Today Henry Kissinger and Sumner Redstone are 97, Lee Meriwether is 85, Joseph Fiennes is 50, Ben Feldman is 40, and Chris Colfer is 30. Today is also the birthday of Paul Bettany, André Benjamin, Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Schiff, Jack McBrayer, Adam Carolla, Bella Heathcote, Todd Bridges, Bruce Weitz, Ken Lerner, Peri Gilpin, Linnea Quigley, Jamie Oliver, Jee-woon Kim, Giuseppe Tornatore, Simon Blackwell, Lily-Rose Depp, and the late Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Dashiell Hammett, Harlan Ellison, John Cheever, Steve Franken, Willie Best, Lucile Watson, Antonia Bird, Dolores Hope, Hubert Humphrey, Wild Bill Hickok, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. George Zucco died sixty years ago in 1960 at age 74. Jeff Conway died nine years ago in 2011 at age 60. Gregg Allman died three years ago in 2017 at age 69.
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