Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Stephen Sondheim and Pat Robertson are 90, M. Emmet Walsh is 85, Eric Roth is 75, Nicole Holofcener is 60, and Nick Robinson is 25. Today is also the birthday of Reese Witherspoon, William Shatner, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Matthew Modine, Keegan-Michael Key, Bob Costas, Wolf Blitzer, Constance Wu, Lena Olin, Will Yun Lee, James Wolk, Cole Hauser, Angelo Badalamenti, Carlton Cuse, James Patterson, Tyler Oakley, May Britt, and the late Ross Martin and Werner Klemperer, who would both be 100, Karl Malden, Chico Marx, Bruno Ganz, Marcel Marceau, Virginia Grey, James Westerfield, Haing S. Ngor, Joseph Schildkraut, and Lew Wasserman. William Hanna died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 90.

Today Peter Brook is 95, and Cenk Uygur is 50. Today is also the birthday of Gary Oldman, Matthew Broderick, Timothy Dalton, Rosie O’Donnell, Scott Eastwood, Jaye Davidson, Brad Hall, Rhys Darby, Karyn Kusama, Greg Ellis, Sonequa Martin-Green, Santino Fontana, Slavoj Zizek, Kevin Federline, and the late Russ Meyer, James Coco, Al Freeman Jr., Virginia Weidler, Peter Bull, W.S. Van Dyke, and Sidney Franklin. Robert Preston died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 68. Chuck Barris died three years ago in 2017 at age 87.

Today Vera Lynn is 103, Carl Reiner is 98, William Hurt is 70, Michael Rapaport is 50, and Mikey Day is 40. Today is also the birthday of Holly Hunter, Spike Lee, David Thewlis, Hal Linden, Xavier Dolan, Liza Snyder, Christy Carlson Romano, Theresa Russell, Cedric Yarbrough, Kathy Ireland, Murray Bartlett, Ramin Bahrani, Duke Johnson, Bruce Wagner, Louis Sachar, Ruby Rose, Barron Trump, and the late Fred Rogers, Henrik Ibsen, Jerry Reed, Jack Kruschen, Michael Redgrave, Ozzie Nelson, Edmund Goulding, Ted Bessell, Edgar Buchanan, and Anne Bradstreet. Carl Theodor Dreyer died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 79.

Today is the birthday of Bruce Willis, Glenn Close, Ursula Andress, Renée Taylor, Neil LaBute, Jake Weber, Jorma Taccone, Nicholas Stoller, Harvey Weinstein, and the late Philip Roth, Patricia Morison, Patrick McGoohan, Kent Smith, Fred Clark, Roy Roberts, Tige Andrews, who would be 100, Eric Christmas, Wyatt Earp, and Adolf Eichmann. Paul Scofield and Arthur C. Clarke both died twelve years ago in 2008. Scofield was 86, and Clarke was 90.

Today Brad Dourif is 70, and Queen Latifah is 50. Today is also the birthday of Vanessa Williams, Luc Besson, Lily Collins, Dane Cook, Adam Pally, Chris Geere, Adam Levine, Mike Rowe, Lykke Li, and the late Susan Tyrrell, Peter Graves, Robert Donat, Edward Everett Horton, John Updike, René Clément, Grover Cleveland, and Neville Chamberlain. Anthony Minghella died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 54. Natasha Richardson died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 45. Chuck Berry died three years ago in 2017 at age 90.

Today Katie Morgan is 40, and Hozier is 30. Today is also the birthday of Kurt Russell, Rob Lowe, Gary Sinise, John Boyega, Patrick Duffy, Lesley-Anne Down, Mark Boone Junior, Natalie Zea, Pattie Boyd, Mia Hamm, Grimes, Stormy Daniels, and the late Nat King Cole, Brigitte Helm, Frank DeKova, Alexander McQueen, and John Wayne Gacy. Luchino Visconti died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 69. Helen Hayes died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 92.

Today Kate Nelligan is 70. Today is also the birthday of Isabelle Huppert, Victor Garber, Lauren Graham, Nancy Wilson, Paul Schneider, Jerome Flynn, Alan Tudyk, Judah Friedlander, Brooke Burns, Erik Estrada, Gore Verbinski, Flavor Flav, Clifton Powell, and the late Jerry Lewis, Mercedes McCambridge, Henny Youngman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Rossen, James Madison, Irwin Keyes, Victor Maddern, Henry B. Walthall, and Pat Nixon. Bebe Daniels died 49 years ago in 1971 at age 70. Arthur Godfrey died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 79. Ivan Dixon died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 76.

Today Judd Hirsch and Jimmy Swaggart are 85. Today is also the birthday of Mike Love, Eva Longoria Baston, David Cronenberg, Dee Snider, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kim Raver, Joaquim de Almeida, Jai Courtney, Brian Tee, Mark McGrath, Monica Dolan, Bret Michaels, Fabio, will.i.am, Renny Harlin, Greg Nicotero, Khosrow Vaziri (The Iron Sheik), and the late Lawrence Tierney, Joe. E. Ross, Andrew Jackson, George Brent, Macdonald Carey, J. Pat O’Malley, Walter Gotell, and Philippe de Broca. H. P. Lovecraft died 83 years ago in 1937 at age 46. Ann Southern died nineteen years in 2001 at age 92. David Brenner died six years ago in 2014 at age 78.

Today Meredith Salenger is 50. Today is also the birthday of Michael Caine, Billy Crystal, Quincy Jones, Jamie Bell, Ansel Elgort, Corey Stoll, Chris Klein, Betsy Brandt, Raymond J. Barry, Gary Dell’Abate, Stephen Curry, Wolfgang Petersen, Kevin Williamson, Gary Anthony Williams, Bruno Dumont, Sasha Grey, and the late Albert Einstein and Diane Arbus. Susan Hayward died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 57. Busby Berkeley died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 80. Howard Ashman died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 40. Fred Zinnemann died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 89. Peter Graves died ten years ago in 2010 at age 83.

Today Al Jaffee is 99, William H. Macy is 70, Adam Clayton is 60, and Tim Story is 50. Today is also the birthday of Common, Emile Hirsch, Dana Delany, Danny Masterson, Neil Sedaka, Charo, George MacKay, Annabeth Gish, Harry Melling, André Téchiné, and the late L. Rob Hubbard, Douglas Rain, Glenne Headly, Paul Fix, Joseph Mascolo, Paul Stewart, Henry Hathaway, and Peaches Geldof. Krzysztof Kieslowski and Lucio Fulci both died 24 years ago in 1996. Kieslowski was 54. Fulci was 68.