Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Peter Bonerz is 80, and Michael Anderson Jr. is 75. Today is also the birthday of M. Night Shyamalan, Vera Farmiga, Michelle Yeoh, Leland Orser, Merrin Dungey, Catherine Hicks, Leslie Odom Jr., Peter Simonischek, Inga Landgré, and the late Robert Mitchum, Lucille Ball, Andy Warhol, Frank Finlay, Charles Crichton, Paul Bartel, and Umberto Lenzi. Preston Sturges died 59 years ago in 1959 at age 60. Rick James died fourteen years ago in 2004 at age 56. John Hughes died nine years ago in 2009 at age 59.

Today is the birthday of Mark Strong, James Gunn, Janet McTeer, John Saxon, Loni Anderson, Jesse Williams, Maureen McCormick, Scott William Winters, John Jarratt, Ja’net DuBois, Billie Hayes, and the late John Huston, Neil Armstrong, Robert Taylor, Adam Yauch, Joan Hickson, Reginald Owen, Guy de Maupassant, Bob Clark, Pete Burns, and Joseph Merrick. Carmen Miranda died 63 years ago in 1955 at age 46. Marilyn Monroe died 56 years ago in 1962 at age 36. Richard Burton died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 58. Ralph Meeker died thirty years ago in 1988 at age 67. Alec Guinness died eighteen years ago in 2000 at age 86.

Today Tina Cole is 75, and Daniel Dae Kim is 50. Today is also the birthday of Barack Obama, Billy Bob Thornton, Greta Gerwig, Richard Belzer, Paul Mooney, Meghan Markle, Abigail Spencer, Chet Hanks, James Tupper, Sebastian Roché, Donald Gibb, Carol Arthur, Keith Ellison, Dennis Lehane, Sapphire, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, and the late Louis Armstrong, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Don S. Davis, Anita Page, Ron Lester, William Keighley, and Louis Vuitton. Melvyn Douglas died 37 years ago in 1981 at age 80. Victor Mature died 19 nineteen years ago in 1999 at age 86.

Today Tony Bennett is 92, and Lambert Wilson is 60. Today is also the birthday of Martin Sheen, John C. McGinley, John Landis, Evangeline Lilly, Stephen Graham, James Hetfield, Isaiah Washington, Martha Stewart, Molly Hagan, Hannah Simone, Michael Ealy, Jonah Ray, Nick Sandow, Mamie Gummer, Max Landis, Steven Berkoff, Mathieu Kassovitz, Jay North, Elsa Cárdenas, Justin Kurzel, Tom Brady, and the late Dolores del Rio, Jean Hagen, and Bethel Leslie. Joseph Conrad died 94 years ago in 1924 at age 66. Flannery O’Connor died 54 years ago in 1964 at age 39. Lenny Bruce died 52 years ago in 1966 at age 40. Ida Lupino died 23 years ago in 1995 at age 77.

Today Nehemiah Persoff is 99, and Max Wright is 75. Today is also the birthday of Kevin Smith, Mary-Louise Parker, Sam Worthington, Edward Furlong, Joanna Cassidy, Butch Patrick, Victoria Jackson, Matthew Del Negro, Kathryn Harrold, Hallie Eisenberg, Charli XCX, Nathan Zellner, and the late Peter O’Toole, Myrna Loy, Carroll O’Connor, Wes Craven, Beatrice Straight, James Baldwin, Jack L. Warner, and Gary Merrill. Jean-Pierre Melville died 45 years ago in 1973 at age 55. Fritz Lang died 42 years ago in 1976 at age 85. Raymond Carver died 30 years ago in 1988 at age 50. Williams S. Burroughs died 21 years ago in 1997 at age 83.

