Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Bruce Springsteen is 70, and Jason Alexander is 60. Today is also the birthday of Anthony Mackie, Julio Iglesias, Mary Kay Place, Skylar Astin, Kip Pardue, Rosalind Chao, Tom Lester, Chi McBride, Hasan Minhaj, Karl Pilkington, Paul Petersen, Alex Proyas, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christopher Miller, and the late Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Mickey Rooney, Walter Pidgeon, Romy Schneider, and Elizabeth Peña. Billy Gilbert died 48 years ago in 1971 at age 77. Shirley Clarke died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 77.

Today is the birthday of Nick Cave, Joan Jett, Anna Karina, Tatiana Maslany, Tom Felton, Mireille Enos, Bonnie Hunt, Toni Basil, Paul Le Mat, Ruth Jones, Art Metrano, Benoît Poelvoorde, Scott Baio, and the late Erich von Stroheim, Paul Muni, John Houseman, Martha Scott, Richard Marquand, Arthur Lowe, and Allan Lane. Marion Davies died 58 years ago in 1961 at age 64. Dan Rowan died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 65. Irving Berlin died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 101. Dorothy Lamour died 23 years ago in 1996 at age 81. George C. Scott died twenty years ago in 1999 at age 71. Marcel Marceau died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 84. Eddie Fisher died nine years ago in 2010 at age 82.

Today Fannie Flagg is 75. Today is also the birthday of Bill Murray, Stephen King, Luke Wilson, Cheryl Hines, Ethan Coen, David Wenham, Rob Morrow, Ricki Lake, Jerry Bruckheimer, François Cluzet, Maggie Grace, Otis Day, Faith Hill, Ann Elder, Nick Castle, Joseph Mazzello, Nancy Travis, Alfonso Ribeiro, Liam Gallagher, Martha Kauffman, Drew Friedman, Nicole Richie, and the late Leonard Cohen, Henry Gibson, Larry Hagman, Chuck Jones, and H.G. Wells. Walter Brennan died 35 years ago in 1974 at age 80. Alice Ghostley died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 84.

Today Sophia Loren is 85, and Sabine Azéma is 70. Today is also the birthday of Jon Bernthal, George R.R. Martin, Maggie Cheung, Asia Argento, Gary Cole, Charlie Weber, David Haig, Van Jones, Kristen Johnston, Aldis Hodge, Robert LaSardo, Chad Stahelski, Ryan Fleck, and the late Anne Meara, Kenneth More, Fernando Rey, Victor Sjöström, Jay Ward, Upton Sinclair, William Finley, Slappy White, Vittorio Taviani, and Norman Z. McLeod. Glenn Strange died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 74. Roy Kinnear died 31 years ago in 1988 at age 54. Polly Bergen and Eric Lynch aka Eric the Actor aka Eric the Midget died five years ago in 2014. Bergan was 84. Lynch was 39. Curtis Hanson died three years ago in 2016 at age 71.

Today Twiggy and Sally Potter are 70. Today is also the birthday of Jeremy Irons, Paul Williams, Jimmy Fallon, Rosemary Harris, James Lipton, David McCallum, Cheri Oteri, Danielle Panabaker, Sanaa Lathan, Alison Sweeney, Kim Richards, David Bamber, Victor Williams, Randolph Mantooth, Jean-Claude Carrière, Soledad O’Brien, Mario Batali, and the late Adam West, Cass Elliot, Frances Farmer, Ben Turpin, who would be 150, William Hickey, Ray Danton, and Jóhann Jóhannsson, who would be 50. Rex Ingram died fifty years ago in 1969 at age 73. Bernie Casey and Jake LaMotta died two years ago in 2017. Casey was 78. LaMotta was 95.

Today Fred Willard and Frankie Avalon are 80, Beth Grant is 70, Mark Romanek is 60, and Alison Lohman is 40. Today is also the birthday of James Marsden, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jason Sudeikis, Robert Blake, Billy Eichner, Aisha Tyler, Xzibit, Lance Armstrong, Anna Levine, Christopher Heyerdahl, Nina Arianda, Anna Deavere Smith, Gailard Sartain, David Mirkin, Ben Carson, and the late Greta Garbo, James Gandolfini, Jack Warden, Samuel Johnson, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, June Foray, Grayson Hall, Rossano Brazzi, and Jack Cardiff. Frank Morgan died 70 years ago in 1949 at age 59. Franchot Tone died 51 years ago in 1968 at age 63. Jimi Hendrix died 49 years ago in 1970 at age 27. Russ Meyer died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 82.

Today Matthew Settle is 50, and Neill Blomkamp is 40. Today is also the birthday of Kyle Chandler, Cassandra Peterson (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark), Baz Luhrmann, Bryan Singer, Paul Feig, Bobby Lee, Rita Rudner, Bruce Spence, Pat Crowley, Sam Esmail, Kevin Clash, Nate Berkus, Mark Osborne, Narendra Modi, and the late Hank Williams, Anne Bancroft, John Ritter, Roddy McDowall, Lupe Ontiveros, David Huddleston, Ken Kesey, Paul Benedict, Dolores Costello, Jerry Colonna, Harold Bennett, George Cleveland, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Richard Basehart died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 70. Grady Sutton died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 89. Red Skelton died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 84.

Today Janis Paige is 97, George Chakiris is 85, Linda Henning is 75, and Ed Begley Jr. is 70. Today is also the birthday of Amy Poehler, Mickey Rourke, Molly Shannon, Jennifer Tilly, Nick Jonas, Marc Anthony, David Copperfield, Bingbing Fan, Danny John-Jules, Alexis Bledel, Max Minghella, Madeline Zima, Jayne Brook, Kurt Fuller, Jim McBride, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Roger Ross Williams, and the late Lauren Bacall, Peter Falk, BB King, Anne Francis, Morgan Woodward, Tommy Bond, Allen Funt, and Guy Hamilton. Mary Travers died ten years ago in 2009 at age 72. Edward Albee died three years ago in 2016 at age 88.

Today Mike Reiss is 60. Today is also the birthday of Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Hardy, Oliver Stone, Josh Charles, Rebecca Miller, Henry Silva, Norm Crosby, Jimmy Carr, Carmen Maura, Danny Nucci, Ron Shelton, Pawel Pawlikowski, Margaret Keane, Prince Harry, Lisa Vanderpump, Heidi Montag, and the late Jean Renoir, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray, Nipsey Russell, Agatha Christie, Robert Benchley, Penny Singleton, Margaret Lockwood, Jacques Becker, William Howard Taft, Wendie Jo Sperber, and Shôhei Imamura. Richard Wright died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 65. Frances Bay died eight years ago in 2011 at age 92. Harry Dean Stanton died two years ago in 2017 at age 91.

Today Joey Heatherton is 75, and Joon-ho Bong is 50. Today is also the birthday of Melissa Leo, Sam Neill, Andrew Lincoln, Walter Koenig, Robert Wisdom, Faith Ford, Robert Ben Garant, NAS, Callum Keith Rennie, Howard Deutch, Christian Petzold, Corneliu Porumboiu, and the late Amy Winehouse, Nicol Williamson, Harve Presnell, Kay Medford, who would be 100, Clayton Moore, Jack Hawkins, and Robert Florey. Irving Thalberg died 83 years ago in 1936 at age 37. Grace Kelly died 37 years ago in 1982 at age 52. Janet Gaynor died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 77. Patrick Swayze and Henry Gibson died ten years ago in 2009. Swayze was 57. Gibson was 73.