Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Danny Trejo is 75, Mare Winningham is 60, and David Boreanaz is 50. Today is also the birthday of Debra Winger, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin McDonald, Melanie Lynskey, Janet Jackson, Megan Fox, Jesper Christensen, Jim Sturgess, Tori Spelling, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Stephen Mangan, Rebecca Front, Jason ‘Wee-Man’ Acuña, and the late Henry Fonda, Kenji Mizoguchi, Liberace, who would be 100, Yvonne Craig, Margaret Sullavan, and Harry Carey Jr. Django Reinhardt died 66 years ago in 1953 at age 43. Andy Kaufman died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 35. Margaret Hamilton died 34 years ago in 1985 at age 82. Jim Henson and Sammy Davis Jr. both died 29 years ago in 1990. Henson was 53, and Davis Jr. was 64.

Today is the birthday of Lainie Kazan, Chazz Palminteri, David Krumholtz, Caroline Dhavernas, Alexandra Breckenridge, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Nicholas Hammond, Madeleine Albright, Julian Jarrold, Brian Eno, John Glen, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, and the late James Mason, Joseph Cotten, L. Frank Baum, Joseph Wiseman, Katrin Cartlidge, Arletty, Jûzô Itami, Peter Shaffer, André De Toth, Mario Monicelli, and Pierre Curie. @June Carter Cash died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 73.

Today George Lucas is 75, and Cate Blanchett is 50. Today is also the birthday of Tim Roth, David Byrne, Robert Zemeckis, Sofıa Coppola, Danny Huston, Amber Tamblyn, Francesca Annis, Miranda Cosgrove, Greg Davies, Siân Phillips, Rob Tapert, Mark Zuckerberg, and the late Bobby Darin, Anne Wiazemsky, Richard Deacon, Oona O’Neill Chaplin, Sidney Bechet, and Mrinal Sen. Rita Hayworth died 32 years ago in 1987 at age 68. Frank Sinatra died 21 years ago in 1998 at age 82. Wendy Hiller and Robert Stack both died sixteen years ago in 2003. She was 90. He was 84. B.B. King died four years ago in 2015 at age 89. Powers Boothe died two years ago in 2017 at age 68. Tom Wolfe died one year ago in 2018 at age 88.

Today Harvey Keitel is 80, and Zoë Wanamaker is 70. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Colbert, Stevie Wonder, Samantha Morton, Robert Pattinson, Lena Dunham, David Simon, Alan Ball, Fred Melamed, Buck Taylor, Joe Johnston, Brian Geraghty, Iwan Rheon, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Dennis Rodman, and the late Bea Arthur, Daphne Du Maurier, Ritchie Valens, Beverly Owen, Herbert Ross, Chishû Ryû, Joe Louis, Mary Wells, and Jim Jones. Gary Cooper died 58 years ago in 1961 at age 60. Margot Kidder died one year ago in 2018 at age 69.

Today Ving Rhames is 60. Today is also the birthday of Rami Malek, Gabriel Byrne, Burt Bacharach, Jason Biggs, Emilio Estevez, Malin Akerman, Domhnall Gleeson, Nathan Fielder, Bruce McCulloch, Catherine Tate, Lindsay Crouse, Samantha Mathis, Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen Baldwin, Richard Riehle, Kim Greist, Emily VanCamp, Steve Winwood, Millie Perkins, Tony Hawk, Bob Burns, and the late Katharine Hepburn, George Carlin, Jesús Franco, Tom Snyder, Frank Pierson, Yogi Berra, and Florence Nightingale. Erich von Stroheim died 62 years ago in 1957 at age 71. Tor Johnson died 48 years ago in 1971 at age 67. Robert Reed died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 59. Perry Como died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 88. H.R. Giger died five years ago in 2014 at age 74.

Today Andre Gregory is 85, and Mary Elizabeth Ellis is 40. Today is also the birthday of Mort Sahl, Tim Blake Nelson, Yvonne Furneaux, Pam Ferris, Frances Fisher, Jeffrey Donovan, Benoît Magimel, Jonathan Jackson, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mark Neveldine, and the late Salvador Dalí, Irving Berlin, Phil Silvers, Natasha Richardson, Cory Monteith, Denver Pyle, Doug McClure, Doodles Weaver, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Fox, and David Gest. Bob Marley died 38 years ago in 1981 at age 36. Douglas Adams died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 49.

Today Jim Abrahams is 75. Today is also the birthday of Bono, Donovan, Kenan Thompson, Erik Palladino, Mike Hagerty, Dallas Roberts, Meg Foster, Alex Jennings, Françoise Fabian, David Mackenzie, Joseph Ruben, and the late Fred Astaire, Sid Vicious, David O. Selznick, George Coe, Nancy Walker, Ettore Scola, Anatole Litvak, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, and John Wilkes Booth. Joan Crawford died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Shel Silverstein died twenty years ago in 1999 at age 68.

Today Alan Bennett is 85, Billy Joel is 70, Joe Carnahan is 50, and Rosario Dawson is 40. Today is also the birthday of Glenda Jackson, Candice Bergen, James L. Brooks, Grace Gummer, Chris Diamantopoulos, Daniel Franzese, Wendy Crewson, Amy Hill, Ghostface Killah, J.A. Bayona, and the late Albert Finney, Mike Wallace, Pedro Armendáriz, Richard Barthelmess, J.M. Barrie, William Moulton Marston, and Emile Ardolino. Lena Horne died nine years ago in 2010 at age 92. Michael Parks died two years ago in 2017 at age 77.

Today is the birthday of David Attenborough, Melissa Gilbert, Thomas Pynchon, Enrique Iglesias, Michel Gondry, Stephen Amell, and the late Don Rickles, Roberto Rossellini, Ricky Nelson, Stephen Furst, Sidney James, Saul Bass, Touko Laaksonen (Tom of Finland), Peter Benchley, Robert Johnson, Miyoshi Umeki, Fernandel, and Harry S. Truman. Edmond O’Brien died 34 years ago in 1985 at age 69. Dirk Bogarde died twenty years ago in 1999 at age 78.

Today Ruggero Deodato is 80. Today is also the birthday of Traci Lords, Breckin Meyer, Asghar Farhadi, Amy Heckerling, Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb, Mark O’Brien, Ned Bellamy, Michael Rosen, John Irvin, Nicholas Hytner, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, and the late Gary Cooper, Anne Baxter, Val Lewton, David Tomlinson, Darren McGavin, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Ishirô Honda, Robert Hegyes, Marilyn Burns, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, and Robert Browning. Ray Harryhausen died six years ago in 2013 at age 92.