Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Aidan Quinn and Lester Holt are 60. Today is also the birthday of Micky Dolenz, Camryn Manheim, James Van Der Beek, Freddie Prinze Jr, Susan Clark, Alison Becker, Lewis Teague, John Kapelos, Sebastián Lelio, and the late Lynn Redgrave, Alan Hale Jr., Cyd Charisse, Claire Trevor, and Louise Beavers. Harold Lloyd died 48 years ago in 1971 at age 77. George Stevens died 44 years ago in 1975 at age 70. Joe DiMaggio died twenty years ago in 1999 at age 84.

Today Donna Murphy and Nick Searcy are 60. Today is also the birthday of Bryan Cranston, Rachel Weisz, Peter Sarsgaard, Wanda Sykes, Jenna Fischer, Bret Easton Ellis, Tobias Menzies, Brandon T. Jackson, Laura Prepon, Jay Duplass, Daniel J. Travanti, Bel Powley, Haley Lu Richardson, Matthew Vaughn, Andrew Haigh, E.L. James, and the late John Heard, Anna Magnani, Townes van Zandt, Rik Mayall, James Broderick, and Alan Sues. Divine died 31 years ago in 1988 at age 42. Stanley Kubrick died twenty years ago in 1999 at age 70.

Today Tom Arnold is 60. Today is also the birthday of Rob Reiner, David Gilmour, Connie Britton, Shaquille O’ Neal, D.L. Hughley, Tyler the Creator, Moira Kelly, Alan Greenspan, Martin Kove, Eddie Deezen, Alan Davies, and the late Michelangelo, Lou Costello, Ed McMahon, Andrzej Wajda, Hal Needham, Gabriel García Márquez, Virginia Gregg, Alberta Watson, Guy Kibbee, Lewis Gilbert, Cyrano de Bergerac, who was born 400 years ago, and Marion Barry. Louisa May Alcott died 131 years ago in 1888 at age 55. Margaret Dumont died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 82. Nelson Eddy died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 65. William Hopper died 49 years ago in 1970 at age 55. Ayn Rand died 37 years ago in 1982 at age 77. Both Georgia O’Keeffe and Adolph Caesar died 33 years ago in 1986. O’Keeffe was 98. Caesar was 52. Teresa Wright died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 86. Nancy Reagan died three years ago in 2016 at age 94. Robert Osbourne died two years ago in 2017 at age 84.

Today James Sikking is 85, Samantha Eggar is 80, Talia Balsam is 60, Rena Riffel and Lauren Weedman are 50, Eva Mendes, Matt Lucas, and Kevin Connolly are 45, Riki Lindhome is 40, and Jake Lloyd is 30. Today is also the birthday of Dean Stockwell, Fred Williamson, Penn Jillette, Aasif Mandvi, Adriana Barraza, Michael Warren, Simon Abkarian, Joel Osteen, and the late Rex Harrison, Jack Cassidy, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andy Gibb, Virginia Christine, Henry Daniell, Henry Travers, and Laslo Benedek. Patsy Cline died 56 years ago in 1963 at age 30. John Belushi died 37 years ago in 1982 at age 33.

Today Robert Shaye is 80, and Chaz Bono is 50. Today is also the birthday of Catherine O’Hara, Steven Weber, Patricia Heaton, Mykelti Williamson, Kay Lenz, Daniel Roebuck, Adrian Lyne, James Ellroy, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Paul W.S. Anderson, Dominique Pinon, Scott Hicks, Wash Westmoreland, Paolo Virzì, Agustí Villaronga, Dav Pilkey, and the late John Garfield, Joan Greenwood, Gunnar Hansen, and Pearl White. John Candy died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 43.

Today Sandy Martin and Gloria Hendry are 70, and Ira Glass is 60. Today is also the birthday of George Miller, Miranda Richardson, Jessica Biel, Julie Bowen, Laura Harring, Katherine Waterston, David Faustino, Tim Kazurinsky, Charlie Brooker, Eric DaRe, Larry Pine, Aaron Moorhead, and the late Jean Harlow, James Doohan, Bobby Driscoll, Gia Scala, Barney Martin, and Alexander Graham Bell. Lou Costello died sixty years ago in 1959 at age 52. William Frawley died 53 years ago in 1966 at age 79. Danny Kaye died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 76. David Ogden Stiers died one year ago in 2018 at age 75.

Today Gates McFadden is 70. Today is also the birthday of Daniel Craig, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rebel Wilson, Jon Bon Jovi, Chris Martin, Laraine Newman, John Irving, John Cullum, Gordon Thomson, and the late Jennifer Jones, who would be 100, Desi Arnaz, Lou Reed, Karen Carpenter, Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss), Tom Wolfe, Jon Finch, Martin Ritt, and Kenji Misumi. Philip K. Dick died 37 years ago in 1982 at age 53. Randolph Scott died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 89. Sandy Dennis died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 54. Mercedes McCambridge died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 87.

Today Roger Daltrey is 75, Javier Bardem is 50, and Justin Bieber is 25. Today is also the birthday of Ron Howard, Harry Belafonte, Lupita Nyong’o, Zack Snyder, Tim Daly, Dirk Benedict, Chuck Zito, Robert Clary, Eddie Huang, Kesha, and the late David Niven, Jacques Rivette, Glenn Miller, Alan Thicke, Ralph Ellison, Joan Hackett, Harry Caray, and Jack Clayton. Jackie Coogan died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 69. Joe Besser died 31 years ago in 1988 at age 80. Alain Resnais died five years ago in 2014 at age 91.

Today Tommy Tune is 80, and Robert Sean Leonard is 50. Today is also the birthday of John Turturro, Gilbert Gottfried, Bernadette Peters, Mercedes Ruehl, Gavin MacLeod, Mike Figgis, Rory Cochrane, Geoffrey Arend, Guy Maddin, Paul Krugman, Rae Dawn Chong, Daniel Handler, and the late Zero Mostel, Charles Durning, Brian Jones, Vincente Minnelli, Bubba Smith, Don Francks, Billie Bird, and Ben Hecht. Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Ishiro Honda died 26 years ago in 1993 at age 81. Jane Russell died eight years ago in 2011 at age 89.

Today Ralph Nader is 85, and Debra Monk is 70. Today is the birthday of Joanne Woodward, Timothy Spall, Kara Mara, Howard Hesseman, Josh Groban, Noah Emmerich, Adam Baldwin, Donal Logue, Bingbing Li, Barbara Babcock, Bolo Yeung, Chelsea Clinton, Charles Baker, Charlotte Stewart, Mary Jo Pehl, and the late Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, John Steinbeck, William Demarest, Van Williams, Franchot Tone, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Lillian Gish died 26 years ago in 1993 at age 99. Spike Milligan died seventeen years ago in 2002 at 83. Fred Rogers died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 74. Leonard Nimoy died four years ago in 2015 at age 83. George Kennedy died three years ago in 2016 at age 91.