Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today “Weird Al” Yankovic, Sam Raimi, and Nancy Grace are 60. Today is also the birthday of Ryan Reynolds, Emilia Clarke, Ang Lee, Dwight Yoakam, Philip Kaufman, Cat Deeley, Alex Gibney, Pelé, Grant Imahara, Amandla Sternberg, Meghan McCain, and the late Johnny Carson, Michael Crichton, Coleen Gray, Diana Dors, Frank Sutton, Una O’Connor, Hayden Rorke, Gummo Marx, and Harold P. Warren. Al Jolson died 69 years ago in 1950 at age 64. Oskar Werner died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 61.

Today Tony Roberts is 80, Marc Shaiman and Marc Lawrence are 60, and Spike Jonze 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, Kyle Gallner, Saffron Burrows, Valeria Golino, Carlos Mencia, Corey Hawkins, Bill Condon, Jan de Bont, Alan Ladd Jr., Julie Dash, Jennifer Lee, Ray Stern, and the late Joan Fontaine, Curly Howard, Annette Funicello, Constance Bennett, Timothy Leary, and Catherine E. Coulson. Cleavon Little died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 53. Mary Wickes died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 85. Soupy Sales died ten years ago in 2009 at age 83.

Today Joyce Randolph is 95, LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Benjamin Netanyahu are 70, and Ken Watanabe is 60. Today is also the birthday of Judge Judy Sheindlin, Kim Kardashian West, Melora Walters, Steve Cropper, Glen Powell, Andrew Scott, Everett McGill, Michael McMillian, Matt Dallas, Jeff Richards, Catherine Hardwicke, Julio Medem, Patti Davis, Amber Rose, Hope Hicks, and the late Carrie Fisher, Edith Scob, Edna Purviance, Dizzy Gillespie, Leonard Rossiter, and Alfred Nobel. Jack Kerouac died fifty years ago in 1969 at age 47. François Truffaut died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 52.

Today John Krasinski is 40. Today is also the birthday of Viggo Mortensen, Snoop Dogg, Dolores Hart, Danny Boyle, Dan Fogler, Kenneth Choi, Melanie Mayron, Barrie Chase, Elfriede Jelinek, 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 thirty years ago in 1989 at age 76. Joel McCrea died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 84. Burt Lancaster died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 80. Jack Elam died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 82. Jane Wyatt died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 96.

Today Ebrahim Golestan is 97, and Trey Parker is 50. Today is also the birthday of John Lithgow, Michael Gambon, John le Carré, Rebecca Ferguson, Jon Favreau, Chris Kattan, Gillian Jacobs, Tony Lo Bianco, Jason Reitman, Rodney Carrington, Agnès Jaoui, Annie Golden, Omar Gooding, Ty Pennington, Samantha Robinson, Philip Pullman, Michael Steele, and the late Divine, Tor Johnson, Robert Reed, LaWanda Page, and Juanita Moore. Martha Raye died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 78. Rudy Ray Moore died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 81. Tom Bosley died nine years ago in 2010 at age 83.

Today Mike Ditka is 80. Today is also the birthday of Zac Efron, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Freida Pinto, Pam Dawber, Tyler Posey, Joe Morton, Dawn Wells, Arliss Howard, Ne-Yo, Esperanza Spalding, Chuck Lorre, Howard Shore, Nic Pizzolatto, Lucky Yates, David Twohy, Peter Sohn, Barry Gifford, Bob Weinstein, Bristol Palin, Milo Yiannopoulos, and the late George C. Scott, Klaus Kinski, Chuck Berry, Peter Boyle, Miriam Hopkins, Erin Moran, 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. Henry Travers died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 91. Julie London died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 74. Dee Dee Warwick died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 66.

Today Marsha Hunt is 102, Norm Macdonald is 60, and Wood Harris is 50. Today is also the birthday of Felicity Jones, Mike Judge, Michael McKean, George Wendt, Eminem, Don Collier, Rob Marshall, Matthew Macfadyen, Max Irons, Cameron Esposito, Mark Gatiss, Alan Jackson, Ziggy Marley, Rizwan Manji, Susan Stroman, and the late Rita Hayworth, Montgomery Clift, Jean Arthur, Arthur Miller, Margot Kidder, Julie Adams, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Irene Ryan, Tom Poston, Beverly Garland, Spring Byington, Sam Bottoms, John Marley, Evel Knievel, and Andy Whitfield. Tennessee Ernie Ford died 28 years ago in 1991 at age 72.

Today Gary Kemp is 60. Today is also the birthday of Angela Lansbury, Tim Robbins, Flea, John Mayer, Suzanne Somers, Barry Corbin, Kenneth Lonergan, David Zucker, Paul Sparks, Kim Wayans, Todd Stashwick, Peter Bowles, 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 47 years ago in 1982 at age 85. Cornel Wilde died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 77. Shirley Booth died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 94. Audra Lindley died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 79. Deborah Kerr died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 86. Barbara Billingsley died nine years ago in 2010 at age 94.

Today Todd Solondz is 60, and Dominic West is 50. Today is also the birthday of John Getz, Tanya Roberts, Paul Walter Hauser, Ali Fazal, Larry Miller, Jere Burns, Zak Orth, Linda Lavin, Mira Nair, Lynn Lowry, Brandon Jay McLaren, Michael Caton-Jones, Matteo Garrone, Eileen Ryan, Virginia Leith, Michael Lewis, and the late Penny Marshall, Friedrich Nietzsche, P.G. Wodehouse, Mario Puzo, Mark Lenard, Jane Darwell, Mervyn LeRoy, Michel Foucault, Jean Peters, Nigel Green, and Fritz Feld. Cole Porter died 55 years ago in 1964 at age 73. Frank DeKova died 38 years ago in 1981 at age 71. Pat O’Brien died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 83. Delphine Seyrig died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 58. Edie Adams died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 81.

Today Udo Kier is 75. Today is also the birthday of Steve Coogan, Ben Whishaw, Jay Pharoah, 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 sixty years ago in 1959 at age 50. Bing Crosby died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 74. Keenan Wynn died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 70. Leonard Bernstein died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 72. Elizabeth Peña died five years ago in 2014 at age 55.