Today Steve Schirripa and Adrian Dunbar are 60. Today is also the birthday of Jason Momoa, Jack O’Connell, Demián Bichir, John Carroll Lynch, Chuck D, Coolio, Sam Mendes, Giancarlo Giannini, Eduardo Noriega, Terry Kiser, Adam Duritz, David Wain, Oona Laurence, José Padilha, and the late Jerry Garcia, Dom DeLuise, Claudius, Geoffrey Holder, Yves Saint Laurent, Herman Melville, Taylor Negron, Henry Jones, J. Lee Thompson, and Cookie Mueller. Strother Martin died 38 years ago in 1980 at age 61. Paddy Chayefsky died 37 years ago in 1981 at age 58.

Today Don Murray and Pat Cooper are 89, Mark Cuban is 60, and Rico Rodriguez is 20. Today is also the birthday of Wesley Snipes, J.K. Rowling, Geraldine Chaplin, Michael Biehn, Ben Chaplin, B.J. Novak, Dean Cain, Emilia Fox, France Nuyen, Jessica Williams, Paul Provenza, Dirk Blocker, Barry Van Dyke, Al Sapienza, Alan Autry, Cassi Davis, and the late Mario Bava, Richard Griffiths, Geoffrey Lewis, Ted Cassidy, Louis de Funès, Percy Herbert, and Paul ‘Mousie’ Garner. Gore Vidal died six years ago in 2012 at age 86. Jeanne Moreau died one year ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today Sid Krofft is 89, Edd Byrnes is 85, Michael Bell is 80, Jean Reno and Carel Struycken are 70, Richard Burgi and Kate Bush are 60, and Terry Crews and Sofie Gråbøl are 50. Today is also the birthday of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hilary Swank, Lisa Kudrow, Laurence Fishburne, Christopher Nolan, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Linklater, Vivica A. Fox, Gina Rodriguez, Simon Baker, Buddy Guy, Martin Starr, Jaime Pressly, Christine Taylor, Kerry Fox, Frances de la Tour, Phil Davis, Barbara Kopple, Yvonne Strahovski, Javier Botet, William Atherton, Paul Anka, Alton Brown, Tom Green, Joey King, Delta Burke, Derek Waters, Ken Olin, Frank Stallone, Erwin Leder, Ted Sarandos, and the late Henry Ford, Richard Johnson, John P. Ryan, Dick Wilson, Emily Brontë, who was born 200 years ago, and John Cason, who was born 100 years ago. Claudette Colbert died 22 years ago in 1996 at age 92. Directors Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni both died eleven years ago in 2007. Bergman was 89. Antonioni was 94. Gloria DeHaven died two years ago in 2016 at age 91.

Today Robert Fuller is 85. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Dorff, David Warner, Tim Gunn, Wil Wheaton, Timothy Omundson, Leslie Easterbrook, Ken Burns, Tony Sirico, Josh Radnor, Allison Mack, Ato Essandoh, Mike Starr, Bill Forsyth, Mike Hodges, and the late William Powell, Maria Ouspenskaya, Chris Marker, Clara Bow, Lloyd Bochner, Thelma Todd, Irwin Corey, Peter Jennings, Charles Hallahan, Budd Boetticher, Elizabeth Short (the Black Dahlia), William Cameron Menzies, and Benito Mussolini. “Mama” Cass Elliot died 44 years ago in 1974 at age 32. Luis Buñuel, Raymond Massey, and David Niven all died 35 years ago in 1983. Buñuel was 83, Massey was 86, and Niven was 73.

Today Georgia Engel is 70, and Michael Hitchcock is 60. Today is also the birthday of Peter Cullen, Elizabeth Berkley, Sally Struthers, Lori Loughlin, Darryl Hickman, Dustin Milligan, Frances Lee McCain, Dey Young, Linda Kelsey, Carlos Jacott, Dick Ebersol, Francis Veber, and the late Jacqueline Kennedy, Joe E. Brown, Rudy Vallee, Richard Wright, Beatrix Potter, Alexis Arquette, Ann Doran, and Hugo Chávez. Marie Dressler died 84 years ago in 1934 at age 65. Eileen Brennan died five years ago in 2013 at age 80.