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Today Mike Pence is 60. Today is also the birthday of Liam Neeson, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, Karl Urban, Tom Jones, James Ivory, William Forsythe, Colleen Camp, Ken Osmond, Tom McCarthy, Mick Foley, Ronald Pickup, Bear Grylls, Dave Navarro, Iggy Azalea, Fetty Wap, and the late Dean Martin, Jessica Tandy, Prince, Bonnie Lee Bakley, Hope Summers, and Dolores Gray. Jean Harlow died 82 years ago in 1937 at age 26. ZaSu Pitts died 56 years ago in 1963 at age 69. Judy Holliday died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 43. Christopher Lee died four years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today Colin Quinn is 60. Today is also the birthday of Paul Giamatti, Jason Isaacs, Robert Englund, Sandra Bernhard, Harvey Fierstein, Max Casella, Danny Webb, Ellie Kendrick, Hirokazu Koreeda, Jonathan Nolan, Danny Strong, Natalie Morales, and the late Billie Whitelaw, Chantal Akerman, Maria Montez, Kenneth Connor, Sam Simon, Judith Barsi, and Thomas Mann. Jack Haley died forty years ago in 1979 at age 81. Anne Bancroft died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 73. Esther Williams died six years ago in 2013 at age 91.

Today Pete Wentz is 40. Today is also the birthday of Mark Wahlberg, Jeff Garlin, Ron Livingston, Nick Kroll, Susan Lynch, Chad Allen, Kenny G, Liza Weil, Laurie Anderson, Suze Orman, Troye Sivan, Lisa Cholodenko, Kathleen Kennedy, Roger Michell, David Hare, and the late Tony Richardson, Jacques Demy, Spalding Gray, Robert Lansing, William Boyd, Peggy Stewart, Warren Frost, Daniel von Bargen, John Abbott, Herb Vigran, Henry Levin, and Pancho Villa. Vito Scotti died 23 years ago in 1996 at age 78. Mel Tormé died twenty years ago in 1999 at age 73. Ronald Reagan died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 93. Ray Bradbury died seven years ago in 2012 at age 91.

Today Michelle Phillips is 75, and Rob Huebel and Horatio Sanz are 50. Today is also the birthday of Angelina Jolie, Bruce Dern, Russell Brand, T.J. Miller, Keith David, Noah Wyle, Robin Lord Taylor, Sean Pertwee, Oona Chaplin, Geoffrey Palmer, and the late Rosalind Russell, Dennis Weaver, Clara Blandick, and Russell Hicks. Dorothy Gish died 51 years ago in 1968 at age 70. Massimo Troisi died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 41.

Today Tate Taylor is 50, and Imogen Poots and Daniela Vega are 30. Today is also the birthday of Anderson Cooper, Penelope Wilton, Jason Jones, James Purefoy, Bill Paterson, Sebastian Armesto, Irma P. Hall, Masami Nagasawa, Larry McMurtry, and the late Tony Curtis, Josephine Baker, Paulette Goddard, Leo Gorcey, Chuck Barris, Allen Ginsberg, Curtis Mayfield, Ellen Corby, Maurice Evans, Colleen Dewhurst, Alain Resnais, Robert Z’Dar, Edward Winter, John Kellogg, Roy Glenn, Melissa Mathison, Anthony Harvey, and Herk Harvey. Franz Kafka died 95 years ago in 1924 at age 40. Ozzie Nelson died 44 years ago in 1975 at age 69. Roberto Rossellini died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Robert Morley died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 84. Anthony Quinn died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 86. David Carradine died ten years ago in 2009 at age 72. Rue McClanahan died nine years ago in 2010 at age 76. James Arness died eight years ago in 2011 at age 88. Muhammad Ali died three years ago in 2016 at age 74.

