Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today is the birthday of Dylan McDermott, Seth MacFarlane, Keith Urban, Rosemarie DeWitt, Hillary Clinton, Cary Elwes, Rita Wilson, Jon Heder, Anthony Rapp, Pat Sajak, Julian Schnabel, Hank Garrett, Tom Cavanagh, James Pickens Jr., Jaclyn Smith, SoKo, Roger Allam, Rupert Wyatt, and the late Bob Hoskins, Don Siegel, Jackie Coogan, Ted Demme, Pat Conroy, Margaret Wycherly, Mark Sandrich, and H.B. Warner. Hattie McDaniel died 66 years ago in 1952 at age 57. Hoyt Axton died nineteen years ago in 1999 at age 61.

Today Marion Ross is 90, and Zachary Knighton is 40. Today is also the birthday of Katy Perry, Mathieu Amalric, James Carville, Craig Robinson, Adam Goldberg, Samantha Bee, Chad Smith, Leslie Grossman, Nancy Cartwright, Michael Weston, Sang-soo Hong, Bob Knight, Kevin Michael Richardson, and the late Pablo Picasso, Leo G. Carroll, Billy Barty, John Matuszak, Anthony Franciosa, Minnie Pearl, Abel Gance, Annie Girardot, Whit Bissell, Jeanne Cooper, Barbara Cook, and Klaus Barbie. Forrest Tucker died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 67. Vincent Price died 25 years ago in 1993 at age 82. Richard Harris died sixteen years ago in 2002 at age 72. Marcia Wallace died five years ago in 2013 at age 70.

Today Martin Campbell is 75. Today is also the birthday of Kevin Kline, F. Murray Abraham, Drake, Jean Allison, Casey Wilson, BD Wong, Zahn McClarnon, Bill Wyman, Tila Tequila, Sal Governale, PewDiePie, Scott Peterson, and the late Bob Kane, David Nelson, Maggie Pierce, I. Stanford Jolley, Moss Hart, and Merian C. Cooper. Edith Massey died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 66. Raúl Juliá died 24 years ago in 1994 at age 54. Rosa Parks died thirteen years ago in 2005 at age 92. Maureen O’Hara died three years ago in 2015 at age 95. Pete Burns died two years ago in 2016 at age 57. Fats Domino and Robert Guillaume died one year ago in 2017, both at 89.

Today Amandla Sternberg is 20. Today is also the birthday of Ryan Reynolds, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Emilia Clarke, Sam Raimi, Ang Lee, Dwight Yoakam, Philip Kaufman, Cat Deeley, Alex Gibney, Pelé, Grant Imahara, Meghan McCain, Nancy Grace, and the late Johnny Carson, Michael Crichton, Coleen Gray, Diana Dors, Frank Sutton, Una O’Connor, Hayden Rorke, Gummo Marx, and Harold P. Warren. Al Jolson died 68 years ago in 1950 at age 64. Oskar Werner died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 61.

Today Ray Stern is 91, Christopher Lloyd and Derek Jacobi are 80, Catherine Deneuve and Jan de Bont are 75, and Corey Hawkins is 30. Today is also the birthday of Jeff Goldblum, Bob Odenkirk, Carmen Ejogo, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jonathan Lipnicki, Tony Roberts, Spike Jonze, Kyle Gallner, Saffron Burrows, Valeria Golino, Carlos Mencia, Bill Condon, Alan Ladd Jr., Julie Dash, Marc Shaiman, Marc Lawrence, Jennifer Lee, and the late Joan Fontaine, Curly Howard, Annette Funicello, Constance Bennett, Timothy Leary, and Catherine E. Coulson. Cleavon Little died 26 years ago in 1992 at age 53. Mary Wickes died 23 years ago in 1995 at age 85. Soupy Sales died nine years ago in 2009 at age 83.

