Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today is the birthday of Elisabeth Shue, Ioan Gruffudd, Britt Ekland, Olivia Thirlby, Jeremy Sisto, Wendy Robie, Jsu Garcia, Craig Zobel, Matt Porterfield, Leslie Moonves, and the late Carole Lombard, Janet Gaynor, Fay Spain, Jerome Cowan, and Mitchell Leisen. Tod Browning died 56 years ago in 1962 at age 82. Dennis Price died 45 years ago in 1973 at age 58. Bette Davis died 29 years ago in 1989 at age 81. Denholm Elliott died 26 years ago in 1992 at age 70. Richard Farnsworth died eighteen years ago in 2000 at age 80.

Today Glynis Johns is 95, and Neil deGrasse Tyson is 60. Today is also the birthday of Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Jesse Eisenberg, Karen Allen, Jacob Tremblay, Clive Barker, Parminder Nagra, Daniel Baldwin, Laura Gemser, Tom Hooper, Ti West, Scott Weinger, and the late Larry Fine, Donald Pleasence, Bernie Mac, Louis Lumière, Jeff Conaway, Bill Dana, Diane Cilento, Gail Davis, Skip Homeier, John Hoyt, and Allen Ludden. Jean Vigo died 84 years ago in 1934 at age 29. Barbara Nichols died 42 years ago in 1976 at age 47. Gloria Grahame died 37 years ago in 1981 at age 57. Rodney Dangerfield died fourteen years ago in 2004 at age 82. Steve Jobs and Charles Napier died seven years ago in 2011. Jobs was 56. Napier was 75. Geoffrey Holder died four years ago in 2014 at age 84. Chantal Ackerman died three years ago in 2015 at age 65.

Today Mick Jackson is 75, and Melissa Benoist is 30. Today is also the birthday of Susan Sarandon, Liev Schreiber, Christoph Waltz, Alicia Silverstone, Dakota Johnson, Anne Rice, Russell Simmons, Caitriona Balfe, Armand Assante, Vicky Krieps, Abraham Benrubi, Sarah Lancashire, Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the late Buster Keaton, Charlton Heston, Jackie Collins, George Sidney, John Larch, Scotty Beckett, Philip Van Zandt, and Stan Dragoti. Janis Joplin died 48 years ago in 1970 at age 27. Graham Chapman died 29 years ago in 1989 at age 48. Buddy Lester died sixteen years ago in 2002 at age 87.

Today Alicia Vikander is 30. Today is also the birthday of Clive Owen, Neve Campbell, Seann William Scott, Tessa Thompson, Denis Villeneuve, Lena Headey, Chubby Checker, Tommy Wiseau, John Patrick Shanley, Al Sharpton, Greg Proops, Gwen Stefani, Janel Moloney, Tommy Lee, and the late Gore Vidal, Leo McCarey, Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Michael Hordern, Charles Middleton, Julien Duvivier, and Gertrude Berg. Woody Guthrie died 51 years ago in 1967 at age 55. Roddy McDowall died twenty years ago in 1998 at age 70. Janet Leigh died fourteen years ago in 2004 at age 77.

Today Rex Reed is 80, and Avery Brooks is 70. Today is also the birthday of Sting, Lorraine Bracco, Kelly Ripa, Maribel Verdú, Lew Temple, Ian McNeice, Efren Ramirez, Annie Leibovitz, Terence Winter, Jeff Bennett, Tiffany, Claudio Fragasso, and the late Groucho Marx, Bud Abbott, George ‘Spanky’ McFarland, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Charles Drake, Moses Gunn, Graham Greene, Shirley Clarke, Robin Hardy, Nat Turner, and Johnnie Cochran. Rock Hudson died 33 years ago in 1985 at age 59. Harriet Nelson died 24 years ago in 1994 at age 85. Nipsey Russell died thirteen years ago in 2005 at age 87. Tom Petty died one year ago in 2017 at age 66.

Today Jimmy Carter is 94, Stella Stevens is 80, and Jean-Jacques Annaud is 75. Today is also the birthday of Julie Andrews, Brie Larson, Zach Galifianakis, Randy Quaid, Rupert Friend, Stephen Collins, Josh Brener, Leila Hatami, Marielle Heller, Theresa May, and the late Walter Matthau, Richard Harris, James Whitmore, Laurence Harvey, George Peppard, Tom Bosley, Everett Sloane, Ted Healy, Philippe Noiret, Stanley Holloway, and Ip Man. E.B. White died 33 years ago in 1985 at age 86. Tom Clancy died five years ago in 2013 at age 66.

Today is the birthday of Marion Cotillard, Monica Bellucci, Tony Hale, Angie Dickinson, Ezra Miller, Johnny Mathis, Fran Drescher, JENNA ELFMAN, Amy Landecker, Barry Williams, Eric Stoltz, Kieran Culkin, Nancy Ames, Victoria Tennant, Steve Stoliar, and the late Deborah Kerr, Truman Capote, Michael Powell, Elie Wiesel, Dan O’Bannon, Buddy Rich, Frankie Lymon, Jack Wild, and Lewis Milestone. James Dean died 63 years ago in 1955 at age 24. Edgar Bergen died forty years ago in 1978 at age 75. Simone Signoret died 33 years ago in 1985 at age 64.

Today Bryant Gumbel is 70. Today is also the birthday of Jerry Lee Lewis, Ian McShane, Andrew Dice Clay, Zachary Levi, Nicolas Winding Refn, Chrissy Metz, Mackenzie Crook, Robert Webb, Russell Peters, Roger Bart, Dale Dickey, Robert Benton, Silvio Berlusconi, and the late Michelangelo Antonioni, Madeline Kahn, Stanley Kramer, Greer Garson, Anita Ekberg, Gene Autry, Caravaggio, Trevor Howard, Steve Forrest, and Larry Linville. Charles Addams died thirty years ago in 1988 at age 76. Lois Maxwell died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 80. Tony Curtis and Greg Giraldo died eight years ago in 2010. Curtis was 85. Giraldo was 44.

Today Naomi Watts is 50, and Hana Mae Lee is 30. Today is also the birthday of Brigitte Bardot, Mira Sorvino, Janeane Garofalo, John Sayles, Hilary Duff, Jeffrey Jones, Sarah Wright, Bam Margera, Moon Unit Zappa, Keir Gilchrist, and the late Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Finch, Ed Sullivan, Christopher Evan Welch, Arnold Stang, who would be 100, J.T. Walsh, Sylvia Kristel, William Windom, and Harris Savides. Harpo Marx died 54 years ago in 1964 at age 75. Miles Davis died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 65.

Today Kathleen Nolan is 85, and Shaun Cassidy is 60. Today is also the birthday of Gwyneth Paltrow, Meat Loaf, Marc Maron, Wilford Brimley, Andy Lau, Carrie Brownstein, Anna Camp, Lola Kirke, Avril Lavigne, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Liz Torres, Scott Lawrence, Jean-Marc Barr, Thomas Mann, Indira Varma, Lil Wayne, and the late Arthur Penn, William Conrad, Will Sampson, Greg Morris, Jayne Meadows, and Miklós Jancsó. Clara Bow died 53 years ago in 1965 at age 60. Donald O’Connor died fifteen years ago in 2003 at age 78. Herbert Lom died six years ago in 2012 at age 95.