Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Steve Agee is 50. Today is also the birthday of Michael Bolton, Bill Duke, James Wan, Marilyn Michaels, Jane Wagner, Greg Germann, Josephine Tewson, Teresa Palmer, Drew Goddard, Michel Houellebecq, Marta Kristen, Tim Kaine, and the late Johnny Cash, Jackie Gleason, Tony Randall, Fats Domino, Betty Hutton, William Frawley, Godfrey Cambridge, Victor Hugo, Christopher Marlowe, Dub Taylor, Dane Clark, Tex Avery, Michael Pate, Robert Alda, William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), Madeleine Carroll, and Margaret Leighton. Lawrence Tierney died seventeen years ago in 2002 at age 82.

Today Ric Flair is 70. Today is also the birthday of Téa Leoni, Rashida Jones, Sean Astin, Chelsea Handler, Diane Baker, Neil Jordan, Tom Courtenay, Lee Evans, John Doe, Scott ‘Carrot Top’ Thompson, Jameela Jamil, and the late George Harrison, Zeppo Marx, Jim Backus, Larry Gelbart, Anthony Burgess, Bobby Riggs, Bert Remsen, and Gert Fröbe. Tennessee Williams died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 71. James Coco died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 56. Erland Josephson died seven years ago in 2012 at age 88. Bill Paxton died two years ago in 2017 at age 61.

Today Beth Broderick is 60, Daniel Kaluuya is 30. Today is also the birthday of Billy Zane, Edward James Olmos, Barry Bostwick, Dominic Chianese, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Debra Jo Rupp, Jenny O’Hara, Mark Moses, Emilio Rivera, Todd Field, Michael Radford, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Kasi Lemmons, Gillian Flynn, Floyd Mayweather Jr., and the late Abe Vigoda, Emmanuelle Riva, John Vernon, Marjorie Main, Steve Jobs, Steven Hill, and Mitch Hedberg. John Randolph died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 88. Don Knotts and Dennis Weaver died thirteen years ago in 2006, both at age 81. Harold Ramis died five years ago in 2014 at age 69.

Today Dakota Fanning is 25. Today is also the birthday of Emily Blunt, Peter Fonda, Kelly Macdonald, Aziz Ansari, Kristin Davis, Josh Gad, Niecy Nash, Paul Morrissey, Marie-Josée Croze, Jirí Menzel, Patricia Richardson, Mary Pat Gleason, and the late Victor Fleming, George Frideric Handel, W.E.B. Du Bois, Diane Varsi, Terence Fisher, and Norman Taurog. Mabel Normand died 89 years ago in 1930 at age 37. Stan Laurel died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 74.

Today James Hong and Rebecca Schull are 90, Kyle MacLachlan is 60, and Thomas Jane is 50. Today is also the birthday of Drew Barrymore, Julie Walters, Rachel Dratch, Paul Dooley, Ellen Greene, Elizabeth MacRae, Jeri Ryan, Josh Helman, Nicholas Pileggi, Paul Lieberstein, Nigel Planer, and the late George Washington, Luis Buñuel, Jonathan Demme, Giulietta Masina, John Mills, Robert Young, Don Pardo, Dwight Frye, Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter, Karin Dor, Kenneth Williams, Vaughn Taylor, Sheldon Leonard, and Mildred Davis. Andy Warhol died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 58. Simone Simon died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 94.

Today Jordan Peele, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Tituss Burgess are 40. Today is also the birthday of Ellen Page, Kelsey Grammer, John Lewis, Mélanie Laurent, Tyne Daly, Kim Coates, William Petersen, Kumail Nanjiani, Bob Rafelson, William Baldwin, Christopher Atkins, Jack Coleman, Sophie Turner, Margarethe von Trotta, Christine Ebersole, Brendan Sexton III, Chuck Palahniuk, Justin Roiland, Gary Lockwood, Anthony Daniels, Shane Ryan, and the late Alan Rickman, Nina Simone, Sam Peckinpah, David Foster Wallace, Rue McClanahan, Ann Sheridan, Larry Drake, Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Sacha Guitry, and James Beck. Malcolm X was assassinated 54 years ago in 1965 at age 39.

Today Gloria Vanderbilt is 95, Ivana Trump is 70, Jason Blum is 50, and Jack Falahee is 30. Today is also the birthday of Sidney Poitier, Lili Taylor, Miles Teller, Mike Leigh, Joel Hodgson, Richard Beymer, Rihanna, Trevor Noah, Chelsea Peretti, Brenda Blethyn, Charles Barkley, Andrea Savage, Willie Garson, Louis Ferreira, Jay Hernandez, Lauren Ambrose, Anthony Head, David Herman, Sandy Duncan, Andrew Bergman, Cindy Crawford, Patricia Hearst, and the late Robert Altman, Kurt Cobain, Richard Matheson, Brion James, Amanda Blake, Gale Gordon, and Pierre Boulle. Max Schreck died 83 years ago in 1936 at age 56. Dick York died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 63. Sandra Dee died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 62.

Today David Mazouz is 18, and Millie Bobby Brown is 15. Today is also the birthday of Benicio Del Toro, Jeff Daniels, Ray Winstone, Smokey Robinson, Justine Bateman, Seal, Amy Tan, Sam Reid, Leslie David Baker, Josh Trank, Victoria Justice, Zach Clark, and the late Lee Marvin, John Frankenheimer, Ann Savage, Cedric Hardwicke, Louis Feuillade, Merle Oberon, David Margulies, and Louis Calhern. Michael Powell died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 84. Derek Jarman died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 52. Stanley Kramer died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 87. Harper Lee died three years ago in 2016 at age 89.

Today is the birthday of John Travolta, Matt Dillon, Cybil Shepherd, Yoko Ono, Toni Morrison, Molly Ringwald, Dr. Dre, Ike Barinholtz, Vanna White, Logan Miller, Greta Scacchi, Regina Spektor, László Nemes, Jeff Orlowski, and the late John Hughes, Milos Forman, George Kennedy, Jack Palance, who would be 100, Mary Ure, Adolphe Menjou, Allan Melvin, Edward Arnold, Bill Cullen, and Nikos Kazantzakis. Martin Luther died 473 years ago in 1546 at age 62. Michelangelo died 455 years ago in 1564 at age 88. Andy Devine died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Harry Caray died 21 years ago in 1998 at age 83. Dale Earnhardt died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 49. Jean Rouch died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 86.

Today Alejandro Jodorowsky and Patricia Routledge are 90, and Barry Humphries is 85. Today is also the birthday of Hal Holbrook, Michael Jordan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rene Russo, Jim Brown, Michael Bay, Lou Diamond Phillips, Brenda Fricker, Larry The Cable Guy, Jerry O’Connell, Jason Ritter, Ed Sheeran, Denise Richards, Lucy Davis, Billie Joe Armstrong, Paris Hilton, Rory Kinnear, Richard Karn, Christina Pickles, Becky Ann Baker, Dieter Laser, Bonnie Wright, Don Coscarelli, and the late Alan Bates, Arthur Kennedy, Kathleen Freeman, who would be 100, Huey P. Newton, Jeremy Slate, Ralphie May, and Arthur Hunnicutt. Lee Strasberg died 37 years ago in 1982 at age 80.