Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Susan Howard is 75, Frank Darabont is 60, and Mo Rocca is 50. Today is also the birthday of Alan Alda, Elijah Wood, Will Poulter, Joey Fatone, Marthe Keller, Gillian Vigman, Sarah McLachlan, John Beck, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Nicholas Pryor, Jack Hill, Ariel Winter, Rick Ross, Nick Carter, and the late John Banner (who died on his birthday 46 years ago in 1973 at age 63), Tom Neal, Lewis Wilson, Richard Glatzer, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Maurice Gosfield. Zora Neale Hurston died 59 years ago in 1960 at age 69. Burt Mustin died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 92. Erle C. Kenton (director of Island of Lost Souls, The Ghost of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, the W.C. Fields film You’re Telling Me!, and the Abbott and Costello films Pardon My Sarong, Who Done It?, and It Ain’t Hay) died 39 years ago in 1980 at age 83.

Today Keith Olbermann is 60, Patton Oswalt is 50, and Rosamund Pike is 40. Today is also the birthday of James Cromwell, Alan Cumming, Bridget Fonda, Mimi Rogers, Frank Miller, John Witherspoon, Mike Patton, Phil Rosenthal, Michael Craig, Tricky, and the late Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lewis Carroll, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Donna Reed, Troy Donahue, Howard McNear, Ingrid Thulin, Sabu, and Milton Kibbee. Andre the Giant died 26 years ago in 1993 at age 46. Jack Paar died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 85. J.D. Salinger died nine years ago in 2010 at age 91. Pete Seeger died five years ago in 2014 at age 94. Emmanuelle Riva died two years ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today Bob Uecker is 85, Angela Davis and Jerry Sandusky are 75, David Strathairn is 70, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan is 60. Today is also the birthday of Ellen DeGeneres, Eddie Van Halen, Scott Glenn, Bryan Callen, Mimi Leder, Henry Jaglom, and the late Paul Newman, Joan Leslie, Gene Siskel, William Hopper, Anne Jeffreys, Roger Vadmin, Maria von Trapp, Charles Lane, and Vito Scotti. Edward G. Robinson died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 79. José Ferrer died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 80. Abe Vigoda died three years ago in 2016 at age 94.

Today is the birthday of Alicia Keys, Jenifer Lewis, Dinah Manoff, Whit Stillman, Olivier Assayas, Gregory Sierra, Diane Salinger, Leigh Taylor-Young, Stephen Chbosky, Don Mancini, and the late Virginia Woolf, Etta James, Dean Jones, Tobe Hooper, Mildred Dunnock, Diana Hyland, Gregg Palmer, King Donovan, Youssef Chahine, W. Somerset Maugham, Carlotta Monti, and Harold Lloyd Jr. Al Capone died 72 years ago today in 1947 at age 48. Ava Gardner died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 67. Mary Tyler Moore and John Hurt both died two years ago in 2017. Moore was 80. Hurt was 77.

Today is the birthday of Neil Diamond, Ed Helms, Carrie Coon, Matthew Lillard, Daveed Diggs, Nastassja Kinski, Kristen Schaal, Michael Ontkean, Justin Baldoni, Daniel Auteuil, Adrian Edmondson, Phil LaMarr, Michael Des Barres, and the late John Belushi, Ernest Borgnine, Sharon Tate, Marvin Kaplan, Estelle Winwood, Edith Wharton, Henry King, and Haji. Winston Churchill died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 90. J. Carrol Naish died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 77. Larry Fine died 44 years ago in 1975 at age 72. George Cukor died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 83. L. Ron Hubbard died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 74. Ted Bundy died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 42. Chris Penn died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 40. Pernell Roberts died nine years ago in 2010 at age 81. Theodoros Angelopoulos died seven years ago in 2012 at age 76.

