Today Priscilla Pointer is 97, Robert Morse is 90, and Miriam Margolyes is 80. Today is also the birthday of Tina Fey, Yun-Fat Chow, George Strait, Patrick St. Esprit, Terry Zwigoff, Mark Mothersbaugh, and the late Frank Capra, Pernell Roberts, Perry Como, Bill Macy, Richard Brooks, Hugh Keays-Byrne, and Robert J. Wilke. Jill Ireland died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 54. Elizabeth Montgomery and Elisha Cook Jr. both died 26 years ago in 1995. Montgomery was 62. Cook Jr. was 91.
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