Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Mitzi Gaynor is 90, and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter is 40. Today is also the birthday of Damon Wayans, Whitney Cummings, Wes Bentley, Noah Taylor, Max Greenfield, Kyle Mooney, Ione Skye, Jan Švankmajer, Michael Berryman, John DiMaggio, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Anthony Weiner, and the late Howard Morris, Dick York, Richard S. Castellano, Leonard Frey, Edward Dmytryk, Richard Wright, and Paul Harvey. George O’Brien died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 86. Irene Dunne died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 91. Dottie West died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 58. Hervé Villechaize died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 50. Steve Irwin died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 44. Joan Rivers died seven years ago in 2014 at age 81. Bill Daily died three years ago in 2018 at age 91.

Today Irene Papas is 95. Today is also the birthday of Charlie Sheen, Valerie Perrine, Garrett Hedlund, Noah Baumbach, Pauline Collins, Maria Bamford, Holt McCallany, Paz de la Huerta, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Shaun White, Al Jardine, Steve Jones, Redfoo, Malcolm Gladwell, Pilar Pallete, and the late Alan Ladd, Eileen Brennan, Anne Jackson, Mary Grace Canfield, Kitty Carlisle, Mantan Moreland, Freddie King, and Whitey Bulger. Frank Capra died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 94. Michael Clarke Duncan died nine years ago in 2012 at age 54.

Today Mark Harmon is 70. Today is also the birthday of Keanu Reeves, Salma Hayek, Katt Williams, Terry Bradshaw, Mary Jo Catlett, Eugenio Derbez, Robert Shapiro, Keith Allen, Harvey Levin, and the late Hal Ashby, Chuck McCann, Mel Stuart, Marge Champion, and Sue Mengers. J.R.R. Tolkien died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 81. Troy Donahue died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 65. Bob Denver died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 70.

Today Barry Gibb is 75, Boyd Holbrook is 40, and Zendaya is 25. Today is also the birthday of Lily Tomlin, George Maharis, Scott Speedman, Zak Penn, Gloria Estefan, Don Stroud, Burn Gorman, Craig Gillespie, Phil McGraw, and the late Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Farnsworth, Vittorio Gassman, Ron O’Neal, James Rebhorn, and Conway Twitty. Ethel Waters died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 80. Murray Hamilton died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 63. Dean Jones died six years ago in 2015 at age 84. Shelley Berman died four years ago in 2017 at age 92.

Today Chris Tucker is 50, and Joe Swanberg is 40. Today is also the birthday of Richard Gere, Van Morrison, Sara Ramirez, Jonathan Cake, Dee Bradley Baker, Zack Ward, Marc Webb, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Debbie Gibson, Leo Bill, Itzhak Perlman, Marcia Clark, and the late James Coburn, Buddy Hackett, Fredric March, Richard Basehart, Arthur Godfrey, Noble Willingham, Maurice Pialat, and Caligula. John Ford died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 79. Richard Anderson died four years ago in 2017 at age 91.

Today Timothy Bottoms is 70. Today is also the birthday of Cameron Diaz, Michael Chiklis, Lewis Black, Warren Buffett, David Paymer, Robert Crumb, Elizabeth Ashley, Frank Conniff, Lisa Ling, and the late Fred MacMurray, Joan Blondell, Raymond Massey, Peggy Lipton, Shirley Booth, Bill Daily, Mary Shelley, Kitty Wells, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, and Huey Long. Charles Coburn died sixty years ago in 1961 at age 84. Lindsay Anderson died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 71. Charles Bronson died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 81. Glenn Ford died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 90. Wes Craven died six years ago in 2015 at age 76. Valerie Harper died two years ago in 2019 at age 80.

Today Iris Apfel is 100, Betty Lynn is 95, and Carla Gugino is 50. Today is also the birthday of Elliott Gould, William Friedkin, Rebecca De Mornay, Lea Michele, Frank Henenlotter, Tom Six, Dr. Temple Grandin, Liam Payne, Lucas Cruikshank, and the late Ingrid Bergman, who died 39 years ago on her birthday in 1982 at age 67, Michael Jackson, Richard Attenborough, Preston Sturges, Dinah Washington, Charlie Parker, Joel Schumacher, John McCain, Charles Gray, Isabel Sanford, John Locke, and GG Allin. Lee Marvin died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Gene Wilder died five years ago in 2016 at age 83.

Today Jennifer Coolidge is 60. Today is also the birthday of Jack Black, Armie Hammer, David Fincher, Luis Guzmán, Daniel Stern, Ai Weiwei, Billy Boyd, Brian Thompson, David Soul, Ken Jenkins, Florence Welch, Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, Quvenzhane Wallis, Sheryl Sandberg, Alana Thompson (Honey Boo Boo), and the late Donald O’Connor, Charles Boyer, Ben Gazzara, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Rocket, Nancy Kulp, who would be 100, Simon Oakland, Roxie Roker, Jack Kirby, and James Wong Howe. Emmett Till died 66 years ago in 1955 at age 14. Ruth Gordon died 36 years ago in 1985 at age 88. John Huston died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 81. Chadwick Boseman died one year ago in 2020 at age 43.

Today Tom Ford is 60, and Patrick J. Adams is 40. Today is also the birthday of Paul Reubens, Aaron Paul, Tuesday Weld, Peter Stormare, Sarah Chalke, Diana Scarwid, G.W. Bailey, Alexa PenaVega, Shaun Weiss, Ellar Coltrane, Chandra Wilson, Charles Fleischer, Tommy Sands, Robert Richardson, Cesar Millan, and the late Martha Raye, Lyndon Johnson, Lynn Shelton, Harry Reems, James Finlayson, Ira Levin, Theodore Dreiser, who would be 150, Man Ray, and Ed Gein. Gracie Allen died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 69. Robert Shaw died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 51.

Today Barbet Schroeder is 80, Alison Steadman is 75, and Dylan O’Brien is 30. Today is also the birthday of Melissa McCarthy, Chris Pine, Macaulay Culkin, John Mulaney, Wanda De Jesus, Mike Colter, Brett Cullen, Kirk Fox, Chris Burke, and the late Michael Jeter, Katherine Johnson, Jim Davis, Yvette Vickers, Ben Bradlee, who would be 100, and Mother Teresa. Lon Chaney died 91 years ago in 1930 at age 47. Larry Keating died 58 years ago in 1963 at age 67. Kay Francis died 53 years ago in 1968 at age 63. Charles Boyer died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 78. Ted Knight died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 62. Tobe Hooper died four years ago in 2017 at age 74. Neil Simon died three years ago in 2018 at age 91.