Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today is the birthday of George Clooney, Willie Mays, Gabourey Sidibe, Adrianne Palicki, Gregg Henry, Sasheer Zamata, Anne Parillaud, Tom Bergeron, Tony Blair, Bob Seger, Stephen Gaghan, LuLu Roman, and the late Orson Welles, Rudolph Valentino, Max Ophüls, Sigmund Freud, Raymond Bailey, and Dana Hill. Marlene Dietrich died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 90.

Today John Rhys-Davies is 75, Brian Williams is 60, Vincent Kartheiser is 40, and Chris Brown is 30. Today is also the birthday of Michael Palin, Henry Cavill, Adele, Lance Henriksen, Richard E. Grant, Michael Murphy, Kurt Sutter, Clark Duke, Pat Carroll, Tina Yothers, Marion Bailey, Jerzy Skolimowski, Brooke Hogan, and the late Karl Marx, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Tammy Wynette, Ann B. Davis, Jim Kelly, Roger Rees, Bing Russell, Ben Wright, Robert Foulk, Nellie Bly, and Sage Stallone. John Williams died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 80. The first short Three Stooges made for Columbia, Woman Haters, was released 85 years ago in 1934.

Today Russi Taylor is 75, Randy Travis is 60, and Lance Bass is 40. Today is also the birthday of Will Arnett, Richard Jenkins, Ana Gasteyer, Pia Zadora, Julian Barratt, Jackie Jackson, Mick Mars, Mike Dirnt, Nicholas Hamilton, Mary Beth McDonough, Eleanor Coppola, Rolf de Heer, Erin Andrews, George Will, and the late Audrey Hepburn, Dick Dale, Paul Gleason, Eric Sykes, and Howard Da Silva. Moe Howard died 44 years ago in 1975 at age 77. Dom DeLuise and Jane Randolph both died ten years ago in 2009. He was 75. She was 93.

Today Frankie Valli is 85, and Amy Ryan is 50. Today is also the birthday of Bobby Cannavale, Christina Hendricks, Rebecca Hall, Chris Mulkey, Rob Brydon, Dulé Hill, Pom Klementieff, Emily V. Gordon, Willie Geist, and the late James Brown, Pete Seeger, who would be 100, Mary Astor, George Gaynes, Robert Osborne, Beulah Bondi, Walter Slezak, Aline MacMahon, Jack La Rue, Robert De Niro Sr., who died on his birthday 26 years ago in 1993 at age 71, and “Sugar” Ray Robinson. Jackie Cooper died eight years ago in 2011 at age 88.

Today Lone Scherfig is 60. Today is also the birthday of Dwayne The Rock Johnson, David Beckham, Christine Baranski, Bruce Robinson, Ellie Kemper, David Suchet, Bruce Glover, Lily Allen, Stephen Daldry, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Donatella Versace, and the late Bing Crosby, Satyajit Ray, Theodore Bikel, John Neville, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lesley Gore, and Hedda Hopper. Oliver Reed died twenty years ago in 1999 at age 61. Lynn Redgrave died nine years ago in 2010 at age 67. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. died five years ago in 2014 at age 95.

Today Judy Collins is 80, and Wes Anderson is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jamie Dornan, Julie Benz, Joanna Lumley, Bailey Chase, Tim McGraw, Diahnne Abbott, James Badge Dale, Stephen Macht, Dann Florek, Maia Morgenstern, and the late Jack Paar, Glenn Ford, Danielle Darrieux, Dan O’Herlihy, who would be 100, John Meillon, Louis Nye, Joseph Heller, Leila Hyams, Terry Southern, Henry Koster, and Calamity Jane. Joseph Goebbels died 74 years ago in 1945 at age 47. Grant Mitchell died 62 years ago in 1957 at age 82.

Today is the birthday of Cloris Leachman, Kirsten Dunst, Gal Gadot, Lars von Trier, Jane Campion, Burt Young, Johnny Galecki, Ana de Armas, Allan Arkush, Jacques Audiard, James Marsh, Bill Plympton, and the late Eve Arden, Jill Clayburgh, and Al Lewis. Tom Poston died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 85.

Today Richard Kline is 75. Today is also the birthday of Daniel Day-Lewis, Jerry Seinfeld, Willie Nelson, Uma Thurman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kate Mulgrew, Leslie Jordan, Tyler Labine, Phillip Noyce, Andrew Bujalski, and the late Duke Ellington, Jean Rochefort, Celeste Holm, Fred Zinnemann, Irvin Kershner, Tom Ewell, Maya Deren, Wayne Robson, Richard Carlson, King Hu, William Randolph Hearst, and Dale Earnhardt. Anthony Mann died 52 years ago in 1967 at age 60. Alfred Hitchcock died 39 years ago in 1980 at age 80. Bob Hoskins died five years ago in 2014 at age 71.

Today Paul Guilfoyle is 70. Today is also the birthday of Ann-Margret, Penélope Cruz, Jay Leno, Jessica Alba, Mary McDonnell, Elisabeth Rohm, Jorge Garcia, Tony Revolori, and the late Lionel Barrymore, Carolyn Jones, Bruno Kirby, Harper Lee, Terry Pratchett, Sidney Toler, Oskar Schindler, and Saddam Hussein. Ed Begley died 49 years ago in 1970 at age 69.

Today Cory Booker is 50. Today is also the birthday of Sally Hawkins, Anouk Aimée, Jenna Coleman, Ari Graynor, James Le Gros, Kevin McNally, Matt Reeves, Ace Frehley, Cristian Mungiu, Rachel Morrison, and the late Jack Klugman, Sandy Dennis, Robert Donner, Casey Kasem, Cuba Gooding, August Wilson, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Coretta Scott King, and Ulysses S. Grant. Stanley Adams died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 62. Edward R. Murrow died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 57.