Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Bernard Cribbins is 90, and Jon Voight is 80. Today is also the birthday of Jude Law, Ted Danson, Alison Brie, Diego Luna, Danny McBride, Patricia Clarkson, Barbara Steele, Jennifer Ehle, Paula Poundstone, Lilly Wachowski, Michael Cudlitz, Kevin Weisman, Mekhi Phifer, Jane Levy, Ross Lynch, Dylan Minnette, Patrick Fischler, Maria Dizzia, Tarita, Oliver Hirschbiegel, and the late Mary Tyler Moore, Dina Merrill, Jo Van Fleet, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Polito, George Marshall, and Andrew Johnson. Andrei Tarkovsky died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 54.

Today John Legend is 40. Today is also the birthday of Maggie Smith, Denzel Washington, Sienna Miller, Noomi Rapace, Seth Meyers, Joe Manganiello, Nichelle Nichols, André Holland, Gayle King, Jan Bijvoet, Lior Ashkenazi, James Foley, and the late F.W. Murnau, Stan Lee, Lew Ayres, Martin Milner, Billy Chapin, Hildegard Knef, Lou Jacobi, Charmian Carr, Frank Kelly, Mikhail Kalatozov, and Woodrow Wilson. Dennis Wilson died 35 years ago in 1983 at age 39. Sam Peckinpah died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 59. Jerry Orbach died fourteen years ago in 2004 at age 69. Debbie Reynolds died two years ago in 2016 at age 84. Rose Marie died one year ago in 2017 at age 94.

Today Gerard Depardieu is 70, Barbara Crampton is 60, and Olivia Cooke is 25. Today is also the birthday of Timothée Chalamet, Michel Piccoli, John Amos, Salman Khan, Gaspar Noé, Harry Goaz, Lily Cole, Sarah Vowell, Savannah Guthrie, Masi Oka, Jay Ellis, Wilson Cruz, Tovah Feldshuh, and the late Marlene Dietrich, Sydney Greenstreet, Oscar Levant, Heather O’Rourke, Louis Pasteur, and Chyna. Hal Ashby died thirty years ago in 1988 at age 59. George Roy Hill died sixteen years ago in 2002 at age 81. Alan Bates died fifteen years ago in 2003 at age 69. Haskell Wexler died three years ago in 2015 at age 93. Carrie Fisher died two years ago in 2016 at age 60.

Today Caroll Spinney is 85, and Bill Lawrence is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jared Leto, Kit Harington, Phil Spector, David Sedaris, Beth Behrs, Lars Ulrich, John Walsh, David Lowery, Chuck Hicks, Shane Meadows, Fred Schepisi, and the late Steve Allen, Alan King, Richard Widmark, Elisha Cook Jr., Donald Moffat, Henry Miller, Vladimir Sokoloff, and Mao Zedong. Jack Benny died 44 years ago in 1974 at age 80. Howard Hawks died 41 years ago in 1977 at age 81. Elsa Lanchester died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 84. Jason Robards died eighteen years ago in 2000 at age 78. Nigel Hawthorne died seventeen years ago in 2001 at age 72.

Today Dick Miller is 90, Hanna Schygulla is 75, and Nicholas Hope is 60. Today is also the birthday of Sissy Spacek, Justin Trudeau, Stuart Wilson, CCH Pounder, Annie Lennox, Jimmy Buffet, Gary Sandy, Paul Willson, John Capodice, Stefan Ruzowitzky, Karl Rove, me, and the late Humphrey Bogart, Cab Calloway, Rod Serling, Mabel King, Mike Mazurki, Ismail Merchant, Frank Ferguson, Barton MacLane, Tony Martin, J. Edward Bromberg, and Conrad Hilton. W.C. Fields died 72 years ago in 1946 at age 66. Charlie Chaplin died 41 years ago in 1977 at age 88. Joan Blondell died 39 years ago in 1979 at age 73. Dean Martin died 23 years ago in 1995 at age 78. Denver Pyle died 21 years ago in 1997 at age 77. James Brown died twelve years ago in 2006 at age 73. Eartha Kitt died ten years ago in 2008 at age 81. George Michael died two years ago in 2016 at age 53.

