Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Wanda De Jesus is 60. Today is also the birthday of Melissa McCarthy, Chris Pine, Macaulay Culkin, John Mulaney, Dylan O’Brien, Alison Steadman, Barbet Schroeder, Mike Colter, Brett Cullen, Kirk Fox, Chris Burke, and the late Michael Jeter, Jim Davis, Yvette Vickers, Ben Bradlee, and Mother Teresa. Lon Chaney died 88 years ago in 1930 at age 47. Larry Keating died 55 years ago in 1963 at age 67. Kay Francis died fifty years ago in 1968 at age 63. Charles Boyer died forty years ago in 1978 at age 78. Ted Knight died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 62.

Today Sean Connery is 88, Regis Philbin is 87, Tom Skerritt is 85, Tim Burton is 60, Rachael Ray is 50, and Kel Mitchell is 40. Today is also the birthday of Elvis Costello, Alexander Skarsgård, Gene Simmons, Blake Lively, Tom Hollander, John Savage, Ben Falcone, Blair Underwood, Simon McBurney, Mink Stole, Jeff Tweedy, Billy Ray Cyrus, Joe Wright, John Badham, Fatih Akin, Hugh Hudson, and the late Leonard Bernstein, who would be 100, Mel Ferrer, Van Johnson, Michael Rennie, Don DeFore, Monty Hall, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and George Wallace. Paul Muni died 51 years ago in 1967 at age 71. Truman Capote died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 59. Aaliyah died seventeen years ago in 2001 in a plane crash at age 22. Marvin Kaplan died two years ago in 2016 at age 89.

Today Steve Guttenberg is 60, and Rupert Grint is 30. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Fry, Dave Chappelle, Marlee Matlin, David Koechner, Jared Harris, James D’Arcy, Anne Archer, Ava DuVernay, Ronee Blakley, Dana Gould, Kevin Dunn, Takashi Miike, Craig Kilborn, Vince McMahon, David Gregory, Rodrigo García, and the late Kenny Baker, Hal Smith, Yasser Arafat, and Christine Chubbuck. Kenji Mizoguchi died 62 years ago in 1956 at age 58. Louis Prima died forty years ago in 1978 at age 67. E.G. Marshall died twenty years ago in 1998 at age 84. Julie Harris died five years ago in 2013 at age 87. Richard Attenborough died four years ago in 2014 at age 90. Jay Thomas died one year ago in 2017 at age 69.

Today Vera Miles is 89, Barbara Eden is 87, and Kobe Bryant and Andrew Rannells are 40. Today is also the birthday of Shelley Long, Chan-wook Park, Jay Mohr, Scott Caan, Ray Park, Rick Springfield, Joanne Froggatt, Lexi Alexander, Kirby Dick, Roger Avary, Alexandre Desplat, Leslie Van Houten, Jared Fogle, and the late Gene Kelly, Keith Moon, River Phoenix, Marian Seldes, Robert Mulligan, and James Millhollin. Francis X. Bushman died 52 years ago in 1966 at age 83. Kathleen Freeman died seventeen years ago in 2001 at age 82. Brock Peters died thirteen years ago in 2005 at age 78.

Today Micheline Presle is 94, Honor Blackman is 93, Roy Guerra is 87, Colm Feore is 60, Casper Christensen is 50, and James Corden is 40. Today is also the birthday of Kristen Wiig, Valerie Harper, Cindy Williams, Ty Burrell, David Chase, Richard Armitage, Rodrigo Santoro, Chia-Hui Liu, Mark Williams, Courtney Gains, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Tori Amos, Andrew Wilson, Robert Wall, Rick Yune, Kay Cannon, and the late Ray Bradbury, John Lee Hooker, Leni Riefenstahl, Dorothy Parker, Claude Debussy, Cecil Kellaway, Elisabeth Bergner, Sylvia Koscina, John Lupton, and Andréas Voutsinas.

Today Melvin Van Peebles is 86, Kenny Rogers is 80, and Kacey Musgraves is 30. Today is also the birthday of Kim Cattrall, Carrie-Anne Moss, Patty McCormack, Hayden Panettiere, Bo Burnham, Loretta Devine, Alicia Witt, Marc Evan Jackson, Clarence Williams III, Cleo King, Peter Weir, RJ Mitte, and the late Joe Strummer, Jack Weston, Tom Tully, Marie Blake, Frank Perry, and David Lochary. Danny Lockin died 41 years ago in 1977 at age 34 after being stabbed over 100 times.

Today Sylvester McCoy is 75, Robert Plant and John Noble are 70, and David O. Russell is 60. Today is also the birthday of Amy Adams, Andrew Garfield, Joan Allen, Ray Wise, Demi Lovato, Al Roker, David Walliams, James Marsters, Colin Cunningham, Don King, Billy Gardell, Eddie Paskey, Peter Horton, Fred Durst, Mark Borchardt, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Sally Yates, Ron Paul, and the late Isaac Hayes, H.P. Lovecraft, Alan Reed, Jim Reeves, André Morell, and Mikio Naruse. Kim Stanley died seventeen years ago in 2001 at age 76. Phyllis Diller died six years ago in 2012 at age 95. Elmore Leonard died five years ago in 2013 at age 87. Jerry Lewis died one year ago in 2017 at age 91.

Today L.Q. Jones is 91, Debra Paget is 85, Diana Muldaur is 80, and Jim Carter and Ian McElhinney are 70. Today is also the birthday of Bill Clinton, Matthew Perry, Kyra Sedgwick, John Stamos, Jonathan Frakes, Peter Gallagher, Gerald McRaney, Melissa Fumero, Jill St. John, Adam Arkin, Kevin Dillon, Tracie Thoms, Maria de Medeiros, Pablo Larraín, and the late Gene Roddenberry, Coco Chanel, Fred Dalton Thompson, William Marshall, Angus Scrimm, Olga Baclanova, and Orville Wright. Alastair Sim died 42 years ago in 1976 at age 75. Groucho Marx died 41 years ago in 1977 at age 86. Tony Scott committed suicide six years ago in 2012 at age 68. Jack Riley died two years ago in 2016 at age 80. Dick Gregory died one year ago in 2017 at age 84.

Today Roman Polanski is 85, Martin Mull is 75, Madeleine Stowe is 60, and Andy Samberg is 40. Today is also the birthday of Robert Redford, Edward Norton, Christian Slater, Denis Leary, Craig Bierko, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Kaitlin Olson, Sarita Choudhury, and the late Shelley Winters, Patrick Swayze, Don Keefer, Reg E. Cathey, and Marcel Carné. Elmer Bernstein died fourteen years ago in 2004 at age 82.

Today Robert De Niro is 75, Belinda Carlisle is 60, Helen McCrory is 50, and Brady Corbet is 30. Today is also the birthday of Sean Penn, Donnie Wahlberg, Taissa Farmiga, Austin Butler, Julian Fellowes, Larry B. Scott, Tim Bagley, Robert Joy, Jonathan Franzen, Martha Coolidge, Giuliana Rancic, and the late Mae West, Maureen O’Hara, Davy Crockett, Samuel Goldwyn, Monty Woolley, Glenn Corbett, Mark Felt, and Evelyn Ankers, who would be 100. Vivian Vance died 39 years ago in 1979 at age 70. Ira Gershwin died 35 years ago in 1983 at age 86. Pearl Bailey died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 72. Yvonne Craig died three years ago in 2015 at age 78. Arthur Hiller died two years ago in 2016 at age 92.