Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Rodrigo García is 60. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Fry, Dave Chappelle, Marlee Matlin, Ava DuVernay, Steve Guttenberg, David Koechner, Jared Harris, Ronee Blakley, Dana Gould, Elizabeth Debicki, Rupert Grint, James D’Arcy, Anne Archer, Kevin Dunn, Takashi Miike, Craig Kilborn, Vince McMahon, David Gregory, and the late Kenny Baker, Hal Smith, Yasser Arafat, and Christine Chubbuck. Kenji Mizoguchi died 63 years ago in 1956 at age 58. Louis Prima died 41 years ago in 1978 at age 67. E.G. Marshall died 21 years ago in 1998 at age 84. Julie Harris died six years ago in 2013 at age 87. Richard Attenborough died five years ago in 2014 at age 90. Jay Thomas died two years ago in 2017 at age 69.

Today Vera Miles is 90, and Shelley Long, Rick Springfield, and Leslie Van Houten are 70. Today is also the birthday of Barbara Eden, Chan-wook Park, Jay Mohr, Andrew Rannells, Scott Caan, Kobe Bryant, Ray Park, Joanne Froggatt, Lexi Alexander, Kirby Dick, Roger Avary, Alexandre Desplat, Jared Fogle, and the late Gene Kelly, Keith Moon, River Phoenix, Marian Seldes, Robert Mulligan, and James Millhollin. Francis X. Bushman died 53 years ago in 1966 at age 83. Kathleen Freeman died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 82. Brock Peters died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 78.

Today Micheline Presle is 97, Valerie Harper and Robert Wall are 80, and Mark Williams is 60. Today is also the birthday of Kristen Wiig, Cindy Williams, James Corden, Ty Burrell, David Chase, Richard Armitage, Casper Christensen, Rodrigo Santoro, Colm Feore, Chia-Hui Liu, Honor Blackman, Courtney Gains, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Tori Amos, Andrew Wilson, Rick Yune, Roy Guerra, Kay Cannon, and the late Ray Bradbury, John Lee Hooker, Leni Riefenstahl, Dorothy Parker, Claude Debussy, Cecil Kellaway, Elisabeth Bergner, Sylvia Koscina, John Lupton, and Andréas Voutsinas.

Today Clarence Williams III is 80, Peter Weir is 75, Loretta Devine is 70, and Hayden Panettiere is 30. Today is also the birthday of Kenny Rogers, Kim Cattrall, Carrie-Anne Moss, Patty McCormack, Melvin Van Peebles, Bo Burnham, Kacey Musgraves, Alicia Witt, Marc Evan Jackson, Cleo King, RJ Mitte, and the late Joe Strummer, Jack Weston, Tom Tully, Marie Blake, Frank Perry, and David Lochary. Danny Lockin died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 34 after being stabbed over 100 times. Barbara Harris died one year ago in 2018 at age 83.

Today Eddie Paskey is 80, and Billy Gardell is 50. Today is also the birthday of Amy Adams, Andrew Garfield, Robert Plant, Joan Allen, Ray Wise, David O. Russell, Don King, John Noble, Demi Lovato, Al Roker, David Walliams, Sylvester McCoy, James Marsters, Colin Cunningham, Peter Horton, Fred Durst, Mark Borchardt, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Sally Yates, Ron Paul, and the late Isaac Hayes, H. P. Lovecraft, Alan Reed, Jim Reeves, André Morell, and Mikio Naruse. Kim Stanley died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 76. Phyllis Diller died seven years ago in 2012 at age 95. Elmore Leonard died six years ago in 2013 at age 87. Jerry Lewis died two years ago in 2017 at age 91.

Today Matthew Perry is 50. Today is also the birthday of President Bill Clinton, Kyra Sedgwick, John Stamos, L.Q. Jones, Kevin Dillon, Jonathan Frakes, Peter Gallagher, Gerald McRaney, Jim Carter, Maria de Medeiros, Melissa Fumero, Jill St. John, Ian McElhinney, Adam Arkin, Debra Paget, Diana Muldaur, Tracie Thoms, Pablo Larraín, and the late Gene Roddenberry, Coco Chanel, Fred Dalton Thompson, William Marshall, Angus Scrimm, Olga Baclanova, and Orville Wright. Alastair Sim died 43 years ago in 1976 at age 75. Groucho Marx died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 86. Tony Scott died seven years ago in 2012 at age 68. Jack Riley died three years ago in 2016 at age 80. Dick Gregory died two years ago in 2017 at age 84.

Today Edward Norton and Christian Slater are 50. Today is also the birthday of Robert Redford, Roman Polanski, Andy Samberg, Denis Leary, Martin Mull, Craig Bierko, Madeleine Stowe, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Kaitlin Olson, Sarita Choudhury, and the late Shelley Winters, Patrick Swayze, Don Keefer, Reg E. Cathey, Marcel Carné, and Alan Mowbray. Elmer Bernstein died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 82.

Today Julian Fellowes is 70, Jonathan Franzen is 60, Donnie Wahlberg is 50, and Taissa Farmiga is 25. Today is also the birthday of Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Brady Corbet, Austin Butler, Belinda Carlisle, Helen McCrory, Larry B. Scott, Tim Bagley, Robert Joy, Martha Coolidge, Giuliana Rancic, and the late Mae West, Maureen O’Hara, Davy Crockett, Samuel Goldwyn, Monty Woolley, Glenn Corbett, Evelyn Ankers, and Mark Felt. Vivian Vance died 40 years ago in 1979 at age 70. Ira Gershwin died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 86. Pearl Bailey died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 72. Yvonne Craig died four years ago in 2015 at age 78. Arthur Hiller died three years ago in 2016 at age 92.

Today is the birthday of Steve Carell, James Cameron, Madonna, Angela Bassett, Bob Balaban, Timothy Hutton, Taika Waititi, Lesley Ann Warren, Ann Blyth, Julie Newmar, Reginald VelJohnson, Laura Innes, Cristin Milioti, Cameron Monaghan, Jeff Perry, Bruce Beresford, Kathie Lee Gifford, and the late Robert Culp, Glenn Strange, Lois Nettleton, Charles Bukowski, Carole Shelley, Christine Cavanaugh, Mae Clarke, and T. E. Lawrence. Robert Johnson died 81 years ago in 1938 at age 27. Bela Lugosi died 63 years ago in 1956 at age 73. Elvis Presley died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 42. Aretha Franklin died one year ago in 2018 at age 76.

Today Joe Jonas is 30. Today is also the birthday of Jennifer Lawrence, Ben Affleck, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Anthony Anderson, Debra Messing, Jimmy Webb, Maxine Waters, Natasha Henstridge, Zeljko Ivanek, Barbara Bouchet, Pat Priest, Tess Harper, Jim Dale, and the late Rose Marie, Ethel Barrymore, Wendy Hiller, Julia Child, Mike Connors, Nicolas Roeg, Napoleon Bonaparte, who would be 250, Janice Rule, Huntz Hall, Stieg Larsson, and Scott Kalvert. Will Rogers died 84 years ago in 1935 in a plane crash at age 55.