Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Lee Daniels is 60. Today is also the birthday of Ricky Martin, Ryan Seacrest, Thure Lindhardt, Diedrich Bader, Michael Raymond-James, Anil Kapoor, Austin Stowell, Nicholas Meyer, Gavin O’Connor, Louis Tomlinson, Stephenie Meyer, Scott Spiegel, Jeff Sessions, and the late Ava Gardner, Michael Curtiz, Howard Hughes, Jonas Mekas, Ruth Chatterton, and Franz Waxman. Bernard Herrmann died 44 years ago in 1975 at age 64. Peter Lawford died 35 years ago in 1984 at 61. Toshirô Mifune died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 77. Harold Pinter died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 78. Charles Durning and Jack Krugman died seven years ago in 2012. Durning was 89. Klugman was 90.

Today Nick Moran is 50, and Holly Madison is 40. Today is also the birthday of Harry Shearer, Eddie Vedder, Susan Lucci, Ronnie Schell, Frederic Forrest, Alison Sudol, Carla Bruni, Noël Wells, Jess Harnell, Peter Medak, Anatole Taubman, William Kristol, The Naked Cowboy (Robert John Burck), and the late Corey Haim, Chet Baker, Joseph Smith, James Stacy, Elizabeth Hartman, James Gregory, Harry Guardino, Dino Risi, John Cromwell, and Kumar Pallana. Jack Webb died 37 years ago in 1982 at age 62. Billy Barty died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 76.

Today Graham Beckel is 70, and Jordin Sparks Thomas is 30. Today is also the birthday of Ralph Fiennes, Diane Sawyer, Hector Elizondo, David S. Goyer, Lenny von Dohlen, Heather Donahue, Sergi López, Gregor Fisher, Jay Brazeau, Meghan Trainor, Chris Carmack, Jim McBride (Mr. Skin), Ted Cruz, and the late Barbara Billingsley, Jean Michel Basquiat, Robin and Maurice Gibb, who would be 70, Peggy Ashcroft, Ruth Roman, Gene Rayburn, Lady Bird Johnson, Pierre Brasseur, Emil Sitka, Peggie Castle, Lynne Thigpen, Frankie Darro, Minor Watson, Alan Carney, Freddie Francis, and Károly Makk. Beatrix Potter died 76 years ago in 1943 at age 77. Harry Langdon died 75 years ago in 1944 at age 60. Al Ritz died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 64. Josef von Sternberg died fifty years ago in 1969 at age 75. Samuel Beckett died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 83. Butterfly McQueen died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 84. Joe Cocker died five years ago in 2014 at age 70.

Today Michael Horse is 70, and Julie Delpy is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jane Fonda, Samuel L. Jackson, Kiefer Sutherland, Ray Romano, Phil Donahue, Andy Dick, Jane Kaczmarek, Steven Yeun, Emmanuel Macron, Rutina Wesley, Josh Mostel, Fabiana Udenio, Kaitlyn Dever, Dennis Boutsikaris, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Mnuchin, and the late Frank Zappa, Paul Winchell, John G. Avildsen, Jack Nance, Ulli Lommel, Ed Nelson, Carl Wilson, and Joe Paterno. Ted Healy died 82 years ago in 1937 at age 41. F. Scott Fitzgerald died 79 years ago in 1940 at age 44. Stella Adler died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 91. Billie Whitelaw died five years ago in 2014 at age 82.

Today Brian O’Halloran is 50, and Ramon Rodriguez is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jonah Hill, Peter Criss, Michael Badalucco, Jenny Agutter, Todd Phillips, Joe Cornish, Dick Wolf, Ki-duk Kim, Terry George, Uri Geller, Eduardo Sánchez, and the late Irene Dunne, Dennis Morgan, George Roy Hill, Audrey Totter, John Spencer, Charlie Callas, Kathryn Joosten, John Hillerman, Mala Powers, Charley Grapewin, who would be 150, and Albert Dekker. John Steinbeck died 51 years ago in 1968 at age 66. Bobby Darin died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 37. Carl Sagan died 23 years ago in 1996 at age 62. Foster Brooks died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 89. Brittany Murphy and Arnold Stang died ten years ago in 2009. Murphy was 32. Stang was 91.

