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Today is the birthday of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Martha Plimpton, Lisa Bonet, Clu Gulager, Missi Pyle, Pete Davidson, Steve Railsback, Harry Lennix, Marg Helgenberger, Miguel Sandoval, Jamie Babbit, Allison Anders, Ron Chaney, and the late Burgess Meredith, Guy Stockwell, Royal Dano, Ellen Albertini Dew, Richard Hale, Daws Butler, George Petrie, George S. Kaufman, Henri Charrière, and Thomas H. Ince. Clark Gable died 59 years ago in 1960 at age 59. William Holden died 38 years ago in 1981 at age 63. Edward Woodward died ten years ago in 2009 at age 79. William Goldman died one year ago in 2018 at age 87.

Today Ed Asner is 90, Joanna Barnes is 85, and Yaphet F. Kotto is 80. Today is also the birthday of Sam Waterston, Shailene Woodley, Beverly D’Angelo, Petula Clark, Jonny Lee Miller, Judy Gold, Ray McKinnon, Asia Kate Dillon, Kevin J. O’Connor, Jack Burns, Sean Murray, John Roberts, François Ozon, Bob Gunton, Roger Donaldson, James Widdoes, Ildikó Enyedi, and the late Georgia O’Keeffe, Randy Savage, Lewis Stone, Susanne Lothar, Gloria Foster, John Kerr, Kay Walsh, J.G. Ballard, Francesco Rosi, Jean Hill, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Lionel Barrymore died 65 years ago in 1954 at age 76. Tyrone Power died 61 years ago in 1958 at age 44. Jean Gabin died 43 years ago in 1976 at age 72.

Today Gerard Butler is 50. Today is also the birthday of Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Kimmel, Joe Mantegna, Frances Conroy, Steve Zahn, Neil Flynn, Chris Noth, Aisha Hinds, Tom Atkins, Noah Hathaway, Jimmy Hawkins, J.A. Preston, David Zellner, Kentucker Audley, and the late Garry Marshall, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jean Seberg, Oskar Werner, Robert Sterling, Richard Mulligan, Jack Elam, Gunnar Björnstrand, Hermione Baddeley, Don Gordon, Mary Beth Hughes, who would be 100, Adrienne Corri, and Fred Phelps. Vittorio De Sica died 45 years ago in 1974 at age 73. Junior Samples died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 57. Leon Russell died three years ago in 2016 at age 74.

Today Booker T. Jones is 75. Today is also the birthday of Ryan Gosling, Anne Hathaway, Neil Young, Wallace Shawn, Megan Mullally, Radha Mitchell, Ashley Williams, Valerie Leon, Sam Lloyd, Alexandra Maria Lara, Céline Sciamma, Tonya Harding, Hassan Rouhani, and the late Grace Kelly, Kim Hunter, Gwen Lee, Jacques Tourneur, Jack Oakie, Liam Dunn, Ina Balin, Richard Quine, and Charles Manson. William Holden died 38 years ago in 1981 at age 63. Eve Arden died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 82. Penny Singleton died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 95. Lupita Tovar died three years ago in 2016 at age 106. Stan Lee died one year ago in 2018 at age 95.

Today Carson Kressley is 50. Today is also the birthday of Leonardo DiCaprio, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Scoot McNairy, Calista Flockhart, Tye Sheridan, Adam Beach, Bill Moseley, Peaches, Frank John Hughes, Barbara Boxer, Kris Rey, and the late Jonathan Winters, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Ryan, Bibi Andersson, Vincent Schiavelli, Pat O’Brien, Patric Knowles, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Roland Young, George S. Patton, John Guillermin, and René Clair. Dayton Allen died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 85. Robert Vaughn died three years ago in 2016 at age 83.

