Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Patrick Wayne is 80, and Travis Fimmel and Laura Benanti are 40. Today is also the birthday of Linda Ronstadt, Forest Whitaker, D.A. Pennebaker, Diane Kruger, Brigitte Nielsen, Eddie Griffin, Jesse Ventura, Terry O’Quinn, Scott Foley, Celia Imrie, Brian Austin Green, Joe Turkel, Adam Savage, Greg Sestero, Jim Rash, Tony Hendra, Arianna Huffington, Gabriel Iglesias, Beth Stern, and the late Larry Cohen, Rembrandt, Ian Curtis, Alex Karras, William Dieterle, and Bill Gunn, who would be 90. Anton Chekhov died 115 years ago in 1904 at age 44. Dana Hill died 23 years ago in 1996 at age 32. Gianni Versace died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 50. Celeste Holm died seven years ago in 2012 at age 95. Martin Landau died two years ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today Sid Haig is 80. Today is also the birthday of Jane Lynch, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Fox, Nancy Olson, David Mitchell, Kyle Gass, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Stan Shaw, Vincent Pastore, Joel Silver, Scott Rudin, Conor McGregor, Franklin Graham, and the late Ingmar Bergman, Harry Dean Stanton, Woody Guthrie, Polly Bergen, Terry-Thomas, William Hanna, Dale Robertson, Donald Meek, Laurie Mitchell, George Tobias, Gerald Ford, and Gustav Klimt.

Today Ken Jeong is 50. Today is also the birthday of Harrison Ford, Patrick Stewart, Robert Forster, Cheech Marin, Cameron Crowe, Tom Kenny, Aya Cash, Colton Haynes, Daphne Reid, Catherine Breillat, Gil Birmingham, Sharon Horgan, Michael Jace, Kenny Johnson, Didi Conn, Michael Mando, Jacques Perrin, Robert Gant, Kari Wahlgren, Steven R. McQueen, and the late Bob Crane, Sidney Blackmer, James Anderson, and René Laloux. Red Buttons died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 87. Cory Monteith died six years ago in 2013 at age 31.

Today Denise Nicholas is 75. Today is also the birthday of Bill Cosby, Topher Grace, Michelle Rodriguez, Richard Simmons, Malala Yousafzai, Cheryl Ladd, Cheyenne Jackson, Monte Hellman, Brian Grazer, Phil Lord, Anna Friel, Steve Howey, Natalie Martinez, Byung-Hun Lee, Tamsin Greig, Erik Per Sullivan, Jamey Sheridan, Mel Harris, Edwin Neal, and the late Milton Berle, Tod Browning, Joe DeRita, Jay Thomas, Beah Richards, Charlie Murphy, who would be 60, Louis B. Meyer, Jean Hersholt, George Eastman, Henry David Thoreau, Pablo Neruda, and Donald E. Westlake. Lon Chaney Jr. died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 67.

Today Giorgio Armani is 85, and Richie Sambora is 60. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Lang, Bruce McGill, Lil’ Kim, Tom Holland, Sela Ward, Michael Rosenbaum, Rachael Taylor, Justin Chambers, Mindy Sterling, Greg Grunberg, Jafar Panahi, Greg Mottola, and the late Yul Brynner, Tab Hunter, John Quincy Adams, David Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Brett Somers, and E.B. White. Robert Ryan died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 63. Laurence Olivier died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 82.

Today Mavis Staples is 80. Today is also the birthday of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sofia Vergara, Adrian Grenier, Arlo Guthrie, Fiona Shaw, Robert Pine, Ivan Passer, Peter Serafinowicz, Golshifteh Farahani, Jessica Simpson, Wyatt Russell, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Sue Lyon, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Alice Munro, Annie Mumolo, Marco Rodríguez, Joel Potrykus, and the late Fred Gwynne, Marcel Proust, Nikola Tesla, Jake LaMotta, Ron Glass, David Brinkley, Tura Satana, Nick Adams, John Gilbert, and Jerry Nelson. Mel Blanc died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 81. Omar Sharif died four years ago in 2015 at age 83.

Today Nigel Lythgoe is 70, and Kevin Nash is 60. Today is also the birthday of Tom Hanks, Jack White, Jimmy Smits, Chris Cooper, Brian Dennehy, Courtney Love, Pamela Adlon, Kelly McGillis, Fred Savage, Douglas Booth, Richard Roundtree, Ed Ames, Fred Norris, David O’Hara, David Hockney, Scott Grimes, Richard Wilson, Dean Koontz, O.J. Simpson, Jordan Belfort, Steven Avery, Jodi Arias, Amanda Knox, and the late Vince Edwards and Elem Klimov. Rod Steiger died seventeen years ago in 2002 at age 77. Charles Lane died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 102.

Today Jeffrey Tambor is 75, Wolfgang Puck is 70, and Robert Knepper is 60. Today is also the birthday of Angelica Huston, Kevin Bacon, Billy Crudup, Michael Weatherly, Kim Darby, Milo Ventimiglia, Sophia Bush, Toby Keith, Kathleen Robertson, Jamie Blackley, Lee Tergesen, Steve Lawrence, Beck, Jaden Smith, Michael Cuesta, Joe Russo, Wally Pfister, Maya Hawke, and the late Marty Feldman, John D. Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller, Mary Ellen Trainor, Craig Stevens, Jerry Vale, Louis Jordan, Billy Eckstine, Percy Grainger, Barbara Loden, Eugene Pallette, and Jean Rouverol. Vivien Leigh died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 53. Dick Sargent died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 64. June Allyson died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 88. Betty Ford died eight years ago in 2011 at age 93. Ernest Borgnine died seven years ago in 2012 at age 95. Nelsan Ellis died two years ago in 2017 at age 39. Tab Hunter died one year ago in 2018 at age 86.

Today Shelley Duvall is 70, and Billy Campbell is 60. Today is also the birthday of Ringo Starr, Jim Gaffigan, Bérénice Bejo, Doc Severinsen, Nina Hoss, Hamish Linklater, Mo Collins, Patricia Hitchcock, Robin Weigert, Michelle Kwan, Eve Hewson, Jorja Fox, Jack Whitehall, Amy Carlson, Kirsten Vangsness, Christian Camargo, Joe Spano, Martin Wallström, Blondie Chaplin, Jonathan Dayton, and the late Vittorio De Sica, George Cukor, Gustav Mahler, Jon Pertwee, who would be 100, Robert A. Heinlein, and Satchel Paige. Arthur Conan Doyle died 89 years ago in 1930 at age 71. Veronica Lake died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 50. Fred Neil died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 65.

Today Kevin Hart is 40. Today is also the birthday of Sylvester Stallone, The Dalai Lama, Geoffrey Rush, Jennifer Saunders, Eva Green, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Ned Beatty, Burt Ward, Geraldine James, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Tia Mowry-Hardict, Fred Dryer, Allyce Beasley, Brian Posehn, Peter Hedges, George W. Bush, and the late Janet Leigh, Frida Kahlo, Nancy Reagan, Merv Griffin, Della Reese, William Schallert, Sebastian Cabot, Cathy O’Donnell, and Misty Upham. William Faulkner died 57 years ago today in 1962 at 64. Chief John Big Tree died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 90. Louis Armstrong died 48 years ago in 1971 at age 69. Brandon De Wilde died 47 years ago in 1972 at age 30. Joe E. Brown died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 80. Alma Reville died 37 years ago in 1982 at age 82. Marsha P. Johnson died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 46. Roy Rogers died 21 years ago in 1998 at age 86. John Frankenheimer died seventeen years ago in 2002 at age 72. Buddy Ebsen died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 95.