Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Queen Elizabeth II is 94, Charles Grodin is 85, and Nicole Sullivan, Rob Riggle, Jeff Anderson, and Glen Hansard are 50. Today is also the birthday Elaine May, Iggy Pop, Robert Smith, James McAvoy, Patti LuPone, Andie MacDowell, Tony Danza, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, John Cameron Mitchell, Claire Denis, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Brian White, Bridget Everett, Frank Dillane, Peter Kosminsky, Anna Muylaert, and the late Anthony Quinn, Charlotte Brontë, Marcel Camus, Sammee Tong, Edwin S. Porter, who would be 150, and Gilbert Taylor. Mark Twain died 110 years ago in 1910 at age 74. Gummo Marx died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 84. Nina Simone died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 70. Prince and Michelle McNamara died four years ago in 2016. He was 57. She was 46. Verne Troyer died two years ago in 2018 at age 49.

Today Leslie Phillips is 96, Gary Raymond is 85, Judith O’Dea is 75, and Shemar Moore is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jessica Lange, Ryan O’Neal, George Takei, Crispin Glover, Andy Serkis, Veronica Cartwright, Clint Howard, Billy Magnussen, Michael Render (Killer Mike GTO), Clayne Crawford, Joey Lawrence, Carmen Electra, Chrysta Bell, and the late Harold Lloyd, Luther Vandross, Nina Foch, Elena Verdugo, Robert DoQui, Harris Wittels, Edie Sedgwick, Bruce Cabot, Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr. (Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf), and Adolf Hitler. Bram Stoker died 108 years ago today in 1912 at age 64. Don Siegel died 29 years ago today in 1991 at age 78. Benny Hill died 28 years ago today in 1992 at age 68. Cantinflas died 27 years ago today in 1993 at age 81.

Today Nicoletta Braschi is 60. Today is also the birthday of Tim Curry, James Franco, Kate Hudson, Ashley Judd, Hayden Christensen, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Elinor Donahue, Ali Wong, Tony Plana, Arshad Warsi, Alan Price, Arshad Warsi, Michael Dowse, William Klein, Suge Knight, Jesse James, and the late Jayne Mansfield, Dudley Moore, Hugh O’Brian, Dick Sargent, George O’Brien, May Robson, Constance Talmadge, Barry Brown, and Bernie Worrell. Ruth Hussey died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 93.

Today Clive Revill is 90, and Britt Robertson is 30. Today is also the birthday of Rick Moranis, Conan O’Brien, James Woods, Eric Roberts, Hayley Mills, Edgar Wright, Eli Roth, Maria Bello, Eric McCormack, David Tennant, Jane Leeves, America Ferrera, Melissa Joan Hart, Alia Shawkat, David Hewlett, Jeff Dunham, Kourtney Kardashian, and the late James Drury, Barbara Hale, Miklós Rózsa, Clarence Darrow, and Gabriel Axel and André Bazin. Dick Clark died eight years ago in 2012 at age 82.

Today Redman is 50. Today is also the birthday of Rooney Mara, Jennifer Garner, Sean Bean, Olivia Hussey, Adam McKay, David Bradley, Maïwenn, William Mapother, Joel Murray, Michael Forest, Nick Hornby, Victoria Beckham, and the late William Holden, Anne Shirley, Roddy Piper, Lindsay Anderson, Arthur Lake, Paul Langton, Joan Lorring, Señor Wences, Louis Jean Heydt, and George Seaton. Eddie Cochran died sixty years ago in 1960 at age 21. Dick Shawn died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Kitty Carlisle died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 96. Doris Roberts died four years ago in 2016 at age 90.

Today Bobby Vinton is 85. Today is also the birthday of Ellen Barkin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Claire Foy, Jon Cryer, Martin Lawrence, Lukas Haas, Gina Carano, Anya Taylor-Joy, Peter Billingsley, Chance the Rapper, AKON, Jay O. Sanders, Hayes MacArthur, Qi Shu, Billy West, Marshall R. Teague, Erik Bleaman (aka High Pitch Erik), and the late Charles Chaplin, Peter Ustinov, Spike Milligan, Barry Nelson, Edie Adams, Selena Quintanilla-Perez, Henry Mancini, David Graf, George ‘The Animal’ Steele, Catherine Scorsese, Les Tremayne, and Dusty Springfield. David Lean died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 83.

Today Susanne Bier is 60, Damien Dante Wayans is 40, and Emma Watson is 30. Today is also the birthday of Emma Thompson, Seth Rogen, Luke Evans, Claudia Cardinale, Maisie Williams, Andrew Daly, Thomas F. Wilson, Linda Perry, Trine Dyrholm, Reed Morano, Richard Rush, Sam McMurray, Tom Kane, Chris Stapleton, Olivier Nakache, and the late Leonardo da Vinci, Elizabeth Montgomery, Hans Conried, John Williams, Roy Clark, Michael Ansara, Frank Vincent, Jean Willes, Henry James, Wallace Reid, and Bessie Smith. Abraham Lincoln died 155 years ago in 1865 at age 56. Wallace Beery died 71 years ago in 1949 at age 64. Jean Genet died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 75. Greta Garbo died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 84. Joey Ramone died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 49. R. Lee Ermey died two years ago in 2018 at age 74.

Today Julie Christie is 80, and Brad Garrett is 60. Today is also the birthday of Loretta Lynn, Adrien Brody, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Abigail Breslin, Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Carlyle, Peter Capaldi, Rob McElhenney, James Gray, Daniel Clowes, Gina McKee, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, and the late Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Richard Jeni, Bradford Dillman, Arlene Martel, Gloria Jean, Berry Berenson, Lee Tracy, Michelle McNamara, who would be 50, Philip Stone, Gerry Anderson, John Howard, Liz Renay, and Anne Sullivan. Fredric March died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 77. Burl Ives died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 85. Bibi Andersson died one year ago in 2019 at age 83.

Today Tony Dow is 75, and Ron Perlman and William Sadler are 70. Today is also the birthday of Allison Williams, Edward Fox, Glenn Howerton, Caroline Rhea, Charles Burnett, Ruben Östlund, Bokeem Woodbine, Paul Sorvino, Al Green, Erick Avari, Saundra Santiago, Peter Davison, Gary Kroeger, Hannah Marks, Yance Ford, and the late Don Adams, Samuel Beckett, Stanley Donen, Thomas Jefferson, Howard Keel, Lyle Waggoner, Maurice Ronet, and Christopher Hitchens. Milos Forman died two year ago in 2018 at age 86.

Today Herbie Hancock is 80. Today is also the birthday of David Letterman, Claire Danes, Andy Garcia, Ed O’Neill, Saoirse Ronan, Shannen Doherty, Nicholas Brendon, Ilana Glazer, Paul Rust, Marley Shelton, Jennifer Morrison Matt McGorry, Hardy Krüger, Dan Lauria, Jane Withers, Magda Szubanski, Walter Salles, Robert Durst, and the late Ann Miller, Charles Napier, Tom Clancy, David Cassidy, who would be 70, Tiny Tim, Movita, Virginia Cherrill, John Dunsworth, Georges Franju, and Robert Harron. Paul Ford died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 74. Boxer Joe Louis died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 66, and boxer “Sugar” Ray Robinson died 29 years ago in 1989 at age 67.