Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Ice Cube is 50. Today is also the birthday of Helen Hunt, Neil Patrick Harris, Jim Belushi, Courtney Cox, Leah Remini, Julie Hagerty, Ray Santiago, Laurent Cantet, and the late Jim Varney, Waylon Jennings, Harry Nilsson, Harry Langdon, Herschell Gordon Lewis, and Erland Josephson. Ella Fitzgerald died 23 years ago in 1996 at age 79. Hume Cronyn died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 91. Stan Winston died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 62. Casey Kasem died five years ago in 2014 at age 82.

Today Joe Grifasi is 75, and Lucy Hale is 30. Today is also the birthday of Donald Trump, Boy George, Louis Garrel, Marla Gibbs, Will Patton, Diablo Cody, Alan Carr, Jay Roach, Aleksandr Sokurov, and the late Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, Gene Barry, who would be 100, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire, Kay Sutton, Jerzy Kosinski, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Alan Reed died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 69. Henry Mancini died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 70. Richard Jaeckel died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 70. Ann Morgan Guilbert died three years ago in 2016 at age 87.

Today Simon Callow is 70. Today is also the birthday of Malcolm McDowell, Stellan Skarsgård, Chris Evans, Tim Allen, Ally Sheedy, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kat Dennigs, Richard Thomas, Steve-O, Greg Daniels, and the late Paul Lynde, Basil Rathbone, Ben Johnson, Mary Wickes, W.B. Yeats, and Tay Garnett. Geraldine Page died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 62.

Today Scott Thompson is 60. Today is also the birthday of Dave Franco, Jay Mewes, Richard M. Sherman, Abbey Lee, Timothy Simons, Richard Ayoade, Mel Rodriguez, Timothy Busfield, Eamonn Walker, Jenilee Harrison, Kendra Wilkinson, and the late Anne Frank, Jim Nabors, Priscilla Lane, George H.W. Bush, Vic Damone, Irwin Allen, and Jim Siedow. Norma Shearer died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 80. Gregory Peck died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 87.

Today Christina Crawford is 80, Sherman Howard is 70, and Peter Dinklage is 50. Today is also the birthday of Hugh Laurie, Shia LaBeouf, Adrienne Barbeau, Joshua Jackson, Johnny Brown, Greta Van Susteren, and the late Gene Wilder, Chad Everett, Ryan Dunn, Richard Todd, who would be 100, Robert Hutton, Jacques Cousteau, Buddy Baer, Henry Hill, and Wesley Ruggles. John Wayne died forty years ago in 1979 at age 72. DeForest Kelley died twenty years ago in 1999 at age 79. William Marshall died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 78. Ann Rutherford seven years ago in 2012 at age 94. Ruby Dee died five years ago in 2014 at age 91. Ron Moody died four years ago in 2015 at age 91.

Today Prince Philip is 98, Timothy Van Patten and Eliot Spitzer are 60, and Gina Prince-Bythewood is 50. Today is also the birthday of Gina Gershon, Elizabeth Hurley, Bill Burr, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kate Flannery, DJ Qualls, Jürgen Prochnow, Ben Daniels, Laura Silverman, Tzi Ma, Jeremy Saulnier, Dustin Lance Black, Andrew Niccol, Bria Vinaite, Faith Evans, Kate Upton, Sasha Obama, John Edwards, Bobby Jindal, and the late Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Kevin Corcoran, Sessue Hayakawa, and Maurice Sendak. Spencer Tracy died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 67. Rainer Werner Fassbinder died 37 years ago in 1982 at age 37. Jo Van Fleet died 23 years ago in 1996 at age 80. Ray Charles died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 73.

Today Josh Hamilton is 50. Today is also the birthday of Johnny Depp, Natalie Portman, Michael J. Fox, Aaron Sorkin, Jackie Mason, Eddie Marsan, Mae Whitman, Gloria Reuben, Justin Benson, and the late Cole Porter, Robert Cummings, Mona Freeman, Joe Santos, and Robert McNamara. Ousmane Sembene died twelve years ago today in 2007 at age 84. Adam West died two years ago in 2017 at age 88.

Today J.P. Manoux is 50. Today is also the birthday of Julianna Margulies, Jerry Stiller, Nancy Sinatra, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Kanye West, Frank Grillo, Griffin Dunne, Bonnie Tyler, Colin Baker, James Darren, Kathy Baker, Gabby Giffords, Kevin Farley, Dan Futterman, Matthew Bright, Will Smith, Troy Duffy, and the late Joan Rivers, Robert Preston, Alexis Smith, Bernie Casey, George Wallace, Don Grady, Charles Tyner, Myron Healey, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Barbara Bush. Robert Taylor died fifty years ago in 1969 at age 57. Anthony Bourdain died one year ago in 2018 at age 61.

Today Mike Pence is 60. Today is also the birthday of Liam Neeson, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, Karl Urban, Tom Jones, James Ivory, William Forsythe, Colleen Camp, Ken Osmond, Tom McCarthy, Mick Foley, Ronald Pickup, Bear Grylls, Dave Navarro, Iggy Azalea, Fetty Wap, and the late Dean Martin, Jessica Tandy, Prince, Bonnie Lee Bakley, Hope Summers, and Dolores Gray. Jean Harlow died 82 years ago in 1937 at age 26. ZaSu Pitts died 56 years ago in 1963 at age 69. Judy Holliday died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 43. Christopher Lee died four years ago in 2015 at age 93.

Today Colin Quinn is 60. Today is also the birthday of Paul Giamatti, Jason Isaacs, Robert Englund, Sandra Bernhard, Harvey Fierstein, Max Casella, Danny Webb, Ellie Kendrick, Hirokazu Koreeda, Jonathan Nolan, Danny Strong, Natalie Morales, and the late Billie Whitelaw, Chantal Akerman, Maria Montez, Kenneth Connor, Sam Simon, Judith Barsi, and Thomas Mann. Jack Haley died forty years ago in 1979 at age 81. Anne Bancroft died fourteen years ago in 2005 at age 73. Esther Williams died six years ago in 2013 at age 91.