Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Richard Belzer is 75. Today is also the birthday of Barack Obama, Billy Bob Thornton, Greta Gerwig, Paul Mooney, Meghan Markle, Daniel Dae Kim, Tina Cole, Abigail Spencer, Chet Hanks, James Tupper, Sebastian Roché, Donald Gibb, Carol Arthur, Keith Ellison, Dennis Lehane, Sapphire, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, and the late Louis Armstrong, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Don S. Davis, Anita Page, Ron Lester, William Keighley, and Louis Vuitton. Melvyn Douglas died 38 years ago in 1981 at age 80. Victor Mature died twenty nineteen years ago in 1999 at age 86.

Today John C. McGinley is 60, and Evangeline Lilly is 40. Today is also the birthday of Tony Bennett, Martin Sheen, John Landis, Stephen Graham, James Hetfield, Isaiah Washington, Martha Stewart, Molly Hagan, Hannah Simone, Lambert Wilson, Michael Ealy, Jonah Ray, Nick Sandow, Mamie Gummer, Max Landis, Steven Berkoff, Mathieu Kassovitz, Jay North, Elsa Cárdenas, Justin Kurzel, Tom Brady, and the late Dolores del Rio, Jean Hagen, and Bethel Leslie. Joseph Conrad died 95 years ago in 1924 at age 66. Flannery O’Connor died 55 years ago in 1964 at age 39. Lenny Bruce died 53 years ago in 1966 at age 40. Ida Lupino died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 77.

Today Nehemiah Persoff is 100, and Victoria Jackson is 60. Today is also the birthday of Kevin Smith, Mary-Louise Parker, Sam Worthington, Edward Furlong, Joanna Cassidy, Butch Patrick, Matthew Del Negro, Kathryn Harrold, Hallie Eisenberg, Charli XCX, Nathan Zellner, and the late Peter O’Toole, Myrna Loy, Carroll O’Connor, Wes Craven, who would be 80, Beatrice Straight, James Baldwin, Max Wright, Jack L. Warner, and Gary Merrill. Jean-Pierre Melville died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 55. Fritz Lang died 43 years ago in 1976 at age 85. Raymond Carver died 31 years ago in 1988 at age 50. William S. Burroughs died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 83.

Today Terry Kiser is 80, David Wain is 50, and Jason Momoa is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jack O’Connell, Demián Bichir, Steve Schirripa, John Carroll Lynch, Chuck D, Coolio, Sam Mendes, Giancarlo Giannini, Adrian Dunbar, Eduardo Noriega, Adam Duritz, Oona Laurence, José Padilha, and the late Jerry Garcia, Dom DeLuise, Claudius, Geoffrey Holder, Yves Saint Laurent, Herman Melville, who would be 200, Taylor Negron, Henry Jones, J. Lee Thompson, and Cookie Mueller. Strother Martin died 39 years ago in 1980 at age 61. Paddy Chayefsky died 38 years ago in 1981 at age 58.

Today Don Murray and Pat Cooper are 90, France Nuyen is 80, Geraldine Chaplin is 75, B.J. Novak is 40, and Jessica Williams is 30. Today is also the birthday of Wesley Snipes, J.K. Rowling, Michael Biehn, Ben Chaplin, Dean Cain, Mark Cuban, Emilia Fox, Rico Rodriguez, Paul Provenza, Dirk Blocker, Barry Van Dyke, Al Sapienza, Alan Autry, Cassi Davis, and the late Mario Bava, Richard Griffiths, Geoffrey Lewis, Ted Cassidy, Louis de Funès, Percy Herbert, and Paul ‘Mousie’ Garner. Gore Vidal died seven years ago in 2012 at age 86. Jeanne Moreau died two years ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today Sid Krofft is 90, Peter Bogdanovich is 80, Frances de la Tour is 75, Simon Baker is 50, and Joey King is 20. Today is also the birthday of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hilary Swank, Lisa Kudrow, Laurence Fishburne, Christopher Nolan, Richard Linklater, Jean Reno, Terry Crews, Vivica A. Fox, Gina Rodriguez, Tom Green, Buddy Guy, Martin Starr, Jaime Pressly, Christine Taylor, Sofie Gråbøl, Kerry Fox, Edd Byrnes, Phil Davis, Barbara Kopple, Michael Bell, Yvonne Strahovski, Javier Botet, William Atherton, Paul Anka, Alton Brown, Richard Burgi, Carel Struycken, Delta Burke, Derek Waters, Ken Olin, Kate Bush, Frank Stallone, Erwin Leder, Ted Sarandos, and the late Henry Ford, Richard Johnson, John P. Ryan, Dick Wilson, Emily Brontë, and John Cason. Claudette Colbert died 23 years ago in 1996 at age 92. Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni both died twelve years ago in 2007. Bergman was 89. Antonioni was 94. Gloria DeHaven died three years ago in 2016 at age 91.

