Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Sylvester Stallone, Fred Dryer, and George W. Bush are 75, and Geoffrey Rush and Allyce Beasley are 70. Today is also the birthday of The Dalai Lama, Kevin Hart, Jennifer Saunders, Eva Green, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Burt Ward, Geraldine James, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Tia Mowry-Hardict, Brian Posehn, Peter Hedges, and the late Janet Leigh, Ned Beatty, Frida Kahlo, Nancy Reagan, who would be 100, Merv Griffin, Della Reese, William Schallert, Sebastian Cabot, Cathy O’Donnell, and Misty Upham. William Faulkner died 59 years ago today in 1962 at 64. Chief John Big Tree died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 90. Louis Armstrong died fifty years ago in 1971 at age 69. Brandon De Wilde died 49 years ago in 1972 at age 30. Joe E. Brown died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 80. Alma Reville died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 82. Marsha P. Johnson died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 46. Roy Rogers died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 86. John Frankenheimer died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 72. Buddy Ebsen died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 95. Ennio Morricone died one year ago in 2020 at age 91.

Today Ryan Hansen is 40. Today is also the birthday of Edie Falco, Robbie Robertson, Huey Lewis, RZA, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jillian Armenante, François Arnaud, Kathryn Erbe, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Louis Herthum, Don Stark, Tommy Cook, Jenji Kohan, Peter Tolan, Bill Watterson, Joe Brown, and the late Warren Oates, Jean Cocteau, Katherine Helmond, Shirley Knight, P.T. Barnum, Milburn Stone, John Wood, and William Hootkins. Leo McCarey died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 70.

Today Eva Marie Saint is 97, Ron Kovic is 75, and Tahar Rahim is 40. Today is also the birthday of Gina Lollobrigida, Tracy Letts, Geraldo Rivera, Stephen Rannazzisi, Ed O’Ross, Mo McRae, Oren Moverman, Malia Obama, and the late Neil Simon, Gloria Stuart, Stephen Boyd, Bill Withers, Calvin Coolidge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Eric Fleming, Colin Welland, Rube Goldberg, and Meyer Lansky. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died 195 years ago in 1826. Adams was 90, and Jefferson was 83. James Monroe died 190 years ago in 1831 at age 73. Eva Gabor died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 76. Barry White died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 58. Abbas Kiarostami died five years ago in 2016 at age 76.

Today Gloria Allred is 80, and Julian Assange is 50. Today is also the birthday of Tom Cruise, Olivia Munn, Patrick Wilson, Connie Nielsen, Kurtwood Smith, Tommy Flanagan, Yeardley Smith, Thomas Gibson, Audra McDonald, Corey Sevier, Bruce Altman, Dave Barry, Tom Stoppard, Peyton Reed, Michele Soavi, and the late Franz Kafka, George M. Cohan, Ken Russell, George Sanders, Kinji Fukasaku, Susan Peters, who would be 100, Rick Ducommun, and Don Haggerty. Jim Morrison died fifty years ago in 1971 at age 27. Rudy Vallée died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 84. Jim Backus died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 76. “Curly” Joe DeRita died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 83. Andy Griffith died nine years ago in 2012 at age 86. Noel Neill died five years ago in 2016 at age 95. Arte Johnson died two years ago in 2019 at age 90.

Today Frank Williams is 90, and Samy Naceri is 60. Today is also the birthday of Larry David, Margot Robbie, Lindsay Lohan, Ashley Tisdale, Scott Aukerman, Doug Benson, Polly Holliday, Wendy Schaal, Saul Rubinek, Andrew Divoff, Erin Burnett, Richard Petty, Keith Morrison, Mark Kermode, Johnny Weir, and the late Thurgood Marshall, Ron Silver, Ken Curtis, Brock Peters, Kenneth McMillan, Jenni Rivera, and Dave Thomas. Franklin Schaffner died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 69. Lee Remick died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 55. Fred Gwynne died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 66. James Stewart died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 89. Mario Puzo died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 78. Jan Murray died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 89. Michael Cimino died five years ago in 2016 at age 77.