Today Tim Rice is 75, Ellen Pompeo is 50, Taron Egerton is 30, Zoey Deutch is 25, and Kieran Shipka is 20. Today is also the birthday of Ennio Morricone, Tracy Morgan, Walton Goggins, Hugh Bonneville, Chris Lilley, Heather Matarazzo, Miranda Lambert, Eve, Diplo, Neil Gaiman, Sinbad, Tommy Davidson, Michael Schultz, Josh Peck, Stephen Herek, Michael Jai White, Roland Emmerich, Terence Davies, Sylvain Chomet, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Daniel Waters, and the late Richard Burton, Claude Rains, Roy Scheider, Mabel Normand, Martin Luther, Brittany Murphy, François Périer, who would be 100, Russell Means, Russell Johnson, Harry Andrews, Debra Hill, Steven Geray, Esther Dale, and Leo White. Abel Gance died 38 years ago in 1981 at age 92. Jackie Vernon died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Chuck Connors died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 71. Jack Palance died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 87. Norman Mailer died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 84.

Today is the birthday of Ryan Murphy, Eric Dane, Lou Ferrigno, Analeigh Tipton, Teryl Rothery, Charles Robinson, SisQó, Robert Duncan McNeill, Chris Jericho, Nick Lachey, Ryo Kase, Fernando Meirelles, Billie August, Karen Dotrice, Nikki Blonsky, Mary Vivian Pearce, and the late Hedy Lamarr, Dorothy Dandridge, Ed Wynn, Carl Sagan, Marie Dressler, Robert Frank, Edna May Oliver, who died on her birthday 77 years ago in 1942 at age 59, Robert Douglas, Anne Sexton, Mae Marsh, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Anthony Asquith, Ivan Turgenev, and Spiro Agnew. Edgar Kennedy died 71 years ago in 1948 at age 58. Charles Bickford died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 76. Art Carney died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 85.

Today Norman Lloyd is 105, Bonnie Raitt is 70, and Don McManus is 60. Today is also the birthday of Alain Delon, Alfre Woodard, Parker Posey, Gretchen Mol, Matthew Rhys, Kazuo Ishiguro, Phil Fondacaro, Richard Curtis, Jack Osbourne, Tara Reid, Mary Hart, Gordon Ramsay, Paolo Taviani, Anne Dorval, Leif Garrett, A.D. Miles, and the late Bram Stoker, Michael Nyqvist, Robert Strauss, Stéphane Audran, Bob Schiller, Esther Rolle, Morley Safer, Darla Hood, Joe Flynn, Ken Dodd, Gene Saks, Margaret Mitchell, Patti Page, Martha Gellhorn, and Milton Bradley. Michael O’Donoghue died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 54. Jean Marais died 21 years ago in 1998 at age 84. Lucille Bliss died seven years ago in 2012 at age 96.

Today is the birthday of Joni Mitchell, Lorde, Adam Devine, Jason and Jeremy London, Morgan Spurlock, Lindsay Duncan, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Knight, Dakin Matthews, Jackie Joseph, Earl Boen, Michael Byrne, Lawrence O’Donnell, David Petraeus, and the late Marie Curie, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Dean Jagger, Dana Plato, Joe Cobb, Miriam Cooper, Lucille La Verne, Edith Bouvier Beale, James Cook, Billy Graham, Edward F. Cline, Edward Sedgwick, and Leon Trotsky. Dwight Frye died 76 years ago in 1943 at age 44. Victor McLaglen died sixty years ago in 1959 at age 72. Steve McQueen died 39 years ago in 1980 at age 50. Slappy White died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 74. Howard Keel died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 85. Gunnar Hansen died four years ago in 2015 at age 68. Leonard Cohen died three years ago in 2016 at age 82.

Today June Squibb is 90, and Lamar Odom is 40. Today is also the birthday of Ethan Hawke, Sally Field, Emma Stone, Thandie Newton, Maria Shriver, Kelly Rutherford, Rebecca Romijn, Nigel Havers, Ron Underwood, Trace Beaulieu, Taryn Manning, Frank DeCaro, Sal Vulcano, Conchita Wurst, and the late Mike Nichols, Glenn Frey, Brad Davis, Edward Yang, James Jones, Jonathan Harris, Francis Lederer, John Philip Sousa, and Pat Tillman. Gene Tierney died 28 years ago in 1991 at age 70.