Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Ken Marino is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Beale, Alyssa Milano, Kristy Swanson, Béatrice Dalle, Criss Angel, Ronan Farrow, Til Schweiger, Richard Hammond, Paul Rhys, Tim Reid, Mike Lookinland, Robert MacNaughton, Jill Talley, Jack Fisk, and the late Édith Piaf, Jean Genet, Ralph Richardson, Maurice White, Robert Urich, Gordon Jackson, Paul Brinegar, and Robert B. Sherman. Marcello Mastroiani died 22 years ago in 1996 at age 72. Hope Lange died fifteen years ago in 2003 at age 70.

Today Keith Richards and Alan Rudolph are 75, Casper Van Dien and Rachel Griffiths are 50, and Katie Holmes and Ravi Patel are 40. Today is also the birthday of Steven Spielberg, Brad Pitt, Cicely Tyson, Ray Liotta, Christina Aguilera, Sia, Ashley Benson, Leonard Maltin, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Ron White, Jason Mantzoukas, Koyuki, Jeff Kober, DMX, Gillian Armstrong, Sion Sono, and the late Betty Grable, Ossie Davis, Gladys Cooper, Roger Smith, George Stevens, Jules Dassin, Larry D. Mann, Peggy Cummins, Ty Cobb, and Joseph Stalin. Chris Farley died 21 years ago in 1997 at age 33. Zsa Zsa Gabor died two years ago in 2016 at age 99.

Today Manny Pacquiao is 40. Today is also the birthday of Eugene Levy, Sarah Paulson, Bill Pullman, Milla Jovovich, Giovanni Ribisi, Ernie Hudson, Pope Francis, Chris Mathews, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Wes Studi, Laurie Holden, Bernard Hill, Nat Wolff, Rian Johnson, Peter Farrelly, Tommy Steele, Shannon Woodward, Chelsea Manning, Steve Zissis, Gregg Araki, Ari Folman, Jack Rebney (Winnebago Man), and the late Richard Long, George Lindsey, Patrice Wymore, Katina Paxinou, James Booker, and Sally Menke. Dana Andrews died 26 years ago in 1992 at age 83. Jennifer Jones died nine years ago in 2009 at age 90. Captain Beefhart (Don Van Vliet) died eight years ago in 2010 at age 69.

Today Liv Ullmann is 80, Anna Popplewell is 30, and Stephen James is 25. Today is also the birthday of JB Smoove, Krysten Ritter, Miranda Otto, Billy F Gibbons, Benjamin Bratt, Joyce Bulifant, Theo James, Ben Cross, Xander Berkeley, Jon Tenney, James Mangold, Shane Black, Sam Robards, Lesley Stahl, Robert Kerman, Paul and Peter Allen Vogt, Jeff Kanew, Flo Rida, and the late Ludwig van Beethoven, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Noël Coward, Bill Hicks, Max Linder, Steven Bochco, Patti Deutsch, Margaret Mead, and N!xau. Thelma Todd died 83 years ago in 1935 at age 29. Harland Sanders died 38 years ago in 1980 at age 90. Lee Van Cleef died 29 years ago in 1989 at age 64. John Spencer died thirteen years ago in 2005 at age 58.

Today Tim Conway is 85. Today is also the birthday of Don Johnson, Michelle Dockery, Adam Brody, Charlie Cox, Rachel Brosnahan, Ralph Ineson, Alex Cox, Julie Taymor, P.J. Byrne, Camilla Luddington, Maude Apatow, John Lee Hancock, Reginald Hudlin, Walon Green, and the late Jeff Chandler, who would be 100, Kasey Rogers, Jack Gwillim, Gordon Douglas, and Jean Paul Getty. Fats Waller died 75 years ago in 1943 at age 39. Glenn Miller died 74 years ago in 1944 at age 40. Charles Laughton died 56 years ago in 1962 at age 63. Walt Disney died 52 years ago in 1966 at age 65. Chill Wills died forty years ago in 1978 at age 76. Blake Edwards died eight years ago in 2010 at age 88. Christopher Hitchens died seven years ago in 2011 at age 62. Joan Fontaine died five years ago in 2013 at age 96.

