Today Udo Kier is 75. Today is also the birthday of Steve Coogan, Ben Whishaw, Jay Pharoah, Natalie Maines, Usher Raymond, Lori Petty, Jon Seda, Max Thieriot, Chen Chang, Ben Zeitlin, Stephen A. Smith, and the late Roger Moore, Lillian Gish, e.e. cummings, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry Anderson, Robert Webber, Rick Aviles, Allan Jones, and Jack Arnold. Errol Flynn died sixty years ago in 1959 at age 50. Bing Crosby died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 74. Keenan Wynn died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 70. Leonard Bernstein died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 72. Elizabeth Peña died five years ago in 2014 at age 55.
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