Today Amy Sedaris and Michael Winterbottom are 60. Today is also the birthday of Eric Idle, Brendan Gleeson, Lucy Lawless, Annabella Sciorra, Bud Cort, Vangelis, Marina Sirtis, Ed Skrein, Christopher Lambert, Michel Hazanavicius, Godfrey Reggio, Victor Salva, and the late Pearl Bailey, Arthur O’Connell, Scott Wilson, Jackie Vernon, Dennis O’Keefe, Warner Baxter, Bobby ‘Wheezer’ Hutchins, Onslow Stevens, John McLaughlin, John Tyler, and Sam Walton. Harry Ritz died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 78. Paul Henreid died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 84. Mitch Hedberg died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 37. Patty Duke died five years ago in 2016 at age 69. Agnès Varda died two years ago in 2019 at age 90.
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