Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Hugh Hudson is 85, and Billy Ray Cyrus is 60. Today is also the birthday of Elvis Costello, Tim Burton, Alexander Skarsgård, Gene Simmons, Tom Skerritt, Blake Lively, Tom Hollander, John Savage, Rachael Ray, Ben Falcone, Blair Underwood, Simon McBurney, Kel Mitchell, Mink Stole, Jeff Tweedy, Joe Wright, John Badham, Fatih Akin, and the late Sean Connery, Regis Philbin, Leonard Bernstein, Mel Ferrer, Van Johnson, Michael Rennie, Don DeFore, Monty Hall, who would be 100, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and George Wallace. Paul Muni died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 71. Truman Capote died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 59. Aaliyah died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 22. Marvin Kaplan died five years ago in 2016 at age 89.

Today Jared Harris is 60. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Fry, Dave Chappelle, Marlee Matlin, Ava DuVernay, Steve Guttenberg, David Koechner, Ronee Blakley, Dana Gould, Elizabeth Debicki, Rupert Grint, James D’Arcy, Anne Archer, 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 65 years ago in 1956 at age 58. Louis Prima died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 67. E.G. Marshall died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 84. Julie Harris died eight years ago in 2013 at age 87. Richard Attenborough died seven years ago in 2014 at age 90. Jay Thomas died four years ago in 2017 at age 69.

Today Barbara Eden is 90, and Alexandre Desplat is 60. Today is also the birthday of Vera Miles, Shelley Long, Chan-wook Park, Jay Mohr, Andrew Rannells, Scott Caan, Ray Park, Rick Springfield, Joanne Froggatt, Lexi Alexander, Kirby Dick, Roger Avary, Leslie Van Houten, Jared Fogle, and the late Gene Kelly, Keith Moon, River Phoenix, Kobe Bryant, Marian Seldes, Robert Mulligan, and James Millhollin. Francis X. Bushman died 55 years ago in 1966 at age 83. Kathleen Freeman died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 82. Brock Peters died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 78.

Today Micheline Presle is 99, Ruy Guerra is 90, Chia-Hui Liu is 70, and Richard Armitage and Rick Yune are 50. Today is also the birthday of Kristen Wiig, Cindy Williams, James Corden, Ty Burrell, David Chase, Rodrigo Santoro, Colm Feore, Mark Williams, Courtney Gains, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Tori Amos, Andrew Wilson, Robert Wall, Casper Christensen, Kay Cannon, and the late Valerie Harper, Ray Bradbury, John Lee Hooker, Leni Riefenstahl, Dorothy Parker, Honor Blackman, Claude Debussy, Cecil Kellaway, Elisabeth Bergner, Sylvia Koscina, John Lupton, and Andréas Voutsinas. Huey P. Newton died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 47.

Today is the birthday of Kim Cattrall, Carrie-Anne Moss, Patty McCormack, Hayden Panettiere, Melvin Van Peebles, Bo Burnham, Kacey Musgraves, Loretta Devine, Alicia Witt, Marc Evan Jackson, Cleo King, Peter Weir, RJ Mitte, and the late Kenny Rogers, Joe Strummer, Clarence Williams III, Jack Weston, Tom Tully, Marie Blake, Frank Perry, and David Lochary. Danny Lockin died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 34. Barbara Harris died three years ago in 2018 at age 83.

Today Don King is 90, and David Walliams is 50. Today is also the birthday of Amy Adams, Andrew Garfield, Robert Plant, Joan Allen, Ray Wise, David O. Russell, John Noble, Demi Lovato, Al Roker, Sylvester McCoy, James Marsters, Colin Cunningham, 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 twenty years ago in 2001 at age 76. Phyllis Diller died nine years ago in 2012 at age 95. Elmore Leonard died eight years ago in 2013 at age 87. Jerry Lewis died four years ago in 2017 at age 91.

Today Bill Clinton is 75. Today is also the birthday of Matthew Perry, Kyra Sedgwick, John Stamos, L.Q. Jones, Kevin Dillon, Jonathan Frakes, Peter Gallagher, Jill St. John, Gerald McRaney, Jim Carter, Maria de Medeiros, Melissa Fumero, Ian McElhinney, Adam Arkin, Debra Paget, Diana Muldaur, Manny Jacinto, Tracie Thoms, Pablo Larraín, and the late Gene Roddenberry, who would be 100, Coco Chanel, Fred Dalton Thompson, William Marshall, Angus Scrimm, Olga Baclanova, and Orville Wright, who would be 150. Alastair Sim died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 75. Groucho Marx died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 86. Raoul Ruiz died ten years ago in 2011 at age 70. Tony Scott died nine years ago in 2012 at age 68. Jack Riley died five years ago in 2016 at age 80. Dick Gregory died four years ago in 2017 at age 84.

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

Today Martha Coolidge is 75, Robert Joy is 70, Larry B. Scott is 60, and Austin Butler is 30. Today is also the birthday of Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Donnie Wahlberg, Taissa Farmiga, Brady Corbet, Julian Fellowes, Belinda Carlisle, Tim Bagley, Jonathan Franzen, Giuliana Rancic, and the late Mae West, Maureen O’Hara, Davy Crockett, Samuel Goldwyn, Helen McCrory, Monty Woolley, Glenn Corbett, Evelyn Ankers, and Mark Felt. Vivian Vance died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 70. Ira Gershwin died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 86. Pearl Bailey died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 72. Yvonne Craig died six years ago in 2015 at age 78. Arthur Hiller died five years ago in 2016 at age 92.

Today Lesley Ann Warren is 75. Today is also the birthday of Steve Carell, James Cameron, Madonna, Angela Bassett, Bob Balaban, Timothy Hutton, Taika Waititi, Ann Blyth, Julie Newmar, Reginald VelJohnson, Laura Innes, Cristin Milioti, Cameron Monaghan, Jeff Perry, Bruce Beresford, Kathie Lee Gifford, and the late Robert Culp, Glenn Strange, Lois Nettleton, Charles Bukowski, Carole Shelley, Christine Cavanaugh, Mae Clarke, and T. E. Lawrence. Robert Johnson died 83 years ago in 1938 at age 27. Bela Lugosi died 65 years ago in 1956 at age 73. Elvis Presley died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 42. Aretha Franklin died three years ago in 2018 at age 76. Peter Fonda died two years ago in 2019 at age 79.