Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Robert Wagner is 90. Today is also the birthday of Laura Dern, Alexander Payne, Elizabeth Banks, Chloë Grace Moretz, Emma Roberts, Uzo Aduba, Vince Gilligan, Michael Apted, George Stephanopoulos, Stephanie Beatriz, Rupert Vansittart, Meadow Williams, Glenn Beck, and the late Lon Chaney Jr., Jimmy Durante, Alan Hale, Judith Anderson, Jerry Goldsmith, Stella Adler, Bertolt Brecht, John Dierkes, Hazel Court, John Farrow, and Douglas Slocombe. Jim Varney died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 50. Arthur Miller died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 89. Roy Scheider died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 75. Shirley Temple died six years ago in 2014 at age 85.

Today Mia Farrow is 75, David Simon is 60, Margarita Levieva is 40. Today is also the birthday of Joe Pesci, Carole King, Tom Hiddleston, Judith Light, Michael B. Jordan, Ziyi Zhang, Ciarán Hinds, Charlie Day, David Hayman, Jason George, Marianna Hill, Fede Alvarez, Rose Leslie, Charles Shaughnessy, Clive Swift, Janet Suzman, and the late Ronald Colman, Kathryn Grayson, Brian Donlevy, Carmen Miranda, Peggy Wood, Roy Jenson, and William Henry Harrison. George ‘Gabby’ Hayes died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 83. John Gavin and Reg E. Cathey died two years ago in 2018. Gavin was 86. Cathey was 59.

Today William Jackson Harper is 40. Today is also the birthday of Nick Nolte, Mary Steenburgen, John Williams, Mary McCormack, Seth Green, Brooke Adams, Robert Klein, John Grisham, Allan Rich, Cecily Strong, Mathilda May, Creed Bratton, Ethan Phillips, and the late James Dean, Jack Lemmon, Lana Turner, Gary Coleman, Audrey Meadows, Jules Verne, King Vidor, Jack Larson, William Tecumseh Sherman, who would be 200, Betty Field, Burt Mustin, Alejandro Rey, Charles Ruggles, Roger Lloyd Pack, and Bengt Ekerot, who would be 100.

Today James Spader and Robert Smigel are 60. Today is also the birthday of Chris Rock, Eddie Izzard, Garth Brooks, Ashton Kutcher, Tina Majorino, Deborah Ann Woll, Robyn Lively, Jason Gedrick, Eric Godon, James Deen, and the late Charles Dickens, Miguel Ferrer, Pete Postlethwaite, Eddie Bracken, Gloria Talbott, Jock Mahoney, Buster Crabbe, Wayne Allwine, Dora Bryan, Hector Babenco, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas More, and Puyi. Dale Evans died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 88. Mickey Jones died two years ago in 2018 at age 76. Albert Finney died one year ago in 2019 at age 82.

Today Tom Brokaw is 80. Today is also the birthday of Kathy Najimy, Dane DeHaan, Axl Rose, Mike Farrell, Josh Stewart, Mamie Van Doren, Robert Townsend, Jim Sheridan, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Kevin Whately, Debra Granik, Fabian, and the late Bob Marley, who would be 75, François Truffaut, Rip Torn, Ronald Reagan, Babe Ruth, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Patrick Macnee, Ramon Novarro, Haskell Wexler, David Gorcey, and Eva Braun. Danny Thomas died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 79. Joseph Cotten died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 88. Irwin Corey died three years ago in 2017 at age 102.

Today Jonathan Freeman is 70. Today is also the birthday of Charlotte Rampling, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Guest, Michael Sheen, Laura Linney, Barbara Hershey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Mann, Tim Meadows, Chris Parnell, Darren Criss, Bobby Brown, Errol Morris, Tony Jaa, Hank Aaron, Mia Hansen-Løve, Benoît Jacquot, David Meunier, David Selby, Jamie Brewer, and the late John Carradine, Red Buttons, William S. Burroughs, Tim Holt, HR Giger, Stephen J. Cannell, and Stefan Gierasch. Thelma Ritter died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 66. Joseph L. Mankiewicz died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 83.

Today John Schuck is 80, Linda Bassett is 70, and Gabrielle Anwar is 50. Today is also the birthday of Alice Cooper, Rob Corddry, Hannibal Buress, Jim O’Heir, Michael Beck, Jerry Adler, Dan Quayle, and the late Ida Lupino, George A. Romero, David Brenner, Rosa Parks, Charles Lindbergh, William Talman, Conrad Bain, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Norman Wisdom, James Craig, Nigel Bruce, and Betty Friedan, who died on her 85th birthday fourteen years ago in 2006. Louis Jordan died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 66. Karen Carpenter died 37 year ago in 1983 at age 32. Liberace died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 67. John Mahoney died two years ago in 2018 at age 77.

Today Morgan Fairchild is 70, and Warwick Davis and Anthony Russo are 50. Today is also the birthday of Nathan Lane, Blythe Danner, Isla Fisher, Maura Tierney, Kenneth Anger, Tim Heidecker, Fredric Lehne, Stephen McHattie, Amal Clooney, Lizzie Borden, and the late Joey Bishop, Victor Buono, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Michael Cimino, Shelley Berman, Gertrude Stein, Norman Rockwell, Mary Carlisle, John Fielder, James Bridges, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Buddy Holly died 61 years ago in 1959 at age 22. Anna May Wong died 59 years ago in 1961 at age 56. John Cassavetes died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 59. Audrey Meadows died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 73. Al Lewis died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 82. Ben Gazzara died eight years ago in 2012 at age 81.

Today Jane Wagner is 85, and David Jason is 80. Today is also the birthday of Graham Nash, Tom Smothers, Bo Hopkins, Christie Brinkley, Zosia Mamet, Shakira, Jack McGee, Catherine Flemming, Blake Clark, Lori Beth Denberg, Rich Sommer, Laura Poitras, Oz Perkins, Duane “Dog” Chapman, John A. Russo, and the late Farrah Fawcett, James Joyce, James Dickey, Ayn Rand, Elaine Stritch, Tony Jay, S.Z. Sakall, Carol Ann Susi, Frank Albertson, Jackie Burroughs, Eva Cassidy, Bonita Granville, Connie Gilchrist, Frank Lloyd, Duane Jones, and Vera Chytilová. Boris Karloff died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 81. Sid Vicious died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 21. Donald Pleasence died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 75. Gene Kelly died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 83. Philip Seymour Hoffman died six years ago in 2014 at age 46. Bob Elliott died four years ago in 2016 at age 92.

Today is the birthday of Don Everly, Michael C Hall, Lisa Marie Presley, Garrett Morris, Pauly Shore, Sherilyn Fenn, Stuart Whitman, Abbi Jacobson, Linus Roache, Bill Mumy, Ronda Rousey, Harry Styles, John Gemberling, Anna Biller, and the late Clark Gable, John Ford, Terry Jones, Langston Hughes, Sherman Hemsley, Brandon Lee, Rick James, Nancy Gates, Boris Yeltsin, Peter Sallis, Paul Carr, Bibi Besch, and Lee Thompson Young. Buster Keaton and Hedda Hopper died 54 years ago in 1966. Keaton was 70. Hopper was 80. John Vernon died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 72. Maximilian Schell died six years ago in 2014 at age 83.