Today Eric Idle and Vangelis are 75, Bud Cort is 70, Victor Salva is 60, and Lucy Lawless is 50. Today is also the birthday of Brendan Gleeson, Amy Sedaris, Marina Sirtis, Michael Winterbottom, Michel Hazanavicius, Annabella Sciorra, Christopher Lambert, Scott Wilson, Godfrey Reggio, and the late Pearl Bailey and Sam Walton, who would both be 100, Arthur O’Connell, Jackie Vernon, Dennis O’Keefe, Warner Baxter, Bobby ‘Wheezer’ Hutchins, Onslow Stevens, John McLaughlin, and John Tyler. Harry Ritz from the Ritz Brothers died 31 years ago in 1986 at age 78. Paul Henreid died 26 years ago in 1992 at age 84. Mitch Hedberg died 13 years ago in 2005 at age 37. Patty Duke died two years ago in 2016 at age 69.
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