Today Jonas Mekas is 96. Today is also the birthday of Ricky Martin, Ryan Seacrest, Lee Daniels, Thure Lindhardt, Diedrich Bader, Michael Raymond-James, Anil Kapoor, Austin Stowell, Nicholas Meyer, Gavin O’Connor, Louis Tomlinson, Stephenie Meyer, Scott Spiegel, Jeff Sessions, and the late Ava Gardner, Michael Curtiz, Ruth Chatterton, and Franz Waxman. Bernard Herrmann died 43 years ago in 1975 at age 64. Peter Lawford died 34 years ago in 1984 at 61. Toshirô Mifune died 21 years ago in 1997 at age 77. Harold Pinter ten years ago in 2008 at age 78. Charles Durning and Jack Krugman died six years ago in 2012. Durning was 89. Klugman was 90.

Today Harry Shearer is 75. Today is also the birthday of Eddie Vedder, Susan Lucci, Ronnie Schell, Frederic Forrest, Alison Sudol, Carla Bruni, Noël Wells, Nick Moran, Jess Harnell, Peter Medak, Anatole Taubman, William Kristol, Holly Madison, The Naked Cowboy (Robert John Burck), and the late Corey Haim, Chet Baker, Joseph Smith, James Stacy, Elizabeth Hartman, James Gregory, Harry Guardino, Dino Risi, John Cromwell, and Kumar Pallana, who would be 100. Jack Webb died 36 years ago in 1982 at age 62. Billy Barty died eighteen years ago in 2000 at age 76.

Today Lenny von Dohlen is 60, and Meghan Trainor is 25. Today is also the birthday of Ralph Fiennes, Diane Sawyer, Hector Elizondo, David S. Goyer, Heather Donahue, Sergi López, Gregor Fisher, Graham Beckel, Jay Brazeau, Jordin Sparks, Chris Carmack, Jim McBride (Mr. Skin), Ted Cruz, and the late Barbara Billingsley, Jean Michel Basquiat, Robin and Maurice Gibb, Peggy Ashcroft, Ruth Roman, Gene Rayburn, Lady Bird Johnson, Pierre Brasseur, Emil Sitka, Peggie Castle, Lynne Thigpen, Frankie Darro, Minor Watson, Alan Carney, Freddie Francis, and Károly Makk. Beatrix Potter died 75 years ago in 1943 at age 77. Harry Langdon died 74 years ago in 1944 at age 60. Al Ritz died 53 years ago in 1965 at age 64. Josef von Sternberg died 49 years ago in 1969 at age 75. Samuel Beckett died 29 years ago in 1989 at age 83. Butterfly McQueen died 23 years ago in 1995 at age 84. Joe Cocker died four years ago in 2014 at age 70.

Today Samuel L. Jackson is 70, and Rutina Wesley is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jane Fonda, Kiefer Sutherland, Ray Romano, Julie Delpy, Phil Donahue, Andy Dick, Jane Kaczmarek, Steven Yeun, Emmanuel Macron, Michael Horse, Josh Mostel, Fabiana Udenio, Kaitlyn Dever, Dennis Boutsikaris, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Mnuchin, and the late Frank Zappa, Paul Winchell, John G. Avildsen, Jack Nance, Ulli Lommel, Ed Nelson, Carl Wilson, and Joe Paterno. Ted Healy died 81 years ago in 1937 at age 41. F. Scott Fitzgerald died 78 years ago in 1940 at age 44. Stella Adler died 26 years ago in 1992 at age 91. Billie Whitelaw died four years ago in 2014 at age 82.

Today Joe Cornish and Eduardo Sánchez are 50. Today is also the birthday of Jonah Hill, Peter Criss, Michael Badalucco, Brian O’Halloran, Jenny Agutter, Ramon Rodriguez, Todd Phillips, Dick Wolf, Ki-duk Kim, Terry George, Uri Geller, and the late Irene Dunne, Dennis Morgan, George Roy Hill, Audrey Totter, John Spencer, Charlie Callas, Kathryn Joosten, John Hillerman, Mala Powers, Charley Grapewin, and Albert Dekker. John Steinbeck died fifty years ago in 1968 at age 66. Bobby Darin died 45 years ago in 1973 at age 37. Carl Sagan died 22 years ago in 1996 at age 62. Foster Brooks died seventeen years ago in 2001 at age 89. Brittany Murphy and Arnold Stang died nine years ago in 2009. Murphy was 32. Stang was 91.