Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today RZA and Jenji Kohan are 50. Today is also the birthday of Edie Falco, Shirley Knight, Huey Lewis, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jillian Armenante, Kathryn Erbe, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Louis Herthum, Don Stark, Peter Tolan, Bill Watterson, and the late Warren Oates, Jean Cocteau, Katherine Helmond, P.T. Barnum, Milburn Stone, John Wood, and William Hootkins. Leo McCarey died fifty years ago in 1969 at age 70.

Today Eva Marie Saint is 95, and Ed O’Ross is 70. Today is also the birthday of Gina Lollobrigida, Tahar Rahim, Tracy Letts, Geraldo Rivera, Stephen Rannazzisi, Bill Withers, Mo McRae, Oren Moverman, Ron Kovic, Malia Obama, Adrián García Bogliano, and the late Neil Simon, Gloria Stuart, Stephen Boyd, Calvin Coolidge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Eric Fleming, Colin Welland, Rube Goldberg, and Meyer Lansky. Eva Gabor died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 76. Barry White died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 58. Abbas Kiarostami died three years ago in 2016 at age 76.

Today is the birthday of Tom Cruise, Olivia Munn, Patrick Wilson, Connie Nielsen, Kurtwood Smith, Tommy Flanagan, Yeardley Smith, Thomas Gibson, Audra McDonald, Corey Sevier, Bruce Altman, Dave Barry, Tom Stoppard, Peyton Reed, Michele Soavi, Gloria Allred, Julian Assange, and the late Franz Kafka, George M. Cohan, Ken Russell, George Sanders, Kinji Fukasaku, Susan Peters, Rick Ducommun, and Don Haggerty. Jim Morrison died 48 years ago in 1971 at age 27. Rudy Vallée died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 84. Jim Backus died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 76. “Curly” Joe DeRita died 26 years ago in 1993 at age 83. Andy Griffith died seven years ago in 2012 at age 86. Noel Neill died three years ago in 2016 at age 95.

Today is the birthday of Larry David, Margot Robbie, Lindsay Lohan, Ashley Tisdale, Scott Aukerman, Doug Benson, Polly Holliday, Wendy Schaal, Saul Rubinek, Andrew Divoff, Samy Naceri, Frank Williams, Erin Burnett, Richard Petty, Keith Morrison, Mark Kermode, Johnny Weir, and the late Thurgood Marshall, Ron Silver, Ken Curtis, Brock Peters, Kenneth McMillan, Jenni Rivera, who would be 50, and Dave Thomas. Franklin Schaffner died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 69. Lee Remick died 28 years ago in 1991 at age 55. Fred Gwynne died 26 years ago in 1993 at age 66. James Stewart died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 89. Mario Puzo died twenty years ago in 1999 at age 78. Jan Murray died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 89. Michael Cimino died three years ago in 2016 at age 77.

Today Olivia de Havilland is 103, Jamie Farr is 85, and Hannah Murray is 30. Today is also the birthday of Dan Aykroyd, Debbie Harry, Liv Tyler, Léa Seydoux, Andre Braugher, Geneviève Bujold, Pamela Anderson, Julianne Nicholson, Leslie Caron, Missy Elliott, Sufjan Stevens, Alan Ruck, Thomas Sadoski, David Gulpilil, Storm Reid, Fortune Feimster, Jordi Mollà, David Prowse, Brian George, Peter Cattaneo, David Duke, and the late Charles Laughton, Princess Diana, William Wyler, Karen Black, Sydney Pollack, Farley Granger, and Alice Guy. Michael Landon died 28 years ago in 1991 at age 54. Robert Mitchum died 22 years in 1997 at age 79. Sylvia Sidney died twenty years ago in 1999 at age 88. Walter Matthau died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 79. Marlon Brando died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 80. Luther Vandross died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 54. Karl Malden died ten years ago in 2009 at age 97.

Today Vincent D’Onofrio is 60, and Rick Gonzalez is 40. Today is also the birthday of Lizzy Caplan, Mike Tyson, Rupert Graves, David Alan Grier, Monica Potter, Marton Csokas, Molly Parker, Leonard Whiting, Víctor Erice, Angela Sarafyan, Michael Phelps, Fantasia Barrino, Mark Waters, and the late Lena Horne, Susan Hayward, Anthony Mann, Glenda Farrell, Ted Ross, Pat McCormick, John Harmon, George Chandler, Florence Ballard, and Dave Van Ronk. George “Spanky” McFarland died 26 years ago in 1993 at age 65. Gale Gordon died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 89. Pina Bausch died ten years ago in 2009 at age 68. Paul Mazursky died five years ago in 2014 at age 84.

Today Gary Busey is 75. Today is also the birthday of Richard Lewis, Robert Evans, Melora Hardin, Lily Rabe, Colin Jost, Bret McKenzie, Cara Williams, Brian d’Arcy James, Fred Grandy, Matthew Weiner, Sharon Lawrence, Jeff Baena, and the late Slim Pickens, who would be 100, Ray Harryhausen, Bernard Herrmann, Ian Bannen, Corey Allen, Ruth Warrick, Joan Davis, and Nelson Eddy. Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle died 86 years ago in 1933 at age 46. Jayne Mansfield died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 34. Bob Crane died 41 years ago in 1978 at age 49. Lana Turner died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 74. William Hickey died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 69. Vittorio Gassman died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 77. Rosemary Clooney died seventeen years ago in 2002 at age 74. Katharine Hepburn died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 96. Edward Yang died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 59. Don S. Davis died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 65. Jim Kelly died six years ago in 2013 at age 67. Steve Ditko died one year ago in 2018 at age 90.

Today Ayelet Zurer is 50, and Felicia Day is 40. Today is also the birthday of Mel Brooks, Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Mary Stuart Masterson, Bruce Davison, Alice Krige, Mike White, Alessandro Nivola, John Byner, Aileen Quinn, Elon Musk, Kellie Pickler, Jon Watts, and the late Gilda Radner, Pat Morita, Richard Rodgers, Henry VIII of England, Richard Bright, and John Inman. Frank Sutton died 45 years ago in 1974 at age 50. GG Allin died 26 years ago in 1993 at age 36. Jack Carter died four years ago in 2015 at age 93. Harlan Ellison died one year ago in 2018 at age 84.

Today Vera Wang is 70, Janusz Kaminski is 60, Matthew Lewis is 30, and Chandler Riggs is 20. Today is also the birthday of Tobey Maguire, J.J. Abrams, Isabelle Adjani, Sam Claflin, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Wagner Moura, Julia Duffy, Drake Bell, Ed Westwick, Courtney Ford, Shirley Anne Field, Kathryn Beaumont, Ross Perot, Jo Frost, Khloé Kardashian, and the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, Helen Keller, Robert Keeshan, Muriel Pavlow, John McIntire, Billy Curtis, Skelton Knaggs, and I.A.L. Diamond. Jack Lemmon died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 76. Gale Storm died ten years ago in 2009 at age 87.

Today Josef Sommer is 85, Mark McKinney is 60, and Harley Quinn Smith is 20. Today is also the birthday of Paul Thomas Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Sean Hayes, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Ariana Grande, Chris O’Donnell, Chris Isaak, John Beasley, Robert Davi, Matt Letscher, Gedde Watanabe, Michael Paul Chan, Jerry Schatzberg, Derek Jeter, and the late Peter Lorre, Eleanor Parker, Dick Smith, and Wolfgang Reitherman. Nora Ephron died seven years ago in 2012 at age 71.