Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Busy Philipps is 40. Today is also the birthday of Ricky Gervais, Linda Cardellini, Jimmie Walker, Carly Simon, June Lockhart, John Benjamin Hickey, Larry Kramer, Jason Lewis, Angela Kinsey, Rain, Timur Bekmambetov, Denys Arcand, Ernest R. Dickerson, Sonia Sotomayor, and the late Sidney Lumet, Anthony Bourdain, George Michael, George Orwell, Roger Livesey, Charlotte Greenwood, George Murdock, and Anne Revere. Colin Clive died 82 years ago in 1937 at age 37. Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died ten years ago in 2009. Jackson was 50. Fawcett was 62. Patrick Macnee died four years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today Dan Gilroy is 60, and Mindy Kaling is 40. Today is also the birthday of Mick Fleetwood, Peter Weller, Robert Downey Sr., Nancy Allen, Solange Knowles, Minka Kelly, Vanessa Ray, Michele Lee, Iain Glen, Sherry Stringfield, Georg Stanford Brown, Joe Penny, Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister, Vittorio Storaro, and the late Claude Chabrol, Adrienne Shelly, Al Molinaro, who would be 100, Phil Harris, and Jack Carter. Tony Hancock died 51 years ago in 1968 at age 44. Jackie Gleason died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 71. Brian Keith died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 75. David Tomlinson died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 83. Paul Winchell died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 82. Eli Wallach died five years ago in 2014 at age 98.

Today John Amplas is 70, and Martin Klebba is 50. Today is also the birthday of Frances McDormand, Joel Edgerton, Selma Blair, Joss Whedon, Melissa Rauch, Randy Jackson, Bryan Brown, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Russell Mulcahy, Clarence Thomas, and the late Bob Fosse, June Carter Cash, Dennis Price, Alan Vega, Alfred Kinsey, and Alan Turing. Maureen O’Sullivan died 21 years ago in 1998 at age 87. Peter Falk died eight years ago in 2011 at age 83.

Today Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Warren, and Lindsay Wagner are 70, and Wayne Federman is 60. Today is also the birthday of Kris Kristofferson, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Campbell, Emmanuelle Seigner, Stephen Chow, Amy Brenneman, Michael Lerner, Prunella Scales, Donald Faison, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Joe Dempsie, Graham Greene, Portia Doubleday, Carson Daly, Douglas Smith, Alicia Goranson, Tim Russ, Uwe Boll, David L. Lander, Joie Lee, Dan Brown, Erin Brockovich-Ellis, Dianne Feinstein, Adam Schiff, Wolfgang Becker, and the late Billy Wilder, Abbas Kiarostami, Freddie Prinze, John Dillinger, Michael Todd, Ralph Waite, Amrish Puri, Erich Maria Remarque, and Octavia Butler. David O. Selznick died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 63. Judy Garland died fifty years ago in 1969 at age 47. Joseph Losey died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 75. Fred Astaire died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 88. George Carlin died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 71.

Today Chris Pratt is 40. Today is also the birthday of Juliette Lewis, Bernie Kopell, David Morrissey, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter, Lana Wachowski, Benjamin Walker, Carrie Preston, Mariette Hartley, Ron Ely, Josh Pais, Maggie Siff, Lana Del Rey, Michael Bowen, Joe Flaherty, Ian McEwan, Edward Snowden, Jim Breuer, Prince William, Jussie Smollett, Gretchen Carlson, and the late Judy Holliday, Jane Russell, Maureen Stapleton, Tony Scott, Robert Pastorelli, Eric Douglas, Conrad L. Hall, and Benazir Bhutto. Carroll O’Connor and John Lee Hooker died eighteen years ago in 2001. O’Connor was 76. Hooker was 83.

Today Bonnie Bartlett is 90, Lionel Richie is 70, Robert B. Weide is 60, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse is 30. Today is also the birthday of Nicole Kidman, Brian Wilson, John Goodman, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Robert Rodriguez, Josh Lucas, Mike Birbiglia, Jon Glaser, Dreama Walker, James Tolkan, Candy Clark, Stephen Frears, Tress MacNeille, and the late Errol Flynn, Martin Landau, John Mahoney, Ulrich Mühe, Chet Atkins, Audie Murphy, and Terence Young. Estelle Winwood died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 101. Ryan Dunn died eight years ago in 2011 at age 34.

Today is the birthday of Gena Rowlands, Kathleen Turner, Paul Dano, Zoe Saldana, Salman Rushdie, Jean Dujardin, Phylicia Rashad, Hugh Dancy, Atticus Shaffer, Marisa Pavan, Robin Tunney, Mia Sara, Ryan Hurst, Aidan Turner, Samuel West, Ken Davitian, Derren Nesbitt, Paula Abdul, Macklemore, Boris Johnson, Laura Ingraham, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the late Moe Howard, Charles Coburn, Nick Drake, Nancy Marchand, Mildred Natwick, May Whitty, Pier Angeli, Louis Jourdan, Pat Buttram, Harry Lauter, Kim Walker, Pauline Kael, who would be 100, and Lou Gehrig. Ed Wynn died 53 years ago in 1966 at age 79. Jean Arthur died 28 years ago in 1991 at age 90. James Gandolfini died six years ago in 2013 at age 51. Anton Yelchin died three years ago in 2016 at age 27.

Today is the birthday of Paul McCartney, Isabella Rossellini, Carol Kane, Blake Shelton, Richard Madden, Kim Dickens, Alana De La Garza, Ivonne Coll, Ralph Brown, Max Records, Steve Miner, Rick Famuyiwa, Barbara Broccoli, and the late Roger Ebert, Keye Luke, E.G. Marshall, Maggie McNamara, Mae Busch, and Jeanette MacDonald. Ethel Barrymore died sixty years ago in 1959 at age 79. Pedro Armendáriz died 56 years ago in 1963 at age 51. Terence Fisher died 39 years ago in 1980 at age 76. Nancy Marchand died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 71.

Today is the birthday of Greg Kinnear, Thomas Haden Church, Kendrick Lamar, Barry Manilow, Will Forte, Ken Loach, Bobby Farrelly, Denis Lavant, Scott Adkins, John Gallagher Jr., Joshua Leonard, Michael Showalter, Jason Patric, Peter Lupus, Arthur Darvill, William Lucking, Joe Piscopo, Venus Williams, Jodie Whittaker, Jon Gries, Jennifer Irwin, Sonny Fox, Louis Leterrier, Phyllida Lloyd, Newt Gingrich, and the late Ralph Bellamy, Lucio Fulci, Russell Simpson, James Shigeta, Setsuko Hara, Grant Mitchell, and M.C. Escher. Cyd Charisse died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 86.

Today Eileen Atkins and Bill Cobbs are 85. Today is also the birthday of Laurie Metcalf, John Cho, Clifton Collins Jr., Daniel Brühl, Joyce Carol Oates, Abby Elliott, Frederick Koehler, Joan Van Ark, Sibel Kekilli, Ian Buchanan, Scott Alexander, and the late Stan Laurel, Jack Albertson, 2PAC (Tupac Shakur), Ilona Massey, and Vilmos Zsigmond. George Reeves died sixty years ago in 1959 at age 45. Nicholas Ray died forty years ago in 1979 at age 67. John G. Avildsen died two years ago in 2017 at age 81.