Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Robert Davi is 70. Today is also the birthday of Paul Thomas Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Nick Offerman, Sean Hayes, Aubrey Plaza, Ariana Grande, Chris O’Donnell, Chris Isaak, John Beasley, Mark McKinney, Matt Letscher, Josef Sommer, Gedde Watanabe, Michael Paul Chan, Jerry Schatzberg, Derek Jeter, Harley Quinn Smith, and the late Peter Lorre, Eleanor Parker, Dick Smith, and Wolfgang Reitherman. Nora Ephron died nine years ago in 2012 at age 71. Edith Scob died two years ago in 2019 at age 81.

Today June Lockhart is 96, Denys Arcand is 80, Ernest R. Dickerson is 70, Ricky Gervais and Timur Bekmambetov are 60, and Jason Lewis and Angela Kinsey are 50. Today is also the birthday of Linda Cardellini, Jimmie Walker, Carly Simon, Busy Philipps, John Benjamin Hickey, Rain, Sonia Sotomayor, and the late Sidney Lumet, Anthony Bourdain, George Michael, George Orwell, Larry Kramer, Roger Livesey, Charlotte Greenwood, George Murdock, and Anne Revere. Colin Clive died 84 years ago in 1937 at age 37. Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died twelve years ago in 2009. Jackson was 50. Fawcett was 62. Patrick Macnee died six years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today Iain Glen is 60, and Vanessa Ray is 40. Today is also the birthday of Mick Fleetwood, Mindy Kaling, Peter Weller, Robert Downey Sr., Nancy Allen, Solange Knowles, Minka Kelly, Michele Lee, Sherry Stringfield, Georg Stanford Brown, Joe Penny, Dan Gilroy, Vittorio Storaro, and the late Claude Chabrol, Adrienne Shelly, Al Molinaro, Phil Harris, Jack Carter, and Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister. Tony Hancock died 53 years ago in 1968 at age 44. Jackie Gleason died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 71. Brian Keith died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 75. David Tomlinson died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 83. Paul Winchell died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 82. Eli Wallach died seven years ago in 2014 at age 98.

Today is the birthday of Frances McDormand, Joel Edgerton, Selma Blair, Joss Whedon, Melissa Rauch, Randy Jackson, Bryan Brown, Jason Mraz, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Martin Klebba, John Amplas, David Dobkin, Russell Mulcahy, Clarence Thomas, and the late Bob Fosse, June Carter Cash, Dennis Price, Alan Vega, Alfred Kinsey, and Alan Turing. Maureen O’Sullivan died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 87. Peter Falk died ten years ago in 2011 at age 83.

Today Kris Kristofferson is 85, Michael Lerner is 80, and Mary Lynn Rajskub is 50. Today is also the birthday of Meryl Streep, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Campbell, Emmanuelle Seigner, Stephen Chow, Amy Brenneman, Elizabeth Warren, Prunella Scales, Donald Faison, Joe Dempsie, Lindsay Wagner, Graham Greene, Portia Doubleday, Carson Daly, Douglas Smith, Alicia Goranson, Tim Russ, Uwe Boll, Joie Lee, Dan Brown, Erin Brockovich, Wayne Federman, Dianne Feinstein, Adam Schiff, Adam Schiff, Wolfgang Becker, and the late Billy Wilder, Abbas Kiarostami, Freddie Prinze, John Dillinger, Michael Todd, David L. Lander, Ralph Waite, Amrish Puri, Erich Maria Remarque, and Octavia Butler. David O. Selznick died 56 years ago in 1965 at age 63. Judy Garland died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 47. Joseph Losey died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 75. Fred Astaire died 34 years ago in 1987 at age 88. George Carlin died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 71. Joel Schumacher died one year ago in 2020 at age 80.

