Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Natascha McElhone is 50. Today is also the birthday of Dee Wallace, Michaela Watkins, Miranda Hart, Hal Williams, Celia Weston, Jane Birkin, Vanessa Hudgens, Tammy Blanchard, Lynne Marie Stewart, Lucrecia Martel, Ted Raimi, Dino Stamatopoulos, James Comey, and the late Patty Duke, Lee Remick, Frances Bavier, Morey Amsterdam, King George VI, Raj Kapoor, Lewis Arquette, George Furth, Lillian Randolph, Dan Dailey, and Shirley Jackson. Dinah Washington died 56 years ago in 1963 at age 39. William Bendix died 55 years ago in 1964 at age 58. Myrna Loy died 26 years ago in 1993 at age 88. Norman Fell died 21 years ago in 1998 at age 74. Peter O’Toole died six years ago in 2013 at age 81.

Today Christopher Plummer is 90, Tony Curran is 50, and Taylor Swift is 30. Today is also the birthday of Dick Van Dyke, Steve Buscemi, Jamie Foxx, Wendie Malick, Lou Adler, Ted Nugent, Tatsuya Nakadai, NeNe Leakes, Amy Lee, Rusty Cundieff, and the late Robert Prosky, Van Heflin, Curd Jürgens, John Hart, Mark Stevens, Don Taylor, Larry Parks, and Darlene Cates. Tim Moore died 61 years ago in 1958 at age 71. Spencer Williams died fifty years ago in 1969 at age 76. Alan Thicke died three years ago in 2016 at age 69.

Today Bob Barker is 96, and Bill Nighy is 70. Today is also the birthday of Jennifer Connelly, Regina Hall, Mayim Bialik, Lucas Hedges, Dionne Warwick, Connie Francis, Gianni Russo, Mädchen Amick, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Sheree J. Wilson, Sarah Douglas, Maren Ade, Brandon Maggart, Steve Binder, and the late Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Yasujirô Ozu (who died on his birthday 56 years ago in 1963 at age 60), Buck Jones, Mayor Ed Koch, and Anne V. Coates. Douglas Fairbanks died eighty years ago in 1939 at age 56. Tallulah Bankhead died 51 years ago in 1968 at age 66. Jack Cassidy died 43 years ago in 1976 at age 49. Anne Baxter died 34 years ago in 1985 at age 62. Joseph Heller died twenty years ago in 1999 at age 76. Peter Boyle died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 71. Ike Turner died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 76. Van Johnson died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 92. Tom Laughlin died six years ago in 2013 at age 82.

Today Lynda Day George and Brenda Lee are 75, Max Martini is 50, and Rider Strong is 40. Today is also the birthday of Rita Moreno, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Teri Garr, Donna Mills, Hailee Steinfeld, Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), Mo’Nique, John Kerry, Nikki Sixx, Xosha Roquemore, Dilip Kumar, Jon Brion, Tom Shadyac, Margaret Hoover, and the late Jean Marais, Maila Nurmi (aka Vampira), Ron Carey, Liz Smith, Gilbert Roland, Marie Windsor, who would be 100, Betsy Blair, Elizabeth Baur, Manoel de Oliveira, and Carlo Ponti. Sam Cooke and Percy Kilbride died 55 years ago in 1964. Cooke was 33. Kilbride was 76. Bettie Page died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 85. Ravi Shankar died seven years ago in 2012 at age 92.

Today is the birthday of Kenneth Branagh, Michael Snow, Raven-Symoné, Tommy Kirk, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nia Peeples, Xavier Samuel, Patrick John Flueger, Susan Dey, Fionnula Flanagan, Bobby Flay, and the late Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Lamour, Michael Clarke Duncan, Dan Blocker, Mako, Barbara Nichols, Harold Gould, Douglas Kenney, Tommy Rettig, Ray Collins, Una Merkel, Victor McLaglen, John Colicos, and Greg Giraldo. Otis Redding died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 26. Ed Wood died 41 years ago in 1978 at age 54. Richard Pryor died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 65.

