Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Noah Baumbach is 50. Today is also the birthday of Charlie Sheen, Valerie Perrine, Garrett Hedlund, Pauline Collins, Maria Bamford, Holt McCallany, Paz de la Huerta, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Irene Papas, Shaun White, Al Jardine, Steve Jones, Redfoo, Malcolm Gladwell, Pilar Pallete, and the late Alan Ladd, Eileen Brennan, Anne Jackson, Mary Grace Canfield, Kitty Carlisle, Mantan Moreland, Freddie King, and Whitey Bulger. Frank Capra died 28 years ago in 1991 at age 94. Michael Clarke Duncan died seven years ago in 2012 at age 54.

Today Marge Champion is 100. Today is also the birthday of Keanu Reeves, Salma Hayek Pinault, Katt Williams, Mark Harmon, Terry Bradshaw, Mary Jo Catlett, Eugenio Derbez, Robert Shapiro, Keith Allen, Harvey Levin, and the late Hal Ashby, who would be 90, Chuck McCann, Mel Stuart, and Sue Mengers. J.R.R. Tolkien died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 81. Troy Donahue died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 65. Bob Denver died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 70.

Today Lily Tomlin is 80. Today is also the birthday of Barry Gibb, George Maharis, Scott Speedman, Boyd Holbrook, Zak Penn, Gloria Estefan, Don Stroud, Burn Gorman, Zendaya, Craig Gillespie, Phil McGraw, and the late Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Farnsworth, Vittorio Gassman, Ron O’Neal, James Rebhorn, and Conway Twitty. Ethel Waters died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 80. Murray Hamilton died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 63. Dean Jones died four years ago in 2015 at age 84.

Today Richard Gere and Stephen McKinley Henderson are 70. Today is also the birthday of Van Morrison, Chris Tucker, Sara Ramirez, Jonathan Cake, Dee Bradley Baker, Zack Ward, Larry Hankin, Joe Swanberg, Marc Webb, Debbie Gibson, Leo Bill, Itzhak Perlman, Marcia Clark, and the late James Coburn, Buddy Hackett, Fredric March, Richard Basehart, Arthur Godfrey, Noble Willingham, Maurice Pialat, and Caligula. John Ford died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 79. Richard Anderson died two years ago in 2017 at age 91.

Today Elizabeth Ashley is 80. Today is also the birthday of Cameron Diaz, Michael Chiklis, Lewis Black, Warren Buffett, David Paymer, Timothy Bottoms, Frank Conniff, Lisa Ling, and the late Fred MacMurray, Joan Blondell, Raymond Massey, Peggy Lipton, Shirley Booth, Bill Daily, Mary Shelley, Kitty Wells, who would be 100, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, and Huey Long. Charles Coburn died 58 years ago in 1961 at age 84. Lindsay Anderson died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 71. Charles Bronson died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 81. Glenn Ford died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 90. Wes Craven died four years ago in 2015 at age 76.

Today Iris Apfel is 98, Joel Schumacher is 80, and Rebecca De Mornay is 60. Today is also the birthday of Elliott Gould, William Friedkin, Carla Gugino, Lea Michele, Betty Lynn, Frank Henenlotter, Tom Six, Dr. Temple Grandin, Liam Payne, Lucas Cruikshank, and the late Ingrid Bergman, who died 37 years ago on her birthday in 1982 at age 67, Michael Jackson, Richard Attenborough, Preston Sturges, Dinah Washington, Charlie Parker, John McCain, Charles Gray, Isabel Sanford, John Locke, and GG Allin. Lee Marvin died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Gene Wilder died three years ago in 2016 at age 83.

Today Brian Thompson is 60, and Jack Black and Sheryl Sandberg are 50. Today is also the birthday of Armie Hammer, David Fincher, Jennifer Coolidge, Luis Guzmán, Daniel Stern, Ai Weiwei, Billy Boyd, David Soul, Ken Jenkins, Florence Welch, Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, Quvenzhane Wallis, Alana Thompson (Honey Boo Boo), and the late Donald O’Connor, Charles Boyer, Ben Gazzara, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Rocket, who would be 70, Nancy Kulp, Simon Oakland, Roxie Roker, Jack Kirby, and James Wong Howe. Emmett Till was murdered 64 years ago in 1955 at age 14. Ruth Gordon died 34 years ago in 1985 at age 88. John Huston died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 81.

Today G.W. Bailey is 75, Chandra Wilson and Cesar Millan are 50, Aaron Paul is 40, and Ellar Coltrane is 25. Today is also the birthday of Paul Reubens, Tom Ford, Tuesday Weld, Peter Stormare, Sarah Chalke, Patrick J. Adams, Diana Scarwid, Alexa PenaVega, Shaun Weiss, Charles Fleischer, Tommy Sands, Robert Richardson, and the late Martha Raye, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Reems, James Finlayson, Ira Levin, Theodore Dreiser, Man Ray, and Ed Gein. Gracie Allen died 55 years ago in 1964 at age 69. Robert Shaw died 41 years ago in 1978 at age 51.

Today Kirk Fox is 50. Today is also the birthday of Melissa McCarthy, Chris Pine, Macaulay Culkin, John Mulaney, Dylan O’Brien, Alison Steadman, Barbet Schroeder, Wanda De Jesus, Mike Colter, Brett Cullen, Chris Burke, and the late Michael Jeter, Jim Davis, Yvette Vickers, Ben Bradlee, and Mother Teresa. Lon Chaney died 89 years ago in 1930 at age 47. Larry Keating died 56 years ago in 1963 at age 67. Kay Francis died 51 years ago in 1968 at age 63. Charles Boyer died 41 years ago in 1978 at age 78. Ted Knight died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 62. Neil Simon died one year ago in 2018 at age 91.

Today John Badham is 80, and Gene Simmons and John Savage are 70. Today is also the birthday of Sean Connery, Elvis Costello, Tim Burton, Alexander Skarsgård, Tom Skerritt, Blake Lively, Regis Philbin, Tom Hollander, Rachael Ray, Ben Falcone, Blair Underwood, Simon McBurney, Kel Mitchell, Mink Stole, Jeff Tweedy, Billy Ray Cyrus, Joe Wright, Fatih Akin, Hugh Hudson, and the late Leonard Bernstein, Mel Ferrer, Van Johnson, Michael Rennie, Don DeFore, Monty Hall, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and George Wallace, who would be 100. Paul Muni died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 71. Truman Capote died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 59. Aaliyah died eighteen years ago in 2001 in a plane crash at age 22. Marvin Kaplan died three years ago in 2016 at age 89. John McCain died one year ago in 2018 at age 81.