Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Andrew Bergman is 75, and Joel Hodgson is 60. Today is also the birthday of Sidney Poitier, Lili Taylor, Miles Teller, Mike Leigh, Richard Beymer, Rihanna, Trevor Noah, Chelsea Peretti, Brenda Blethyn, Charles Barkley, Andrea Savage, Willie Garson, Louis Ferreira, Jay Hernandez, Lauren Ambrose, Anthony Head, David Herman, Jack Falahee, Jason Blum, Sandy Duncan, Cindy Crawford, Kliph Nesteroff, Patricia Hearst, Ivana Trump, and the late Robert Altman, Kurt Cobain, Richard Matheson, Brion James, Amanda Blake, Gale Gordon, Pierre Boulle, and Gloria Vanderbilt. Max Schreck died 84 years ago in 1936 at age 56. Dick York died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 63. Sandra Dee died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 62.

Today Smokey Robinson is 80. Today is also the birthday of Benicio Del Toro, Jeff Daniels, Ray Winstone, Justine Bateman, Seal, Amy Tan, Sam Reid, Millie Bobby Brown, David Mazouz, Leslie David Baker, Josh Trank, Victoria Justice, Zach Clark, and the late Lee Marvin, John Frankenheimer, Ann Savage, Cedric Hardwicke, Louis Feuillade, Merle Oberon, David Margulies, and Louis Calhern. Michael Powell died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 84. Derek Jarman died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 52. Stanley Kramer died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 87. Harper Lee died four years ago in 2016 at age 89.

Today Cybil Shepherd is 70, Greta Scacchi is 60, and Regina Spektor is 40. Today is also the birthday of John Travolta, Matt Dillon, Yoko Ono, Molly Ringwald, Dr. Dre, Ike Barinholtz, Vanna White, Logan Miller, László Nemes, Jeff Orlowski, and the late John Hughes, who would be 70, Toni Morrison, Milos Forman, George Kennedy, Jack Palance, Mary Ure, Adolphe Menjou, Allan Melvin, Edward Arnold, Bill Cullen, who would be 100, and Nikos Kazantzakis. Martin Luther died 474 years ago in 1546 at age 62. Michelangelo died 456 years ago in 1564 at age 88. Andy Devine died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Harry Caray died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 83. Dale Earnhardt died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 49. Jean Rouch died sixteen years ago in 2004 at age 86.

Today Hal Holbrook is 95, Christina Pickles is 85, Brenda Fricker is 75, and Jason Ritter is 40. Today is also the birthday of Michael Jordan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rene Russo, Jim Brown, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michael Bay, Lou Diamond Phillips, Larry The Cable Guy, Jerry O’Connell, Ed Sheeran, Denise Richards, Lucy Davis, Billie Joe Armstrong, Paris Hilton, Rory Kinnear, Richard Karn, Patricia Routledge, Barry Humphries, Becky Ann Baker, Dieter Laser, Bonnie Wright, Don Coscarelli, and the late Alan Bates, Arthur Kennedy, Kathleen Freeman, Huey P. Newton, Jeremy Slate, Ralphie May, and Arthur Hunnicutt. Lee Strasberg died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 80.

Today The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) is 30. Today is also the birthday of Mahershala Ali, LeVar Burton, Ice-T, Elizabeth Olsen, Troy Evans, John McEnroe, Christopher Eccleston, William Katt, Agyness Deyn, Janice Dickinson, Lisa Loring, and the late Sonny Bono, Edgar Bergen, John Schlesinger, Chester Morris, Hugh Beaumont, Brian Bedford, Robert J. Flaherty, James Baskett, Ken Takakura, Carlos Rivas, Vernon Dent, Mack Swain, and Kim Jong-il. Len Lesser died eleven years ago in 2011 at age 88. Lesley Gore died five years ago in 2015 at age 68. 

Today Samira Makhmalbaf is 40. Today is also the birthday of Matt Groening, Claire Bloom, Jane Seymour, Alex Borstein, Sherry Jackson, Marisa Berenson, Christopher McDonald, Miranda July, Amber Riley, Brendon Small, Omarosa Manigault, and the late Chris Farley, Cesar Romero, Harvey Korman, Kevin McCarthy, John Barrymore, Allan Arbus, Galileo Galilei, Susan B. Anthony, who would be 200, Arthur Shields, Meg Wyllie, and Gale Sondergaard. Wally Cox and Tim Holt died 47 years ago in 1973. Cox was 48, and Holt was 54. Ethel Merman died years in 1984 at age 76. George Gaynes died years ago in 2016 at age 98.

Today Hugh Downs is 99, Frank Collison is 70, Meg Tilly is 60, Simon Pegg is 50, and Brett Dier is 30. Today is also the birthday of Freddie Highmore, Carl Bernstein, Michael Bloomberg, Harriet Andersson, Teller, Danai Gurira, Andrew Robinson, Zach Galligan, Terry Gross, Alan Parker, Jackie Martling, Joan O’Brien, Rob Thomas, Anton Lesser, Andrew Prine, Sakina Jaffrey, Angela Robinson, Allan Miller, and the late Jack Benny, Florence Henderson, Thelma Ritter, Vic Morrow, Gregory Hines, Lois Maxwell, Edward Platt, Jimmy Hoffa, Woody Hayes, Tim Buckley, Stuart Erwin, and Masaki Kobayashi. Sig Ruman died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 82. Louis Jourdan died five years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today Chuck Yeager is 97, and Peter Gabriel is 70. Today is also the birthday of George Segal, Kim Novak, Stockard Channing, Henry Rollins, Jerry Springer, Robbie Williams, Richard Tyson, Bo Svenson, Mena Suvari, Neal McDonough, David Naughton, Donald Sumpter, Joe Estevez, and the late Oliver Reed, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Peter Tork, and Carol Lynley. Martin Balsam died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 76. Stacy Keach Sr. died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 88. Seijun Suzuki died three years ago in 2017 at age 93.

Today Cliff De Young is 75, Michael Ironside is 70, and Christina Ricci is 40. Today is also the birthday of Josh Brolin, Darren Aronofsky, Costa-Gavras, John Michael Higgins, Arsenio Hall, Joe Don Baker, Judy Blume, Lochlyn Munro, Tara Strong, Raphael Sbarge, Iko Uwais, Josef Altin, Zach Grenier, Annette Crosbie, and the late Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, both born today in 1809, Franco Zeffirelli, Forrest Tucker, Louis Zorich, Lorne Greene, Simon MacCorkindale, Richard Lynch, Ann Gillis, Wallace Ford, and Joseph Kearns. Dziga Vertov died 66 years ago in 1954 at age 58. Sal Mineo died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 37. Jean Renoir died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 84. Charles M. Schulz died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 77. Sid Caesar died six years ago in 2014 at age 91.

Today Q’orianka Kilcher is 30. Today is also the birthday of Jennifer Aniston, Damian Lewis, Sheryl Crow, Taylor Lautner, Brandy Norwood, Tina Louise, Diane Franklin, Natalie Dormer, Jeb Bush, Sarah Palin, Alex Jones, and the late Burt Reynolds, Leslie Nielsen, Eva Gabor, Thomas A. Edison, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Kim Stanley, Sonny Landham, Billy Halop, who would be 100, Max Baer, and Sidney Sheldon. Sergei Eisenstein died 72 years ago in 1948 at age 50. Sylvia Plath died 57 years ago in 1963 at age 30. Lee J. Cobb died 44 years ago in 1976 at age 64. Whitney Houston died eight years ago in 2012 at age 48.