Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Lee Grant is 96, Dan Rather is 90, Sally Kirkland is 80, Stephen Rea is 75, Peter Jackson is 60, and Nora Twomey is 50. Today is also the birthday of Rob Schneider, Dermot Mulroney, Ron Rifkin, Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock), Johnny Marr, Brian Doyle-Murray, Letitia Wright, Piper Perabo, David Dencik, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kether Donohue, Mike O’Malley, Michael J. Anderson, Jane Pauley, Arnaud Desplechin, Ruben Fleischer, Jim Cummings, Willow Smith, Vanilla Ice, and the late John Candy, Ethel Waters, Dale Evans, Michael Landon, John Keats, David Ogden Stiers, Bud Spencer, Barbara Bel Geddes, Frank Silva, Eduard Franz, Sara Allgood, Ollie Johnston, and Jimmy Savile. Harry Houdini died 95 years ago in 1926 at age 52. John Houseman died 33 years ago in 1988 at age 86. Federico Fellini and River Phoenix died 28 years ago in 1993. Fellini was 73. Phoenix was 23. Sean Connery died one year ago in 2020 at age 90.

Today Andrea Mitchell is 75, Harry Hamlin is 70, Larry Wilmore and Joe Berlinger are 60, and Fiona Dourif and Ivanka Trump are 40. Today is also the birthday of Henry Winkler, Kevin Pollak, Nia Long, Matthew Morrison, Gavin Rossdale, Maria Thayer, Michael Beach, Leon Rippy, Mark Steven Johnson, Claude Lelouch, Jessica Hynes, Juliet Stevenson, Richard LaGravenese, Charles Martin Smith, Brett Kelly, and the late John Adams, Ruth Gordon, Louis Malle, Ezra Pound, Ruth Hussey, Jane Randolph, Herschel Bernardi, Fyodor Dostoevsky, who would be 200, Michael Winner, Ed Lauter, and Dick Gautier. Samuel Fuller died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 85. Steve Allen died 21 years ago in 2000 at age 78. Jam Master Jay died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 37. Robert Goulet died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 73. Al Molinaro died six years ago in 2015 at age 96.

Today Winona Ryder is 50. Today is also the birthday of Richard Dreyfuss, Ben Foster, Gabrielle Union, Dan Castellaneta, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kate Jackson, Rufus Sewell, Joely Fisher, Lee Child, Ralph Bakshi, Peter Watkins, Michael Schur, and the late Bob Ross, Fanny Brice, Peter Green, Beth Chapman, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Hardy, Geraldine Brooks, Eddie Constantine, Isao Takahata, and Joseph Goebbels. Louis B. Mayer died 64 years ago in 1957 at age 73. Adolphe Menjou died 58 years ago in 1963 at age 73. Terry Southern died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 71. Vaughn Meader died seventeen years ago in 2004 at age 68. John Witherspoon died two years ago in 2019 at age 77.

Today Joe R. Lansdale is 70. Today is also the birthday of Julia Roberts, Joaquin Phoenix, Andy Richter, Joan Plowright, Gwendoline Christie, Jane Alexander, Dennis Franz, Frank Ocean, Bill Gates, Matt Smith, Daphne Zuniga, Finn Wittrock, Brad Paisley, Ben Harper, Telma Hopkins, Lauren Holly, Annie Potts, Joe Thomas, Chris Bauer, Jami Gertz, Sheryl Underwood, Kevin Macdonald, Jake Kasdan, Michael Dougherty, Caitlyn Jenner, Ronnie Mund, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the late Elsa Lanchester, Edith Head, Alan Clarke, Joe Spinell, Jack Soo, Dody Goodman, and Evelyn Waugh. Alice Brady died 82 years ago in 1939 at age 46. James MacArthur died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 72.

Today Ivan Reitman is 75, and Joanna Scanlan is 60. Today is also the birthday of John Cleese, Roberto Benigni, Fran Lebowitz, Patrick Fugit, Peter Firth, David Walton, Kelly Osbourne, Robert Picardo, Simon Le Bon, Michael Shamus Wiles, Lara Parker, Ming-liang Tsai, Theodore Melfi, Brontis Jodorowsky, Marla Maples, and the late Theodore Roosevelt, Sylvia Plath, Ruby Dee, Teresa Wright, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Dylan Thomas, Nanette Fabray, Scott Weiland, Carrie Snodgress, Jack Carson, Carolyn Craig, Frederick De Cordova, Leif Erickson, Bernie Wrightson, and John Gotti. Sammee Tong died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 63. Allan “Rocky” Lane died 48 years ago in 1973 at age 64. James M. Cain died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 85. Lou Reed died eight years ago in 2013 at age 71.

