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Today John Getz is 75. Today is also the birthday of Dominic West, Paul Walter Hauser, Ali Fazal, Larry Miller, Jere Burns, Zak Orth, Todd Solondz, Linda Lavin, Mira Nair, Lynn Lowry, Brandon Jay McLaren, Michael Caton-Jones, Matteo Garrone, Eileen Ryan, Michael Lewis, and the late Penny Marshall, Tanya Roberts, Friedrich Nietzsche, P.G. Wodehouse, Mario Puzo, Mark Lenard, Jane Darwell, Mervyn LeRoy, Michel Foucault, Virginia Leith, Jean Peters, Nigel Green, and Fritz Feld. Cole Porter died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 73. Frank DeKova died forty years ago in 1981 at age 71. Pat O’Brien died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 83. Delphine Seyrig died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 58. Edie Adams died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 81.

Today is the birthday of Steve Coogan, Ben Whishaw, Jay Pharoah, Udo Kier, Natalie Maines, Usher Raymond, Lori Petty, Jon Seda, Max Thieriot, Chen Chang, Ben Zeitlin, Stephen A. Smith, and the late Roger Moore, Lillian Gish, e.e. cummings, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry Anderson, Robert Webber, Rick Aviles, Allan Jones, and Jack Arnold. Errol Flynn died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 50. Bing Crosby died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 74. Keenan Wynn died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 70. Leonard Bernstein died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 72. Elizabeth Peña died seven years ago in 2014 at age 55.

Today Paul Simon is 80, Demond Wilson is 75, Abderrahmane Sissako is 60, and Sacha Baron Cohen, Jason Friedberg, and Billy Bush are 50. Today is also the birthday of Melinda Dillon, Marie Osmond, Kate Walsh, Matt Walsh, Ashanti, Kiele Sanchez, Susan Blommaert, Hiro Kanagawa, Rutanya Alda, Tisha Campbell, Chris Carter, Nancy Kerrigan, Tiffany Trump, and the late Lenny Bruce, Margaret Thatcher, Kelly Preston, Cornel Wilde, Yves Montand, who would be 100, Laraine Day, Robert Walker, Jack MacGowran, Dusan Makavejev, and Robert Bray. Maya Deren died sixty years ago in 1961 at age 44. Clifton Webb died 55 years ago in 1966 at age 76. Ed Sullivan died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 73.

Today Tom Guiry is 40. Today is also the birthday of Hugh Jackman, Josh Hutcherson, Lin Shaye, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kirk Cameron, Deborah Foreman, Tony Cavalero, David Threlfall, Les Dennis, Richard Price, Iris Apatow, Chris Wallace, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (Carlos the Jackal), and the late Dick Gregory, Luciano Pavarotti, Daliah Lavi, Satoshi Kon, Josephine Hutchinson, and Randy Stuart. Tom Mix died 81 years ago in 1940 at age 60. John Denver died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 53. Matthew Shepard died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 21. Gillo Pontecorvo died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 86. Conchata Ferrell died one year ago in 2020 at age 77.

Today Hany Abu-Assad is 60, and Justin Lin is 50. Today is also the birthday of Joan Cusack, Artie Lange, Matt Bomer, Dawn French, Emily Deschanel, Stephen Moyer, David Morse, Jane Krakowski, Michelle Trachtenberg, Constance Zimmer, Cardi B, Sean Patrick Flanery, John Nettles, Lennie James, Michael J. Nelson, Doona Bae, Amitabh Bachchan, Brett Morgen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Amos Gitai, Shawn Ryan, and the late Luke Perry, Elmore Leonard, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ron Leibman, Sig Ruman, Jean Vander Pyl, Earle Hyman, Jerome Robbins, and Fred Trump. Chico Marx died sixty years ago in 1961. Edith Piaf and Jean Cocteau died 58 years ago in 1963. Piaf was 47. Cocteau was 74. Redd Foxx died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 68. Robert Forster died two years ago in 2019 at age 78.

