Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today is the birthday of Ellen Barkin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Claire Foy, Jon Cryer, Martin Lawrence, Lukas Haas, Gina Carano, Anya Taylor-Joy, Peter Billingsley, Bobby Vinton, Chance the Rapper, AKON, Jay O. Sanders, Hayes MacArthur, Qi Shu, Billy West, Marshall R. Teague, Erik Bleaman (aka High Pitch Erik), and the late Charles Chaplin, Peter Ustinov, Spike Milligan, Barry Nelson, Edie Adams, Selena Quintanilla-Perez, Henry Mancini, David Graf, George ‘The Animal’ Steele, Catherine Scorsese, Les Tremayne, and Dusty Springfield. David Lean died 28 years ago in 1991 at age 83.

Today Richard Rush is 90, Emma Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson are 60, and Luke Evans is 40. Today is also the birthday of Seth Rogen, Emma Watson, Claudia Cardinale, Maisie Williams, Andrew Daly, Linda Perry, Trine Dyrholm, Susanne Bier, Reed Morano, Sam McMurray, Tom Kane, Damien Dante Wayans, Chris Stapleton, Olivier Nakache, and the late Leonardo da Vinci, Elizabeth Montgomery, Hans Conried, John Williams, Roy Clark, Michael Ansara, Frank Vincent, Jean Willes, Henry James, Wallace Reid, and Bessie Smith. Abraham Lincoln died 154 years ago in 1865 at age 56. Wallace Beery died 70 years ago in 1949 at age 64. Jean Genet died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 75. Greta Garbo died 29 years ago in 1990 at age 84. Joey Ramone died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 49. R. Lee Ermey died one year ago in 2018 at age 74.

Today James Gray is 50. Today is also the birthday of Julie Christie, Loretta Lynn, Adrien Brody, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Abigail Breslin, Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Carlyle, Brad Garrett, Peter Capaldi, Rob McElhenney, Daniel Clowes, Gina McKee, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, and the late Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Richard Jeni, Bradford Dillman, Arlene Martel, Gloria Jean, Berry Berenson, Lee Tracy, Michelle McNamara, Philip Stone, Gerry Anderson, John Howard, Liz Renay, and Anne Sullivan. Fredric March died 44 years ago in 1975 at age 77. Burl Ives died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 85.

Today Paul Sorvino is 80, and Charles Burnett is 75. Today is also the birthday of Ron Perlman, Allison Williams, Edward Fox, Glenn Howerton, Tony Dow, Caroline Rhea, Ruben Östlund, Bokeem Woodbine, William Sadler, Al Green, Erick Avari, Saundra Santiago, Peter Davison, Lyle Waggoner, Gary Kroeger, and the late Don Adams, Samuel Beckett, Stanley Donen, Thomas Jefferson, Howard Keel, who would be 100, Maurice Ronet, and Christopher Hitchens, who would be 70. Milos Forman died one year ago in 2018 at age 86.

Today Claire Danes and Jennifer Morrison are 40, and Saoirse Ronan is 25. Today is also the birthday of David Letterman, Andy Garcia, Ed O’Neill, Shannen Doherty, Nicholas Brendon, Ilana Glazer, Paul Rust, Marley Shelton, Matt McGorry, Hardy Krüger, Dan Lauria, Jane Withers, Magda Szubanski, Herbie Hancock, Walter Salles, Robert Durst, and the late Ann Miller, Charles Napier, Tom Clancy, David Cassidy, Tiny Tim, Movita, Virginia Cherrill, John Dunsworth, Georges Franju, and Robert Harron. Paul Ford died 43 years ago in 1976 at age 74. Boxer Joe Louis died 38 years ago in 1981 at age 66, and boxer “Sugar” Ray Robinson died thirty years ago in 1989 at age 67.

Today Louise Lasser is 80, John Milius is 75, and Carl Franklin is 70. Today is also the birthday of Joel Grey, Bill Irwin, Vincent Gallo, Lisa Stansfield, Jennifer Esposito, Tricia Helfer, Peter Riegert, Jeremy Clarkson, Mason Reese, and the late Johnny Sheffield and Meshach Taylor. Dolores del Rio died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 78. Roscoe Lee Browne died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 84. Jonathan Winters died six years ago in 2013 at age 87.

Today Max Von Sydow and Liz Sheridan are 90. Today is also the birthday of Daisy Ridley, Charlie Hunnam, Mandy Moore, Steven Seagal, David Harbour, Haley Joel Osment, Alex Pettyfer, Michael Pitt, Guillaume Canet, Peter MacNicol, Orlando Jones, Barkhad Abdi, Deborah Rush, Peter Morgan, Christophe Honoré, and the late Delphine Seyrig, Omar Sharif, Chuck Connors, Harry Morgan, George Arliss, and Junior Samples. Michael Curtiz died 57 years ago in 1962 at age 75. Marjorie Main died 44 years ago in 1975 at age 85. Sam Kinison died 27 years ago in 1992 at age 38. Little Eva died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 59. Dixie Carter died nine years ago in 2010 at age 70.

Today Michael Learned is 80, Sebastián Silva is 40, and Isaac Hempstead Wright is 20. Today is also the birthday of Kristin Stewart, Dennis Quaid, Cynthia Nixon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Elle Fanning, Jay Baruchel, Jay Chandrasekhar, Jenna Jameson, David Gordon Green, Marty Krofft, Mark Pellegrino, Isabel Coixet, and the late Hugh M. Hefner, Michel Simon, Ward Bond, Paul Robeson, Brad Dexter, and Brandon De Wilde. Sidney Lumet died eight years ago in 2011 at age 86.

Today John Madden is 70. Today is also the birthday of Patricia Arquette, Robin Wright, Taylor Kitsch, Shecky Greene, Dean Norris, Julian Lennon, John Schneider, Ana De La Reguera, Sung Kang, Douglas Trumbull, Kane Hodder, Jim Piddock, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Joan Tewkesbury, and the late Mary Pickford, John Gavin, Edward Mulhare, Betty Ford, and María Félix, who died on her birthday seventeen years ago in 2002 at age 88. Pablo Picasso died 46 years ago in 1973 at age 91. Annette Funicello died six years ago in 2013 at age 70.

Today Francis Ford Coppola is 80, and Michael Almereyda is 60. Today is also the birthday of Russell Crowe, Jackie Chan, Eric Wareheim, Roberta Shore, Kevin Alejandro, Clarke Peters, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Heather Burns, Patricia Belcher, Jennifer Lynch, Matt Servitto, Ted Kotcheff, Sandy Powell, and the late Billie Holiday, James Garner, Alan J. Pakula, David Frost, Andrew Sachs, Wayne Rogers, Ian Richardson, William Wordsworth, R.G. Armstrong, Anthony Caruso, Stanley Adams, Stan Winston, Ravi Shankar, and Walter Winchell. Walter Huston died 69 years ago in 1950 at age 67. Beatrice Straight died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 86. Barry Nelson died twelve years ago in 2007 at age 89. Mike Wallace died seven years ago in 2012 at age 93.