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Today Glynis Johns is 98, Karen Allen is 70, and Jacob Tremblay is 15. Today is also the birthday of Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Jesse Eisenberg, Clive Barker, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Parminder Nagra, Daniel Baldwin, Laura Gemser, Tom Hooper, Ti West, Taylour Paige, Scott Weinger, Toshio Masuda, and the late Larry Fine, Donald Pleasence, Bernie Mac, Louis Lumière, Jeff Conaway, Bill Dana, Diane Cilento, Gail Davis, Skip Homeier, John Hoyt, and Allen Ludden. Jean Vigo died 87 years ago in 1934 at age 29. Barbara Nichols died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 47. Gloria Grahame died forty years ago in 1981 at age 57. Rodney Dangerfield died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 82. Steve Jobs and Charles Napier died ten years ago in 2011. Jobs was 56. Napier was 75. Geoffrey Holder died seven years ago in 2014 at age 84. Chantal Ackerman died six years ago in 2015 at age 65.

Today Anne Rice is 80, and Susan Sarandon is 75. Today is also the birthday of Liev Schreiber, Christoph Waltz, Alicia Silverstone, Dakota Johnson, Melissa Benoist, Russell Simmons, Mick Jackson, Caitriona Balfe, Abraham Benrubi, Armand Assante, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Lancashire, Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the late Buster Keaton, Charlton Heston, Jackie Collins, George Sidney, John Larch, Scotty Beckett, Philip Van Zandt, and Stan Dragoti. Janis Joplin died 51 years ago in 1970 at age 27. Graham Chapman died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 48. Buddy Lester died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 87. Diahann Carroll died two years ago in 2019 at age 84.

Today Chubby Checker is 80. Today is also the birthday of Clive Owen, Alicia Vikander, Neve Campbell, Seann William Scott, Tessa Thompson, Denis Villeneuve, Lena Headey, Tommy Wiseau, John Patrick Shanley, Reverend Al Sharpton, Greg Proops, Gwen Stefani, Janel Moloney, Tommy Lee, and the late Gore Vidal, Leo McCarey, Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Michael Hordern, Charles Middleton, Julien Duvivier, and Gertrude Berg. Woody Guthrie died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 55. Dub Taylor died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 87. Roddy McDowall died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 70. Janet Leigh died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 77.

Today Angie Dickinson is 90, Eric Stoltz is 60, and Jenna Elfman is 50. Today is also the birthday of Marion Cotillard, Monica Bellucci, Tony Hale, Ezra Miller, Johnny Mathis, Fran Drescher, Amy Landecker, Barry Williams, Kieran Culkin, Nancy Ames, Victoria Tennant, and the late Deborah Kerr, who would be 100, Truman Capote, Michael Powell, Elie Wiesel, Dan O’Bannon, Buddy Rich, Frankie Lymon, Jack Wild, and Lewis Milestone. James Dean died 66 years ago in 1955 at age 24. Edgar Bergen died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 75. Simone Signoret died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 64.

Today Silvio Berlusconi is 85, Dale Dickey is 60, and Mackenzie Crook is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jerry Lee Lewis, Ian McShane, Andrew Dice Clay, Zachary Levi, Nicolas Winding Refn, Chrissy Metz, Bryant Gumbel, Robert Webb, Russell Peters, Roger Bart, Robert Benton, and the late Michelangelo Antonioni, Madeline Kahn, Stanley Kramer, Greer Garson, Anita Ekberg, Gene Autry, Caravaggio, Trevor Howard, Steve Forrest, and Larry Linville. Charles Addams died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 76. Lois Maxwell died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 80. Tony Curtis and Greg Giraldo died eleven years ago in 2010. Curtis was 85. Giraldo was 44. Mac Davis and Helen Reddy died one year ago in 2020, both at age 78.

Today Jeffrey Jones is 75. Today is also the birthday of Naomi Watts, Brigitte Bardot, Mira Sorvino, Janeane Garofalo, John Sayles, Hilary Duff, Sarah Wright, Bam Margera, Moon Unit Zappa, Hana Mae Lee, Keir Gilchrist, and the late Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Finch, Ed Sullivan, Christopher Evan Welch, Arnold Stang, J.T. Walsh, Sylvia Kristel, William Windom, and Harris Savides. Harpo Marx died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 75. Miles Davis died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 65.

Today Chi McBride is 60. Today is also the birthday of Bruce Springsteen, Jason Alexander, Anthony Mackie, Julio Iglesias, Mary Kay Place, Skylar Astin, Kip Pardue, Rosalind Chao, Hasan Minhaj, Karl Pilkington, Paul Petersen, Alex Proyas, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christopher Miller, and the late Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Mickey Rooney, Walter Pidgeon, Romy Schneider, Elizabeth Peña, and Tom Lester. Billy Gilbert died fifty years ago in 1971 at age 77. Bob Fosse died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 60. Shirley Clarke died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 77.

Today Bonnie Hunt is 60. Today is also the birthday of Nick Cave, Joan Jett, Tatiana Maslany, Tom Felton, Mireille Enos, Toni Basil, Paul Le Mat, Ruth Jones, Benoît Poelvoorde, Scott Baio, and the late Erich von Stroheim, Paul Muni, Anna Karina, John Houseman, Martha Scott, Richard Marquand, Art Metrano, Arthur Lowe, and Allan Lane. Marion Davies died sixty years ago in 1961 at age 64. Dan Rowan died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 65. Irving Berlin died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 101. Dorothy Lamour died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 81. George C. Scott died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 71. Marcel Marceau died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 84. Eddie Fisher died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 82.

Today Otis Day is 70, Nancy Travis is 60, Luke Wilson and Alfonso Ribeiro are 50, and Nicole Richie is 40. Today is also the birthday of Bill Murray, Stephen King, Cheryl Hines, Ethan Coen, Billy Porter, David Wenham, Rob Morrow, Ricki Lake, Jerry Bruckheimer, François Cluzet, Maggie Grace, Faith Hill, Ann Elder, Nick Castle, Joseph Mazzello, Fannie Flagg, Liam Gallagher, Martha Kauffman, Drew Friedman, and the late Leonard Cohen, Henry Gibson, Larry Hagman, Chuck Jones, and H.G. Wells. Walter Brennan died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 80. Alice Ghostley died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 84. Michael Lonsdale died one year ago in 2020 at age 89.

Today is the birthday of Sophia Loren, Jon Bernthal, George R.R. Martin, Maggie Cheung, Asia Argento, Gary Cole, Charlie Weber, David Haig, Van Jones, Kristen Johnston, Aldis Hodge, Robert LaSardo, Chad Stahelski, Sabine Azéma, Ryan Fleck, and the late Anne Meara, Kenneth More, Fernando Rey, Victor Sjöström, Jay Ward, Upton Sinclair, William Finley, Slappy White, who would be 100, Vittorio Taviani, and Norman Z. McLeod. Glenn Strange died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 74. Roy Kinnear died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 54. Polly Bergen and Eric Lynch aka Eric the Actor aka Eric the Midget died seven years ago in 2014. Bergan was 84. Lynch was 39. Curtis Hanson died five years ago in 2016 at age 71.