Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today is the birthday of Werner Herzog, Bob Newhart, Michael Keaton, Raquel Welch, George Lazenby, Rose McGowan, Paddy Considine, Carice van Houten, William Devane, Christopher Morris, Carol Lawrence, Dennis Dugan, Sergey Loznitsa, and the late Freddie Mercury, Jesse James, Gloria Holden, Darryl F. Zanuck, Jack Valenti, and Moshé Mizrahi. Barbara Loden died 38 years ago in 1980 at age 48. Mother Teresa died 21 years ago in 1997 at age 87. Setsuko Hara died three years ago in 2015 at age 95. Hugh O’Brian died two years ago in 2016 at age 91.

Today Michael Berryman is 70, Dr. Drew Pinsky is 60, John DiMaggio and Phill Lewis are 50, and Wes Bentley is 40. Today is also the birthday of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Damon Wayans, Whitney Cummings, Mitzi Gaynor, Max Greenfield, Kyle Mooney, Noah Taylor, Ione Skye, Jan Svankmajer, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Anthony Weiner, and the late Howard Morris, Dick York, Richard S. Castellano, Leonard Frey, Edward Dmytryk, Richard Wright, and Paul Harvey, who would be 100. George O’Brien died 33 years ago in 1985 at age 86. Irene Dunne died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 91. Dottie West died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 58. Hervé Villechaize committed suicide 25 years ago in 1993 at age 50. Steve Irwin died twelve years ago in 2006 at age 44. Joan Rivers died four years ago in 2014 at age 81.

Today Irene Papas is 92, Pilar Pallete is 90, and Valerie Perrine is 75. Today is also the birthday of Charlie Sheen, Garrett Hedlund, Paz de la Huerta, Maria Bamford, Pauline Collins, Holt McCallany, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Noah Baumbach, Shaun White, Al Jardine, Steve Jones, Redfoo, Malcolm Gladwell, Whitey Bulger, and the late Alan Ladd, Eileen Brennan, Anne Jackson, Mary Grace Canfield, Kitty Carlisle, Mantan Moreland, and Freddie King. Frank Capra died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 94. Michael Clarke Duncan died six years ago in 2012 at age 54.

Today Marge Champion is 99, Mary Jo Catlett is 80, and Terry Bradshaw is 70. Today is also the birthday of Keanu Reeves, Salma Hayek, Katt Williams, Mark Harmon, Eugenio Derbez, Robert Shapiro, Keith Allen, Harvey Levin, and the late Hal Ashby, Chuck McCann, Mel Stuart, and Sue Mengers. J.R.R. Tolkien died 45 years ago in 1973 at age 81. Troy Donahue died seventeen years ago in 2001 at age 65. Bob Denver died thirteen years ago in 2005 at age 70.

Today George Maharis is 90, Don Stroud is 75, and Zak Penn is 50. Today is also the birthday of Lily Tomlin, Barry Gibb, Scott Speedman, Boyd Holbrook, Gloria Estefan, Burn Gorman, Zendaya, 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 41 years ago in 1977 at age 80. Murray Hamilton died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 63. Dean Jones died three years ago in 2015 at age 84.

Today is the birthday of Richard Gere, Van Morrison, Chris Tucker, Sara Ramirez, Jonathan Cake, Dee Bradley Baker, Zack Ward, Larry Hankin, Joe Swanberg, Marc Webb, Stephen 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 45 years ago in 1973 at age 79. Richard Anderson died one year ago in 2017 at age 91.

Today Bill Daily is 91, and Lewis Black is 70. Today is also the birthday of Cameron Diaz, Michael Chiklis, Peggy Lipton, Warren Buffett, David Paymer, Elizabeth Ashley, Timothy Bottoms, Frank Conniff, Lisa Lang, and the late Fred MacMurray, Joan Blondell, Raymond Massey, Shirley Booth, Mary Shelley, Kitty Wells, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, and Huey Long. Charles Coburn died 57 years ago in 1961 at age 84. Lindsay Anderson died 24 years ago in 1994 at age 71. Charles Bronson died fifteen years ago in 2003 at age 81. Glenn Ford died twelve years ago in 2006 at age 90. Wes Craven died three years ago in 2015 at age 76.

Today Iris Apfel is 97, Betty Lynn is 92, Elliott Gould is 80, and Liam Payne and Lucas Cruikshank are 25. Today is also the birthday of William Friedkin, Joel Schumacher, Carla Gugino, Rebecca De Mornay, Lea Michele, Frank Henenlotter, Tom Six, Dr. Temple Grandin, and the late Ingrid Bergman, who died on her birthday in 1982 at age 67, Michael Jackson, Richard Attenborough, Preston Sturges, Dinah Washington, Charlie Parker, John McCain, Charles Gray, Isabel Sanford, John Locke, and GG Allin. Lee Marvin died 31 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Gene Wilder died two years ago in 2016 at age 83.

Today David Soul is 75, Billy Boyd is 50, and Quvenzhané Wallis is 15. Today is also the birthday of Jack Black, Armie Hammer, David Fincher, Jennifer Coolidge, Luis Guzmán, Daniel Stern, Ai Weiwei, Brian Thompson, Ken Jenkins, Florence Welch, Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, Sheryl Sandberg, Alana Thompson (Honey Boo Boo), and the late Donald O’Connor, Charles Boyer, Ben Gazzara, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Rocket, Nancy Kulp, Simon Oakland, Roxie Roker, Jack Kirby, and James Wong Howe. Emmett Till was murdered 63 years ago in 1955 at age 14. Ruth Gordon died 83 years ago in 1985 at age 88. John Huston died 31 years ago in 1987 at age 81.

Today Tuesday Weld is 75, Shaun Weiss is 40, and Alexa PenaVega is 30. Today is also the birthday of Paul Reubens, Aaron Paul, Tom Ford, Peter Stormare, Sarah Chalke, Patrick J. Adams, Diana Scarwid, G.W. Bailey, Ellar Coltrane, Chandra Wilson, Charles Fleischer, Tommy Sands, Robert Richardson, Cesar Millan, and the late Martha Raye, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Reems, James Finlayson, Ira Levin, Theodore Dreiser, Man Ray, and Ed Gein. Gracie Allen died 54 years ago in 1964 at age 69. Robert Shaw died forty years ago in 1978 at age 51.