Today Leslie Easterbrook is 70, and Timothy Omundson is 50. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Dorff, David Warner, Tim Gunn, Wil Wheaton, Robert Fuller, Ken Burns, Tony Sirico, Josh Radnor, Allison Mack, Ato Essandoh, Mike Starr, Bill Forsyth, Mike Hodges, and the late William Powell, Maria Ouspenskaya, Chris Marker, Clara Bow, Lloyd Bochner, Thelma Todd, Irwin Corey, Peter Jennings, Charles Hallahan, Budd Boetticher, Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia, William Cameron Menzies, and Benito Mussolini. “Mama” Cass Elliot died 45 years ago in 1974 at age 32. Luis Buñuel, Raymond Massey, and David Niven all died 36 years ago in 1983. Buñuel was 83, Massey was 86, and Niven was 73.

Happy birthday. Today Frances Lee McCain is 75. Today is also the birthday of Peter Cullen, Elizabeth Berkley, Sally Struthers, Lori Loughlin, Darryl Hickman, Dustin Milligan, Michael Hitchcock, Dey Young, Linda Kelsey, Carlos Jacott, Dick Ebersol, Francis Veber, and the late Jacqueline Kennedy, who would be 90, Joe E. Brown, Rudy Vallee, Georgia Engel, Richard Wright, Beatrix Potter, Alexis Arquette, who would be 50, Ann Doran, and Hugo Chávez.

Today Norman Lear is 97, and Bryan Fuller and Paul “Triple H” Levesque are 50. Today is also the birthday of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maya Rudolph, Taylor Schilling, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Donnie Yen, Betty Thomas, Rade Serbedzija, Bill Engvall, Roger Guenveur Smith, Cliff Curtis, Carol Leifer, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Takashi Shimizu, and the late Keenan Wynn, Jerry Van Dyke, Donald Crisp, Will Jordan, Maury Chaykin, who died on his birthday nine years ago in 2010 at age 61, Lupita Tovar, and Charles Vidor. Gertrude Stein died 73 years ago in 1946 at age 72. William Wyler died 38 years ago in 1981 at age 79. James Mason died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 75. Bob Hope died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 100. R.G. Armstrong died seven years ago in 2012 at age 95. Sam Shepard died two years ago in 2017 at age 73.

Today Roger Taylor is 70, Kevin Spacey is 60, and Juliet Rylance is 40. Today is also the birthday of Mick Jagger, Helen Mirren, Sandra Bullock, Jason Statham, Kate Beckinsale, Olivia Williams, Jeremy Piven, Darlene Love, Peter Hyams, Linda Harrison, Susan George, Danny Woodburn, Dito Montiel, Andy Goldsworthy, and the late Stanley Kubrick, Jason Robards, Gracie Allen, Blake Edwards, Vivian Vance, Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Jung, James Best, Marjorie Lord, Suzanna Leigh, and Joe Jackson. Ed Gein died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 77. June Foray died two years ago in 2017 at age 99.