Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Mike Farrell is 80, and Jim Sheridan is 70. Today is also the birthday of Rip Torn, Kathy Najimy, Dane DeHaan, Axl Rose, Tom Brokaw, Josh Stewart, Mamie Van Doren, Robert Townsend, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Kevin Whately, Debra Granik, Fabian, and the late Bob Marley, Ronald Reagan, François Truffaut, Babe Ruth, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Patrick Macnee, Ramon Novarro, Haskell Wexler, David Gorcey, and Eva Braun. Danny Thomas died 28 years ago in 1991 at age 79. Joseph Cotten died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 88. Irwin Corey died two years ago in 2017 at age 102.

Today Hank Aaron is 85, and Michael Sheen and Bobby Brown are 50. Today is also the birthday of Charlotte Rampling, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Guest, Laura Linney, Barbara Hershey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Mann, Tim Meadows, Chris Parnell, Darren Criss, Errol Morris, Tony Jaa, Mia Hansen-Løve, Benoît Jacquot, David Meunier, David Selby, Jamie Brewer, Jonathan Freeman, and the late Red Buttons and Tim Holt, who would both be 100, John Carradine, William S. Burroughs, HR Giger, Stephen J. Cannell, and Stefan Gierasch. Thelma Ritter died fifty years ago in 1969 at age 66. Joseph L. Mankiewicz died 26 years ago in 1993 at age 83.

Today Jerry Adler is 90, and Michael Beck is 70. Today is also the birthday of Alice Cooper, Rob Corddry, Hannibal Buress, Gabrielle Anwar, Jim O’Heir, Linda Bassett, John Schuck, Dan Quayle, and the late Ida Lupino, George A. Romero, David Brenner, Rosa Parks, Charles Lindbergh, William Talman, Conrad Bain, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Norman Wisdom, James Craig, Nigel Bruce, and Betty Friedan, who died on her 85th birthday thirteen years ago in 2006. Louis Jordan died 44 years ago in 1975 at age 66. Karen Carpenter died 36 year ago in 1983 at age 32. Liberace died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 67. John Mahoney died one year ago in 2018 at age 77.

Today Fredric Lehne is 60. Today is also the birthday of Nathan Lane, Blythe Danner, Isla Fisher, Maura Tierney, Warwick Davis, Kenneth Anger, Morgan Fairchild, Tim Heidecker, Stephen McHattie, Anthony Russo, Amal Clooney, Lizzie Borden, and the late Joey Bishop, Victor Buono, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Michael Cimino, Shelley Berman, Gertrude Stein, Norman Rockwell, Mary Carlisle, John Fielder, James Bridges, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Buddy Holly died sixty years ago in 1959 at age 22. Anna May Wong died 58 years ago in 1961 at age 56. John Cassavetes died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 59. Audrey Meadows died 23 years ago in 1996 at age 73. Al Lewis died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 82. Ben Gazzara died seven years ago in 2012 at age 81.

Today John A. Russo is 80, and Jack McGee is 70. Today is also the birthday of Tom Smothers, Bo Hopkins, Christie Brinkley, Zosia Mamet, Shakira, David Jason, Catherine Flemming, Blake Clark, Lori Beth Denberg, Rich Sommer, Graham Nash, Jane Wagner, Laura Poitras, Oz Perkins, Duane “Dog” Chapman, and the late Farrah Fawcett, James Joyce, James Dickey, Ayn Rand, Elaine Stritch, Tony Jay, S.Z. Sakall, Carol Ann Susi, Frank Albertson, Jackie Burroughs, Eva Cassidy, Bonita Granville, Connie Gilchrist, Frank Lloyd, Duane Jones, and Vera Chytilová. Boris Karloff died fifty years ago in 1969 at age 81. Sid Vicious died forty years ago in 1979 at age 21. Donald Pleasence died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 75. Gene Kelly died 23 years ago in 1996 at age 83. Philip Seymour Hoffman died five years ago in 2014 at age 46. Bob Elliott died three years ago in 2016 at age 92.

Today Harry Styles is 25. Today is also the birthday of Terry Jones, Don Everly, Michael C Hall, Lisa Marie Presley, Garrett Morris, Pauly Shore, Sherilyn Fenn, Stuart Whitman, Abbi Jacobson, Linus Roache, Bill Mumy, Ronda Rousey, John Gemberling, Nancy Gates, Anna Biller, and the late Clark Gable, John Ford, Langston Hughes, Sherman Hemsley, Brandon Lee, Rick James, Boris Yeltsin, Peter Sallis, Paul Carr, Bibi Besch, and Lee Thompson Young. Buster Keaton and Hedda Hopper died 53 years ago in 1966. Keaton was 70. Hopper was 80. John Vernon died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 72. Maximilian Schell died five years ago in 2014 at age 83.

Today Michael St. Michaels is 75, and Kelly Lynch and Anthony Lapaglia are 60. Today is also the birthday of Justin Timberlake, Minnie Driver, Kerry Washington, Jessica Walter, Jonathan Banks, Portia de Rossi, Bobby Moynihan, John Lydon, Philip Glass, Patricia Velasquez, Stuart Margolin, Paul Scheer, Peter McRobbie, Nick DiPaolo, Dexter Fletcher, Megan Ellison, and the late Jean Simmons, Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing, Norman Mailer, Jackie Robinson, who would be 100, Suzanne Pleshette, Franz Schubert, Eddie Cantor, Mario Lanza, Joanne Dru, Percy Helton, and Derek Jarman. Samuel Goldwyn died 45 years ago in 1974 at age 94. George Abbott died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 107.

Today Christian Bale and Olivia Colman are 45. Today is also the birthday of Gene Hackman, Vanessa Redgrave, Phil Collins, Wilmer Valderrama, Charles S. Dutton, Ann Dowd, Brett Butler, Gino Conforti, Steven Zaillian, Andy Milonakis, Wayne Wilderson, Dick Cheney, and the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Ireland, David Wayne, Dick Martin, Hugh Marlowe, Tammy Grimes, Michael Anderson, and Delbert Mann. Mahatma Gandhi and Orville Wright died 71 years ago in 1948. Gandhi was 78. Wright was 76.

Today Sam Trammell is 50. Today is also the birthday of Oprah Winfrey, Tom Selleck, Heather Graham, Katharine Ross, Sara Gilbert, Edward Burns, Justin Hartley, Adam Lambert, and the late W.C. Fields, Anton Chekhov, Victor Mature, Ernst Lubitsch, Dorothy Malone, Paddy Chayefsky, and John Forsythe. Alan Ladd died 55 died years ago in 1964 at age 50. Freddie Prinze died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 22. Jacques Rivette died three years ago in 2016 at age 87.