Today Hal Williams is 80, Dee Wallace is 70, and Vanessa Hudgens is 30. Today is also the birthday of Michaela Watkins, Miranda Hart, Celia Weston, Jane Birkin, Natascha McElhone, Tammy Blanchard, Lynne Marie Stewart, Lucrecia Martel, Ted Raimi, Dino Stamatopoulos, James Comey, and the late Patty Duke, Lee Remick, Frances Bavier, Morey Amsterdam, King George VI, Raj Kapoor, Lewis Arquette, George Furth, Lillian Randolph, Dan Dailey, and Shirley Jackson. Dinah Washington died 55 years ago in 1963 at age 39. William Bendix died 54 years ago in 1964 at age 58. Myrna Loy died 25 years ago in 1993 at age 88. Norman Fell died twenty years ago in 1998 at age 74. Peter O’Toole died five years ago in 2013 at age 81.

Today Lou Adler is 85, and Ted Nugent is 70. Today is also the birthday of Dick Van Dyke, Christopher Plummer, Steve Buscemi, Jamie Foxx, Taylor Swift, Tony Curran, Wendie Malick, Tatsuya Nakadai, NeNe Leakes, Amy Lee, Rusty Cundieff, and the late Robert Prosky, Van Heflin, Curd Jürgens, John Hart, Mark Stevens, Don Taylor, Larry Parks, and Darlene Cates. Tim Moore died sixty years ago in 1958 at age 71. Spencer Williams died 49 years ago in 1969 at age 76. Alan Thicke died two years ago in 2016 at age 69.

Today Bob Barker is 95, Brandon Maggart is 85, Connie Francis is 80, Gianni Russo is 75, Sheree J. Wilson is 60, and Gbenga Akinnagbe is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jennifer Connelly, Bill Nighy, Regina Hall, Mayim Bialik, Lucas Hedges, Dionne Warwick, Mädchen Amick, Sarah Douglas, Maren Ade, Steve Binder, and the late Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Yasujirô Ozu (who died on his birthday 55 years ago in 1963 at age 60), Buck Jones, Ed Koch, and Anne V. Coates. Douglas Fairbanks died 79 years ago in 1939 at age 56. Tallulah Bankhead died fifty years ago in 1968 at age 66. Jack Cassidy died 42 years ago in 1976 at age 49. Anne Baxter died 33 years ago in 1985 at age 62. Joseph Heller died nineteen years ago in 1999 at age 76. Peter Boyle died twelve years ago in 2006 at age 71. Ike Turner died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 76. Van Johnson died ten years ago in 2008 at age 92. Tom Laughlin died five years ago in 2013 at age 82.

Today John Kerry is 75, and Nikki Sixx and Tom Shadyac are 60. Today is also the birthday of Rita Moreno, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Teri Garr, Donna Mills, Hailee Steinfeld, Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), Mo’Nique, Max Martini, Xosha Roquemore, Lynda Day George, Brenda Lee, Rider Strong, Dilip Kumar, Jon Brion, Margaret Hoover, and the late Jean Marais, Maila Nurmi (aka Vampira), Ron Carey, Liz Smith, Gilbert Roland, Marie Windsor, Betsy Blair, Elizabeth Baur, Manoel de Oliveira, and Carlo Ponti. Sam Cooke and Percy Kilbride died 54 years ago in 1964. Cooke was 33. Kilbride was 76. Bettie Page died ten years ago in 2008 at age 85. Ravi Shankar died six years ago in 2012 at age 92.

Today is the birthday of Kenneth Branagh, Michael Snow, Raven-Symoné, Tommy Kirk, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nia Peeples, Xavier Samuel, Patrick John Flueger, Susan Dey, Fionnula Flanagan, Bobby Flay, and the late Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Lamour, Michael Clarke Duncan, Dan Blocker, Mako, Barbara Nichols, Harold Gould, Douglas Kenney, Tommy Rettig, Ray Collins, Una Merkel, Victor McLaglen, John Colicos, and Greg Giraldo. Otis Redding died 51 years ago in 1967 at age 26. Ed Wood died forty years ago in 1978 at age 54. Richard Pryor died thirteen years ago in 2005 at age 65.