Birthdays:

Richard Dreyfuss (October 29, 1947), who starred in Jaws (1975), The Sentinel (1977; cameo), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Silent Fall (1994), Poseidon (2006), Piranha 3D (2010), and Coma (2012).

Dreyfuss in Jaws

Winona Ryder (October 29, 1971), who starred in Beetlejuice (1988), Heathers (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), The Crucible(1996), Alien: Resurrection (1997), Lost Souls (2000), Black Swan (2010), The Iceman (2012), Frankenweenie (2012), and “Stranger Things.”

Ryder in Beetlejuice

Brendan Fehr (October 29, 1977), who starred in Disturbing Behavior (1998), “Millennium” (episodes: The Pest House and Collateral Damage), Final Destination (2000), Christina’s House (2000), Forsaken (2001), “Roswell,” Nemesis Game (2003), “Bones” (recurring), Silent Night (2012), and 13 Eerie (2013).

Fehr in Final Destination

Movie releases:

1993: Return of the Living Dead 3
1999: House on Haunted Hill

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