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Today Hugh Downs is 99, Frank Collison is 70, Meg Tilly is 60, Simon Pegg is 50, and Brett Dier is 30. Today is also the birthday of Freddie Highmore, Carl Bernstein, Michael Bloomberg, Harriet Andersson, Teller, Danai Gurira, Andrew Robinson, Zach Galligan, Terry Gross, Alan Parker, Jackie Martling, Joan O’Brien, Rob Thomas, Anton Lesser, Andrew Prine, Sakina Jaffrey, Angela Robinson, Allan Miller, and the late Jack Benny, Florence Henderson, Thelma Ritter, Vic Morrow, Gregory Hines, Lois Maxwell, Edward Platt, Jimmy Hoffa, Woody Hayes, Tim Buckley, Stuart Erwin, and Masaki Kobayashi. Sig Ruman died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 82. Louis Jourdan died five years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today Chuck Yeager is 97, and Peter Gabriel is 70. Today is also the birthday of George Segal, Kim Novak, Stockard Channing, Henry Rollins, Jerry Springer, Robbie Williams, Richard Tyson, Bo Svenson, Mena Suvari, Neal McDonough, David Naughton, Donald Sumpter, Joe Estevez, and the late Oliver Reed, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Peter Tork, and Carol Lynley. Martin Balsam died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 76. Stacy Keach Sr. died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 88. Seijun Suzuki died three years ago in 2017 at age 93.

Today Cliff De Young is 75, Michael Ironside is 70, and Christina Ricci is 40. Today is also the birthday of Josh Brolin, Darren Aronofsky, Costa-Gavras, John Michael Higgins, Arsenio Hall, Joe Don Baker, Judy Blume, Lochlyn Munro, Tara Strong, Raphael Sbarge, Iko Uwais, Josef Altin, Zach Grenier, Annette Crosbie, and the late Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, both born today in 1809, Franco Zeffirelli, Forrest Tucker, Louis Zorich, Lorne Greene, Simon MacCorkindale, Richard Lynch, Ann Gillis, Wallace Ford, and Joseph Kearns. Dziga Vertov died 66 years ago in 1954 at age 58. Sal Mineo died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 37. Jean Renoir died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 84. Charles M. Schulz died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 77. Sid Caesar died six years ago in 2014 at age 91.

Today Q’orianka Kilcher is 30. Today is also the birthday of Jennifer Aniston, Damian Lewis, Sheryl Crow, Taylor Lautner, Brandy Norwood, Tina Louise, Diane Franklin, Natalie Dormer, Jeb Bush, Sarah Palin, Alex Jones, and the late Burt Reynolds, Leslie Nielsen, Eva Gabor, Thomas A. Edison, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Kim Stanley, Sonny Landham, Billy Halop, who would be 100, Max Baer, and Sidney Sheldon. Sergei Eisenstein died 72 years ago in 1948 at age 50. Sylvia Plath died 57 years ago in 1963 at age 30. Lee J. Cobb died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 64. Whitney Houston died eight years ago in 2012 at age 48.

Today Robert Wagner is 90. Today is also the birthday of Laura Dern, Alexander Payne, Elizabeth Banks, Chloë Grace Moretz, Emma Roberts, Uzo Aduba, Vince Gilligan, Michael Apted, George Stephanopoulos, Stephanie Beatriz, Rupert Vansittart, Meadow Williams, Glenn Beck, and the late Lon Chaney Jr., Jimmy Durante, Alan Hale, Judith Anderson, Jerry Goldsmith, Stella Adler, Bertolt Brecht, John Dierkes, Hazel Court, John Farrow, and Douglas Slocombe. Jim Varney died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 50. Arthur Miller died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 89. Roy Scheider died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 75. Shirley Temple died six years ago in 2014 at age 85.

Today Mia Farrow is 75, David Simon is 60, Margarita Levieva is 40. Today is also the birthday of Joe Pesci, Carole King, Tom Hiddleston, Judith Light, Michael B. Jordan, Ziyi Zhang, Ciarán Hinds, Charlie Day, David Hayman, Jason George, Marianna Hill, Fede Alvarez, Rose Leslie, Charles Shaughnessy, Clive Swift, Janet Suzman, and the late Ronald Colman, Kathryn Grayson, Brian Donlevy, Carmen Miranda, Peggy Wood, Roy Jenson, and William Henry Harrison. George ‘Gabby’ Hayes died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 83. John Gavin and Reg E. Cathey died two years ago in 2018. Gavin was 86. Cathey was 59.

Today William Jackson Harper is 40. Today is also the birthday of Nick Nolte, Mary Steenburgen, John Williams, Mary McCormack, Seth Green, Brooke Adams, Robert Klein, John Grisham, Allan Rich, Cecily Strong, Mathilda May, Creed Bratton, Ethan Phillips, and the late James Dean, Jack Lemmon, Lana Turner, Gary Coleman, Audrey Meadows, Jules Verne, King Vidor, Jack Larson, William Tecumseh Sherman, who would be 200, Betty Field, Burt Mustin, Alejandro Rey, Charles Ruggles, Roger Lloyd Pack, and Bengt Ekerot, who would be 100.

Today James Spader and Robert Smigel are 60. Today is also the birthday of Chris Rock, Eddie Izzard, Garth Brooks, Ashton Kutcher, Tina Majorino, Deborah Ann Woll, Robyn Lively, Jason Gedrick, Eric Godon, James Deen, and the late Charles Dickens, Miguel Ferrer, Pete Postlethwaite, Eddie Bracken, Gloria Talbott, Jock Mahoney, Buster Crabbe, Wayne Allwine, Dora Bryan, Hector Babenco, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas More, and Puyi. Dale Evans died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 88. Mickey Jones died two years ago in 2018 at age 76. Albert Finney died one year ago in 2019 at age 82.

Today Tom Brokaw is 80. Today is also the birthday of Kathy Najimy, Dane DeHaan, Axl Rose, Mike Farrell, Josh Stewart, Mamie Van Doren, Robert Townsend, Jim Sheridan, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Kevin Whately, Debra Granik, Fabian, and the late Bob Marley, who would be 75, François Truffaut, Rip Torn, Ronald Reagan, Babe Ruth, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Patrick Macnee, Ramon Novarro, Haskell Wexler, David Gorcey, and Eva Braun. Danny Thomas died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 79. Joseph Cotten died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 88. Irwin Corey died three years ago in 2017 at age 102.

Today Jonathan Freeman is 70. Today is also the birthday of Charlotte Rampling, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Guest, Michael Sheen, Laura Linney, Barbara Hershey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Mann, Tim Meadows, Chris Parnell, Darren Criss, Bobby Brown, Errol Morris, Tony Jaa, Hank Aaron, Mia Hansen-Løve, Benoît Jacquot, David Meunier, David Selby, Jamie Brewer, and the late John Carradine, Red Buttons, William S. Burroughs, Tim Holt, HR Giger, Stephen J. Cannell, and Stefan Gierasch. Thelma Ritter died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 66. Joseph L. Mankiewicz died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 83.