Today Morena Baccarin and James Ransone are 40. Today is also the birthday of Dana Carvey, Zachary Quinto, Stacy Keach, Dominic Cooper, Justin Long, Charlie Watts, Dennis Haysbert, Wentworth Miller, Liam Cunningham, Wayne Brady, Jerry Mathers, Sally Kellerman, Charles Haid, Dr. Cornel West, Joanna Gleason, Navid Negahban, A.J. Styles, Lasse Hallström, Beetlejuice, Kevin Feige, Lisandro Alonso, and the late Johnny Weissmuller, Marvin Hamlisch, Thomas Hardy, The Marquis de Sade, Milo O’Shea, Max Showalter, Chief John Big Tree, Bruno S., and Lotte Reiniger. Jean Hersholt died 63 years ago in 1956 at age 69. George S. Kaufman died 58 years ago in 1961 at age 71. Leo Gorcey died fifty years ago in 1969 at age 51. Stephen Boyd died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 45. Jim Hutton died forty years ago in 1979 at age 45. Rex Harrison and Jack Gilford died 29 years ago in 1990. Harrison was 82. Gilford was 81. Imogene Coca died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 92. Mel Ferrer and Bo Diddley died eleven years ago in 2008. Ferrer was 90. Diddley was 79. Richard Dawson and Kathryn Joosten died seven years ago in 2012. Dawson was 79. Joosten was 72. Peter Sallis died two years ago in 2017 at age 96.

Today Pat Boone is 85, and Teri Polo is 50. Today is also the birthday of Morgan Freeman, Amy Schumer, Brian Cox, Alanis Morissette, Ronnie Wood, Tom Holland, Jonathan Pryce, Rene Auberjonois, Paula Malcomson, Sylvia Hoeks, Sarah Wayne Callies, Rick Gomez, Heidi Klum, Gareth Edwards, and the late Marilyn Monroe, Andy Griffith, Powers Boothe, Edward Woodward, Cleavon Little, Frank Morgan, Richard Erdman, and Aubrey Morris. Leslie Howard died 76 years ago in 1943 at age 50. Adolf Eichmann died 57 years ago in 1962 at age 56. Helen Keller died 51 years ago in 1968 at age 87.

Today Tom Berenger is 70. Today is also the birthday of Clint Eastwood, Colin Farrell, Brooke Shields, Chris Elliott, Lea Thompson, Susie Essman, Paolo Sorrentino, Eric Christian Olsen, Sharon Gless, Jonathan Tucker, Sebastian Koch, Joe Namath, and the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Don Ameche, Walt Whitman, who would be 200, Denholm Elliott, Jim Hutton, Alida Valli, Fred Allen, John Bonham, Jack Holt, Barbara Pepper, Madge Blake, and Menahem Golan. William Castle died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 63. Jean Stapleton died six years ago in 2013 at age 90.

Today Jimmy Lydon is 96, Michael J. Pollard is 80, and Ryûhei Kitamura is 50. Today is also the birthday of Keir Dullea, Idina Menzel, Ruta Lee, Stephen Tobolowsky, Colm Meaney, Wynonna Judd, CeeLo Green, Ted McGinley, Duncan Jones, Antoine Fuqua, and the late Howard Hawks, Agnès Varda, Mel Blanc, Hugh Griffith, Clint Walker, Benny Goodman, Douglas Fowley, Franklin J. Schaffner, Meredith MacRae, Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry), Irving Thalberg, Christine Jorgensen, and Jamie Uys. Dooley Wilson died 66 years ago in 1953 at age 67. Claude Rains died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 77. Michel Simon died 44 years ago in 1975 at age 80.

Today Helmut Berger is 75, Rupert Everett is 60, and Riley Keough is 30. Today is also the birthday of Annette Bening, Laverne Cox, Ted Levine, Melissa Etheridge, Danny Elfman, La Toya Jackson, Noel Gallagher, Melanie Brown (Mel B), Justin Chon, Robert Logan, Kevin Conway, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Aaron McGruder, Daniel Tosh, and the late Bob Hope, John F. Kennedy, Josef von Sternberg, Clifton James, Sebastian Shaw, Stacy Keach Sr., and Gregg Toland. John Barrymore died 77 years ago in 1942 at age 60. James Whale died 62 years ago in 1957 at age 67. Mary Pickford died 40 years ago in 1979 at age 87. Harvey Korman died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 81. Dennis Hopper died nine years ago in 2010 at age 74.