom Courtenay, Lee Evans, John Doe, Scott ‘Carrot Top’ Thompson, Ric Flair, Jameela Jamil, and the late George Harrison, Zeppo Marx, Jim Backus, Larry Gelbart, Anthony Burgess, Bobby Riggs, Bert Remsen, and Gert Fröbe. Tennessee Williams died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 71. James Coco died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 56. Erland Josephson died eight years ago in 2012 at age 88. Bill Paxton died three years ago in 2017 at age 61.