Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Marcia Gay Harden and Magic Johnson are 60, and Preston Lacy is 50. Today is also the birthday of Steve Martin, David Crosby, Halle Berry, Mila Kunis, Wim Wenders, Lina Wertmüller, Emmanuelle Béart, James Buckley, Antonio Fargas, Susan Saint James, Lamorne Morris, Tom DiCillo, Danielle Steel, and the late Andrea Leeds, Alice Ghostly, Liz Fraser, and Alma Reville. Bruno Kirby died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 57. Fyvush Finkel died three years ago in 2016 at age 93.

Today Kevin Tighe is 75, Philippe Petit is 70, and Danny Bonaduce is 60. Today is also the birthday of Sebastian Stan, John Slattery, Debi Mazar, Paul Greengrass, Gretchen Corbett, Jane Carr, David Crane, Joshua Marston, Jeff Altman, Steve Higgins, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and the late Alfred Hitchcock, who would be 120, Bert Lahr, Neville Brand, Pat Harrington Jr., Sridevi, Regis Toomey, Tom Davis, Annie Oakley, and Fidel Castro. Joe E. Ross died 37 years ago in 1982 at age 68.

Today George Hamilton and Oliver Ford Davies are 80. Today is also the birthday of Casey Affleck, Bruce Greenwood, Cara Delevingne, Peter Krause, Yvette Nicole Brown, Lakeith Stanfield, Isaach De Bankolé, Dana Ivey, Michael Ian Black, Elizabeth Shepherd, Ray Abruzzo, George Soros, and the late Cecil B. DeMille, John Cazale, William Goldman, Cantinflas, Samuel Fuller, Marjorie Reynolds, Jane Wyatt, Marion Lorne, John Derek, and Klara Hitler. Ian Fleming died 55 years ago in 1964 at age 56. Henry Fonda died 37 years ago in 1982 at age 77. Loretta Young died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 87. Merv Griffin died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 82. Lauren Bacall died five years ago in 2014 at age 89.

Today Ian McDiarmid is 75, and Ashley Jensen is 50. Today is also the birthday of Viola Davis, Chris Hemsworth, Hulk Hogan, Chris Messina, Anna Gunn, Merritt Wever, Sophie Okonedo, Embeth Davidtz, Will Friedle, Joe Rogan, Stuart Gordon, Arlene Dahl, Adam LeFevre, Elya Baskin, Steve Wozniak, Fernando Arrabal, David Brooks, Tomi Lahren, and the late Mike Douglas, who died on his birthday thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 81, Anna Massey, Lloyd Nolan, Jean Parker, Ian Charleson, Stuart Rosenberg, and Jerry Falwell. Jackson Pollock died 63 years ago in 1956 at age 44. Anne Ramsey died 31 years ago in 1988 at age 59. Peter Cushing died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 81. Robin Williams died five years ago in 2014 at age 63.

Today Rhonda Fleming is 96, Rosanna Arquette is 60, JoAnna Garcia Swisher and Mama June Shannon are 40, and Brenton Thwaites is 30. Today is also the birthday of Antonio Banderas, Justin Theroux, Lynn Cohen, Leo Fitzpatrick, Diane Venora, Angie Harmon, Ryan Eggold, Murray Melvin, Don Swayze, Cate Shortland, Lucas Till, Rick Overton, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Andrew Sullivan, Kylie Jenner, and the late Norma Shearer, Jack Haley, Eddie Fisher, Jimmy Dean, Herbert Hoover, Martha Hyer, Noah Beery Jr., Jeff Corey, Tom Laughlin, Hugh Herbert, Ken Annakin, and Walter Lang. Isaac Hayes died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 65. Al Freeman Jr. died seven years ago in 2012 at age 81.

Today Sam Elliott is 75, and Toni Servillo is 60. Today is also the birthday of Melanie Griffith, Anna Kendrick, Eric Bana, Gillian Anderson, Audrey Tautou, Bill Skarsgård, David Steinberg, Thomas Lennon, Kevin McKidd, Burton Gilliam, Amanda Bearse, Kenya Barris, McG, Chris Cuomo, Hoda Kotb, and the late Whitney Houston, Robert Shaw, Robert Aldrich, P.L. Travers, Leo Genn, John Stephenson, Nat Pendleton, and Allen ‘Farina’ Hoskins. Sharon Tate was murdered fifty years ago in 1969 at age 26. Jerry Garcia died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 53. Gregory Hines died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 57. Matthew McGrory died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 32. Bernie Mac died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 50.

Today Earl Cameron is 102, and Keith Carradine is 70. Today is also the birthday of Dustin Hoffman, Robin Quivers, Connie Stevens, Shawn Mendes, Don Most, Larry Wilcox, Peyton List, Lindsay Sloane, Nita Talbot, The Edge (David Howell Evans), Martin Brest, Jon Turteltaub, Lee Unkrich, Mamoru Oshii, Donald P. Bellisario, and the late Esther Williams, Richard Anderson, Sylvia Sidney, Rory Calhoun, Dino De Laurentiis, who would be 100, Rosetta LeNoire, William Asher, and Robert Siodmak. Richard Deacon died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 63. Louise Brooks died 34 years ago in 1985 at age 78. Alan Napier died 31 years ago in 1988 at age 85. Fay Wray died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 96. Barbara Bel Geddes died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 82. Patricia Neal died nine years ago in 2010 at age 84. Karen Black died six years ago in 2013 at age 74. Glen Campbell and Barbara Cook died two years ago in 2017. Campbell was 81. Cook was 89.

Today Anjanette Comer is 80, David Rasche, John Glover, and Robert Mueller are 75, and Eric Johnson is 40. Today is also the birthday of Charlize Theron, Michael Shannon, David Duchovny, Wayne Knight, Abbie Cornish, Tobin Bell, Garrison Keillor, Brit Marling, Caroline Aaron, Bruce Dickinson, Alexandre Aja, James Randi, Maggie Wheeler, Harold Perrineau, and the late Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer, Billie Burke, Nicholas Ray, Verna Bloom, Edward Hardwicke, Stan Freberg, and Rick Genest. Oliver Hardy died 62 years ago in 1957 at age 65.

Today is the birthday of M. Night Shyamalan, Vera Farmiga, Michelle Yeoh, Leland Orser, Merrin Dungey, Michael Anderson Jr., Peter Bonerz, Catherine Hicks, Leslie Odom Jr., Peter Simonischek, Inga Landgré, and the late Robert Mitchum, Lucille Ball, Andy Warhol, Frank Finlay, Charles Crichton, Paul Bartel, and Umberto Lenzi. Preston Sturges died sixty years ago in 1959 at age 60. Rick James died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 56. John Hughes died ten years ago in 2009 at age 59.

Today is the birthday of Mark Strong, James Gunn, Janet McTeer, John Saxon, Loni Anderson, Jesse Williams, Maureen McCormick, Scott William Winters, John Jarratt, Ja’net DuBois, Billie Hayes, and the late John Huston, Neil Armstrong, Robert Taylor, Adam Yauch, Joan Hickson, Reginald Owen, Guy de Maupassant, Bob Clark, Pete Burns, who would be 60, and Joseph Merrick. Carmen Miranda died 64 years ago in 1955 at age 46. Marilyn Monroe died 57 years ago in 1962 at age 36. Richard Burton died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 58. Ralph Meeker died 31 years ago in 1988 at age 67. Alec Guinness died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 86. Charlotte Rae died one year ago in 2018 at age 92.