Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today D.B. Woodside is 50. Today is also the birthday of Matt LeBlanc, Illeana Douglas, Iman, David Denman, Jay R. Ferguson, Darren Star, Ana Lily Amirpour, and the late Walter Brennan, Estelle Getty, Brad Renfro, Jack Gilford, Woody Strode, Barbara Harris, Janet Margolin, Emmett Till, August Schellenberg, Jerry Paris, Harold Peary, Lila Lee, and Raoul Ruiz. Vincente Minnelli died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 83. John Schlesinger died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 77.

Today Michael Richards is 70, Jennifer Lopez is 50, and Rose Byrne is 40. Today is also the birthday of Anna Paquin, Elisabeth Moss, Lynda Carter, Ruth Buzzi, Kristin Chenoweth, Gus Van Sant, Chris Sarandon, Dan Hedaya, Laura Leighton, Mara Wilson, Doug Liman, Summer Glau, Laura Fraser, Patty Jenkins, Gallagher, Paul Ben-Victor, Robert Hays, Mark Goddard, Danny Dyer, Bindi Irwin, and the late Peter Yates, Alexandre Dumas, Amelia Earhart, Robert Emhardt, Mabel Albertson, Chief Dan George, Zelda Fitzgerald, Ermanno Olmi, Delmer Daves, and Robert Graves. Constance Bennett died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 60. Peter Sellers died 39 years ago in 1980 at age 54. Alan Clarke died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 54. Sherman Hemsley died seven years ago in 2012 at age 74.

Today Pepe Serna is 75, and Daniel Radcliffe is 30. Today is also the birthday of Woody Harrelson, Slash, Marlon Wayans, Eriq La Salle, Kathryn Hahn, Charisma Carpenter, Edie McClurg, Larry Manetti, Ronny Cox, Jan Troell, Jo Brand, Don Imus, Monica Lewinsky, Anthony Kennedy, Shawn Levy, and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Raymond Chandler, Gloria DeHaven, Emil Jannings, John Rutsey, Hank Worden, Karl Swenson, Robert Brown, and Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy. D.W. Griffith died 71 years ago in 1948 at age 73. Montgomery Clift died 53 years ago in 1966 at age 45. Vic Marrow, Myca Dinh Le, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen died 37 years ago in 1982. Marrow was 53. Le was 7. Chen was 6. Amy Winehouse died eight years ago in 2011 at age 27.

Today Bob Dole is 96, Louise Fletcher is 85, Peter Jason is 75, and Alan Menken is 70. Today is also the birthday of Willem Dafoe, Albert Brooks, Danny Glover, Terence Stamp, John Leguizamo, Paul Schrader, David Spade, Selena Gomez, Rhys Ifans, Alex Trebek, Orson Bean, Jaime Camil, Adam Godley, Skyler Gisondo, Olivier Gourmet, and the late James Whale and Dan Rowan. Ulrich Mühe died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 54. Estelle Getty died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 84. Dennis Farina died six years ago in 2013 at age 69.

Today Godfrey is 50, and Juno Temple and Rory Culkin are 30. Today is also the birthday of Yusuf / Cat Stevens, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Josh Hartnett, Jon Lovitz, Norman Jewison, George Wallace, Justin Bartha, Béla Tarr, Betty Gilpin, David Dastmalchian, Diane Guerrero, Sprague Grayden, Alysia Reiner, Ike Eisenmann, Adrienne King, and the late Robin Williams, Don Knotts, Ernest Hemingway, Edward Herrmann, Paul Burke, Karel Reisz, Maria Falconetti, and Janet Reno. Basil Rathbone died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 75. Theodore Bikel died four years ago in 2015 at age 91. John Heard died two years ago in 2017 at age 71.

Today Josh Holloway is 50. Today is also the birthday of Cormac McCarthy, Diana Rigg, Sandra Oh, Judy Greer, Omar Epps, John Francis Daley, Carlos Santana, Julianne Hough, Frank Whaley, Dean Winters, Naseeruddin Shah, Sally Ann Howes, Simon Rex, Tantoo Cardinal, Rodney Eastman, Camille Keaton, Randal Kleiser, and the late Natalie Wood, Alexander the Great, Verna Felton, Lola Albright, Aleksey German, and Billy Mays. Franklin Pangborn died 61 years ago in 1958 at age 69. Bruce Lee died 46 years ago today at age 32.

Today Juan José Campanella is 60. Today is also the birthday of Benedict Cumberbatch, Abel Ferrara, Anthony Edwards, Jim Norton, Brian May, Jared Padalecki, Vinessa Shaw, Kaitlin Doubleday, Lisa Lampanelli, Mark Holton, Campbell Scott, Nancy Carell, Saïd Taghmaoui, George Dzundza, Josh Fadem, Atom Egoyan, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hideo Nakata, Tommy McLoughlin, Matthew Libatique, Shane Dawson, and the late Pat Hingle, Richard Jordan, Max Fleischer, George McGovern, and Lizzie Borden. Joe Flynn died 45 years ago in 1974 at age 49. Jack Warden died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 85. Mel Smith died six years ago in 2013 at age 60. James Garner died five years ago in 2014 at age 86. Garry Marshall died three years ago in 2016 at age 81.

Today Jared Hess is 40. Today is also the birthday of Vin Diesel, Kristen Bell, James Brolin, Margo Martindale, Elizabeth McGovern, Paul Verhoeven, Wendy Williams, Kelly Reilly, Michiel Huisman, Andre Royo, James Faulkner, Priyanka Chopra, Chace Crawford, Hampton Fancher, Ann-Marie Johnson, Grant Bowler, Richard Branson, Audrey Landers, Lee Arenberg, and the late Nelson Mandela, Red Skelton, Hunter S. Thompson, Hume Cronyn, Chill Wills, John Glenn, Richard Dix, Gene Lockhart, Harriet Nelson, Lupe Velez, Burt Kwouk, and William Makepeace Thackeray. Jane Austen died 202 years ago in 1817 at age 41. Nico died 31 years ago in 1988 at age 49. Alex Rocco died four years ago in 2015 at age 79.

Today Jason Clarke and F. Gary Gray are 50. Today is also the birthday of Donald Sutherland, Diahann Carroll, Kar-Wai Wong, David Hasselhoff, Alex Winter, Heather Langenkamp, P.J. Soles, Mélanie Thierry, Cécile de France, Elena Anaya, Billie Lourd, Lucie Arnaz, John Ventimiglia, Robert Romanus, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Mark Burnett, Angela Merkel, and the late James Cagney, Phyllis Diller, Art Linkletter, Barbara O’Neil, William Gargan, and Jack Conway. Billie Holiday died sixty years ago in 1959 at age 44. John Coltrane died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 40. Geraldine Fitzgerald died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 91. Elaine Stritch died five years ago in 2014 at age 89.

Today Rain Pryor is 50, and Jayma Mays is 40. Today is also the birthday of Will Ferrell, Corey Feldman, Phoebe Cates, Tony Kushner, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Chris Pontius, Daryl Mitchell, Scott Derrickson, and the late Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, Percy Kilbride, Jerry Doyle, Vincent Sherman, Larry Semon, Orville Redenbacher, and Ida B. Wells. George A. Romero died two years ago in 2017 at age 77.