Today Lou Antonio is 85, Shin’ichi Chiba is 80, and Rutger Hauer is 75. Today is also the birthday of Mariska Hargitay, Chita Rivera, Ewen Bremner, Jack Reynor, Gil Gerard, Richard Dean Anderson, David Patrick Kelly, Arlene Golonka, Gail O’Grady, Tiffani Thiessen, Mark Boal, Richard Roxburgh,, Kyle Newacheck, Derek Cianfrance, Captain C.B. Sully Sullenberger, and the late Ernie Kovacs and Frances Bay, who would both be 100, Jeanne Moreau, Randolph Scott, Dan Duryea, Bob Steele, Ralph Graves, Franklin Pangborn, and Django Reinhardt. Paul Robeson died 43 years ago in 1976 at age 77. Jack Oakie died 41 years ago in 1978 at age 74. Johnny Carson died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 79.

Today Linda Blair is 60. Today is also the birthday of Piper Laurie, Diane Lane, Seymour Cassel, Jim Jarmusch, Guy Fieri, Christopher Masterson, Min-sik Choi, Tamra Davis, Raquel Cassidy, and the late D.W. Griffith, Sergei M. Eisenstein, John Hurt, Bill Bixby, Conrad Veidt, Ann Southern, and Diana Douglas. Alan Hale died 69 years ago in 1950 at age 57. Telly Savalas died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 72, one day after his birthday. Ann Miller died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 80. Heath Ledger died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 28. Jean Simmons died nine years ago in 2010 at age 80.

Today is the birthday of Geena Davis, Mac Davis, Placido Domingo, Michael Wincott, Charlotte Ross, Robby Benson, Ken Leung, Martin Shaw, Jill Eikenberry, Luke Grimes, John Early, Craig Roberts, Emma Bunton, Victoria Carroll, Yoshiko Kuga, and the late Telly Savalas, Benny Hill, Paul Scofield, Steve Reeves, Wolfman Jack, J. Carrol Naish, John Doucette, Arthur Wontner, John M. Stahl, and Blue Iris. George Orwell died 69 years ago in 1950 at age 46. Cecil B. DeMille died sixty years ago in 1959 at age 77. Ann Sheridan died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 51. Peggy Lee died seventeen years ago in 2002 at age 81. Michael Winner died six years ago in 2013 at age 77.

Today Arte Johnson is 90, and Tom Baker is 85. Today is also the birthday of David Lynch, Buzz Aldrin, Bill Maher, Skeet Ulrich, Rainn Wilson, Evan Peters, Questlove (Ahmir-Khalib Thompson), Kerri Kenney, Omar Sy, Lorenzo Lamas, Melissa Rivers, Stacey Dash, Sophie Thompson, Kellyanne Conway, and the late Federico Fellini, George Burns, Patricia Neal, Peter Donat, Dorothy Provine, DeForest Kelley, Colin Clive, Leon Ames, Norma Varden, and Finlay Currie. Johnny Weissmuller died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 79. Barbara Stanwyck died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 82. Audrey Hepburn died 26 years ago in 1993 at age 63. Etta James died seven years ago in 2012 at age 73.

Today Shelley Fabares is 75. Today is also the birthday of Dolly Parton, Tippi Hedren, Shawn Wayans, Katey Sagal, Logan Lerman, Richard Lester, Damien Chazelle, Antoine Fuqua, Rob Delaney, Larry Clark, Michael Crawford, Desi Arnaz Jr., Javier Cámara, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Frank Caliendo, Kim Henkel, Susan Lowe, Paula Deen, and the late Edgar Allan Poe, Janis Joplin, Jean Stapleton, Phil Everly, Patricia Highsmith, Guy Madison, Fritz Weaver, and Harry Davenport. ‘Snub’ Pollard died 57 years ago in 1962 at age 72. Hedy Lamarr died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 85. Suzanne Pleshette died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 70. Miguel Ferrer died two years ago in 2017 at age 61. Dorothy Malone died one year ago in 2018 at age 93.