Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Frances Sternhagen is 90, Nick Clooney is 85, John McNaughton is 70, Shonda Rhimes is 50, and Liam Hemsworth is 30. Today is also the birthday of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Orlando Bloom, Michael Peña, Patrick Dempsey, Penelope Ann Miller, Ruth Wilson, Carol Cleveland, Bill Bailey, Nicole Eggert, Trace Adkins, William B. Davis, Billy Gray, and the late Robert Stack, Rip Taylor, Kay Francis, Rosemary Murphy, Charles Nelson Reilly, Paul Birch, Gwen Verdon, Jack Mercer, Albert Lamorisse, Horatio Alger, Michael Bond, and Gregory Walcott. Ernie Kovacs died 58 years ago in 1962 at age 42. Joe Spinell died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 52. Ted Demme died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 38. Dick Gautier died three years ago in 2017 at age 85.

Today Oliver Platt is 60. Today is also the birthday of Howard Stern, Rob Zombie, Kirstie Alley, Issa Rae, John Lasseter, Simon Russell Beale, Anthony Andrews, Rachael Harris, Alexandra Wentworth, Christiane Amanpour, Wayne Wang, Mary Harron, Shirley Eaton, Zayn Malik, Aaron Seltzer, Liliana Cavani, Jeff Bezos, Rush Limbaugh, and the late Luise Rainer, Jack London, Tex Ritter, Ray Teal, Joe E. Lewis, Patsy Kelly, Joe Frazier, and Matti Kassila. Henri-Georges Clouzot died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 69. Keye Luke died 29 years ago in 1991 at age 86. Maurice Gibb died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 53. William Peter Blatty died three years ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today Malcolm D. Lee is 50. Today is also the birthday of Amanda Peet, Mary J. Blige, Naomi Judd, Mitchell Ryan, Marc Blucas, Phyllis Logan, Alfonso Arau, Devin Ratray, Rockmond Dunbar, Joel Zwick, Felix Silla, Diana Gabaldon, and the late Rod Taylor, Lionel Stander, George Zucco, Christine Kaufmann, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Kathleen Byron, Veda Ann Borg, Angela Paton, Grant Tinker, Peter Baldwin, Chester Conklin, and Alexander Hamilton. Jack Soo died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 61. Sheldon Leonard died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 89. Maurice Pialat died 17 years ago in 2003 at age 77. Éric Rohmer died ten years ago in 2010 at age 89. David Nelson died nine years ago in 2011 at age 74. Anita Ekberg died five years ago in 2015 at age 83.

Today Rod Stewart is 75, Gurinder Chadha is 60, and Sarah Shahi is 40. Today is also the birthday of Walter Hill, Jemaine Clement, George Foreman, Trini Alvarado, William Sanderson, Evan Handler, Emily Meade, Tony Gardner, Fran Walsh, Jared Kushner, and the late Sal Mineo, Linda Lovelace, Francis X. Bushman, Ray Bolger, Paul Henreid, Bernard Lee, Jim Croce, David Maysles, Frank Sinatra Jr., Teresa Graves, Roy Edward Disney, and Josh Ryan Evans. Richard Boone died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 63. Paul Lynde died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 55. Maila Nurmi (Vampira) died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 85. David Bowie died four years ago in 2016 at age 69.

Today John Doman is 75, and David Johansen is 70. Today is also the birthday of J.K. Simmons, Imelda Staunton, Joan Baez, Joey Lauren Adams, Dave Matthews, Joely Richardson, Angela Bettis, Deon Cole, Omari Hardwick, K Callan, Jimmy Page, Al Jean, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, A.J. McLean, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, and the late Richard Nixon, Lee Van Cleef, Susannah York, Bob Denver, Dick Enberg, Clive Dunn, who would be 100, Bernard Gorcey, and Sergei Parajanov. Arthur Lake died 33 years ago in 1987 at age 81. Peter Cook died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 57.

Today Larry Storch is 97, and Sam Riley is 40. Today is also the birthday of Sarah Polley, Gaby Hoffmann, Yvette Mimieux, John McTiernan, Shirley Bassey, Jenny Lewis, R. Kelly, Amber Benson, Freddie Stroma, Betsy DeVos, Kim Jong-un, and the late Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Graham Chapman, Stephen Hawking, José Ferrer, Soupy Sales, Ron Moody, Gypsy Rose Lee, Kerwin Mathews, William Hartnell, and Roy Kinnear. Terry-Thomas died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 78. Pat Buttram died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 78. Jesse White died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 80. Yvonne De Carlo died thirteen years ago in 2007 at age 84.

Today Doug E. Doug is 50, Merritt Wever is 40, and Liam Aiken is 30. Today is also the birthday of Nicolas Cage, Jeremy Renner, Katie Couric, Ruth Negga, Terry Moore, David Caruso, Irrfan Khan, Lauren Cohan, Kenny Loggins, Kevin Rahm, Rex Lee, Dustin Diamond, Anne Schedeen, Haley Bennett, Robert Sheehan, Steven Williams, Tomm Moore, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, and the late Charles Addams, Vincent Gardenia, who would be 100, Butterfly McQueen, Alan Napier, Geoffrey Bayldon, William Peter Blatty, Adolph Zukor, and Roland Topor. Trevor Howard died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 74. Rod Taylor died five years ago in 2015 at age 84.

Today Julie Chen is 50. Today is also the birthday of Rowan Atkinson, Eddie Redmayne, Kate McKinnon, Norman Reedus, Jérémie Renier, Sylvia Syms, Rinko Kikuchi, Adriano Celentano, Cristela Alonzo, Frank Sivero, Danny Pintauro, Eric Trump, and the late Danny Thomas, John Singleton, Carl Sandburg, Malcolm Young, Anthony Minghella, Loretta Young, Bonnie Franklin, Capucine, Vic Tayback, Billy Sands, Helen Kleeb, Henry Corden, who would be 100, Tom Fadden, and Tom Mix. Victor Fleming died 71 years ago in 1949 at age 59.

Today is the birthday of Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Bradley Cooper, Hayao Miyazaki, Marilyn Manson, Charlie Rose, Shea Whigham, Clancy Brown, January Jones, Suki Waterhouse, Ted Lange, Deepika Padukone, Wen Jiang, Walter Mondale, Ron Maxwell, Bela Lugosi Jr., and the late Jane Wyman, George Reeves, Michael O’Donoghue, Fred ‘Snowflake’ Toones, and A. Edward Sutherland. Onslow Stevens died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 74. Charles Mingus died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 56. Hans Conried died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 64. Sonny Bono died 22 years ago in 1998 at age 62. Jerry Van Dyke died two years ago in 2018 at age 86.

Today Michael Stipe is 60, and June Diane Raphael and D’Arcy Carden are 40. Today is also the birthday of Harmony Korine, Julia Ormond, Dave Foley, Dyan Cannon, Julian Sands, Charlyne Yi, Barbara Rush, Jim Norton, Graham McTavish, Kerry Condon, Doris Kearns Goodwin, August Diehl, Matt Frewer, Carlos Saura, Seth Grahame-Smith, Jill Marie Jones, Julie Estelle, Deana Carter, Andy Borowitz, and the late Jacob Grimm, Sterling Holloway, Sorrell Booke, George P. Cosmatos, Gibson Gowland, and George Albert Smith. T.S. Eliot died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 76. Iron Eyes Cody died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 91.