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Today Todd Solondz is 60, and Dominic West is 50. Today is also the birthday of John Getz, Tanya Roberts, Paul Walter Hauser, Ali Fazal, Larry Miller, Jere Burns, Zak Orth, Linda Lavin, Mira Nair, Lynn Lowry, Brandon Jay McLaren, Michael Caton-Jones, Matteo Garrone, Eileen Ryan, Virginia Leith, Michael Lewis, and the late Penny Marshall, Friedrich Nietzsche, P.G. Wodehouse, Mario Puzo, Mark Lenard, Jane Darwell, Mervyn LeRoy, Michel Foucault, Jean Peters, Nigel Green, and Fritz Feld. Cole Porter died 55 years ago in 1964 at age 73. Frank DeKova died 38 years ago in 1981 at age 71. Pat O’Brien died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 83. Delphine Seyrig died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 58. Edie Adams died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 81.

Today Udo Kier is 75. Today is also the birthday of Steve Coogan, Ben Whishaw, Jay Pharoah, 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 sixty years ago in 1959 at age 50. Bing Crosby died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 74. Keenan Wynn died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 70. Leonard Bernstein died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 72. Elizabeth Peña died five years ago in 2014 at age 55.

Today Melinda Dillon is 80, Marie Osmond is 60, and Nancy Kerrigan is 50. Today is also the birthday of Paul Simon, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kelly Preston, Kate Walsh, Matt Walsh, Ashanti, Kiele Sanchez, Demond Wilson, Susan Blommaert, Hiro Kanagawa, Rutanya Alda, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Chris Carter, Abderrahmane Sissako, Jason Friedberg, Billy Bush, Tiffany Trump, and the late Lenny Bruce, Margaret Thatcher, Cornel Wilde, Yves Montand, Laraine Day, Robert Walker, Jack MacGowran, Dusan Makavejev, and Robert Bray. Maya Deren died 58 years ago in 1961 at age 44. Clifton Webb died 53 years ago in 1966 at age 76. Ed Sullivan died 45 years ago in 1974 at age 73.

Today Richard Price and Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (Carlos the Jackal) are 70. Today is also the birthday of Hugh Jackman, Josh Hutcherson, Lin Shaye, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kirk Cameron, Deborah Foreman, Tony Cavalero, David Threlfall, Les Dennis, Tom Guiry, Iris Apatow, Chris Wallace, and the late Dick Gregory, Luciano Pavarotti, Daliah Lavi, Satoshi Kon, Josephine Hutchinson, and Randy Stuart. John Denver died in a plane crash 22 years ago in 1997 at age 53. Gillo Pontecorvo died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 86.

Today Stephen Moyer is 50, and Doona Bae is 40. Today is also the birthday of Joan Cusack, Artie Lange, Matt Bomer, Dawn French, Emily Deschanel, David Morse, Ron Leibman, Jane Krakowski, Michelle Trachtenberg, Constance Zimmer, Cardi B, Sean Patrick Flanery, John Nettles, Lennie James, Michael J. Nelson, Justin Lin, Amitabh Bachchan, Brett Morgen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Hany Abu-Assad, Amos Gitai, Shawn Ryan, and the late Luke Perry, Elmore Leonard, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sig Ruman, Jean Vander Pyl, who would be 100, Earle Hyman, Jerome Robbins, and Fred Trump. Chico Marx died 58 years ago in 1961. Edith Piaf and Jean Cocteau died 56 years ago in 1963. Piaf was 47. Cocteau was 74. Redd Foxx died 28 years ago in 1991 at age 68.

Today Jessica Harper is 70, Julia Sweeney and Bradley Whitford are 60, and Wendi McLendon-Covey and Brett Favre are 50. Today is also the birthday of Dan Stevens, Bai Ling, Ben Vereen, Charles Dance, John Prine, Mario Lopez, David Lee Roth, Peter Coyote, Joelle Carter, Rose McIver, Rebecca Pidgeon, Carlos Reygadas, Jodi Benson, Chiaki Kuriyama, Morgan Neville, Michael Oliver, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and the late Edward D. Wood Jr., Helen Hayes, Thelonious Monk, Harold Pinter, Chris Penn, Richard Jaeckel, Anita Mui, Dana Elcar, and Daniel Massey. Eddie Cantor died 55 years ago in 1964 at age 72. Ralph Richardson died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 80. Orson Welles and Yul Brynner died 34 years ago in 1985. Welles was 70. Brynner was 65. Christopher Reeve died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 52.

Today Steve McQueen is 50, Brandon Routh and Chris O’Dowd are 40, and Jodelle Ferland is 25. Today is also the birthday of Guillermo del Toro, Tony Shalhoub, Sharon Osbourne, Scott Bakula, Nick Swardson, John O’Hurley, Michael Paré, Robert Wuhl, Lorna Raver, Brian Blessed, Tyler James Williams, Steve Burns, Melissa Villaseñor, Peter Docter, Sean Lennon, and the late John Lennon, Jacques Tati, Alastair Sim, Fyvush Finkel, Edward Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hank Patterson, Jason Wingreen, and Donald Sinden. Miriam Hopkins died 47 years ago in 1972 at age 69. Andrzej Wajda died three years ago in 2016 at age 90. Jean Rochefort died two years ago in 2017 at age 87.

Today Paul Hogan is 80, Sigourney Weaver is 70, and Jeremy Davis and Sal Governale are 50. Today is also the birthday of Matt Damon, Chevy Chase, Darrell Hammond, Bruno Mars, Peter Greene, Nick Cannon, Bella Thorne, R.L. Stine, Ian Hart, Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., Robert Kelly, Angus T. Jones, Edward Zwick, David Yates, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Burr Steers, Shira Piven, Soon-Yi Previn, and the late Frank Herbert and Rouben Mamoulian. Larry Semon died 91 years ago in 1928 at age 39.

Today Dylan Baker and Simon Cowell are 60, and Shawn and Aaron Ashmore are 40. Today is also the birthday of John Mellencamp, Thom Yorke, Joy Behar, Yo-Yo Ma, Desmond Tutu, Omar Benson Miller, Mary Badham, 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 170 years ago in 1849 at age 40. Charles Rocket died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 56.

Today Leslie Moonves is 70. Today is also the birthday of Elisabeth Shue, Ioan Gruffudd, Britt Ekland, Olivia Thirlby, Jeremy Sisto, Wendy Robie, Jsu Garcia, Matt Porterfield, and the late Carole Lombard, Janet Gaynor, Fay Spain, Jerome Cowan, and Mitchell Leisen. Tod Browning died 57 years ago in 1962 at age 82. Dennis Price died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 58. Bette Davis died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 81. Denholm Elliott died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 70. Richard Farnsworth died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 80. Scott Wilson died one year ago in 2018 at age 76.