Today Walter Koenig is 85. Today is also the birthday of Melissa Leo, Sam Neill, Andrew Lincoln, Joon-ho Bong, Robert Wisdom, Faith Ford, Robert Ben Garant, NAS, Callum Keith Rennie, Joey Heatherton, Howard Deutch, Christian Petzold, Corneliu Porumboiu, and the late Amy Winehouse, Nicol Williamson, Harve Presnell, Kay Medford, Clayton Moore, Jack Hawkins, and Robert Florey. Irving Thalberg died 85 years ago in 1936 at age 37. Grace Kelly died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 52. Janet Gaynor died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 77. Patrick Swayze and Henry Gibson died twelve years ago in 2009. Swayze was 57. Gibson was 73.
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