Today Hank Garrett is 90, Pat Sajak is 75, Julian Schnabel is 70, Dylan McDermott is 60, and Rosemarie DeWitt and Anthony Rapp are 50. Today is also the birthday of Seth MacFarlane, Keith Urban, Hillary Clinton, Cary Elwes, Rita Wilson, Jon Heder, Tom Cavanagh, James Pickens Jr., Jaclyn Smith, SoKo, Roger Allam, Rupert Wyatt, and the late Bob Hoskins, Don Siegel, Jackie Coogan, Ted Demme, Pat Conroy, Margaret Wycherly, Mark Sandrich, and H.B. Warner. Hattie McDaniel died 69 years ago in 1952 at age 57. Hoyt Axton died 22 years ago in 1999 at age 61. Robert Evans died two years ago in 2019 at age 89.

Today Chad Smith is 60, and Craig Robinson and Leslie Grossman are 50. Today is also the birthday of Katy Perry, Mathieu Amalric, Mia Wasikowska, Adam Goldberg, Samantha Bee, Marion Ross, James Carville, Zachary Knighton, Nancy Cartwright, Michael Weston, Sang-soo Hong, Bobby Knight, Kevin Michael Richardson, and the late Pablo Picasso, Leo G. Carroll, Billy Barty, John Matuszak, Anthony Franciosa, Minnie Pearl, Abel Gance, Annie Girardot, Whit Bissell, Jeanne Cooper, Barbara Cook, and Klaus Barbie. Forrest Tucker died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 67. Vincent Price died 28 years ago in 1993 at age 82. Richard Harris died nineteen years ago in 2002 at age 72. Marcia Wallace and Hal Needham died eight years ago in 2013. Wallace was 70, and Needham was 82.

Today Philip Kaufman is 85. Today is also the birthday of Ryan Reynolds, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Emilia Clarke, Sam Raimi, Ang Lee, Dwight Yoakam, Margaret Qualley, Cat Deeley, Alex Gibney, Pelé, Amandla Sternberg, Meghan McCain, Nancy Grace, and the late Johnny Carson, Michael Crichton, Coleen Gray, Diana Dors, Frank Sutton, Una O’Connor, Grant Imahara, Hayden Rorke, Gummo Marx, and Harold P. Warren. Al Jolson died 71 years ago in 1950 at age 64. Oskar Werner died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 61.

Today Jennifer Lee is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jeff Goldblum, Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Lloyd, Bob Odenkirk, Derek Jacobi, Carmen Ejogo, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jonathan Lipnicki, Tony Roberts, Spike Jonze, Kyle Gallner, Saffron Burrows, Valeria Golino, Carlos Mencia, Bill Camp, Corey Hawkins, Bill Condon, Jan de Bont, Alan Ladd Jr., Julie Dash, Marc Shaiman, Marc Lawrence, Ray Stern, and the late Joan Fontaine, Curly Howard, Annette Funicello, Constance Bennett, Timothy Leary, and Catherine E. Coulson. Cleavon Little died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 53. Mary Wickes died 26 years ago in 1995 at age 85. Soupy Sales died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 83.

Today Joyce Randolph is 97, and Steve Cropper is 80. Today is also the birthday of Ken Watanabe, Judge Judy Sheindlin, Kim Kardashian West, Melora Walters, Glen Powell, Andrew Scott, Everett McGill, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Michael McMillian, Matt Dallas, Jeff Richards, Catherine Hardwicke, Julio Medem, Patti Davis, Benjamin Netanyahu, Amber Rose, Hope Hicks, and the late Carrie Fisher, Edith Scob, Edna Purviance, Dizzy Gillespie, Leonard Rossiter, and Alfred Nobel. Jack Kerouac died 52 years ago in 1969 at age 47. François Truffaut died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 52.