Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Elfriede Jelinek is 75, and Snoop Dogg and Kenneth Choi are 50. Today is also the birthday of Viggo Mortensen, John Krasinski, Dolores Hart, Danny Boyle, Kamala Harris, Dan Fogler, Melanie Mayron, Barrie Chase, and the late Bela Lugosi, Margaret Dumont, Tom Petty, Charley Chase, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jerry Orbach, William Christopher, Michael Dunn, Bill Nunn, Arlene Francis, Hélène Surgère, Joyce Brothers, John Anderson, and Rex Ingram. Anthony Quayle died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 76. Joel McCrea died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 84. Burt Lancaster died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 80. Jack Elam died eighteen years ago in 2003 at age 82. Jane Wyatt died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 96.

Today Ebrahim Golestan is 99, Tony Lo Bianco is 85, Philip Pullman is 75, Annie Golden is 70, and Samantha Robinson is 30. Today is also the birthday of John Lithgow, Michael Gambon, Trey Parker, Rebecca Ferguson, Jon Favreau, Chris Kattan, Gillian Jacobs, Jason Reitman, Rodney Carrington, Agnès Jaoui, Omar Gooding, Ty Pennington, Michael Steele, and the late Divine, John le Carré, Tor Johnson, Robert Reed, LaWanda Page, and Juanita Moore. Gig Young died 43 years ago in 1978 at age 64. Martha Raye died 27 years ago in 1994 at age 78. Rudy Ray Moore died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 81. Joseph Wiseman died twelve years ago in 2009 at age 91. Tom Bosley died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 83.

Today Howard Shore and Barry Gifford are 75, Pam Dawber is 70, and Tyler Posey is 30. Today is also the birthday of Zac Efron, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Freida Pinto, Joe Morton, Arliss Howard, Ne-Yo, Esperanza Spalding, Chuck Lorre, Nic Pizzolatto, Lucky Yates, David Twohy, Peter Sohn, Bob Weinstein, Mike Ditka, Milo Yiannopoulos, and the late George C. Scott, Klaus Kinski, Chuck Berry, Peter Boyle, Miriam Hopkins, Erin Moran, Dawn Wells, Inger Stevens, Om Puri, Calvin Lockhart, Lotte Lenya, Bobby Troup, Melina Mercouri, Victor Sen Yung, Norman ‘Chubby’ Chaney, Roy Del Ruth, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Thomas Edison died 90 years ago in 1931 at age 84. Henry Travers died 66 years ago in 1965 at age 91. Gwen Verdon and Julie London both died 21 years ago in 2000. Verdon was 75. London was 74. Dee Dee Warwick died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 66.

Today Marsha Hunt is 104, and Cameron Esposito is 40. Today is also the birthday of Felicity Jones, Mike Judge, Michael McKean, George Wendt, Eminem, Rob Marshall, Matthew Macfadyen, Max Irons, Mark Gatiss, Alan Jackson, Wood Harris, Ziggy Marley, Rizwan Manji, Susan Stroman, and the late Rita Hayworth, Montgomery Clift, Norm Macdonald, Jean Arthur, Arthur Miller, Margot Kidder, Julie Adams, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Irene Ryan, Tom Poston, who would be 100, Don Collier, Beverly Garland, Spring Byington, Sam Bottoms, John Marley, Evel Knievel, and Andy Whitfield, who would be 50. Tennessee Ernie Ford died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 72. Joey Bishop died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 89. Bill Macy died two years ago in 2019 at age 97.

Today Angela Lansbury is 96, Peter Bowles is 85, Suzanne Somers is 75, Kim Wayans is 60, and Paul Sparks is 50. Today is also the birthday of Tim Robbins, Flea, John Mayer, Barry Corbin, Kenneth Lonergan, David Zucker, Gary Kemp, Todd Stashwick, Christopher Mitchum, and the late Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Linda Darnell, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Alice Pearce, Berry Kroeger, Michael Conrad, Bill Elliott, and Nico. Leo G. Carroll died 39 years ago in 1982 at age 85. Cornel Wilde died 32 years ago in 1989 at age 77. Shirley Booth died 29 years ago in 1992 at age 94. Audra Lindley died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 79. Deborah Kerr died fourteen years ago in 2007 at age 86. Barbara Billingsley died eleven years ago in 2010 at age 94.

