Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Melinda Dillon is 80, Marie Osmond is 60, and Nancy Kerrigan is 50. Today is also the birthday of Paul Simon, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kelly Preston, Kate Walsh, Matt Walsh, Ashanti, Kiele Sanchez, Demond Wilson, Susan Blommaert, Hiro Kanagawa, Rutanya Alda, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Chris Carter, Abderrahmane Sissako, Jason Friedberg, Billy Bush, Tiffany Trump, and the late Lenny Bruce, Margaret Thatcher, Cornel Wilde, Yves Montand, Laraine Day, Robert Walker, Jack MacGowran, Dusan Makavejev, and Robert Bray. Maya Deren died 58 years ago in 1961 at age 44. Clifton Webb died 53 years ago in 1966 at age 76. Ed Sullivan died 45 years ago in 1974 at age 73.

Today Richard Price and Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (Carlos the Jackal) are 70. Today is also the birthday of Hugh Jackman, Josh Hutcherson, Lin Shaye, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kirk Cameron, Deborah Foreman, Tony Cavalero, David Threlfall, Les Dennis, Tom Guiry, Iris Apatow, Chris Wallace, and the late Dick Gregory, Luciano Pavarotti, Daliah Lavi, Satoshi Kon, Josephine Hutchinson, and Randy Stuart. John Denver died in a plane crash 22 years ago in 1997 at age 53. Gillo Pontecorvo died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 86.

Today Stephen Moyer is 50, and Doona Bae is 40. Today is also the birthday of Joan Cusack, Artie Lange, Matt Bomer, Dawn French, Emily Deschanel, David Morse, Ron Leibman, Jane Krakowski, Michelle Trachtenberg, Constance Zimmer, Cardi B, Sean Patrick Flanery, John Nettles, Lennie James, Michael J. Nelson, Justin Lin, Amitabh Bachchan, Brett Morgen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Hany Abu-Assad, Amos Gitai, Shawn Ryan, and the late Luke Perry, Elmore Leonard, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sig Ruman, Jean Vander Pyl, who would be 100, Earle Hyman, Jerome Robbins, and Fred Trump. Chico Marx died 58 years ago in 1961. Edith Piaf and Jean Cocteau died 56 years ago in 1963. Piaf was 47. Cocteau was 74. Redd Foxx died 28 years ago in 1991 at age 68.

Today Jessica Harper is 70, Julia Sweeney and Bradley Whitford are 60, and Wendi McLendon-Covey and Brett Favre are 50. Today is also the birthday of Dan Stevens, Bai Ling, Ben Vereen, Charles Dance, John Prine, Mario Lopez, David Lee Roth, Peter Coyote, Joelle Carter, Rose McIver, Rebecca Pidgeon, Carlos Reygadas, Jodi Benson, Chiaki Kuriyama, Morgan Neville, Michael Oliver, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and the late Edward D. Wood Jr., Helen Hayes, Thelonious Monk, Harold Pinter, Chris Penn, Richard Jaeckel, Anita Mui, Dana Elcar, and Daniel Massey. Eddie Cantor died 55 years ago in 1964 at age 72. Ralph Richardson died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 80. Orson Welles and Yul Brynner died 34 years ago in 1985. Welles was 70. Brynner was 65. Christopher Reeve died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 52.

Today Steve McQueen is 50, Brandon Routh and Chris O’Dowd are 40, and Jodelle Ferland is 25. Today is also the birthday of Guillermo del Toro, Tony Shalhoub, Sharon Osbourne, Scott Bakula, Nick Swardson, John O’Hurley, Michael Paré, Robert Wuhl, Lorna Raver, Brian Blessed, Tyler James Williams, Steve Burns, Melissa Villaseñor, Peter Docter, Sean Lennon, and the late John Lennon, Jacques Tati, Alastair Sim, Fyvush Finkel, Edward Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hank Patterson, Jason Wingreen, and Donald Sinden. Miriam Hopkins died 47 years ago in 1972 at age 69. Andrzej Wajda died three years ago in 2016 at age 90. Jean Rochefort died two years ago in 2017 at age 87.

Today Paul Hogan is 80, Sigourney Weaver is 70, and Jeremy Davis and Sal Governale are 50. Today is also the birthday of Matt Damon, Chevy Chase, Darrell Hammond, Bruno Mars, Peter Greene, Nick Cannon, Bella Thorne, R.L. Stine, Ian Hart, Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., Robert Kelly, Angus T. Jones, Edward Zwick, David Yates, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Burr Steers, Shira Piven, Soon-Yi Previn, and the late Frank Herbert and Rouben Mamoulian. Larry Semon died 91 years ago in 1928 at age 39.

Today Dylan Baker and Simon Cowell are 60, and Shawn and Aaron Ashmore are 40. Today is also the birthday of John Mellencamp, Thom Yorke, Joy Behar, Yo-Yo Ma, Desmond Tutu, Omar Benson Miller, Mary Badham, Nicole Ari Parker, Amber Stevens West, Andrew Dominik, Bree Olson, Vladimir Putin, and the late June Allyson, Andy Devine, Al Martino, Elijah Muhammad, and Robert Z. Leonard. Edgar Allan Poe died 170 years ago in 1849 at age 40. Charles Rocket died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 56.

Today Leslie Moonves is 70. Today is also the birthday of Elisabeth Shue, Ioan Gruffudd, Britt Ekland, Olivia Thirlby, Jeremy Sisto, Wendy Robie, Jsu Garcia, Matt Porterfield, and the late Carole Lombard, Janet Gaynor, Fay Spain, Jerome Cowan, and Mitchell Leisen. Tod Browning died 57 years ago in 1962 at age 82. Dennis Price died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 58. Bette Davis died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 81. Denholm Elliott died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 70. Richard Farnsworth died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 80. Scott Wilson died one year ago in 2018 at age 76.

Today Glynis Johns is 96. Today is also the birthday of Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Jesse Eisenberg, Karen Allen, Jacob Tremblay, Clive Barker, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Parminder Nagra, Daniel Baldwin, Laura Gemser, Tom Hooper, Ti West, Scott Weinger, and the late Larry Fine, Donald Pleasence, who would be 100, Bernie Mac, Louis Lumière, Jeff Conaway, Bill Dana, Diane Cilento, Gail Davis, Skip Homeier, John Hoyt, and Allen Ludden. Jean Vigo died 85 years ago in 1934 at age 29. Barbara Nichols died 43 years ago in 1976 at age 47. Gloria Grahame died 38 years ago in 1981 at age 57. Rodney Dangerfield died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 82. Steve Jobs and Charles Napier died eight years ago in 2011. Jobs was 56. Napier was 75. Geoffrey Holder died five years ago in 2014 at age 84. Chantal Ackerman died four years ago in 2015 at age 65.

Today Armand Assante and Stephen Gyllenhaal are 70, Abraham Benrubi is 50, Caitriona Balfe is 40, and Dakota Johnson is 30. Today is also the birthday of Susan Sarandon, Liev Schreiber, Christoph Waltz, Alicia Silverstone, Anne Rice, Melissa Benoist, Russell Simmons, Mick Jackson, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Lancashire, and the late Buster Keaton, Charlton Heston, Jackie Collins, George Sidney, John Larch, Scotty Beckett, Philip Van Zandt, and Stan Dragoti. Janis Joplin died 49 years ago in 1970 at age 27. Graham Chapman died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 48. Buddy Lester died seventeen years ago in 2002 at age 87.