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Quentin Blake is 90.

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Best known for illustrating many of Roald Dahl's books.

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James Mangold, American film and television director, the new filmmaker behind the camera for the next Indiana Jones film, who is best known as the director of the films "Heavy", "Cop Land", "Girl, Interrupted", "Kate & Leopold", "Identity", "Walk the Line", "3:10 to Yuma", "The Wolverine", "Logan", and "Ford v Ferrari", is 59 today.

 

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Miranda Otto, Australian actress who is best known for playing Eowyn, the undaunted warrior maiden of Rohan, in the famed films "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", is 55 today.

 

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British actor  Theo James celebrates his 38th birthday today. 

His best known roles are in the Divergent film franchise in the 2010s  and the current hit US TV Series The White Lotus.:birthday:

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Italian singer Ivana Spagna- known just as Spagna mainly  , celebrates turning 68 today. :birthday:

 

She had a number of UK hits in the late 1980s,  Call me and Every boy and girl. 

 

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German track and field athlete Andreas Hofmann celebrates turning 31 today. 

He competes in javelin. :birthday:

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Armin Mueller-Stahl, the extraordinary German actor who began his career in East Germany, who made his American film debut as Jessica Lange's father in "Music Box", and best known for his roles in "Eastern Promises" and "Shine", is 92 today.

 

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Paula Radcliffe, the noted long-distance runner, one of the most well-known British athletes in history, who is a three-time champion of the London, and New York marathon, and was born in Davenham near Northwich, Cheshire, England, is 49 today.

She won gold medals at both the Commonwealth and European championships.

Paula Radcliffe also received numerous accolades, including an OBE and being crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2002.

Her remarkable career is fully chronicled in her inspiring and interesting autobiography: "Paula: My Story So Far".

 

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Tommy  Steele,  British singer, actor and former teen idol, celebrates his 86th birthday today. :birthday:

 

 

 

 

 

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English novelist  Jacqueline Wilson,  best known for her popular childrens literature  celebrates her 77th birthday today. :birthday:

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Gianluca Pagliuca, the notable Italian professional footballer, one of the best goalkeepers of his generation and an undisputed number one for Italy in the mid nineties, whose performances earned him the nickname 'The Wall', is 56 today.

 

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Alan Rudolph, the renowned American film director and screenwriter, a pioneer in the American independent film movement, who was mentored by his most important influence, the master Robert Altman, for whom he worked as an assistant director, is 79 today.

Alan Rudolph, one of the most important talents of the seventies, is the director of such notable films as "Welcome to L.A.", "Remember My Name", "Choose Me" (his splendid masterpiece), "Made in Heaven", "The Moderns", "Mortal Thoughts", "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle", "Afterglow" and "Breakfast of Champions".

 

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Actor, media personality and most famously  retired American wrestler  Steve Austin , better known by his sports name  Stone cold Steve Austin , celebrates turning 58 today. :birthday:

 

 

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Legendary  Oscar winning American film director Steven Spielberg celebrates his 76th birthday today. :birthday:

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Composer Walter Murphy is 70.

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Best known for his 1976 song "A Fifth of Beethoven"...

 

...and composing the music to several of Seth MacFarlane's shows.

 

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Jennifer Beals, the multiracial American film and television actress, her father was African American, and her mother is Irish American, who is well known for her iconic role as Alex Owens in the 1983 film "Flashdance", is 59 today.

 

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Miguel Bernardo Bianquetti, known as Migueli, Spanish professional footballer who spent most of his career at FC Barcelona, 549 matches for the Catalans, in the final of the 1978-79 European Cup Winners' Cup he played on with a broken collarbone, a brave player who was nicknamed Tarzan due to his immense physical power, is 71 today.

 

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Lee Myung-bak is 81 today

 

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Oscar nominated american actor Jake Gyllenhaal celebrates his 42nd birthday today. :birthday:

 

 

 

 

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Tyson Beckford American model, actor and tv presenter  - some have even described him as that rare beast a male supermodel,  celebrates his 52nd birthday today. 

His big career break occurred when as a total unknown he was signed to model for Ralph Lauren .:birthday:

 

 

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Former  Australian Olympian and  athlete  Kevan  Gosper,  who mainly competed in the 400m and won silver and bronze medals, celebrates his 89th birthday today. :birthday:

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Kate Atkinson, one of Britain's greatest contemporary novelists and playwrights, who is the author of the excellent Jackson Brodie detective series, which was adapted for the notable BBC television series "Case Histories", is 71 today.

 

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Gigliola Cinquetti, the admired Italian singer and television presenter who won, with the same song, the Sanremo Music Festival and the Eurovision Song Contest, first Eurovision success for Italy, in 1964, is 75 today.

 

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British actress Jenny Agutter celebrates her 70th birthday today. :birthday:

 

 

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Former British premier league footballer  and now coach to Everton  Ashley Cole, celebrates turning 42 today. :birthday:

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French President Emmanuel Macron  celebrates his 45th birthday today. :birthday:

 

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Former Coronation Street  actor Malcolm Hebden, who played Norris Cole,turns 83 today.:birthday:

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Jane Fonda, the admired American actress and political activist, the daughter of actor Henry Fonda and socialite Frances Ford Seymour, winner of two Academy Awards for her lead roles in "Klute" (1971) and "Coming Home" (1978), is 85 today.

 

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Kiefer Sutherland, the excellent British-Canadian actor and musician, the son of acting legend Donald Sutherland and actress Shirley Douglas, who was Jack Bauer, the lethal and troubled counter-terrorist agent of the hit television series "24", is 56 today.

 

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Michael Horse, best known for his role as Hawk in Twin Peaks is 73 toady :birthday:

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Hector Elizondo, the prolific character actor who was born in New York to Puerto Rican immigrants, who started his acting career in the late 1960s, and probably remembered for his roles as Dr. Phillip Watters in the CBS medical drama series "Chicago Hope" and Barney Thompson, the manager at the hotel Vivian stays at with Edward in the hit film "Pretty Woman", is 86 today.

 

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Vanessa Paradis, the acclaimed French actress, model, and singer, a superstar in France, who first found fame at the age of 14 with the success of her 1987 summer hit single, "Joe Le Taxi", one of the biggest-selling songs of all time in France, is 50 today.

 

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Oscar nominated British actor Ralph Fiennes celebrates his 60th birthday today. :birthday:

 

His film credits include  The English patient(1996), The Reader, The Grand Budapest Hotel and the Harry Potter and James Bond film franchises. 

 

 

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Diane Sawyer,  an American Broadcast journalist and news anchor on two of Americas biggest television networks ABC and CBS,  celebrates her 77th birthday today. :birthday:

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