Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today John Cullum is 90, Gordon Thomson is 75, and Rebel Wilson is 40. Today is also the birthday of Daniel Craig, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jon Bon Jovi, Chris Martin, Laraine Newman, John Irving, Gates McFadden, and the late Jennifer Jones, Desi Arnaz, Lou Reed, Karen Carpenter, who would be 70, Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss), Tom Wolfe, Jon Finch, Martin Ritt, and Kenji Misumi. Philip K. Dick died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 53. Randolph Scott died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 89. Sandy Dennis died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 54. Mercedes McCambridge died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 87.

Today Harvey Jason and Margit Carstensen are 80, Tony Robbins is 60, and Peter Scanavino is 40. Today is also the birthday of Joss Ackland, Antonio Sabato Jr., Ja Rule, Shane Johnson, Ken Foree, Jessie T. Usher, and the late Michèle Morgan, Arthur Franz, and James Mitchell, who would all be 100, Dinah Shore, Dennis Farina, Alex Rocco, Edward Faulkner, William A. Wellman, Richard Ramirez, and Aileen Wuornos. Frank Albertson died 56 years ago in 1964 at age 55. Davy Jones died eight years ago in 2012 at age 66.

Today Daniel Handler is 50. Today is also the birthday of John Turturro, Gilbert Gottfried, Bernadette Peters, Mercedes Ruehl, Gavin MacLeod, Tommy Tune, Mike Figgis, Rory Cochrane, Geoffrey Arend, Guy Maddin, Paul Krugman, Robert Sean Leonard, Rae Dawn Chong, and the late Zero Mostel, Charles Durning, Brian Jones, Vincente Minnelli, Bubba Smith, Don Francks, Billie Bird, and Ben Hecht. Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Ishiro Honda died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 81. Jane Russell died eleven years ago in 2011 at age 89.

Today Joanne Woodward is 90, Howard Hesseman is 80, Mary Jo Pehl is 60, and Chelsea Clinton is 40. Today is the birthday of Timothy Spall, Kara Mara, Josh Groban, Noah Emmerich, Adam Baldwin, Donal Logue, Bingbing Li, Debra Monk, Barbara Babcock, Bolo Yeung, Ralph Nader, Charles Baker, Charlotte Stewart, and the late Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, John Steinbeck, William Demarest, Van Williams, Franchot Tone, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Lillian Gish died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 99. Spike Milligan died eighteen years ago in 2002 at 83. Fred Rogers died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 74. Leonard Nimoy died five years ago in 2015 at age 83. George Kennedy died four years ago in 2016 at age 91.

Today Jane Wagner is 85, and Marta Kristen is 75. Today is also the birthday of Michael Bolton, Bill Duke, James Wan, Marilyn Michaels, Greg Germann, Josephine Tewson, Teresa Palmer, Drew Goddard, Michel Houellebecq, Steve Agee, Tim Kaine, and the late Tony Randall and Michael Pate, who would both be 100, Johnny Cash, Jackie Gleason, Fats Domino, Betty Hutton, William Frawley, Godfrey Cambridge, Victor Hugo, Christopher Marlowe, Dub Taylor, Dane Clark, Tex Avery, Robert Alda, William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), Madeleine Carroll, and Margaret Leighton. Lawrence Tierney died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 82.

Today Neil Jordan is 70, and Noah Jupe is 15. Today is also the birthday of Téa Leoni, Rashida Jones, Sean Astin, Chelsea Handler, Diane Baker, Tom Courtenay, Lee Evans, John Doe, Scott ‘Carrot Top’ Thompson, Ric Flair, Jameela Jamil, and the late George Harrison, Zeppo Marx, Jim Backus, Larry Gelbart, Anthony Burgess, Bobby Riggs, Bert Remsen, and Gert Fröbe. Tennessee Williams died 37 years ago in 1983 at age 71. James Coco died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 56. Erland Josephson died eight years ago in 2012 at age 88. Bill Paxton died three years ago in 2017 at age 61.

Today Barry Bostwick is 75. Today is also the birthday of Billy Zane, Edward James Olmos, Daniel Kaluuya, Dominic Chianese, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Debra Jo Rupp, Jenny O’Hara, Beth Broderick, Mark Moses, Emilio Rivera, Todd Field, Michael Radford, Kasi Lemmons, Gillian Flynn, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and the late Abe Vigoda, Emmanuelle Riva, John Vernon, Marjorie Main, Steve Jobs, Steven Hill, and Mitch Hedberg. John Randolph died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 88. Don Knotts and Dennis Weaver died fourteen years ago in 2006, both at age 81. Harold Ramis died six years ago in 2014 at age 69.

Today Mary Pat Gleason is 70, and Niecy Nash and Marie-Josée Croze are 70. Today is also the birthday of Emily Blunt, Kelly Macdonald, Aziz Ansari, Kristin Davis, Dakota Fanning, Josh Gad, Paul Morrissey, Jirí Menzel, Patricia Richardson, and the late Peter Fonda, who would be 80, Victor Fleming, George Frideric Handel, W.E.B. Du Bois, Diane Varsi, Terence Fisher, and Norman Taurog. Mabel Normand died ninety years ago in 1930 at age 37. Stan Laurel died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 74. Katherine Helmond died one year ago in 2019 at age 89.

Today Julie Walters is 70. Today is also the birthday of Kyle MacLachlan, Drew Barrymore, Thomas Jane, Rachel Dratch, James Hong, Paul Dooley, Ellen Greene, Elizabeth MacRae, Jeri Ryan, Josh Helman, Nicholas Pileggi, Paul Lieberstein, Rebecca Schull, Nigel Planer, and the late George Washington, Luis Buñuel, Jonathan Demme, Giulietta Masina, John Mills, Robert Young, Don Pardo, Dwight Frye, Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter, Karin Dor, Kenneth Williams, Vaughn Taylor, Sheldon Leonard, and Mildred Davis. Andy Warhol died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 58. Simone Simon died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 94.

Today John Lewis is 80, Brendan Sexton III, Justin Roiland, and Shane Ryan are 40. Today is also the birthday of Ellen Page, Kelsey Grammer, Jordan Peele, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mélanie Laurent, Tyne Daly, Kim Coates, William Petersen, Kumail Nanjiani, Tituss Burgess, Bob Rafelson, William Baldwin, Christopher Atkins, Jack Coleman, Sophie Turner, Margarethe von Trotta, Christine Ebersole, Chuck Palahniuk, Gary Lockwood, Anthony Daniels, and the late Alan Rickman, Nina Simone, Sam Peckinpah, David Foster Wallace, Rue McClanahan, Ann Sheridan, Larry Drake, Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Sacha Guitry, and James Beck. Malcolm X was assassinated 55 years ago in 1965 at age 39. Stanley Donen and Peter Tork died one year ago in 2019. Donen was 94. Tork was 77.