Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today is the birthday of Carol Burnett, Channing Tatum, Jet Li, Kevin James, Giancarlo Esposito, Joan Chen, Pablo Schreiber, Jemima Kirke, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bobby Rydell, Jordana Brewster, Claudine Auger, Tom Welling, Ivana Milicevic, Debra Wilson, Melania Trump, and the late Douglas Sirk, Jean Vigo, Warren Clarke, Edgar Kennedy, Stafford Repp, and William Desmond Taylor. Gypsy Rose Lee died 49 years ago in 1970 at age 59. Irene Ryan died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 70. Broderick Crawford died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 74. Lucille Ball died 30 years ago in 1989 at age 77. Jonathan Demme died two years ago in 2017 at age 73.

Today Renée Zellweger and Gina Torres are 50. Today is also the birthday of Al Pacino, Thalia Shire, Hank Azaria, Jason Lee, Marguerite Moreau, Melonie Diaz, Jillian Bell, Björn Ulvaeus, Jeffrey DeMunn, Bertrand Tavernier, Dinesh D’Souza, and the late Ella Fitzgerald, Paul Mazursky, Edward R. Murrow, Russ Conway, Cy Twombly, and Oliver Cromwell. Ginger Rogers died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 83. Bea Arthur died ten years ago in 2009 at age 86.

Today Shirley MacLaine is 85, Peter Friedman is 70, Glenn Morshower is 60, and Rory McCann is 50. Today is also the birthday of Barbra Streisand, Djimon Hounsou, Eric Bogosian, Richard Donner, Cedric The Entertainer, Eric Balfour, Kelly Clarkson, Aidan Gillen, Derek Luke, Michael O’Keefe, Bruce Kirby, Austin Nichols, Damon Lindelof, and the late Michael Parks, William Castle, Jill Ireland, Jack E. Leonard, and Robert Wiene. Louise Dresser died 54 years ago in 1965 at age 86. Bud Abbott died 45 years ago in 1974 at age 78.

Today Anne Douglas is 100, Lee Majors is 80, Joyce DeWitt is 70, and Jaime King is 40. Today is also the birthday of John Oliver, Judy Davis, Dev Patel, Michael Moore, John Cena, Kal Penn, George Lopez, Valerie Bertinelli, John Hannah, Gemma Whelan, Eric Edelstein, Alan Oppenheimer, D.B. Weiss, John Lutz, Bubba the Love Sponge (Todd Alan Clem), and the late William Shakespeare (who died 403 years ago on his birthday in 1616 at age 52), Shirley Temple, Sandra Dee, Roy Orbison, Jan Hooks, Hervé Villechaize, Simone Simon, Sheila Gish, Kevin Meaney, James Hayter, Frank Borzage, Ronald Neame, J.M.W. Turner, and James Buchanan. Otto Preminger died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 80. Satyajit Ray died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 70.

Today is the birthday of Jack Nicholson, John Waters, Amber Heard, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sheryl Lee, Peter Frampton, Sherri Shepherd, Johnnie To, Robin Bartlett, Roman Coppola, Lee Tamahori, and the late Eddie Albert, Glen Campbell, Charles Mingus, Jason Miller, Bettie Page, Charlotte Rae, Immanuel Kant, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Nabokov, Aaron Spelling, Rondo Hatton, Kaneto Shindô, Byron Haskin, and Marilyn Chambers. Linda Lovelace died seventeen years ago in 2002 at age 53.

Today Patti LuPone is 70, Robert Smith is 60, and James McAvoy is 40. Today is also the birthday Elaine May, Iggy Pop, Charles Grodin, Queen Elizabeth II, Andie MacDowell, Tony Danza, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, John Cameron Mitchell, Nicole Sullivan, Rob Riggle, Claire Denis, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Brian White, Bridget Everett, Jeff Anderson, Frank Dillane, Peter Kosminsky, Anna Muylaert, Glen Hansard, and the late Anthony Quinn, Charlotte Brontë, Marcel Camus, Sammee Tong, Edwin S. Porter, and Gilbert Taylor. Mark Twain died 109 years ago in 1910 at age 74. Gummo Marx died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 84. Nina Simone died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 70. Prince and Michelle McNamara died three years ago in 2016. He was 57. She was 46. Verne Troyer died one year ago in 2018 at age 49.

Today Leslie Phillips is 95, Jessica Lange and Veronica Cartwright are 70, and Clint Howard is 60. Today is also the birthday of Ryan O’Neal, George Takei, Crispin Glover, Andy Serkis, Shemar Moore, Billy Magnussen, Michael Render (Killer Mike GTO), Clayne Crawford, Gary Raymond, Judith O’Dea, Joey Lawrence, Carmen Electra, Chrysta Bell, and the late Harold Lloyd, Luther Vandross, Nina Foch, Elena Verdugo, Robert DoQui, Harris Wittels, Edie Sedgwick, Bruce Cabot, Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr. (Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf), and Adolf Hitler. Bram Stoker died 107 years ago today in 1912 at age 64. Don Siegel died 28 years ago today in 1991 at age 78. Benny Hill died 27 years ago today in 1992 at age 68. Cantinflas died 26 years ago today in 1993 at age 81.

Today Jesse James is 50, and Kate Hudson is 40. Today is also the birthday of Tim Curry, James Franco, Ashley Judd, Hayden Christensen, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Elinor Donahue, Ali Wong, Tony Plana, Nicoletta Braschi, Suge Knight, and the late Jayne Mansfield, Dudley Moore, Hugh O’Brian, Dick Sargent, George O’Brien, May Robson, and Barry Brown. Ruth Hussey died years ago in 2005 at age 93.

Today James Drury is 85, Kourtney Kardashian is 40, and Alia Shawkat is 30. Today is also the birthday of Rick Moranis, Conan O’Brien, James Woods, Eric Roberts, Hayley Mills, Maria Bello, Eric McCormack, David Tennant, Jane Leeves, America Ferrera, Melissa Joan Hart, Edgar Wright, Eli Roth, Britt Robertson, David Hewlett, Clive Revill, Jeff Dunham, and the late Barbara Hale, Miklós Rózsa, Clarence Darrow, and Gabriel Axel and André Bazin. Dick Clark died seven years ago in 2012 at age 82.

Today Michael Forest is 90, and Sean Bean is 60. Today is also the birthday of Rooney Mara, Jennifer Garner, Olivia Hussey, Adam McKay, David Bradley, Maïwenn, William Mapother, Joel Murray, Nick Hornby, Redman, Victoria Beckham, and the late William Holden and Anne Shirley (who would both be 100), Roddy Piper, Lindsay Anderson, Arthur Lake, Paul Langton, Joan Lorring, Señor Wences, Louis Jean Heydt, and George Seaton. Eddie Cochran died in a car accident 59 years ago in 1960 at age 21. Dick Shawn died on stage 32 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Kitty Carlisle died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 96. Doris Roberts died three years ago in 2016 at age 90.