Today Cicely Tyson is 95, Tim Reid is 75, and Kristy Swanson and Richard Hammond are 50. Today is also the birthday of Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Beals, Ronan Farrow, Alyssa Milano, Béatrice Dalle, Ken Marino, Criss Angel, Til Schweiger, Paul Rhys, Mike Lookinland, Robert MacNaughton, Jill Talley, Jack Fisk, and the late Edith Piaf, Jean Genet, Ralph Richardson, Maurice White, Robert Urich, Gordon Jackson, Paul Brinegar, and Robert B. Sherman. Marcello Mastroiani died 23 years ago in 1996 at age 72. Hope Lange died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 70.

Today Ashley Benson is 30. Today is also the birthday of Brad Pitt, Steven Spielberg, Ray Liotta, Katie Holmes, Keith Richards, Leonard Maltin, Casper Van Dien, Christina Aguilera, Sia, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Ron White, Rachel Griffiths, Jason Mantzoukas, Koyuki, Alan Rudolph, Ravi Patel, and the late Betty Grable, Ossie Davis, Gladys Cooper, Roger Smith, George Stevens, Jules Dassin, Peggy Cummins, and Joseph Stalin. Chris Farley died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 33. Robert Bresson died twenty years ago in 1999 at age 98. Joseph Barbera died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 95. Zsa Zsa Gabor died three years ago in 2016 at age 99.

Today Jack Rebney (Winnebago Man) is 90, Bernard Hill is 75, Laurie Holden is 50, and Nat Wolff is 25. Today is also the birthday of Eugene Levy, Sarah Paulson, Bill Pullman, Milla Jovovich, Giovanni Ribisi, Ernie Hudson, Pope Francis, Chris Mathews, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Wes Studi, Rian Johnson, Peter Farrelly, Tommy Steele, Shannon Woodward, Steve Zissis, Gregg Araki, Ari Folman, Manny Pacquiao, Chelsea Manning, and the late Richard Long, George Lindsey, Patrice Wymore, Katina Paxinou, James Booker, and Sally Menke. Dana Andrews died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 83. Jennifer Jones died ten years ago in 2009 at age 90. Captain Beefhart (Don Van Vliet) died nine years ago in 2010 at age 69. Penny Marshall died one year ago in 2018 at age 75.

Today Jeff Kanew is 75, Billy Gibbons is 70, and Flo Rida is 40. Today is also the birthday of Liv Ullmann, J.B. Smoove, Krysten Ritter, Miranda Otto, Anna Popplewell, Benjamin Bratt, Joyce Bulifant, Stephan James, Theo James, Ben Cross, Xander Berkeley, Jon Tenney, James Mangold, Shane Black, Sam Robards, Lesley Stahl, Paul and Peter Allen Vogt, and the late Ludwig van Beethoven, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Noël Coward, Bill Hicks, Max Linder, Steven Bochco, Patti Deutsch, Margaret Mead, N!xau, and Robert Kerman. Thelma Todd died 84 years ago in 1935 at age 29. Harland Sanders died 39 years ago in 1980 at age 90. Lee Van Cleef died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 64. John Spencer died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 58.

Today Don Johnson is 70, and Adam Brody is 40. Today is also the birthday of Michelle Dockery, Charlie Cox, Ralph Ineson, Alex Cox, Julie Taymor, P.J. Byrne, Camilla Luddington, Maude Apatow, John Lee Hancock, Reginald Hudlin, Walon Green, and the late Tim Conway, Jeff Chandler, Kasey Rogers, Jack Gwillim, Gordon Douglas, and Jean Paul Getty. Fats Waller died 76 years ago in 1943 at age 39. Glenn Miller died 75 years ago in 1944 at age 40. Charles Laughton died 57 years ago in 1962 at age 63. Walt Disney died 53 years ago in 1966 at age 65. Chill Wills died 41 years ago in 1978 at age 76. Blake Edwards died nine years ago in 2010 at age 88. Christopher Hitchens died eight years ago in 2011 at age 62. Joan Fontaine died six years ago in 2013 at age 96.