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Today is the birthday of Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Bradley Cooper, Hayao Miyazaki, Marilyn Manson, Charlie Rose, Shea Whigham, Clancy Brown, January Jones, Suki Waterhouse, Ted Lange, Deepika Padukone, Wen Jiang, Walter Mondale, Ron Maxwell, Bela Lugosi Jr., and the late Jane Wyman, George Reeves, Michael O’Donoghue, Fred ‘Snowflake’ Toones, and A. Edward Sutherland. Onslow Stevens died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 74. Charles Mingus died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 56. Hans Conried died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 64. Sonny Bono died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 62. Jerry Van Dyke died two years ago in 2018 at age 86.

Today Michael Stipe is 60, and June Diane Raphael and D’Arcy Carden are 40. Today is also the birthday of Harmony Korine, Julia Ormond, Dave Foley, Dyan Cannon, Julian Sands, Charlyne Yi, Barbara Rush, Jim Norton, Graham McTavish, Kerry Condon, Doris Kearns Goodwin, August Diehl, Matt Frewer, Carlos Saura, Seth Grahame-Smith, Jill Marie Jones, Julie Estelle, Deana Carter, Andy Borowitz, and the late Jacob Grimm, Sterling Holloway, Sorrell Booke, George P. Cosmatos, Gibson Gowland, and George Albert Smith. T.S. Eliot died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 76. Iron Eyes Cody died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 91.

Today Thelma Schoonmaker is 80, Victoria Principal is 70, and Matt Ross is 50. Today is also the birthday of Mel Gibson, Dabney Coleman, Florence Pugh, Nicholas Gonzalez, Tom Bower, Danica McKellar, Alex D. Linz, Dan Harmon, Eli Manning, and the late Sergio Leone, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ray Milland, Robert Loggia, Zasu Pitts, Jesse White, Josephine Hull, Jeremy Kemp, Marion Davies, Anna May Wong, John Sturges, George Martin, John Russell, John Thaw, Dorothy Arzner, Barbara Stuart, and Conrad Brooks. Victor Sjöström died sixty years ago in 1960 at age 80. Pat Hingle died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 84.

Today John Considine is 85, and Jim Bakker is 80. Today is also the birthday of Cuba Gooding Jr., Kate Bosworth, Taye Diggs, Dax Shepard, Todd Haynes, Paz Vega, Tia Carrere, Joanna Pacula, James Marshall, Jack Hanna, and the late Isaac Asimov, who would be 100, Roger Miller, Anna Lee, Howard Caine, Jason Evers, Dziga Vertov, and Oscar Micheaux. Emil Jannings died seventy years ago in 1950 at age 65. Alan Hale Jr. died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 68. Anne Francis and Pete Postlethwaite died nine years ago in 2011. Francis was 80. Postlethwaite was 64. Bob Einstein died one year ago in 2019 at age 76.

Today Frederick Wiseman is 90, Woo-Ping Yuen is 75, and Deepa Mehta is 70. Today is also the birthday of Frank Langella, Morris Chestnut, Stacy Martin, Grandmaster Flash, Danny Lloyd, Dana DeLorenzo, Gia Coppola, Kôji Yakusho, Richard Edson, Mr. Lawrence, Mary Sweeney, and the late J.D. Salinger, J. Edgar Hoover, Dana Andrews, Verne Troyer, Valentina Cortese, Ousmane Sembene, Barry Goldwater, Barbara Baxley, Charles Bickford, Xavier Cugat, E.M. Forster, Matthew ‘Stymie’ Beard, Haruo Nakajima, and Teinosuke Kinugasa. Hank Williams died 67 years ago in 1953 at age 29. Maurice Chevalier died 48 years ago in 1972 at age 83. Cesar Romero died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 86. Victor Buono died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 43. Ray Walston died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 86.

Today Taylor Hackford is 75, and Val Kilmer is 60. Today is also the birthday of Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley, Tim Matheson, James Remar, Bebe Neuwirth, Li Gong, Sarah Miles, Michael McDonald, Nicholas Sparks, Psy, Vernon Wells, Sean S. Cunningham, Erich Bergen, Chris Terrio, George Schlatter, Adam Rifkin, Scott Ian, Donald Trump Jr., and the late John Denver, Donna Summer, Theresa Harris, Rhys Williams, and Jason Robards Sr. Raoul Walsh died 39 years ago in 1980 at age 93. Ricky Nelson died 34 years ago in 1985 at age 45. Woody Strode died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 80. Wayne Rogers died three years ago in 2015 at age 82.

Today Russ Tamblyn is 85, Tracey Ullman is 60, and Dave England is 50. Today is also the birthday of Patti Smith, Fred Ward, Michael Nesmith, Tyrese Gibson, Lucy Punch, Betty Aberlin, LeBron James, Sandy Koufax, Tiger Woods, Bennett Miller, Lloyd Kaufman, Lav Diaz, Pedro Costa, Kelli Maroney, George Newbern, Sheryl Lee, Ralph, Ellen Sandweiss, Jeff Lynne, Meredith Vieira, James Burrows, Andrew Fleming, Matt Lauer, Sean Hannity, and the late Rudyard Kipling, Bo Diddley, Jack Lord, Davy Jones, Jack Riley, Carol Reed, Jeanette Nolan, and Joseph Bologna. Lew Ayres died 23 years ago in 1996 at age 88. Luise Rainer died five years ago in 2014 at age 104.

Today Patricia Clarkson and Paula Poundstone are 60, Jennifer Ehle and Patrick Fischler are 50, Diego Luna is 40, and Jane Levy is 30. Today is also the birthday of Jon Voight, Jude Law, Ted Danson, Alison Brie, Danny McBride, Barbara Steele, Lilly Wachowski, Michael Cudlitz, Kevin Weisman, Mekhi Phifer, Ross Lynch, Dylan Minnette, Maria Dizzia, Bernard Cribbins, Tarita, Oliver Hirschbiegel, and the late Mary Tyler Moore, Dina Merrill, Jo Van Fleet, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Polito, George Marshall, and Andrew Johnson. Andrei Tarkovsky died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 54.

Today Maggie Smith is 85, Lior Ashkenazi is 50, and Noomi Rapace and André Holland are 40. Today is also the birthday of Denzel Washington, Sienna Miller, John Legend, Seth Meyers, Joe Manganiello, Nichelle Nichols, Gayle King, Jan Bijvoet, James Foley, and the late F.W. Murnau, Stan Lee, Lew Ayres, Martin Milner, Billy Chapin, Hildegard Knef, Lou Jacobi, Charmian Carr, Frank Kelly, Mikhail Kalatozov, and Woodrow Wilson. Dennis Wilson died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 39. Sam Peckinpah died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 59. Jerry Orbach died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 69. Debbie Reynolds died three years ago in 2016 at age 84. Rose Marie died two years ago in 2017 at age 94.

Today John Amos is 80, and Sarah Vowell is 50. Today is also the birthday of Gerard Depardieu, Timothée Chalamet, Michel Piccoli, Barbara Crampton, Salman Khan, Gaspar Noé, Olivia Cooke, Harry Goaz, Lily Cole, Savannah Guthrie, Masi Oka, Jay Ellis, Wilson Cruz, Tovah Feldshuh, and the late Marlene Dietrich, Sydney Greenstreet, Oscar Levant, Heather O’Rourke, Louis Pasteur, and Chyna, who would be 50. Hal Ashby died 31 years ago in 1988 at age 59. George Roy Hill died seventeen years ago in 2002 at age 81. Alan Bates died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 69. Haskell Wexler died four years ago in 2015 at age 93. Carrie Fisher died three years ago in 2016 at age 60.