Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today is the birthday of Paul Giamatti, Jason Isaacs, Robert Englund, Sandra Bernhard, Colin Quinn, Harvey Fierstein, Max Casella, Danny Webb, Ellie Kendrick, Hirokazu Koreeda, Jonathan Nolan, Danny Strong, Natalie Morales, and the late Billie Whitelaw, Chantal Akerman, Maria Montez, Kenneth Connor, Sam Simon, Judith Barsi, and Thomas Mann. Jack Haley died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 81. Anne Bancroft died sixteen years ago in 2005 at age 73. Esther Williams died eight years ago in 2013 at age 91.

Today Suze Orman is 70, and Mark Wahlberg and Susan Lynch are 50. Today is also the birthday of Jeff Garlin, Ron Livingston, Nick Kroll, Chad Allen, Kenny G, Liza Weil, Laurie Anderson, Troye Sivan, Pete Wentz, Lisa Cholodenko, Kathleen Kennedy, Roger Michell, David Hare, and the late Tony Richardson, Jacques Demy, Spalding Gray, Robert Lansing, William Boyd, Peggy Stewart, Warren Frost, Daniel von Bargen, John Abbott, Herb Vigran, Henry Levin, and Pancho Villa. Vito Scotti died 25 years ago in 1996 at age 78. Mel Tormé died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 73. Ronald Reagan died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 93. Ray Bradbury died nine years ago in 2012 at age 91.

Today Bruce Dern is 85, Noah Wyle and James Callis are 50, T.J. Miller is 40, and Maria Bakalova is 25. Today is also the birthday of Angelina Jolie, Russell Brand, Keith David, Rob Huebel, Horatio Sanz, Robin Lord Taylor, Sean Pertwee, Michelle Phillips, Theo Rossi, Oona Chaplin, and the late Rosalind Russell, Dennis Weaver, Geoffrey Palmer, Clara Blandick, Don Diamond, who would be 100, and Russell Hicks. Dorothy Gish died 53 years ago in 1968 at age 70. Massimo Troisi died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 41.

Today Penelope Wilton is 75. Today is also the birthday of Imogen Poots, Anderson Cooper, Jason Jones, James Purefoy, Bill Paterson, Sebastian Armesto, Irma P. Hall, Masami Nagasawa, Daniela Vega, Tate Taylor, and the late Tony Curtis, Josephine Baker, Larry McMurtry, Paulette Goddard, Leo Gorcey, Chuck Barris, Allen Ginsberg, Curtis Mayfield, Ellen Corby, Maurice Evans, Colleen Dewhurst, Alain Resnais, Robert Z’Dar, Edward Winter, John Kellogg, Roy Glenn, Melissa Mathison, Anthony Harvey, and Herk Harvey. Franz Kafka died 97 years ago in 1924 at age 40. Ozzie Nelson died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 69. Roberto Rossellini died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Robert Morley died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 84. Anthony Quinn died twenty years ago in 2001 at age 86. David Carradine died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 72. Rue McClanahan died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 76. James Arness died ten years ago in 2011 at age 88. Muhammad Ali died five years ago in 2016 at age 74.

Today Stacy Keach and Charlie Watts are 80, Lasse Hallström is 75, and Liam Cunningham is 60. Today is also the birthday of Dana Carvey, Zachary Quinto, Dominic Cooper, Justin Long, Dennis Haysbert, Wentworth Miller, Morena Baccarin, Wayne Brady, Jerry Mathers, Sally Kellerman, Charles Haid, James Ransone, Dr. Cornel West, Joanna Gleason, Navid Negahban, A.J. Styles, Beetlejuice, Kevin Feige, Lisandro Alonso, and the late Johnny Weissmuller, Marvin Hamlisch, Thomas Hardy, The Marquis de Sade, Milo O’Shea, Max Showalter, Chief John Big Tree, Bruno S., and Lotte Reiniger. Jean Hersholt died 65 years ago in 1956 at age 69. George S. Kaufman died sixty years ago in 1961 at age 71. Leo Gorcey died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 51. Stephen Boyd died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 45. Jim Hutton died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 45. Rex Harrison and Jack Gilford died 31 years ago in 1990. Harrison was 82. Gilford was 81. Imogene Coca died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 92. Mel Ferrer and Bo Diddley died thirteen years ago in 2008. Ferrer was 90. Diddley was 79. Richard Dawson and Kathryn Joosten died nine years ago in 2012. Dawson was 79. Joosten was 72. Peter Sallis died four years ago in 2017 at age 96.

