Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today John Jarratt is 70, Janet McTeer is 60, and Jesse Williams is 40. Today is also the birthday of Mark Strong, James Gunn, Loni Anderson, Maureen McCormick, Scott William Winters, and the late John Huston, Neil Armstrong, Robert Taylor, John Saxon, Adam Yauch, Joan Hickson, Billie Hayes, Ja’net DuBois, Reginald Owen, Guy de Maupassant, Bob Clark, Pete Burns, and Joseph Merrick. Carmen Miranda died 66 years ago in 1955 at age 46. Marilyn Monroe died 59 years ago in 1962 at age 36. Richard Burton died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 58. Ralph Meeker died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 67. Alec Guinness died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 86. Charlotte Rae died three years ago in 2018 at age 92. Toni Morrison died two years ago in 2019 at age 88.

Today Barack Obama is 60, and Meghan Markle and Abigail Spencer are 40. Today is also the birthday of Billy Bob Thornton, Greta Gerwig, Richard Belzer, Daniel Dae Kim, Tina Cole, Chet Hanks, James Tupper, Sebastian Roché, Donald Gibb, Keith Ellison, Dennis Lehane, Sapphire, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, and the late Louis Armstrong, Paul Mooney, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Don S. Davis, Anita Page, Ron Lester, William Keighley, Louis Vuitton, who would be 200, and Carol Arthur. Melvyn Douglas died forty years ago in 1981 at age 80. Victor Mature died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 86.

Today Tony Bennett is 95, Martha Stewart is 80, Jay North is 70, and Molly Hagan is 60. Today is also the birthday of Martin Sheen, John C. McGinley, John Landis, Evangeline Lilly, Stephen Graham, James Hetfield, Isaiah Washington, Hannah Simone, Lambert Wilson, Michael Ealy, Jonah Ray, Nick Sandow, Mamie Gummer, Steven Berkoff, Mathieu Kassovitz, Elsa Cárdenas, Justin Kurzel, Tom Brady, Max Landis, and the late Dolores del Rio, Jean Hagen, and Bethel Leslie. Joseph Conrad died 97 years ago in 1924 at age 66. Flannery O’Connor died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 39. Lenny Bruce died 55 years ago in 1966 at age 40. Ida Lupino died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 77.

Today Nehemiah Persoff is 102. 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, Max Wright, Jack L. Warner, and Gary Merrill. Jean-Pierre Melville died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 55. Fritz Lang died 45 years ago in 1976 at age 85. Raymond Carver died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 50. William S. Burroughs died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 83.

Today is the birthday of Jason Momoa, Jack O’Connell, Sam Mendes, Demián Bichir, Steve Schirripa, John Carroll Lynch, Chuck D, Coolio, Giancarlo Giannini, Adrian Dunbar, 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 41 years ago in 1980 at age 61. Paddy Chayefsky died forty years ago in 1981 at age 58. D.A. Pennebaker died two years ago in 2019 at age 94. Wilford Brimley died one year ago in 2020 at age 85.

Today Barry Van Dyke is 70. Today is also the birthday of Wesley Snipes, J.K. Rowling, Geraldine Chaplin, Don Murray, Pat Cooper, Michael Biehn, Ben Chaplin, B.J. Novak, Dean Cain, Wunmi Mosaku, Mark Cuban, Emilia Fox, France Nuyen, Jessica Williams, Rico Rodriguez, Paul Provenza, Dirk Blocker, 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 nine years ago in 2012 at age 86. Roddy Piper died six years ago in 2015 at age 61. Jeanne Moreau died four years ago in 2017 at age 89. Alan Parker died one year ago in 2020 at age 76.

Today Buddy Guy is 85, Paul Anka is 80, Barbara Kopple is 75, Erwin Leder is 70, Laurence Fishburne is 60, and Tom Green and Christine Taylor are 50. Today is also the birthday of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hilary Swank, Lisa Kudrow, Christopher Nolan, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Linklater, Jean Reno, Terry Crews, Vivica A. Fox, Gina Rodriguez, Simon Baker, Martin Starr, Jaime Pressly, Joey King, Sofie Gråbøl, Kerry Fox, Frances de la Tour, Phil Davis, Sid Krofft, Michael Bell, Yvonne Strahovski, Javier Botet, William Atherton, Alton Brown, Richard Burgi, Carel Struycken, Delta Burke, Derek Waters, Ken Olin, Kate Bush, Frank Stallone, Ted Sarandos, and the late Henry Ford, Edd Byrnes, Richard Johnson, John P. Ryan, Dick Wilson, Emily Brontë, and John Cason. Claudette Colbert died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 92. Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni both died fourteen years ago in 2007. Bergman was 89. Antonioni was 94. Gloria DeHaven died five years ago in 2016 at age 91.

Today David Warner is 80, and Bill Forsyth is 75. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Dorff, Tim Gunn, Wil Wheaton, Robert Fuller, Timothy Omundson, Leslie Easterbrook, Ken Burns, Tony Sirico, Josh Radnor, Allison Mack, Ato Essandoh, Mike Starr, Mike Hodges, and the late William Powell, Maria Ouspenskaya, Chris Marker, who would be 100 today and who died on his birthday nine years ago in 2012 at age 91, Clara Bow, Lloyd Bochner, Thelma Todd, Irwin Corey, Peter Jennings, Charles Hallahan, Budd Boetticher, Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia, William Cameron Menzies, and Benito Mussolini. “Mama” Cass Elliot died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 32. Luis Buñuel, Raymond Massey, and David Niven all died 38 years ago in 1983. Buñuel was 83, Massey was 86, and Niven was 73.

Today Darryl Hickman is 90, Peter Cullen is 80, and Linda Kelsey is 75. Today is also the birthday of Elizabeth Berkley, Sally Struthers, Lori Loughlin, Dustin Milligan, Frances Lee McCain, Michael Hitchcock, Dey Young, Carlos Jacott, Dick Ebersol, Francis Veber, and the late Jacqueline Kennedy, Joe E. Brown, Rudy Vallee, Georgia Engel, Richard Wright, Beatrix Potter, Alexis Arquette, Ann Doran, and Hugo Chávez. Marie Dressler died 87 years ago in 1934 at age 65. Eileen Brennan died eight years ago in 2013 at age 80.

Today Norman Lear is 99, and Rade Serbedzija is 75. Today is also the birthday of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maya Rudolph, Taylor Schilling, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Donnie Yen, Betty Thomas, Bill Engvall, Roger Guenveur Smith, Bryan Fuller, Cliff Curtis, Carol Leifer, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Takashi Shimizu, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, and the late Keenan Wynn, Jerry Van Dyke, Donald Crisp, Will Jordan, Maury Chaykin, who died on his birthday eleven years ago in 2010 at age 61, Lupita Tovar, and Charles Vidor. Gertrude Stein died 75 years ago in 1946 at age 72. William Wyler died forty years ago in 1981 at age 79. James Mason died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 75. Bob Hope died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 100. R.G. Armstrong died nine years ago in 2012 at age 95. Sam Shepard died four years ago in 2017 at age 73.