Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today is the birthday of Don Cheadle, Diane Ladd, Joel Coen, Anna Faris, Tom Sizemore, Howie Mandel, Chadwick Boseman, Cathy Moriarty, Lucas Black, Jackie Hoffman, Gemma Chan, Jeff Fahey, Brian Baumgartner, Kim Delaney, Tom Wright, Jerry Lawler, Simon Amstell, Ehren McGhehey, and the late Garry Shandling, Busby Berkeley, C. S. Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, and Yakima Canutt. Godfrey Cambridge died 42 years ago in 1976 at age 43. Natalie Wood died 37 years ago in 1981 at age 43. Cary Grant died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 82. Ralph Bellamy died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 87. George Harrison died seventeen years ago in 2001 at age 58. Patrice O’Neal died seven years ago in 2011 at age 41.

Today Randy Newman is 75, and Agnieszka Holland is 70. Today is also the birthday of Ed Harris, Jon Stewart, Paul Shaffer, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Judd Nelson, Alfonso Cuarón, Joe Dante, Armando Iannucci, Karen Gillan, Martin Clunes, Berry Gordy, S. Epatha Merkerson, Ryan Kwanten, Colman Domingo, Stephnie Weir, Paul Dinello, Rose Abdoo, Pamela Hayden, and the late Gloria Grahame, James Karen, Hope Lange, Anna Nicole Smith, Michael Ritchie, Lilia Skala, Stefan Zweig, and Max Wagner. Rosalind Russell died 42 years ago in 1976 at age 69. Leslie Nielsen died eight years ago in 2010 at age 84. Marjorie Lord died three years ago in 2015 at age 97.

Today is the birthday of Kathryn Bigelow, Bill Nye, William Fichtner, Alison Pill, Robin Givens, Sharlto Copley, Elizabeth Marvel, Fisher Stevens, Jaleel White, Steve Oedekerk, Kirk Acevedo, Samantha Bond, Curtis Armstrong, Kimmy Robertson, Michael Rispoli, Tadanobu Asano, Gerrit Graham, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paulina García, Caroline Kennedy, Callie Khouri, Barbara Anderson, Adam Shankman, Stephen K. Bannon, and the late Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Lee, Claude Lanzmann, James Avery, Les Blank, Connie Sawyer, “Buffalo” Bob Smith, Ronit Elkabetz, and James Agee. Harvey Milk was assassinated forty years ago in 1978 at age 48. John Carradine died thirty years ago in 1988 at age 82. Irvin Kershner died eight years ago in 2010 at age 87.

Today Rich Little is 80. Today is also the birthday of Tina Turner, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Mark Margolis, DJ Khaled, Scott Adsit, Don Lake, Julien Temple, Mark L. Lester, and the late Robert Goulet, Charles M. Schultz, Albert Maysles, Cyril Cusack, Frances Dee, Daniel Petrie, and Charles Brackett. Tommy Dorsey died 62 years ago in 1956 at age 51. Mel Tolkin died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 94.

Today Kathryn Grant is 85, Beverly Washburn is 75, and Jill Hennessy is 50. Today is also the birthday of Christina Applegate, John Larroquette, Joel Kinnaman, Ben Stein, Dougray Scott, Billy Burke, Mary Jo Deschanel, Tracey Walter, Gaspard Ulliel, Mark Frost, Amy Seimetz, Gregg Turkington, Amy Grant, Bruno Tonioli, Charlaine Harris, Barbara and Jenna Bush, and the late Ricardo Montalban, Joe DiMagggio, John Kennedy Jr., Jeffrey Hunter, Noel Neill, Jessie Royce Landis, and Augusto Pinochet. Bill “Bojangles” Robinson died 69 years ago in 1949 at age 72. Upton Sinclair died fifty years ago in 1968 at age 90. Jack Albertson died 37 years ago in 1981 at age 74. Flip Wilson died twenty years ago in 1998 at age 64. Fidel Castro and Ron Glass died two years ago in 2016. Castro was 90. Glass was 71. Rance Howard died one year ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today Katherine Heigl is 40. Today is also the birthday Billy Connolly, Stephen Merchant, Shirley Henderson, Colin Hanks, Garret Dillahunt, Thierry Lhermitte, Danielle Nicolet, Sarah Hyland, Stanley Livingston, Conleth Hill, Dwight Schultz, Ulrich Seidl, Emir Kusturica, and the late William F. Buckley, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Cathleen Nesbitt, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Forrest J. Ackerman, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Garson Kanin, Zachary Taylor, and Ted Bundy. Lee Harvey Oswald died 55 years ago in 1963 at age 24. George Raft died 38 years ago in 1978 at age 79. Freddie Mercury died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 45. Pat Morita died thirteen years ago in 2005 at age 73.