Today Peter Coyote is 80, Ben Vereen and Charles Dance are 75, Jodi Benson is 60, Carlos Reygadas is 50, and Michael Oliver is 40. Today is also the birthday of Dan Stevens, Bai Ling, Julia Sweeney, Bradley Whitford, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Mario Lopez, Jessica Harper, David Lee Roth, Joelle Carter, Rose McIver, Rebecca Pidgeon, Chiaki Kuriyama, Morgan Neville, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Brett Favre, and the late Edward D. Wood Jr., Helen Hayes, John Prine, Thelonious Monk, Harold Pinter, Chris Penn, Richard Jaeckel, Anita Mui, Dana Elcar, and Daniel Massey. Eddie Cantor died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 72. Ralph Richardson died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 80. Orson Welles and Yul Brynner died 36 years ago in 1985. Welles was 70. Brynner was 65. Christopher Reeve died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 52.

Today Brian Blessed is 85, and Robert Wuhl is 70. Today is also the birthday of Guillermo del Toro, Tony Shalhoub, Sharon Osbourne, Brandon Routh, Scott Bakula, Nick Swardson, Chris O’Dowd, Steve McQueen, John O’Hurley, Michael Paré, Sean Lennon, Lorna Raver, Tyler James Williams, Jodelle Ferland, Steve Burns, Melissa Villaseñor, Peter Docter, and the late John Lennon, Jacques Tati, Alastair Sim, Fyvush Finkel, Edward Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hank Patterson, Jason Wingreen, and Donald Sinden. Ernesto “Che” Guevara died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 39. Miriam Hopkins died 49 years ago in 1972 at age 69. Jan Hooks died seven years ago in 2014 at age 57. Andrzej Wajda died five years ago in 2016 at age 90. Jean Rochefort died four years ago in 2017 at age 87.

Today Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr. is 80, Jean-Jacques Beineix is 75, and Shira Piven is 60. Today is also the birthday of Matt Damon, Sigourney Weaver, Chevy Chase, Darrell Hammond, Bruno Mars, Paul Hogan, Jeremy Davis, Peter Greene, Nick Cannon, Bella Thorne, R.L. Stine, Ian Hart, Robert Kelly, Angus T. Jones, Edward Zwick, David Yates, Burr Steers, Sal Governale, Soon-Yi Previn, and the late Frank Herbert and Rouben Mamoulian. Larry Semon died 93 years ago in 1928 at age 39. Fernando Lamas died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 67.

Today Desmond Tutu is 90, and John Mellencamp is 70. Today is also the birthday of Thom Yorke, Joy Behar, Yo-Yo Ma, Dylan Baker, Omar Benson Miller, Shawn and Aaron Ashmore, Mary Badham, Simon Cowell, Nicole Ari Parker, Amber Stevens West, Andrew Dominik, Bree Olson, Vladimir Putin, and the late June Allyson, Andy Devine, Al Martino, Elijah Muhammad, and Robert Z. Leonard. Edgar Allan Poe died 172 years ago in 1849 at age 40. Charles Rocket died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 56.

Today is the birthday of Elisabeth Shue, Ioan Gruffudd, Britt Ekland, Olivia Thirlby, Jeremy Sisto, Brett Gellman, Wendy Robie, Ellen Travolta, Jsu Garcia, Matt Porterfield, Leslie Moonves, and the late Carole Lombard, Janet Gaynor, Fay Spain, Jerome Cowan, and Mitchell Leisen. Tod Browning died 59 years ago in 1962 at age 82. Dennis Price died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 58. Bette Davis died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 81. Denholm Elliott died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 70. Richard Farnsworth died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 80. Scott Wilson died three years ago in 2018 at age 76. Rip Taylor died two years ago in 2019 at age 88. Eddie Van Halen died one year ago in 2020 at age 65.