Today John Getz is 75. Today is also the birthday of Dominic West, Paul Walter Hauser, Ali Fazal, Larry Miller, Jere Burns, Zak Orth, Todd Solondz, Linda Lavin, Mira Nair, Lynn Lowry, Brandon Jay McLaren, Michael Caton-Jones, Matteo Garrone, Eileen Ryan, Michael Lewis, and the late Penny Marshall, Tanya Roberts, Friedrich Nietzsche, P.G. Wodehouse, Mario Puzo, Mark Lenard, Jane Darwell, Mervyn LeRoy, Michel Foucault, Virginia Leith, Jean Peters, Nigel Green, and Fritz Feld. Cole Porter died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 73. Frank DeKova died forty years ago in 1981 at age 71. Pat O’Brien died 38 years ago in 1983 at age 83. Delphine Seyrig died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 58. Edie Adams died thirteen years ago in 2008 at age 81.

Today is the birthday of Steve Coogan, Ben Whishaw, Jay Pharoah, Udo Kier, Natalie Maines, Usher Raymond, Lori Petty, Jon Seda, Max Thieriot, Chen Chang, Ben Zeitlin, Stephen A. Smith, and the late Roger Moore, Lillian Gish, e.e. cummings, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry Anderson, Robert Webber, Rick Aviles, Allan Jones, and Jack Arnold. Errol Flynn died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 50. Bing Crosby died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 74. Keenan Wynn died 35 years ago in 1986 at age 70. Leonard Bernstein died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 72. Elizabeth Peña died seven years ago in 2014 at age 55.

Today Paul Simon is 80, Demond Wilson is 75, Abderrahmane Sissako is 60, and Sacha Baron Cohen, Jason Friedberg, and Billy Bush are 50. Today is also the birthday of Melinda Dillon, Marie Osmond, Kate Walsh, Matt Walsh, Ashanti, Kiele Sanchez, Susan Blommaert, Hiro Kanagawa, Rutanya Alda, Tisha Campbell, Chris Carter, Nancy Kerrigan, Tiffany Trump, and the late Lenny Bruce, Margaret Thatcher, Kelly Preston, Cornel Wilde, Yves Montand, who would be 100, Laraine Day, Robert Walker, Jack MacGowran, Dusan Makavejev, and Robert Bray. Maya Deren died sixty years ago in 1961 at age 44. Clifton Webb died 55 years ago in 1966 at age 76. Ed Sullivan died 47 years ago in 1974 at age 73.

Today Tom Guiry is 40. Today is also the birthday of Hugh Jackman, Josh Hutcherson, Lin Shaye, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kirk Cameron, Deborah Foreman, Tony Cavalero, David Threlfall, Les Dennis, Richard Price, Iris Apatow, Chris Wallace, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (Carlos the Jackal), and the late Dick Gregory, Luciano Pavarotti, Daliah Lavi, Satoshi Kon, Josephine Hutchinson, and Randy Stuart. Tom Mix died 81 years ago in 1940 at age 60. John Denver died 24 years ago in 1997 at age 53. Matthew Shepard died 23 years ago in 1998 at age 21. Gillo Pontecorvo died fifteen years ago in 2006 at age 86. Conchata Ferrell died one year ago in 2020 at age 77.

Today Hany Abu-Assad is 60, and Justin Lin is 50. Today is also the birthday of Joan Cusack, Artie Lange, Matt Bomer, Dawn French, Emily Deschanel, Stephen Moyer, David Morse, Jane Krakowski, Michelle Trachtenberg, Constance Zimmer, Cardi B, Sean Patrick Flanery, John Nettles, Lennie James, Michael J. Nelson, Doona Bae, Amitabh Bachchan, Brett Morgen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Amos Gitai, Shawn Ryan, and the late Luke Perry, Elmore Leonard, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ron Leibman, Sig Ruman, Jean Vander Pyl, Earle Hyman, Jerome Robbins, and Fred Trump. Chico Marx died sixty years ago in 1961. Edith Piaf and Jean Cocteau died 58 years ago in 1963. Piaf was 47. Cocteau was 74. Redd Foxx died thirty years ago in 1991 at age 68. Robert Forster died two years ago in 2019 at age 78.