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Today Barry Bostwick is 75. Today is also the birthday of Billy Zane, Edward James Olmos, Daniel Kaluuya, Dominic Chianese, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Debra Jo Rupp, Jenny O’Hara, Beth Broderick, Mark Moses, Emilio Rivera, Todd Field, Michael Radford, Kasi Lemmons, Gillian Flynn, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and the late Abe Vigoda, Emmanuelle Riva, John Vernon, Marjorie Main, Steve Jobs, Steven Hill, and Mitch Hedberg. John Randolph died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 88. Don Knotts and Dennis Weaver died fourteen years ago in 2006, both at age 81. Harold Ramis died six years ago in 2014 at age 69.

Today Mary Pat Gleason is 70, and Niecy Nash and Marie-Josée Croze are 70. Today is also the birthday of Emily Blunt, Kelly Macdonald, Aziz Ansari, Kristin Davis, Dakota Fanning, Josh Gad, Paul Morrissey, Jirí Menzel, Patricia Richardson, and the late Peter Fonda, who would be 80, Victor Fleming, George Frideric Handel, W.E.B. Du Bois, Diane Varsi, Terence Fisher, and Norman Taurog. Mabel Normand died ninety years ago in 1930 at age 37. Stan Laurel died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 74. Katherine Helmond died one year ago in 2019 at age 89.

Today Julie Walters is 70. Today is also the birthday of Kyle MacLachlan, Drew Barrymore, Thomas Jane, Rachel Dratch, James Hong, Paul Dooley, Ellen Greene, Elizabeth MacRae, Jeri Ryan, Josh Helman, Nicholas Pileggi, Paul Lieberstein, Rebecca Schull, Nigel Planer, and the late George Washington, Luis Buñuel, Jonathan Demme, Giulietta Masina, John Mills, Robert Young, Don Pardo, Dwight Frye, Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter, Karin Dor, Kenneth Williams, Vaughn Taylor, Sheldon Leonard, and Mildred Davis. Andy Warhol died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 58. Simone Simon died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 94.

Today John Lewis is 80, Brendan Sexton III, Justin Roiland, and Shane Ryan are 40. Today is also the birthday of Ellen Page, Kelsey Grammer, Jordan Peele, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mélanie Laurent, Tyne Daly, Kim Coates, William Petersen, Kumail Nanjiani, Tituss Burgess, Bob Rafelson, William Baldwin, Christopher Atkins, Jack Coleman, Sophie Turner, Margarethe von Trotta, Christine Ebersole, Chuck Palahniuk, Gary Lockwood, Anthony Daniels, and the late Alan Rickman, Nina Simone, Sam Peckinpah, David Foster Wallace, Rue McClanahan, Ann Sheridan, Larry Drake, Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Sacha Guitry, and James Beck. Malcolm X was assassinated 55 years ago in 1965 at age 39. Stanley Donen and Peter Tork died one year ago in 2019. Donen was 94. Tork was 77.

Today Andrew Bergman is 75, and Joel Hodgson is 60. Today is also the birthday of Sidney Poitier, Lili Taylor, Miles Teller, Mike Leigh, Richard Beymer, Rihanna, Trevor Noah, Chelsea Peretti, Brenda Blethyn, Charles Barkley, Andrea Savage, Willie Garson, Louis Ferreira, Jay Hernandez, Lauren Ambrose, Anthony Head, David Herman, Jack Falahee, Jason Blum, Sandy Duncan, Cindy Crawford, Kliph Nesteroff, Patricia Hearst, Ivana Trump, and the late Robert Altman, Kurt Cobain, Richard Matheson, Brion James, Amanda Blake, Gale Gordon, Pierre Boulle, and Gloria Vanderbilt. Max Schreck died 84 years ago in 1936 at age 56. Dick York died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 63. Sandra Dee died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 62.

Today Smokey Robinson is 80. Today is also the birthday of Benicio Del Toro, Jeff Daniels, Ray Winstone, Justine Bateman, Seal, Amy Tan, Sam Reid, Millie Bobby Brown, David Mazouz, Leslie David Baker, Josh Trank, Victoria Justice, Zach Clark, and the late Lee Marvin, John Frankenheimer, Ann Savage, Cedric Hardwicke, Louis Feuillade, Merle Oberon, David Margulies, and Louis Calhern. Michael Powell died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 84. Derek Jarman died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 52. Stanley Kramer died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 87. Harper Lee died four years ago in 2016 at age 89.

Today Cybil Shepherd is 70, Greta Scacchi is 60, and Regina Spektor is 40. Today is also the birthday of John Travolta, Matt Dillon, Yoko Ono, Molly Ringwald, Dr. Dre, Ike Barinholtz, Vanna White, Logan Miller, László Nemes, Jeff Orlowski, and the late John Hughes, who would be 70, Toni Morrison, Milos Forman, George Kennedy, Jack Palance, Mary Ure, Adolphe Menjou, Allan Melvin, Edward Arnold, Bill Cullen, who would be 100, and Nikos Kazantzakis. Martin Luther died 474 years ago in 1546 at age 62. Michelangelo died 456 years ago in 1564 at age 88. Andy Devine died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Harry Caray died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 83. Dale Earnhardt died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 49. Jean Rouch died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 86.

Today Hal Holbrook is 95, Christina Pickles is 85, Brenda Fricker is 75, and Jason Ritter is 40. Today is also the birthday of Michael Jordan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rene Russo, Jim Brown, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michael Bay, Lou Diamond Phillips, Larry The Cable Guy, Jerry O’Connell, Ed Sheeran, Denise Richards, Lucy Davis, Billie Joe Armstrong, Paris Hilton, Rory Kinnear, Richard Karn, Patricia Routledge, Barry Humphries, Becky Ann Baker, Dieter Laser, Bonnie Wright, Don Coscarelli, and the late Alan Bates, Arthur Kennedy, Kathleen Freeman, Huey P. Newton, Jeremy Slate, Ralphie May, and Arthur Hunnicutt. Lee Strasberg died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 80.

Today The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) is 30. Today is also the birthday of Mahershala Ali, LeVar Burton, Ice-T, Elizabeth Olsen, Troy Evans, John McEnroe, Christopher Eccleston, William Katt, Agyness Deyn, Janice Dickinson, Lisa Loring, and the late Sonny Bono, Edgar Bergen, John Schlesinger, Chester Morris, Hugh Beaumont, Brian Bedford, Robert J. Flaherty, James Baskett, Ken Takakura, Carlos Rivas, Vernon Dent, Mack Swain, and Kim Jong-il. Len Lesser died eleven years ago in 2011 at age 88. Lesley Gore died five years ago in 2015 at age 68. 

Today Samira Makhmalbaf is 40. Today is also the birthday of Matt Groening, Claire Bloom, Jane Seymour, Alex Borstein, Sherry Jackson, Marisa Berenson, Christopher McDonald, Miranda July, Amber Riley, Brendon Small, Omarosa Manigault, and the late Chris Farley, Cesar Romero, Harvey Korman, Kevin McCarthy, John Barrymore, Allan Arbus, Galileo Galilei, Susan B. Anthony, who would be 200, Arthur Shields, Meg Wyllie, and Gale Sondergaard. Wally Cox and Tim Holt died 47 years ago in 1973. Cox was 48, and Holt was 54. Ethel Merman died years in 1984 at age 76. George Gaynes died years ago in 2016 at age 98.