Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today John McEnroe is 60, and Elizabeth Olsen is 30. Today is also the birthday of Mahershala Ali, LeVar Burton, Ice-T, Troy Evans, The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye), Christopher Eccleston, William Katt, Agyness Deyn, Janice Dickinson, Lisa Loring, and the late Sonny Bono, Edgar Bergen, John Schlesinger, Chester Morris, Hugh Beaumont, Brian Bedford, Robert J. Flaherty, James Baskett, Ken Takakura, Carlos Rivas, Vernon Dent, Mack Swain, and Kim Jong-il. Len Lesser died eight years ago in 2011 at age 88. Lesley Gore died four years ago in 2015 at age 68.

Today is the birthday of Matt Groening, Claire Bloom, Jane Seymour, Alex Borstein, Sherry Jackson, Marisa Berenson, Christopher McDonald, Miranda July, Amber Riley, Brendon Small, Samira Makhmalbaf, Omarosa Manigault, and the late Chris Farley, Cesar Romero, Harvey Korman, Kevin McCarthy, John Barrymore, Allan Arbus, Galileo Galilei, Susan B. Anthony, Arthur Shields, Meg Wyllie, and Gale Sondergaard. Wally Cox and Tim Holt died 46 years ago in 1973. Cox was 48, and Holt was 54. Ethel Merman died 35 years in 1984 at age 76. George Gaynes died three years ago in 2016 at age 98.

Today Hugh Downs is 98, Allan Miller is 90, and Carl Bernstein and Alan Parker are 75. Today is also the birthday of Simon Pegg, Meg Tilly, Freddie Highmore, Michael Bloomberg, Harriet Andersson, Teller, Danai Gurira, Andrew Robinson, Zach Galligan, Terry Gross, Jackie Martling, Joan O’Brien, Rob Thomas, Anton Lesser, Andrew Prine, Sakina Jaffrey, Frank Collison, Brett Dier, Angela Robinson, and the late Jack Benny, who would be 125, Florence Henderson, Thelma Ritter, Vic Morrow, Gregory Hines, Lois Maxwell, Edward Platt, Jimmy Hoffa, Woody Hayes, Tim Buckley, Stuart Erwin, and Masaki Kobayashi. Sig Ruman died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 82. Louis Jourdan died four years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today George Segal is 85, Stockard Channing and Jerry Springer are 75, and Mena Suvari is 40. Today is also the birthday of Kim Novak, Henry Rollins, Peter Tork, Peter Gabriel, Chuck Yeager, Robbie Williams, Carol Lynley, Richard Tyson, Bo Svenson, Neal McDonough, David Naughton, Donald Sumpter, Joe Estevez, and the late Oliver Reed and Tennessee Ernie Ford, who would be 100. Martin Balsam died 23 years ago in 1996 at age 76. Stacy Keach Sr. died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 88. Seijun Suzuki died two years ago in 2017 at age 93.

Today Annette Crosbie is 85, and Darren Aronofsky is 50. Today is also the birthday of Josh Brolin, Christina Ricci, Franco Zeffirelli, Costa-Gavras, John Michael Higgins, Arsenio Hall, Joe Don Baker, Judy Blume, Lochlyn Munro, Michael Ironside, Tara Strong, Raphael Sbarge, Iko Uwais, Josef Altin, Cliff De Young, Zach Grenier, and the late Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, both born 210 years ago in 1809, Forrest Tucker, who would be 100, Louis Zorich, Lorne Greene, Simon MacCorkindale, Richard Lynch, Ann Gillis, Wallace Ford, and Joseph Kearns. Dziga Vertov died 65 years ago in 1954 at age 58. Sal Mineo died 43 years ago in 1976 at age 37. Jean Renoir died forty years ago in 1979 at age 84. Charles M. Schulz died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 77. Sid Caesar died five years ago in 2014 at age 91.

Today Tina Louise is 85, and Jennifer Aniston is 50. Today is also the birthday of Damian Lewis, Sheryl Crow, Taylor Lautner, Brandy Norwood, Diane Franklin, Natalie Dormer, Q’orianka Kilcher, Jeb Bush, Sarah Palin, and Alex Jones, and the late Burt Reynolds, Leslie Nielsen, Eva Gabor, who would be 100, Thomas A. Edison, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Kim Stanley, Sonny Landham, Billy Halop, Max Baer, and Sidney Sheldon. Sergei Eisenstein died 71 years ago in 1948 at age 50. Sylvia Plath died 56 years ago in 1963 at age 30. Lee J. Cobb died 43 years ago in 1976 at age 64. Whitney Houston died seven years ago in 2012 at age 48.

Today is the birthday of Laura Dern, Robert Wagner, Alexander Payne, Elizabeth Banks, Chloë Grace Moretz, Emma Roberts, Uzo Aduba, Vince Gilligan, Michael Apted, George Stephanopoulos, Stephanie Beatriz, Rupert Vansittart, Meadow Williams, Glenn Beck, and the late Lon Chaney Jr., Jimmy Durante, Alan Hale, Judith Anderson, Jerry Goldsmith, Stella Adler, Bertolt Brecht, John Dierkes, Hazel Court, John Farrow, and Douglas Slocombe. Jim Varney died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 50. Arthur Miller died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 89. Roy Scheider died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 75. Shirley Temple died five years ago in 2014 at age 85.

Today Janet Suzman is 80, Judith Light is 70, and Ziyi Zhang is 40. Today is also the birthday of Joe Pesci, Carole King, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Farrow, Michael B. Jordan, Ciarán Hinds, Charlie Day, David Simon, David Hayman, Margarita Levieva, Jason George, Marianna Hill, Fede Alvarez, Rose Leslie, Charles Shaughnessy, Clive Swift, and the late Ronald Colman, Kathryn Grayson, Brian Donlevy, Carmen Miranda, Peggy Wood, Roy Jenson, and William Henry Harrison. George ‘Gabby’ Hayes died fifty years ago in 1969 at age 83. John Gavin and Reg E. Cathey died one year ago in 2018. Gavin was 86. Cathey was 59.

Today Brooke Adams is 70, and Mary McCormack is 50. Today is also the birthday of Nick Nolte, Mary Steenburgen, John Williams, Seth Green, Robert Klein, John Grisham, Allan Rich, Cecily Strong, Mathilda May, Creed Bratton, William Jackson Harper, Ethan Phillips, and the late James Dean, Jack Lemmon, Lana Turner, Gary Coleman, Audrey Meadows, Jules Verne, King Vidor, Jack Larson, William Tecumseh Sherman, Betty Field, Burt Mustin, Alejandro Rey, Charles Ruggles, Roger Lloyd Pack, and Bengt Ekerot. D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation premiered 104 years ago in 1915.

Today Eric Godon is 60. Today is also the birthday of Chris Rock, James Spader, Eddie Izzard, Garth Brooks, Ashton Kutcher, Tina Majorino, Deborah Ann Woll, Robyn Lively, Jason Gedrick, Robert Smigel, James Deen, and the late Charles Dickens, Miguel Ferrer, Pete Postlethwaite, Eddie Bracken, Gloria Talbott, Jock Mahoney, who would be 100, Buster Crabbe, Wayne Allwine, Dora Bryan, Hector Babenco, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas More, and Puyi. Dale Evans died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 88. Mickey Jones died one year ago in 2018 at age 76.