Today Joe Flaherty is 80. Today is also the birthday of Chris Pratt, Juliette Lewis, Bernie Kopell, David Morrissey, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter, Lana Wachowski, Benjamin Walker, Carrie Preston, Mariette Hartley, Ron Ely, Josh Pais, Maggie Siff, Lana Del Rey, Michael Bowen, Ian McEwan, Edward Snowden, Jim Breuer, Prince William, Jussie Smollett, Gretchen Carlson, and the late Judy Holliday and Jane Russell, who would both be 100, Maureen Stapleton, Tony Scott, Robert Pastorelli, Eric Douglas, Conrad L. Hall, and Benazir Bhutto. Carroll O’Connor and John Lee Hooker died twenty years ago in 2001. O’Connor was 76. Hooker was 83.

Today James Tolkan is 90, Stephen Frears is 80, Tress MacNeille is 70, and Josh Lucas is 50. Today is also the birthday of Nicole Kidman, Brian Wilson, John Goodman, Lionel Richie, Robert Rodriguez, Mike Birbiglia, Jon Glaser, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dreama Walker, Candy Clark, Bonnie Bartlett, Robert B. Weide, and the late Errol Flynn, Martin Landau, Olympia Dukakis, John Mahoney, Danny Aiello, Ulrich Mühe, Chet Atkins, Audie Murphy, and Terence Young. Estelle Winwood died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 101. Ryan Dunn died ten years ago in 2011 at age 34.

Today Ayman al-Zawahiri is 70. Today is also the birthday of Gena Rowlands, Kathleen Turner, Paul Dano, Zoe Saldana, Salman Rushdie, Jean Dujardin, Phylicia Rashad, Hugh Dancy, Atticus Shaffer, Marisa Pavan, Robin Tunney, Mia Sara, Ryan Hurst, Aidan Turner, Samuel West, Ken Davitian, Derren Nesbitt, Paula Abdul, Macklemore, Boris Johnson, Laura Ingraham, and the late Moe Howard, Charles Coburn, Nick Drake, Nancy Marchand, Mildred Natwick, May Whitty, Pier Angeli, Louis Jourdan, who would be 100, Pat Buttram, Harry Lauter, Kim Walker, Pauline Kael, and Lou Gehrig. Ed Wynn died 65 years ago in 1966 at age 79. Jean Arthur died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 90. James Gandolfini died eight years ago in 2013 at age 51. Anton Yelchin died five years ago in 2016 at age 27. Ian Holm died one year ago in 2020 at age 88.

Today Steve Miner is 70. Today is also the birthday of Paul McCartney, Isabella Rossellini, Carol Kane, Blake Shelton, Richard Madden, Kim Dickens, Alana De La Garza, Ivonne Coll, Ralph Brown, Max Records, Rick Famuyiwa, Barbara Broccoli, and the late Roger Ebert, Keye Luke, E.G. Marshall, Maggie McNamara, Mae Busch, and Jeanette MacDonald. Ethel Barrymore died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 79. Pedro Armendáriz died 58 years ago in 1963 at age 51. Terence Fisher died 41 years ago in 1980 at age 76. Nancy Marchand died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 71. Vera Lynn died one year ago in 2020 at age 103.

Today Ken Loach is 85, William Lucking is 80, Joe Piscopo is 70, and Denis Lavant is 60. Today is also the birthday of Greg Kinnear, Thomas Haden Church, Kendrick Lamar, Barry Manilow, Will Forte, Bobby Farrelly, Scott Adkins, John Gallagher Jr., Joshua Leonard, Michael Showalter, Jason Patric, Peter Lupus, Arthur Darvill, Venus Williams, Jodie Whittaker, Jon Gries, Jennifer Irwin, Louis Leterrier, Phyllida Lloyd, Newt Gingrich, and the late Ralph Bellamy, Lucio Fulci, Russell Simpson, James Shigeta, Setsuko Hara, Grant Mitchell, M.C. Escher, and Sonny Fox. Cyd Charisse died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 86.