Today Larry Storch is 98, and John McTiernan is 70. Today is also the birthday of Sarah Polley, Gaby Hoffmann, Yvette Mimieux, Sam Riley, Shirley Bassey, Jenny Lewis, R. Kelly, Amber Benson, Freddie Stroma, Betsy DeVos, Kim Jong-un, and the late Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Graham Chapman, who would be 80, Stephen Hawking, José Ferrer, Soupy Sales, Ron Moody, Gypsy Rose Lee, Kerwin Mathews, William Hartnell, and Roy Kinnear. Terry-Thomas died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 78. Pat Buttram died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 78. Jesse White died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 80. Yvonne De Carlo died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 84.
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