Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Greg Proops is 60, and Gwen Stefani and Janel Moloney are 50. Today is also the birthday of Clive Owen, Alicia Vikander, Neve Campbell, Seann William Scott, Tessa Thompson, Denis Villeneuve, Lena Headey, Chubby Checker, Tommy Wiseau, John Patrick Shanley, Reverend Al Sharpton, Tommy Lee, and the late Gore Vidal, Leo McCarey, Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Michael Hordern, Charles Middleton, Julien Duvivier, and Gertrude Berg. Woody Guthrie died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 55. Roddy McDowall died 21 years ago in 1998 at age 70. Janet Leigh died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 77.

Today Annie Leibovitz is 70. Today is also the birthday of Sting, Lorraine Bracco, Rex Reed, Kelly Ripa, Avery Brooks, Maribel Verdú, Lew Temple, Ian McNeice, Efren Ramirez, Terence Winter, Jeff Bennett, Tiffany, Claudio Fragasso, and the late Groucho Marx, Bud Abbott, George ‘Spanky’ McFarland, Mohandas K. Gandhi, who would be 150, Charles Drake, Moses Gunn, Graham Greene, Shirley Clarke, who would be 100, Robin Hardy, Nat Turner, and Johnnie Cochran. Rock Hudson died 34 years ago in 1985 at age 59. Harriet Nelson died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 85. Nipsey Russell died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 87. Tom Petty died two years ago in 2017 at age 66.

Today Jimmy Carter is 95, Zach Galifianakis is 50, Marielle Heller is 40, and Brie Larson is 30. Today is also the birthday of Julie Andrews, Randy Quaid, Rupert Friend, Stella Stevens, Stephen Collins, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Josh Brener, Leila Hatami, Theresa May, and the late Walter Matthau, Richard Harris, James Whitmore, Laurence Harvey, George Peppard, Tom Bosley, Everett Sloane, Ted Healy, Philippe Noiret, Stanley Holloway, and Ip Man. E.B. White died 34 years ago in 1985 at age 86. Tom Clancy died six years ago in 2013 at age 66.

Today Amy Landecker is 50. Today is also the birthday of Marion Cotillard, Monica Bellucci, Tony Hale, Angie Dickinson, Ezra Miller, Johnny Mathis, Fran Drescher, Jenna Elfman, Barry Williams, Eric Stoltz, Kieran Culkin, Nancy Ames, Victoria Tennant, Steve Stoliar, and the late Deborah Kerr, Truman Capote, Michael Powell, Elie Wiesel, Dan O’Bannon, Buddy Rich, Frankie Lymon, Jack Wild, and Lewis Milestone. James Dean died 64 years ago in 1955 at age 24. Edgar Bergen died 41 years ago in 1978 at age 75. Simone Signoret died 34 years ago in 1985 at age 64.

Today is the birthday of Jerry Lee Lewis, Ian McShane, Andrew Dice Clay, Zachary Levi, Nicolas Winding Refn, Chrissy Metz, Bryant Gumbel, Mackenzie Crook, Robert Webb, Russell Peters, Roger Bart, Dale Dickey, Robert Benton, Silvio Berlusconi, and the late Michelangelo Antonioni, Madeline Kahn, Stanley Kramer, Greer Garson, Anita Ekberg, Gene Autry, Caravaggio, Trevor Howard, Steve Forrest, and Larry Linville. Charles Addams died 31 years ago in 1988 at age 76. Lois Maxwell died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 80. Tony Curtis and Greg Giraldo died nine years ago in 2010. Curtis was 85. Giraldo was 44.

Today Brigitte Bardot is 85, and Bam Margera is 40. Today is also the birthday of Naomi Watts, Mira Sorvino, Janeane Garofalo, John Sayles, Hilary Duff, Jeffrey Jones, Sarah Wright, Moon Unit Zappa, Hana Mae Lee, Keir Gilchrist, and the late Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Finch, Ed Sullivan, Christopher Evan Welch, Arnold Stang, J.T. Walsh, Sylvia Kristel, William Windom, and Harris Savides. Harpo Marx died 55 years ago in 1964 at age 75. Miles Davis died 28 years ago in 1991 at age 65.

Today Wilford Brimley is 85. Today is also the birthday of Gwyneth Paltrow, Meat Loaf, Marc Maron, Kathleen Nolan, Shaun Cassidy, Andy Lau, Carrie Brownstein, Anna Camp, Lola Kirke, Avril Lavigne, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Liz Torres, Scott Lawrence, Jean-Marc Barr, Thomas Mann, Indira Varma, Lil Wayne, and the late Arthur Penn, William Conrad, Will Sampson, Greg Morris, Jayne Meadows, who would be 100, and Miklós Jancsó. Clara Bow died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 60. Donald O’Connor died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 78. Herbert Lom died seven years ago in 2012 at age 95. Hugh Hefner died two years ago in 2017 at age 91.

Today David Slade is 50. Today is also the birthday of Linda Hamilton, Jim Caviezel, Olivia Newton-John, Mary Beth Hurt, Serena Williams, Sheri Moon Zombie, Christina Milian, Richard Herd, Ben Shenkman, Melissa Sue Anderson, Kent McCord, Talulah Riley, Jonathan Goldsmith, Jill Soloway, Jake Paltrow, Jillian Barberie, and the late George Gershwin, George Raft, Edmund Gwenn, T.S. Eliot, Philip Bosco, Joyce Jameson, Donna Douglas, Julie London, Patrick O’Neal, Jack LaLanne, John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), and Jerry Weintraub. Bessie Smith died 82 years ago in 1937 at age 43. Anna Magnani died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 65. Arthur Hunnicutt and John Cromwell died forty years ago in 1979. Hunnicutt was 69. Cromwell was 92. Paul Newman died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 83. Gloria Stuart died nine years ago in 2010 at age 100. Herschell Gordon Lewis died three years ago in 2016 at age 90.

Today Barbara Walters is 90, Michael Douglas is 75, Pedro Almodóvar and Anson Williams are 70, and Catherine Zeta-Jones is 50. Today is also the birthday of Will Smith, Donald Glover, Mark Hamill, Michael Madsen, Heather Locklear, Zach Woods, Tate Donovan, Robert Walden, Mikael Persbrandt, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Clea DuVall, T.I., Brian Murphy, Aida Turturro, Chris Owen, Jason Flemyng, Mimi Kennedy, David Benioff, Harold Becker, Jamie Hyneman, Colleen Atwood, and the late Christopher Reeve, William Faulkner, Robert Bresson, Aldo Ray, Shel Silverstein, and Ronnie Barker. John Bonham and Lewis Milestone died 39 years ago in 1980. Bonham was 32. Milestone was 84. Mary Astor died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 81. Don Adams died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 82. Andy Williams died seven years ago in 2012 at age 84.

Today Bert I. Gordon is 97, Sven-Ole Thorsen is 75, and Ross Mathews is 40. Today is also the birthday of Ben Platt, Brad Bird, Ian Bohen, Nia Vardalos, Kevin Sorbo, Harriet Walter, Gordon Clapp, Kyle Sullivan, David Anspaugh, Kenneth Tigar, John Logan, Bridget Jones, Lou Dobbs, and the late Jim Henson, Phil Hartman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Audra Lindley, Anthony Newley, Arthur Malet, Don Porter, Theresa Merritt, Linda McCartney, and Alan Colmes. Patsy Kelly died 38 years ago in 1981 at age 71. Neil Hamilton died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 85. Theodor Geisel aka Dr. Seuss died 28 years ago in 1991 at age 87.