Today Brian Cox is 75, Amy Schumer is 40, and Tom Holland is 25. Today is also the birthday of Morgan Freeman, Alanis Morissette, Ronnie Wood, Jonathan Pryce, Pat Boone, Nikki Glaser, Paula Malcomson, Sylvia Hoeks, Sarah Wayne Callies, Rick Gomez, Heidi Klum, Gareth Edwards, and the late Marilyn Monroe, Andy Griffith, Powers Boothe, Edward Woodward, Rene Auberjonois, Cleavon Little, Frank Morgan, Richard Erdman, and Aubrey Morris. Leslie Howard died 78 years ago in 1943 at age 50. Adolf Eichmann died 59 years ago in 1962 at age 56. Helen Keller died 53 years ago in 1968 at age 87.

Today Lea Thompson is 60. Today is also the birthday of Clint Eastwood, Colin Farrell, Brooke Shields, Tom Berenger, Chris Elliott, Susie Essman, Paolo Sorrentino, Eric Christian Olsen, Sharon Gless, Jonathan Tucker, Sebastian Koch, Joe Namath, and the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Don Ameche, Walt Whitman, Denholm Elliott, Jim Hutton, Alida Valli, who would be 100, Fred Allen, John Bonham, Jack Holt, Barbara Pepper, Madge Blake, and Menahem Golan. William Castle died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 63. Jean Stapleton died eight years ago in 2013 at age 90.

Today Jimmy Lydon is 98, Keir Dullea is 85, Stephen Tobolowsky is 70, and Idina Menzel and Duncan Jones are 50. Today is also the birthday of Ruta Lee, Colm Meaney, Wynonna Judd, CeeLo Green, Ted McGinley, Antoine Fuqua, Ryûhei Kitamura, and the late Howard Hawks, Agnès Varda, Mel Blanc, Michael J. Pollard, Hugh Griffith, Clint Walker, Benny Goodman, Douglas Fowley, Franklin J. Schaffner, Meredith MacRae, Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry), Irving Thalberg, Christine Jorgensen, and Jamie Uys, who would be 100. Dooley Wilson died 68 years ago in 1953 at age 67. Claude Rains died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 77. Michel Simon died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 80.

Today Robert Logan is 80, Melissa Etheridge is 60, and Justin Chon is 40. Today is also the birthday of Annette Bening, Rupert Everett, Riley Keough, Laverne Cox, Ted Levine, Helmut Berger, Danny Elfman, La Toya Jackson, Noel Gallagher, Mel B (Melanie Brown), Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Aaron McGruder, Daniel Tosh, and the late Bob Hope, John F. Kennedy, Josef von Sternberg, Clifton James, Sebastian Shaw, Kevin Conway, Stacy Keach Sr., and Gregg Toland. John Barrymore died 79 years ago in 1942 at age 60. James Whale died 64 years ago in 1957 at age 67. Mary Pickford died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 87. Harvey Korman died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 81. Dennis Hopper died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 74.

Today Carroll Baker and Irwin Winkler are 90, and Marco Rubio is 50. Today is also the birthday of Carey Mulligan, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Kylie Minogue, Gladys Knight, Jake Johnson, Romain Duris, Christa Miller, Anne Reid, Patricia Quinn, John Fogerty, Justin Kirk, Nonso Anozie, Rudy Giuliani, Steve King, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and the late Ian Fleming, Sondra Locke, Edith Massey, Glenn Quinn, Martha Vickers, Beth Howland, Zelda Rubinstein, Gordon Willis, Hank Mann, and Rob Ford. Phil Hartman died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 49. Gary Coleman died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 42. Maya Angelou died seven years ago in 2014 at age 86.