Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Kirk Douglas is 102, and Kurt Angle is 50. Today is also the birthday of Judi Dench, John Malkovich, Beau Bridges, Felicity Huffman, Donny Osmond, Simon Helberg, Buck Henry, Toby Huss, Michael Nouri, Michael Dorn, Mario Cantone, John Paragon, Neil Innes, Kirsten Gillibrand, and the late John Cassavetes, Redd Foxx, Broderick Crawford, Margaret Hamilton, Hermione Gingold, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Dalton Trumbo, Dick Van Patten, Emmett Kelly, and John Milton. Joey Forman died 36 years ago in 1982 at age 53. Mike Mazurki died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 82. Vincent Gardenia died 26 years ago in 1992 at age 72. Jenni Rivera died six years ago in 2012 at age 43.

Today Ian Somerhalder is 40, and AnnaSophia Robb is 25. Today is also the birthday of Kim Basinger, Teri Hatcher, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sinéad O’Connor, Nicki Minaj, Wendell Pierce, David Harewood, Dominic Monaghan, Nancy Meyers, Rick Baker, Debora-Lee Furness, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Junkie XL (Tom Holkenborg), Tyler Mane, Juliette Danielle, Ann Coulter, and the late Sammy Davis Jr., Maximilian Schell, Jim Morrison, Gregg Allman, David Carradine, Flip Wilson, Sam Kinison, Georges Méliès, Lee J. Cobb, Mary, Queen of Scots, James MacArthur, Frank Faylen, John Qualen, James Thurber, Jean Porter, Dewey Martin, Richard Fleischer, and Ernest Lehman. Gladys George died 64 years ago in 1954 at age 54. John Lennon died 38 years ago in 1980 at age 40. Slim Pickens died 35 years ago in 1983 at age 64. Martin Ritt died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 76. Robert Prosky died ten years ago in 2008 at age 77.

Today Noam Chomsky is 90, Shiri Appleby, Kristofer Hivju, and Jeff Nichols are 40, and Emily Browning is 30. Today is also the birthday of Ellen Burstyn, Tom Waits, Jeffrey Wright, Nicholas Hoult, Jack Huston, Jennifer Carpenter, Mark Duplass, James Keach, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Rolston, Caleb Landry Jones, Patrick Fabian, Kenneth Colley, Clive Russell, Priscilla Barnes, Abdellatif Kechiche, Larry Bird, Aaron Carter, Chris Crocker, and the late Eli Wallach, Ted Knight, Louis Prima, Patrice O’Neal, Leigh Brackett, Hurd Hatfield, Fay Bainter, Rod Cameron, Johnny Duncan, and Jordon Parks Jr. Joan Bennett died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 80. Harry Morgan died seven years ago in 2011 at age 96.

Today JoBeth Williams is 70, and Nick Park is 60. Today is also the birthday of Judd Apatow, Steven Wright, Tom Hulce, Ulrich Thomsen, Janine Turner, Leon Russom, Alain Tanner, Shekhar Kapur, Craig Brewer, Andrew Cuomo, and the late Agnes Moorehead, Wally Cox, Bobby Van, Ira Gershwin, Dave Brubeck, Sergio Corbucci, and Richard Speck. Roy Orbison died thirty years ago in 1988 at age 52. Frances Bavier died 29 years ago in 1989 at age 86. Don Ameche died 25 years ago in 1993 at age 85. Werner Klemperer died eighteen years ago in 2000 at age 80.

Today Margaret Cho and Lisa Marie are 50. Today is also the birthday of Joan Didion, Little Richard, Frankie Muniz, Paula Patton, Jeroen Krabbé, Nick Stahl, Jessica Paré, Lynne Ramsay, Dolly Wells, Morgan Brittany, Amy Acker, and the late Walt Disney, Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, Emeric Pressburger, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Hayes, Alvy Moore, Nunnally Johnson, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Martin Van Buren, George Armstrong Custer, and Strom Thurmond. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 227 years ago in 1791 at age 35. Robert Aldrich died 35 years ago in 1983 at age 65. Nelson Mandela died five years ago in 2013 at age 95.

