Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Corey Feldman is 50. Today is also the birthday of Will Ferrell, Phoebe Cates, Tony Kushner, Rubén Blades, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Rosa Salazar, Jayma Mays, Milly Shapiro, Chris Pontius, Daryl Mitchell, Scott Derrickson, Rain Pryor, and the late Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, Percy Kilbride, Jerry Doyle, Vincent Sherman, Barnard Hughes, Corin Redgrave, Larry Semon, Orville Redenbacher, and Ida B. Wells. George A. Romero died four years ago in 2017 at age 77.

Today Linda Ronstadt is 75, Jesse Ventura is 70, Forest Whitaker and Lolita Davidovich are 60, and Jim Rash is 50. Today is also the birthday of Diane Kruger, Brigitte Nielsen, Travis Fimmel, Eddie Griffin, Ari Aster, Terry O’Quinn, Scott Foley, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Celia Imrie, Brian Austin Green, Joe Turkel, Laura Benanti, Adam Savage, Patrick Wayne, Greg Sestero, Arianna Huffington, Gabriel Iglesias, Beth Stern, and the late Rembrandt, D.A. Pennebaker, Larry Cohen, Ian Curtis, Alex Karras, Tony Hendra, William Dieterle, and Bill Gunn.

Today Vincent Pastore is 75, and Jackie Earle Haley is 60. Today is also the birthday of Jane Lynch, Matthew Fox, Nancy Olson, David Mitchell, Kyle Gass, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Stan Shaw, Joel Silver, Scott Rudin, Conor McGregor, Franklin Graham, and the late Ingmar Bergman, Harry Dean Stanton, Woody Guthrie, Sid Haig, Polly Bergen, Terry-Thomas, William Hanna, Dale Robertson, Donald Meek, Laurie Mitchell, George Tobias, Gerald Ford, and Gustav Klimt. Preston Foster died 51 years ago in 1970 at age 69. Meredith MacRae died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 56.

Today Jacques Perrin is 80, Cheech Marin is 75, Didi Conn is 70, and Michael Mando is 40. Today is also the birthday of Harrison Ford, Patrick Stewart, Cameron Crowe, Tom Kenny, Ken Jeong, Aya Cash, Colton Haynes, Daphne Reid, Catherine Breillat, Gil Birmingham, Sharon Horgan, Michael Jace, Kenny Johnson, Robert Gant, Kari Wahlgren, Steven R. McQueen, and the late Robert Forster, Bob Crane, Sidney Blackmer, James Anderson, who would be 100, and René Laloux. Red Buttons died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 87. Cory Monteith died eight years ago in 2013 at age 31.

Today Cheryl Ladd, Brian Grazer, and Jamey Sheridan are 70, and Erik Per Sullivan is 30. Today is also the birthday of Bill Cosby, Topher Grace, Michelle Rodriguez, Rachel Brosnahan, Richard Simmons, Malala Yousafzai, Cheyenne Jackson, Phil Lord, Anna Friel, Steve Howey, Natalie Martinez, Byung-Hun Lee, Tamsin Greig, Mel Harris, Denise Nicholas, Edwin Neal, and the late Milton Berle, Tod Browning, Joe DeRita, Jay Thomas, Monte Hellman, Beah Richards, Charlie Murphy, Louis B. Meyer, Jean Hersholt, George Eastman, Henry David Thoreau, Pablo Neruda, and Donald E. Westlake. Lon Chaney Jr. died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 67. Kelly Preston died one year ago in 2020 at age 57.

Today is the birthday of Stephen Lang, Bruce McGill, Richie Sambora, Lil’ Kim, Tom Holland, Sela Ward, Michael Rosenbaum, Rachael Taylor, Justin Chambers, Mindy Sterling, Greg Grunberg, Jafar Panahi, Greg Mottola, Giorgio Armani, and the late Yul Brynner, Tab Hunter, John Quincy Adams, David Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Brett Somers, and E.B. White. Robert Ryan died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 63. Laurence Olivier died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 82.

Today Alice Munro is 90, Robert Pine is 80, and Isabela Merced is 20. Today is also the birthday of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sofia Vergara, Adrian Grenier, Arlo Guthrie, Fiona Shaw, Peter Serafinowicz, Golshifteh Farahani, Jessica Simpson, Wyatt Russell, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Annie Mumolo, Mavis Staples, Marco Rodríguez, Joel Potrykus, and the late Fred Gwynne, Marcel Proust, who would be 150, Nikola Tesla, Sue Lyon, Ivan Passer, Jake LaMotta, Ron Glass, David Brinkley, Tura Satana, Nick Adams, John Gilbert, and Jerry Nelson. Mel Blanc died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 81. Omar Sharif died six years ago in 2015 at age 83.

Today Dick Richards is 85, Richard Wilson is 75, Chris Cooper is 70, and Scott Grimes is 50. Today is also the birthday of Tom Hanks, Jack White, Jimmy Smits, Courtney Love, Pamela Adlon, Kelly McGillis, Fred Savage, Douglas Booth, Richard Roundtree, Ed Ames, Fred Norris, O.J. Simpson, David O’Hara, David Hockney, Kevin Nash, Dean Koontz, Nigel Lythgoe, Jordan Belfort, Steven Avery, Jodi Arias, Amanda Knox, and the late Brian Dennehy, Vince Edwards and Elem Klimov. Rod Steiger died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 77. Charles Lane died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 102. Rip Torn died two years ago in 2019 at age 88.

Today Angelica Huston is 70, Toby Keith and Wally Pfister are 60, Joe Russo is 50, and Jamie Blackley is 30. Today is also the birthday of Kevin Bacon, Jeffrey Tambor, Billy Crudup, Michael Weatherly, Kim Darby, Milo Ventimiglia, Sophia Bush, Robert Knepper, Kathleen Robertson, Lee Tergesen, Steve Lawrence, Beck, Wolfgang Puck, Jaden Smith, Michael Cuesta, Maya Hawke, and the late Marty Feldman, John D. Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller, Mary Ellen Trainor, Craig Stevens, Jerry Vale, Louis Jordan, Billy Eckstine, Percy Grainger, Barbara Loden, Eugene Pallette, and Jean Rouverol. Vivien Leigh died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 53. Dick Sargent died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 64. June Allyson died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 88. Betty Ford died ten years ago in 2011 at age 93. Ernest Borgnine died nine years ago in 2012 at age 95. Nelsan Ellis died four years ago in 2017 at age 39. Tab Hunter died three years ago in 2018 at age 86.

Today Joe Spano is 75, Blondie Chaplin is 70, Christian Camargo is 50, and Eve Hewson is 30. Today is also the birthday of Ringo Starr, Shelley Duvall, Jim Gaffigan, Bérénice Bejo, Doc Severinsen, Robert Eggers, Nina Hoss, Billy Campbell, Hamish Linklater, Mo Collins, Patricia Hitchcock, Robin Weigert, Michelle Kwan, Jorja Fox, Jack Whitehall, Amy Carlson, Kirsten Vangsness, Martin Wallström, Jonathan Dayton, and the late Vittorio De Sica, George Cukor, Gustav Mahler, Jon Pertwee, Robert A. Heinlein, and Satchel Paige. Arthur Conan Doyle died 91 years ago in 1930 at age 71. Veronica Lake died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 50. Fred Neil died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 65.