Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Jacqueline Bisset is 75, Nick Vallelonga is 60, and Tyler Perry is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jean Smart, Jeffrey Ross, Barbara Bain, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Fiona Apple, Don Bluth, Tavis Smiley, Colin Trevorrow, Frank Marshall, Travis Knight, Niall Horan, and the late Claudette Colbert, Roald Dahl, Richard Kiel, Nell Carter, Mel Tormé, Scott Brady, Gladys George, John Crawford, Reta Shaw, Mae Questel, and Maurice Jarre. Tupac Shakur died 23 years ago in 1996 at age 25. Frank Vincent died two years ago in 2017 at age 80.

Today is the birthday of Louis C.K., Ian Holm, Jennifer Hudson, Joe Pantoliano, Paul F. Tompkins, Ben McKenzie, Hans Zimmer, Amy Yasbeck, Emmy Rossum, Alfie Allen, Ben Folds, Robert John Burke, Peter Scolari, Will Chase, Neil Peart, 2 Chainz, and the late Maurice Chevalier, Paul Walker, Barry White, George Jones, Jesse Owens, Freddie Jones, Bill McKinney, Desmond Llewelyn, Dickie Moore, Leslie Cheung, Edward Binns, Billy Gilbert, Ben Blue, H.L. Mencken, and Stanislaw Lem. William Boyd died 47 years ago in 1972 at age 77. Frank Nelson died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 75. Anthony Perkins died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 60. Raymond Burr died 26 years ago in 1993 at age 76. Johnny Cash died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 71. David Foster Wallace died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 46. Claude Chabrol died nine years ago in 2010 at age 80.

Today Tom Dreesen is 80, and John Hawkes is 60. Today is also the birthday of Brian De Palma, Taraji P. Henson, Virginia Madsen, Harry Connick Jr., Moby, Ludacris, Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Daily, Amy Madigan, Kristy McNichol, Lola Falana, Roxann Dawson, Earl Holliman, Tony Gilroy, Bertrand Bonello, John Curran, Bashar al-Assad, and the late Herbert Lom, Ian Abercrombie, O. Henry, and Robert Day. Lorne Greene died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 72. Jessica Tandy died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 85. Kim Hunter died seventeen years ago in 2002 at age 79. John Ritter died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 54. Kevin McCarthy and Harold Gould died nine years ago in 2010. McCarthy was 96. Gould was 86. Andy Whitfield died eight years ago in 2011 at age 39.

Today Bill O’Reilly is 70. Today is also the birthday of Colin Firth, Ryan Phillippe, Amy Irving, Philip Baker Hall, Guy Ritchie, Kate Burton, Chris Columbus, Kyle Bornheimer, Misty Copeland, and the late Edmond O’Brien, Robert Wise, Dennis Burkley, Karl Lagerfeld, Bessie Love, and Aleksandr Dovzhenko. Dalton Trumbo died 43 years ago in 1976 at age 70. Yves Montand died 28 years ago in 1991 at age 70. Jane Wyman did twelve years ago in 2007 at age 90. Cliff Robertson died eight years ago in 2011, one day after his birthday, at age 88. Richard Kiel died five years ago in 2014 at age 74.

Today is the birthday of Michelle Williams, Adam Sandler, Hugh Grant, Eric Stonestreet, Zoe Kazan, Topol, Jeffrey Combs, Michael Bublé, Henry Thomas, Tom Wopat, Julia Sawalha, Goran Visnjic, Charles Esten, and the late Cliff Robertson, Sylvia Miles, Neil Hamilton, Otis Redding, Harland Sanders, and Arthur Freed. John McGiver died 44 years ago in 1975 at age 61. Burgess Meredith died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 89.

Today Pink is 40. Today is also the birthday of Bernie Sanders, Martin Freeman, David Arquette, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Aimee Mann, Brian Huskey, Larenz Tate, Thomas Kretschmann, Julien Richings, Gaten Matarazzo, Wiz Khalifa, and the late Peter Sellers, Sid Caesar, Patsy Cline, Alexander Mackendrick, Hillary Brooke, Frank Cady, and David R. Ellis. Dorothy Dandridge died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 42. Zero Mostel died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 62. Leni Riefenstahl died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 101.

Today James Schamus is 60, and Angie Everhart is 50. Today is also the birthday of Dario Argento, Evan Rachel Wood, Leslie Jones, Toby Jones, Sonny Rollins, Chrissie Hynde, Gloria Gaynor, Susan Blakely, Shannon Elizabeth, Michael Emerson, Corbin Bernsen, Julie Kavner, W. Earl Brown, Diane Warren, Doug Bradley, and the late Buddy Holly, Peter Lawford, Elia Kazan, Anthony Quayle, Elizabeth I of England, Don Messick, and Eazy-E. Maria Montez died 68 years ago in 1951 at age 39. Katrin Cartlidge died seventeen years ago in 2002 at age 41. Mac Miller died one year ago in 2018 at age 26.

Today David Allan Coe is 80, and Swoosie Kurtz is 75. Today is also the birthday of Roger Waters, Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Rosie Perez, Jane Curtin, Jeff Foxworthy, Jo Anne Worley, Macy Gray, Anne Lockhart, Matthew Horne, Chris Christie, and the late John Mitchum, who would be 100, John Ridgely, and Max Schreck. Edmund Gwenn died sixty years ago in 1959 at age 81. Akira Kurosawa died 21 years ago in 1998 at age 88. Burt Reynolds died one year ago in 2018 at age 82.

Today Bob Newhart is 90, and George Lazenby and William Devane are 80. Today is also the birthday of Werner Herzog, Michael Keaton, Raquel Welch, Rose McGowan, Paddy Considine, Carice van Houten, Annabelle Wallis, Carol Lawrence, Christopher Morris, Dennis Dugan, Sergey Loznitsa, and the late Freddie Mercury, Jesse James, Gloria Holden, Darryl F. Zanuck, Jack Valenti, and Moshé Mizrahi. Barbara Loden died 39 years ago in 1980 at age 48. Mother Teresa died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 87. Setsuko Hara died four years ago in 2015 at age 95. Hugh O’Brian died three years ago in 2016 at age 91.

Today Jan Švankmajer is 85, and Noah Taylor is 50. Today is also the birthday of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Damon Wayans, Whitney Cummings, Mitzi Gaynor, Wes Bentley, Max Greenfield, Kyle Mooney, Ione Skye, Michael Berryman, Phill Lewis, John DiMaggio, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Anthony Weiner, Dr. Drew Pinsky, and the late Howard Morris, who would be 100, Dick York, Richard S. Castellano, Leonard Frey, Edward Dmytryk, Richard Wright, and Paul Harvey. George O’Brien died 34 years ago in 1985 at age 86. Irene Dunne died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 91. Dottie West died 28 years ago in 1991 at age 58. Hervé Villechaize committed suicide 26 years ago in 1993 at age 50. Steve Irwin died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 44. Joan Rivers died five years ago in 2014 at age 81. Bill Daily died one year ago in 2018 at age 91.