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Today John Schuck is 80, Linda Bassett is 70, and Gabrielle Anwar is 50. Today is also the birthday of Alice Cooper, Rob Corddry, Hannibal Buress, Jim O’Heir, Michael Beck, Jerry Adler, Dan Quayle, and the late Ida Lupino, George A. Romero, David Brenner, Rosa Parks, Charles Lindbergh, William Talman, Conrad Bain, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Norman Wisdom, James Craig, Nigel Bruce, and Betty Friedan, who died on her 85th birthday fourteen years ago in 2006. Louis Jordan died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 66. Karen Carpenter died 37 year ago in 1983 at age 32. Liberace died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 67. John Mahoney died two years ago in 2018 at age 77.

Today Morgan Fairchild is 70, and Warwick Davis and Anthony Russo are 50. Today is also the birthday of Nathan Lane, Blythe Danner, Isla Fisher, Maura Tierney, Kenneth Anger, Tim Heidecker, Fredric Lehne, Stephen McHattie, Amal Clooney, Lizzie Borden, and the late Joey Bishop, Victor Buono, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Michael Cimino, Shelley Berman, Gertrude Stein, Norman Rockwell, Mary Carlisle, John Fielder, James Bridges, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Buddy Holly died 61 years ago in 1959 at age 22. Anna May Wong died 59 years ago in 1961 at age 56. John Cassavetes died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 59. Audrey Meadows died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 73. Al Lewis died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 82. Ben Gazzara died eight years ago in 2012 at age 81.

Today Jane Wagner is 85, and David Jason is 80. Today is also the birthday of Graham Nash, Tom Smothers, Bo Hopkins, Christie Brinkley, Zosia Mamet, Shakira, Jack McGee, Catherine Flemming, Blake Clark, Lori Beth Denberg, Rich Sommer, Laura Poitras, Oz Perkins, Duane “Dog” Chapman, John A. Russo, and the late Farrah Fawcett, James Joyce, James Dickey, Ayn Rand, Elaine Stritch, Tony Jay, S.Z. Sakall, Carol Ann Susi, Frank Albertson, Jackie Burroughs, Eva Cassidy, Bonita Granville, Connie Gilchrist, Frank Lloyd, Duane Jones, and Vera Chytilová. Boris Karloff died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 81. Sid Vicious died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 21. Donald Pleasence died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 75. Gene Kelly died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 83. Philip Seymour Hoffman died six years ago in 2014 at age 46. Bob Elliott died four years ago in 2016 at age 92.

Today is the birthday of Don Everly, Michael C Hall, Lisa Marie Presley, Garrett Morris, Pauly Shore, Sherilyn Fenn, Stuart Whitman, Abbi Jacobson, Linus Roache, Bill Mumy, Ronda Rousey, Harry Styles, John Gemberling, Anna Biller, and the late Clark Gable, John Ford, Terry Jones, Langston Hughes, Sherman Hemsley, Brandon Lee, Rick James, Nancy Gates, Boris Yeltsin, Peter Sallis, Paul Carr, Bibi Besch, and Lee Thompson Young. Buster Keaton and Hedda Hopper died 54 years ago in 1966. Keaton was 70. Hopper was 80. John Vernon died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 72. Maximilian Schell died six years ago in 2014 at age 83.

Today Stuart Margolin is 80, and Minnie Driver is 50. Today is also the birthday of Justin Timberlake, Kerry Washington, Jessica Walter, Jonathan Banks, Portia de Rossi, Bobby Moynihan, John Lydon, Philip Glass, Kelly Lynch, Patricia Velasquez, Paul Scheer, Anthony Lapaglia, Peter McRobbie, Nick DiPaolo, Dexter Fletcher, Megan Ellison, Michael St. Michaels, and the late Jean Simmons, Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing, Norman Mailer, Jackie Robinson, Suzanne Pleshette, Franz Schubert, Eddie Cantor, Mario Lanza, Joanne Dru, Percy Helton, and Derek Jarman. Samuel Goldwyn died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 94. George Abbott died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 107.

Today Gene Hackman is 90, and Wilmer Valderrama is 40. Today is also the birthday of Vanessa Redgrave, Christian Bale, Phil Collins, Olivia Colman, Charles S. Dutton, Ann Dowd, Brett Butler, Gino Conforti, Steven Zaillian, Andy Milonakis, Wayne Wilderson, Dick Cheney, and the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Ireland, David Wayne, Dick Martin, Hugh Marlowe, Tammy Grimes, and Michael Anderson and Delbert Mann, who would be both 100. Mahatma Gandhi and Orville Wright both died 72 years ago in 1948. Gandhi was 78. Wright was 76.

Today Katharine Ross is 80, Tom Selleck is 75, and Heather Graham is 50. Today is also the birthday of Oprah Winfrey, Sara Gilbert, Edward Burns, Sam Trammell, Justin Hartley, Adam Lambert, and the late W.C. Fields, Anton Chekhov, Victor Mature, Ernst Lubitsch, Dorothy Malone, Paddy Chayefsky, and John Forsythe. Alan Ladd died years ago in 1964 at age 50. Freddie Prinze died years ago in 1977 at age 22. Jacques Rivette died years ago in 2016 at age 87.

Today Nicholas Pryor is 85, and Nick Carter is 40. Today is also the birthday of Alan Alda, Elijah Wood, Will Poulter, Joey Fatone, Susan Howard, Frank Darabont, Marthe Keller, Gillian Vigman, Sarah McLachlan, John Beck, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jack Hill, Mo Rocca, Ariel Winter, Rick Ross, and the late John Banner, who died on his birthday 47 years ago in 1973 at age 63, Tom Neal, Lewis Wilson, who would be 100, Richard Glatzer, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Maurice Gosfield. Zora Neale Hurston died sixty years ago in 1960 at age 69. Burt Mustin died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 92. Erle C. Kenton died forty years ago in 1980 at age 83.

Today James Cromwell is 80, and Phil Rosenthal is 60. Today is also the birthday of Patton Oswalt, Alan Cumming, Bridget Fonda, Rosamund Pike, Mimi Rogers, Frank Miller, Keith Olbermann, Mike Patton, Michael Craig, Tricky, and the late Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lewis Carroll, Donna Reed, Troy Donahue, John Witherspoon, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Howard McNear, Ingrid Thulin, Sabu, and Milton Kibbee. Andre the Giant died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 46. Jack Paar died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 85. J.D. Salinger died ten years ago in 2010 at age 91. Pete Seeger died six years ago in 2014 at age 94. Emmanuelle Riva died three years ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today is the birthday of Ellen DeGeneres, Eddie Van Halen, Scott Glenn, David Strathairn, Angela Davis, Bryan Callen, Bob Uecker, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Mimi Leder, Henry Jaglom, and the late Paul Newman, Joan Leslie, Gene Siskel, William Hopper, Anne Jeffreys, Roger Vadmin, Maria von Trapp, Charles Lane, and Vito Scotti. Edward G. Robinson died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 79. José Ferrer died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 80. Abe Vigoda died four years ago in 2016 at age 94.