Today Leslie Caron is 90, and Julianne Nicholson and Missy Elliott are 50. Today is also the birthday of Dan Aykroyd, Debbie Harry, Liv Tyler, Léa Seydoux, Andre Braugher, Geneviève Bujold, Jamie Farr, Pamela Anderson, Sufjan Stevens, Alan Ruck, Thomas Sadoski, David Gulpilil, Hannah Murray, Storm Reid, Fortune Feimster, Jordi Mollà, Brian George, Peter Cattaneo, David Duke, and the late Charles Laughton, Olivia de Havilland, Princess Diana, who would be 60, William Wyler, Karen Black, Sydney Pollack, Farley Granger, Alice Guy-Blaché, and David Prowse. Michael Landon died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 54. Robert Mitchum died 24 years in 1997 at age 79. Sylvia Sidney died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 88. Walter Matthau died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 79. Marlon Brando died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 80. Luther Vandross died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 54. Karl Malden died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 97.

Today Monica Potter is 50. Today is also the birthday of Vincent D’Onofrio, Lizzy Caplan, Mike Tyson, Rupert Graves, David Alan Grier, Molly Parker, Marton Csokas, Leonard Whiting, Rick Gonzalez, Víctor Erice, Angela Sarafyan, Michael Phelps, Fantasia Barrino, Mark Waters, and the late Lena Horne, Susan Hayward, Pat McCormick, Anthony Mann, Glenda Farrell, Ted Ross, John Harmon, George Chandler, Florence Ballard, and Dave Van Ronk. George ‘Spanky’ McFarland died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 65. Gale Gordon died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 89. Pina Bausch died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 68. Paul Mazursky died seven years ago in 2014 at age 84.

Today Cara Williams is 96, and Sharon Lawrence is 60. Today is also the birthday of Richard Lewis, Gary Busey, Melora Hardin, Lily Rabe, Colin Jost, Bret McKenzie, Brian d’Arcy James, Fred Grandy, Matthew Weiner, Jeff Baena, and the late Slim Pickens, Ray Harryhausen, Robert Evans, Bernard Herrmann, Ian Bannen, Corey Allen, Ruth Warrick, Joan Davis, and Nelson Eddy. Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle died 88 years ago in 1933 at age 46. Jayne Mansfield died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 34. Bob Crane died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 49. Lana Turner died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 74. William Hickey died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 69. Vittorio Gassman died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 77. Rosemary Clooney died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 74. Katharine Hepburn died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 96. Edward Yang died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 59. Don S. Davis died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 65. Jim Kelly died eight years ago in 2013 at age 67. Steve Ditko died three years ago in 2018 at age 90. Carl Reiner died one year ago in 2020 at age 98.

Today Mel Brooks is 95, Bruce Davison is 75, Aileen Quinn and Elon Musk are 50, and Jon Watts is 40. Today is also the birthday of Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Mary Stuart Masterson, Felicia Day, Alice Krige, Mike White, Alessandro Nivola, John Byner, Ayelet Zurer, Kellie Pickler, and the late Gilda Radner, Pat Morita, Richard Rodgers, Henry VIII of England, Richard Bright, and John Inman. Frank Sutton died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 50. Rod Serling died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 50. GG Allin died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 36. Jack Carter died six years ago in 2015 at age 93. Harlan Ellison died three years ago in 2018 at age 84.

Today Julia Duffy is 70, and Jo Frost is 50. Today is also the birthday of Tobey Maguire, J.J. Abrams, Isabelle Adjani, Sam Claflin, Vera Wang, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Wagner Moura, Matthew Lewis, Chandler Riggs, Drake Bell, Ed Westwick, Courtney Ford, Shirley Anne Field, Kathryn Beaumont, Janusz Kaminski, Khloé Kardashian, and the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, who would be 80, Helen Keller, Robert Keeshan, Ross Perot, Muriel Pavlow, who would be 100, John McIntire, Billy Curtis, Skelton Knaggs, and I.A.L. Diamond. Jack Lemmon died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 76. Gale Storm died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 87.