Today Sara Karloff is 80, Bruce Vilanch is 70, Brennan Brown is 50, and Destin Daniel Cretton is 40. Today is also the birthday of Vincent Cassel, Robert Towne, Franco Nero, Miley Cyrus, Robin Roberts, James Toback, Chris Hardwick, Joe Eszterhas, Danny Hoch, Chuck Schumer, Nicole Polizzi, and the late Boris Karloff, Harpo Marx, Michael Gough, Robert Easton, Paula Raymond, Steve Landesberg, Elmarie Wendel, Run Run Shaw, Pierre Étaix, Bess Flowers, and Franklin Pierce. Klaus Kinski died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 65. Louis Malle died 23 years ago in 1995 at age 63. Larry Hagman died six years ago in 2012 at age 81.

Today Billie Jean King is 75, Jamie Lee Curtis is 60, Karen O is 40, and Adèle Exarchopoulos is 25. Today is also the birthday of Scarlett Johansson, Terry Gilliam, Mark Ruffalo, Mads Mikkelsen, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Kenneth Williams, Stevie Van Zandt, Alden Ehrenreich, Allen Garfield, Richard Kind, Leos Carax, Marjane Satrapi, Robert M. Young, and the late Rodney Dangerfield, Geraldine Page, Robert Vaughn, Lee Patrick, Arthur Hiller, Andrzej Zulawski, Charles de Gaulle, Elizabeth Patterson, and Paul A. Partain. Jack London died 102 years ago in 1916 at age 40. Shemp Howard died 63 years ago in 1955 at age 60. John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley died 55 years ago in 1963. Kennedy was 46, Lewis was 64, and Huxley was 69. Mae West died 38 years ago in 1980 at age 87. Michael Conrad died 35 years ago in 1983 at age 58. Scatman Crothers died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 76. Sterling Holloway died 26 years ago in 1992 at age 87. Bill Bixby and Anthony Burgess died 25 years ago in 1993. Bixby was 59. Burgess was 76. Florence Henderson died two years ago in 2016 at age 82.

Today is the birthday of Goldie Hawn, Björk, Marlo Thomas, Michael Strahan, Jena Malone, Cherry Jones, Nicollette Sheridan, Rain Phoenix, Alexander Siddig, Juliet Mills, Jimmi Simpson, Cynthia Rhodes, Lorna Luft, Thomas Mars, Carly Rae Jepsen, Andrew Davis, and the late Harold Ramis, Eleanor Powell, Joseph Campanella, Vivian Blaine, Ralph Meeker, and Voltaire. Jerry Colonna died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 82. David Cassidy died one year ago in 2017 at age 67.

Today Veronica Hamel and Mie Hama are 75, and Richard Masur is 70. Today is also the birthday of Sean Young, Bo Derek, Dick Smothers, Joel McHale, Andrea Riseborough, Estelle Parsons, Joe Biden, Bob Einstein, Joe Walsh, Dierks Bentley, Ming-Na Wen, Callie Thorne, Don DeLillo, Larry Karaszewski, Kaye Ballard, Jerry Hardin, Ned Vaughn, Judy Woodruff, Samuel E. Wright, Rodger Bumpass, Jeff Dowd, and the late Robert F. Kennedy, Richard Dawson, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Robert Armstrong, Evelyn Keyes, Phyllis Thaxter, Reginald Denny, Franklin Cover, and Kon Ichikawa. Allan Sherman died 45 years ago in 1973 at age 48. Richard Loo died 35 years ago in 1983 at age 80. Robert Altman died twelve years ago in 2006 at age 81.