Today Howard Deutch is 70, Melissa Leo, Callum Keith Rennie, and Christian Petzold are 60, and Robert Ben Garant is 50. Today is also the birthday of Sam Neill, Andrew Lincoln, Walter Koenig, Joon-ho Bong, Robert Wisdom, Faith Ford, NAS, Joey Heatherton, Corneliu Porumboiu, and the late Amy Winehouse, Nicol Williamson, Harve Presnell, Kay Medford, Clayton Moore, Jack Hawkins, and Robert Florey. Irving Thalberg died 84 years ago in 1936 at age 37. Grace Kelly died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 52. Janet Gaynor died 36 years ago in 1984 at age 77. Patrick Swayze and Henry Gibson died eleven years ago in 2009. Swayze was 57. Gibson was 73.
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