Today Kirk Douglas is 103, Judi Dench is 85, Neil Innes is 75, and Mario Cantone is 60. Today is also the birthday of John Malkovich, Beau Bridges, Felicity Huffman, Donny Osmond, Simon Helberg, Buck Henry, Toby Huss, Michael Nouri, Michael Dorn, John Paragon, Kurt Angle, Kirsten Gillibrand, and the late John Cassavetes, Redd Foxx, Broderick Crawford, Margaret Hamilton, Hermione Gingold, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Dalton Trumbo, Dick Van Patten, Emmett Kelly, and John Milton. Joey Forman died 37 years ago in 1982 at age 53. Mike Mazurki died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 82. Vincent Gardenia died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 72. Jenni Rivera died seven years ago in 2012 at age 43.

Today Nancy Meyers is 70. Today is also the birthday of Kim Basinger, Teri Hatcher, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sinéad O’Connor, Nicki Minaj, Wendell Pierce, AnnaSophia Robb, David Harewood, Ian Somerhalder, Dominic Monaghan, Rick Baker, Debora-Lee Furness, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Junkie XL (Tom Holkenborg), Tyler Mane, Juliette Danielle, Ann Coulter, and the late Sammy Davis Jr., Maximilian Schell, Jim Morrison, Gregg Allman, David Carradine, Flip Wilson, Sam Kinison, Georges Méliès, Lee J. Cobb, Mary, Queen of Scots, James MacArthur, Frank Faylen, John Qualen, James Thurber, Jean Porter, Dewey Martin, Richard Fleischer, and Ernest Lehman. Gladys George died 65 years ago in 1954 at age 54. John Lennon died 39 years ago in 1980 at age 40. Slim Pickens died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 64. Martin Ritt died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 76. Robert Prosky died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 77.

Today Tom Waits is 70, and Nicholas Hoult is 30. Today is also the birthday of Ellen Burstyn, Jeffrey Wright, Noam Chomsky, Jack Huston, Jennifer Carpenter, Mark Duplass, Shiri Appleby, James Keach, Emily Browning, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Rolston, Caleb Landry Jones, Kristofer Hivju, Patrick Fabian, Kenneth Colley, Jeff Nichols, Clive Russell, Priscilla Barnes, Abdellatif Kechiche, Larry Bird, Aaron Carter, Chris Crocker, and the late Eli Wallach, Ted Knight, Louis Prima, Patrice O’Neal, who would be 50, Leigh Brackett, Hurd Hatfield, Fay Bainter, Rod Cameron, Johnny Duncan, and Jordon Parks Jr. Joan Bennett died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 80. Harry Morgan died eight years ago in 2011 at age 96.

Today Alain Tanner is 90. Today is also the birthday of Judd Apatow, Steven Wright, Tom Hulce, JoBeth Williams, Ulrich Thomsen, Janine Turner, Nick Park, Leon Russom, Shekhar Kapur, Craig Brewer, Andrew Cuomo, and the late Agnes Moorehead, Wally Cox, Bobby Van, Ira Gershwin, Dave Brubeck, Sergio Corbucci, and Richard Speck. Roy Orbison died 31 years ago in 1988 at age 52. Frances Bavier died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 86. Don Ameche died 26 years ago in 1993 at age 85. Werner Klemperer died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 80.

Today Joan Didion is 85, Jeroen Krabbé is 75, Lynne Ramsay is 50, and Nick Stahl is 40. Today is also the birthday of Little Richard, Margaret Cho, Frankie Muniz, Paula Patton, Lisa Marie, Jessica Paré, Dolly Wells, Morgan Brittany, Amy Acker, and the late Walt Disney, Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, Emeric Pressburger, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Hayes, Alvy Moore, Nunnally Johnson, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Martin Van Buren, George Armstrong Custer, and Strom Thurmond. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 228 years ago in 1791 at age 35. Robert Aldrich died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 65. Nelson Mandela died six years ago in 2013 at age 95.