Today Wink Martindale is 85. Today is also the birthday of Jeff Bridges, Marisa Tomei, Jay Z, Fred Armisen, Tyra Banks, Tony Todd, Max Baer Jr., Gemma Jones, Pei-Pei Cheng, Patricia Wettig, Corinne Marchand, Kevin Sussman, Mick Garris, Álex de la Iglesia, Pamela Stephenson, Yôjirô Takita, ‘Melrose’ Larry Green, and the late Deanna Durbin, Ronnie Corbett, Dennis Wilson, Horst Buchholz, Victor French, Donnelly Rhodes, Gérard Philipe, Michael Bates, Mark Robson, Lloyd Bacon, Alex North, Cornell Woolrich, and Francisco Franco. Bert Lahr died 51 years ago in 1967 at age 72. Frank Zappa died 25 years ago in 1993 at age 52.

Today Ozzy Osbourne is 70, and Brendan Fraser is 50. Today is also the birthday of Julianne Moore, Jean-Luc Godard, Daryl Hannah, Amanda Seyfried, Tiffany Haddish, Anna Chlumsky, Michael Angarano, Steven Culp, Steve Harris, Andrew Stanton, Adam Wingard, Jenna Dewan, Jake T. Austin, and the late Andy Williams, Joseph Conrad, Len Lesser, Don Calfa, Mel Smith, and Sven Nykvist. Maria Ouspenskaya died 69 years ago in 1949 at age 73. Madeline Kahn died 19 years ago in 1999 at age 57. David Hemmings died fifteen years ago in 2003 at age 62.

Today Lucy Liu and Rena Sofer are 50, and Alfred Enoch is 30. Today is also the birthday of Britney Spears, Joe Lo Truglio, Dennis Christopher, Steven Bauer, Brendan Coyle, Connie Booth, Dan Butler, Penelope Spheeris, Harry Reid, and the late Julie Harris, Maria Callas, Ray Walston, Leo Gordon, Jonathan Frid, Bill Irwin, Gianni Versace, Warren William, Robert F. Simon, and Vilgot Sjöman. Marty Feldman died 36 years ago in 1982 at age 48. Desi Arnaz died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 69. Robert Cummings died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 80. Joey Adams died nineteen years ago in 1999 at age 88.

Today Zoë Kravitz is 30. Today is also the birthday of Woody Allen, Bette Midler, Sarah Silverman, Emily Mortimer, Janelle Monáe, Treat Williams, Riz Ahmed, Jonathan Katz, Deep Roy, Nestor Carbonell, Nate Torrence, David Hornsby, Akiva Schaffer, Larry Charles, Andrew Adamson, Rick Scott, and the late Richard Pryor, Dick Shawn, Mary Martin, David Doyle, Paul Picerni, Matthew Shepard, and Pablo Escobar. James Baldwin died 31 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Paul Benedict died ten years ago in 2008 at age 70.

Today Terrence Malick is 75, Gael García Bernal, Clay Aiken, and Robert Kirkman are 40, and Mia Goth is 25. Today is also the birthday of Ben Stiller, David Mamet, Mandy Patinkin, Billy Idol, Ridley Scott, Kaley Cuoco, Ryan Murphy, Colin Mochrie, Cherie Currie, Billy Drago, Marina Abramovic, Steve Aoki, Hiam Abbass, Elisha Cuthbert, David Yates, Chris Weitz, Emmanuel Lubezki, Marc Forster, Henry Selick, Michael Hoffman, P.J. Hogan, Lenny Abrahamson, Judith Roberts, William Dear, Chrissy Teigen, G. Gordon Liddy, and the late Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Jonathan Swift, Richard Crenna, Virginia Mayo, Robert Guillaume, Dick Clark, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., who would be 100, Rex Reason, Gordon Parks, Nelsan Ellis, Allan Sherman, Jean Eustache, Shirley Chisholm, and Abbie Hoffman. Ernst Lubitsch died 71 years ago in 1947 at age 55. Zeppo Marx died 39 years ago in 1979 at age 78. Lionel Stander died 24 years ago in 1994 at age 86. Evel Knievel died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 69. Paul Walker died five years ago in 2013 at age 40. Jim Nabors died one year ago in 2017 at age 87.