Today Joyce Randolph is 94, Julio Medem is 60, Michael McMillian is 40, and Glen Powell and Hope Hicks are 30. Today is also the birthday of Ken Watanabe, Edith Scob, Melora Walters, Steve Cropper, Andrew Scott, Everett McGill, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Matt Dallas, Jeff Richards, Catherine Hardwicke, Judge Judy Sheindlin, Patti Davis, Benjamin Netanyahu, Amber Rose, Kim Kardashian West, and the late Carrie Fisher, Edna Purviance, Dizzy Gillespie, Leonard Rossiter, and Alfred Nobel. Jack Kerouac died 49 years ago in 1969 at age 47. François Truffaut died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 52.

Today Barrie Chase is 85, Dolores Hart is 80, and Viggo Mortensen is 60. Today is also the birthday of John Krasinski, Snoop Dogg, Danny Boyle, Dan Fogler, Kenneth Choi, Melanie Mayron, Elfriede Jelinek, and the late Bela Lugosi, Margaret Dumont, Tom Petty, Charley Chase, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jerry Orbach, William Christopher, Michael Dunn, Bill Nunn, Arlene Francis, Hélène Surgère, Joyce Brothers, John Anderson, and Rex Ingram. Anthony Quayle died 29 years ago in 1989 at age 76. Joel McCrea died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 84. Burt Lancaster died 24 years ago in 1994 at age 80. Jack Elam died fifteen years ago in 2003 at age 82. Jane Wyatt died twelve years ago in 2006 at age 96.

Today Michael Steele is 60, and Rodney Carrington is 50. Today is also the birthday of John Lithgow, Michael Gambon, Trey Parker, John le Carré, Rebecca Ferguson, Jon Favreau, Chris Kattan, Gillian Jacobs, Tony Lo Bianco, Jason Reitman, Agnès Jaoui, Annie Golden, Omar Gooding, Ty Pennington, Samantha Robinson, Philip Pullman, Ebrahim Golestan, and the late Divine, Tor Johnson, Robert Reed, LaWanda Page, and Juanita Moore. Martha Raye died 24 years ago in 1994 at age 78. Rudy Ray Moore died ten years ago in 2008 at age 81. Tom Bosley died eight years ago in 2010 at age 83.

Today Dawn Wells is 80. Today is also the birthday of Jean-Claude Van Damme, Zac Efron, Freida Pinto, Pam Dawber, Tyler Posey, Joe Morton, Arliss Howard, Ne-Yo, Esperanza Spalding, Chuck Lorre, Howard Shore, Nic Pizzolatto, Lucky Yates, David Twohy, Peter Sohn, Barry Gifford, Bob Weinstein, Mike Ditka, Bristol Palin, Milo Yiannopoulos, and the late George C. Scott, Klaus Kinski, Chuck Berry, Peter Boyle, Miriam Hopkins, Erin Moran, Inger Stevens, Om Puri, Calvin Lockhart, Lotte Lenya, Bobby Troup, who would be 100, Melina Mercouri, Victor Sen Yung, Norman ‘Chubby’ Chaney, Roy Del Ruth, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Henry Travers died 53 years ago in 1965 at age 91. Julie London died eighteen years ago in 2000 at age 74. Dee Dee Warwick died ten years ago in 2008 at age 66.

Today Marsha Hunt is 101, Julie Adams is 92, Don Collier is 90, George Wendt is 70, Alan Jackson is 60, and Ziggy Marley is 50. Today is also the birthday of Felicity Jones, Norm Macdonald, Mike Judge, Michael McKean, Eminem, Rob Marshall, Matthew Macfadyen, Max Irons, Cameron Esposito, Mark Gatiss, Wood Harris, Rizwan Manji, Susan Stroman, and the late Rita Hayworth, who would be 100, Montgomery Clift, Jean Arthur, Arthur Miller, Margot Kidder, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Irene Ryan, Tom Poston, Beverly Garland, Spring Byington, Sam Bottoms, John Marley, Evel Knievel, and Andy Whitfield. Tennessee Ernie Ford died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 72.