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Mark Hamill, American film, stage, television actor and voice artist who was cast in "Star Wars" (1977), the remarkable film which started it all, and his life changed after becoming famous worldwide for his role of Luke Skywalker, is 71 today.

Hamill is also a voice-over talent with a repertoire of over 200 voices.

 

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Jean Sorel, the sensational French film, stage and television actor who was one of the most handsome leading men of the European cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, is 88 today.

He worked in the French, Italian and Spanish cinema with such filmmakers as Visconti and Buñuel.

With Luchino Visconti in the extraordinary film "Sandra", as the incestuous brother of Claudia Cardinale.

The film won the Golden Lion and the Silver Ribbon at the Festival of Venice.

Luis Buñuel directed him in the masterpiece "Belle de Jour". Sorel played the paralyzed husband of Catherine Deneuve.

 

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Wan Haifeng, Chinese General and Long March veteran is 102 today.

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Today is the birthday of two 1970s Comedy Legends. 

 

English actor Brian Murphy, best known for portraying George Roper in 1970s-1980s sitcoms Man About the House and one of its sequels George and Mildred is 90 today. 

 

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Felicity Kendal, the actor who played Barbara Good on The Good Life is 76 today. 

 

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Bob McAdoo is 71 today

 

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British actor Ricky Tomlinson celebrates turning 83 today.:birthday:

 

 

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American swimmer and  Olympic gold medallist  Dick Roth celebrates his 75th birthday today. :birthday:

 

 

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Rob Burrow, the phenomenal English rugby league football player, one of the greatest of all time, who spent 16 years, his entire professional career, playing for the Leeds Rhinos, before retiring in 2017, is 40 today.

Rob Burrow was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in December 2019.

 

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Linda Hamilton, American film and television actress, who began her acting career with local children's theatre groups, well-known for appearing in films such as "The Terminator", "Black Moon Rising", "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Dante's Peak", is 66 today.

Linda Hamilton is also remembered for her role on the critically acclaimed television series "Beauty and the Beast".

 

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4 hours ago, MariNisia said:

Linda Hamilton is also remembered for her role on the critically acclaimed television series "Beauty and the Beast".

  

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Harsh :D

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Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India 2004-2014 is 90 today.

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Gwyneth Paltrow, the famous American actress and singer who gained worldwide recognition after the extraordinary film "Seven", and winner of an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her performance in "Shakespeare in Love", is 50 today.

She also won an Emmy Award for her guest role as Holly Holliday on the Fox musical television series "Glee".

 

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Randy Bachman is 79 today. Known chiefly as a founder member of Bachman Turner Overdrive, who had numerous hits in their native Canada, but famous in the rest of the world (especially in the Smashie & Nicey reception area) for their 1975 hit You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.

 

Also 79 today is Welsh singer/comedian Max (I know, 'cos I was there) Boyce

 

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Lil Wayne is 40 today

 

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36 minutes ago, Hell said:

Lil Wayne is 40 today

 

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Which is about 80 in non-rapper years

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Mira Sorvino, American film and television actress, the daughter of the famed character actor Paul Sorvino; who won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for her supporting performance in "Mighty Aphrodite", is 55 today.

Initially, her father attempted to steer Mira and her two siblings away from the acting profession.

 

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Miloš Zeman, Czech politician who was the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002, and was the first directly elected President in Czech history in 2013; Václav Havel and Václav Klaus were elected by the Czech Parliament; is 78 today.

In 2018, Miloš Zeman was re-elected for a second term.

 

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Nikolai Ryzhkov, Premier/Prime Minister of the Soviet Union as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1985 to 1991 and Member of the Russian Senate since 2003 is 93 today.

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British singers and twin brothers  Matt and Luke Goss,  who make up the 1980s British pop band Bros (third original band member left)celebrate their 54th  birthday today. :birthday:

 

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Two distinguished British thespians  celebrate their birthdays  today.

 

image.png.aea45cc7f835dfcc59db8f6f239931b3.png Patricia Hodge  celebrates  her 76th  birthday  today. Some of her more well known tv credits include  Rumpole of the Bailey,  Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978) and Holding the Fort.:birthday:

 

 

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And Ian McShane who celebrates his 80th birthday today.  Acting credits include   british comedy drama Lovejoy,  a guest stint on US soap  Dallas in 1989 as Sue Ellens lover, facilitating the characters exit after 11 years and   american western series Deadwood.:birthday:

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Les Claypool, the lead singer of Primus, is 59.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker Celebrate 25 Years of South Park with RUSH,  Primus, and Ween

Also sang the theme song for South Park and appeared in cartoon form from seasons 1-4.

While he doesn't appear in the intro anymore, his song "Whamola" became the instrumental starting in the middle of season 10, and has remained so to this day.

 

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