Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Jeffrey Jones is 75. Today is also the birthday of Naomi Watts, Brigitte Bardot, Mira Sorvino, Janeane Garofalo, John Sayles, Hilary Duff, Sarah Wright, Bam Margera, Moon Unit Zappa, Hana Mae Lee, Keir Gilchrist, and the late Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Finch, Ed Sullivan, Christopher Evan Welch, Arnold Stang, J.T. Walsh, Sylvia Kristel, William Windom, and Harris Savides. Harpo Marx died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 75. Miles Davis died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 65.

Today Chi McBride is 60. Today is also the birthday of Bruce Springsteen, Jason Alexander, Anthony Mackie, Julio Iglesias, Mary Kay Place, Skylar Astin, Kip Pardue, Rosalind Chao, Hasan Minhaj, Karl Pilkington, Paul Petersen, Alex Proyas, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christopher Miller, and the late Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Mickey Rooney, Walter Pidgeon, Romy Schneider, Elizabeth Peña, and Tom Lester. Billy Gilbert died fifty years ago in 1971 at age 77. Bob Fosse died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 60. Shirley Clarke died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 77.

Today Bonnie Hunt is 60. Today is also the birthday of Nick Cave, Joan Jett, Tatiana Maslany, Tom Felton, Mireille Enos, Toni Basil, Paul Le Mat, Ruth Jones, Benoît Poelvoorde, Scott Baio, and the late Erich von Stroheim, Paul Muni, Anna Karina, John Houseman, Martha Scott, Richard Marquand, Art Metrano, Arthur Lowe, and Allan Lane. Marion Davies died sixty years ago in 1961 at age 64. Dan Rowan died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 65. Irving Berlin died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 101. Dorothy Lamour died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 81. George C. Scott died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 71. Marcel Marceau died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 84. Eddie Fisher died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 82.

Today Otis Day is 70, Nancy Travis is 60, Luke Wilson and Alfonso Ribeiro are 50, and Nicole Richie is 40. Today is also the birthday of Bill Murray, Stephen King, Cheryl Hines, Ethan Coen, Billy Porter, David Wenham, Rob Morrow, Ricki Lake, Jerry Bruckheimer, François Cluzet, Maggie Grace, Faith Hill, Ann Elder, Nick Castle, Joseph Mazzello, Fannie Flagg, Liam Gallagher, Martha Kauffman, Drew Friedman, and the late Leonard Cohen, Henry Gibson, Larry Hagman, Chuck Jones, and H.G. Wells. Walter Brennan died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 80. Alice Ghostley died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 84. Michael Lonsdale died one year ago in 2020 at age 89.

Today is the birthday of Sophia Loren, Jon Bernthal, George R.R. Martin, Maggie Cheung, Asia Argento, Gary Cole, Charlie Weber, David Haig, Van Jones, Kristen Johnston, Aldis Hodge, Robert LaSardo, Chad Stahelski, Sabine Azéma, Ryan Fleck, and the late Anne Meara, Kenneth More, Fernando Rey, Victor Sjöström, Jay Ward, Upton Sinclair, William Finley, Slappy White, who would be 100, Vittorio Taviani, and Norman Z. McLeod. Glenn Strange died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 74. Roy Kinnear died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 54. Polly Bergen and Eric Lynch aka Eric the Actor aka Eric the Midget died seven years ago in 2014. Bergan was 84. Lynch was 39. Curtis Hanson died five years ago in 2016 at age 71.

Today Sanaa Lathan is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jeremy Irons, Paul Williams, Jimmy Fallon, Rosemary Harris, David McCallum, Cheri Oteri, Twiggy, Danielle Panabaker, Alison Sweeney, Kim Richards, David Bamber, Victor Williams, Randolph Mantooth, Sally Potter, Soledad O’Brien, Mario Batali, and the late Adam West, Cass Elliot, James Lipton, Jean-Claude Carrière, Frances Farmer, Ben Turpin, William Hickey, Ray Danton, and Jóhann Jóhannsson. Rex Ingram died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 73. Bernie Casey and Jake LaMotta died four years ago in 2017. Casey was 78. LaMotta was 95.

Today Gailard Sartain is 75, Ben Carson is 70, and Jada Pinkett Smith and Lance Armstrong are 50. Today is also the birthday of James Marsden, Jason Sudeikis, Frankie Avalon, Robert Blake, Billy Eichner, Aisha Tyler, Alison Lohman, Xzibit, Anna Thomson, Beth Grant, Christopher Heyerdahl, Nina Arianda, Anna Deavere Smith, Mark Romanek, David Mirkin, and the late Greta Garbo, James Gandolfini, who would be 60, Fred Willard, Jack Warden, Samuel Johnson, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, June Foray, Grayson Hall, Rossano Brazzi, and Jack Cardiff. Frank Morgan died 72 years ago in 1949 at age 59. Franchot Tone died 53 years ago in 1968 at age 63. Jimi Hendrix died 51 years ago in 1970 at age 27. Russ Meyer died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 82. Ruth Bader Ginsburg died one year ago in 2020 at age 87.

Today Cassandra Peterson (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) is 70, and Nate Berkus is 50. Today is also the birthday of Kyle Chandler, Baz Luhrmann, Bryan Singer, Paul Feig, Neill Blomkamp, Bobby Lee, Rita Rudner, Matthew Settle, Bruce Spence, Pat Crowley, Sam Esmail, Kevin Clash, Mark Osborne, Narendra Modi, and the late Hank Williams, Anne Bancroft, John Ritter, Roddy McDowall, Lupe Ontiveros, David Huddleston, Ken Kesey, Paul Benedict, Dolores Costello, Jerry Colonna, Harold Bennett, George Cleveland, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Richard Basehart died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 70. Grady Sutton died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 89. Red Skelton died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 84.

Today Janis Paige is 99, Jim McBride is 80, Amy Poehler is 50, and Bingbing Fan and Alexis Bledel are 40. Today is also the birthday of Mickey Rourke, Molly Shannon, Ed Begley Jr., George Chakiris, Jennifer Tilly, Nick Jonas, Marc Anthony, David Copperfield, Danny John-Jules, Max Minghella, Madeline Zima, Jayne Brook, Richard Marx, Kurt Fuller, Linda Henning, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Roger Ross Williams, and the late Lauren Bacall, Peter Falk, BB King, Anne Francis, Morgan Woodward, Tommy Bond, Allen Funt, and Guy Hamilton. Mary Travers died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 72. Edward Albee died five years ago in 2016 at age 88.

Today Tommy Lee Jones and Oliver Stone are 75, and Josh Charles is 50. Today is also the birthday of Tom Hardy, Rebecca Miller, Henry Silva, Jimmy Carr, Carmen Maura, Danny Nucci, Ron Shelton, Pawel Pawlikowski, Mike Reiss, Margaret Keane, Prince Harry, Lisa Vanderpump, Heidi Montag, and the late Jean Renoir, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray, Nipsey Russell, Agatha Christie, Robert Benchley, Norm Crosby, Penny Singleton, Margaret Lockwood, Jacques Becker, William Howard Taft, Wendie Jo Sperber, and Shôhei Imamura. Richard Wright died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 65. Frances Bay died ten years ago in 2011 at age 92. Harry Dean Stanton died four years ago in 2017 at age 91. Ric Ocasek died two years ago in 2019 at age 75.