Category: All posts in order

Today Harry Goaz is 60, and Timothée Chalamet is 25. Today is also the birthday of Gerard Depardieu, John Amos, Barbara Crampton, Salman Khan, Gaspar Noé, Olivia Cooke, Lily Cole, Sarah Vowell, Savannah Guthrie, Masi Oka, Jay Ellis, Wilson Cruz, Tovah Feldshuh, and the late Marlene Dietrich, Michel Piccoli, Sydney Greenstreet, Oscar Levant, Heather O’Rourke, Louis Pasteur, and Chyna. Hal Ashby died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 59. George Roy Hill died eighteen years ago in 2002 at age 81. Alan Bates died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 69. Haskell Wexler died five years ago in 2015 at age 93. Carrie Fisher died four years ago in 2016 at age 60.

Today John Walsh is 75, and David Lowery is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jared Leto, Kit Harington, Phil Spector, David Sedaris, Beth Behrs, Lars Ulrich, Chuck Hicks, Shane Meadows, Bill Lawrence, Fred Schepisi, and the late Steve Allen, Alan King, Caroll Spinney, Richard Widmark, Elisha Cook Jr., Donald Moffat, Henry Miller, Vladimir Sokoloff, and Mao Zedong. Jack Benny died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 80. Howard Hawks died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 81. Elsa Lanchester died 34 years ago in 1986 at age 84. Jason Robards died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 78. Nigel Hawthorne died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 72.

Today Gary Sandy and Paul Willson are 75, and Karl Rove is 70. Today is also the birthday of Sissy Spacek, Jimmy Buffet, Justin Trudeau, Hanna Schygulla, Stuart Wilson, CCH Pounder, Annie Lennox, Nicholas Hope, John Capodice, Stefan Ruzowitzky, and the late Humphrey Bogart, Cab Calloway, Rod Serling, Dick Miller, Mabel King, Mike Mazurki, Ismail Merchant, Frank Ferguson, Barton MacLane, Tony Martin, J. Edward Bromberg, and Conrad Hilton. W.C. Fields died 74 years ago in 1946 at age 66. Charlie Chaplin died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 88. Joan Blondell died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 73. Dean Martin died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 78. Denver Pyle died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 77. James Brown died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 73. Eartha Kitt died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 81. George Michael died four years ago in 2016 at age 53.

Today Nicholas Meyer is 75. Today is also the birthday of Ricky Martin, Ryan Seacrest, Lee Daniels, Thure Lindhardt, Diedrich Bader, Michael Raymond-James, Anil Kapoor, Austin Stowell, Gavin O’Connor, Louis Tomlinson, Stephenie Meyer, Scott Spiegel, Jeff Sessions, and the late Ava Gardner, Michael Curtiz, Howard Hughes, Jonas Mekas, Ruth Chatterton, and Franz Waxman. Bernard Herrmann died 45 years ago in 1975 at age 64. Peter Lawford died 36 years ago in 1984 at 61. Toshirô Mifune died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 77. Harold Pinter died twelve years ago in 2008 at age 78. Charles Durning and Jack Krugman died eight years ago in 2012. Durning was 89. Klugman was 90.

Today Anatole Taubman and The Naked Cowboy (Robert John Burck) are 50. Today is also the birthday of Harry Shearer, Eddie Vedder, Susan Lucci, Ronnie Schell, Frederic Forrest, Finn Wolfhard, Alison Sudol, Carla Bruni, Noël Wells, Nick Moran, Jess Harnell, Peter Medak, William Kristol, Holly Madison,, and the late Corey Haim, Chet Baker, Joseph Smith, James Stacy, Elizabeth Hartman, James Gregory, Harry Guardino, Dino Risi, John Cromwell, and Kumar Pallana. Jack Webb died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 62. Billy Barty died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 76.

Today Diane Sawyer is 75, Ted Cruz is 50, and Chris Carmack is 40. Today is also the birthday of Ralph Fiennes, Hector Elizondo, David S. Goyer, Lenny von Dohlen, Heather Donahue, Sergi López, Gregor Fisher, Graham Beckel, Jay Brazeau, Meghan Trainor, Jordin Sparks, Jim McBride (Mr. Skin), and the late Barbara Billingsley, Jean Michel Basquiat, who would be 60, Robin and Maurice Gibb, Peggy Ashcroft, Ruth Roman, Gene Rayburn, Lady Bird Johnson, Pierre Brasseur, Emil Sitka, Peggie Castle, Lynne Thigpen, Frankie Darro, Minor Watson, Alan Carney, Freddie Francis, and Károly Makk. Beatrix Potter died 77 years ago in 1943 at age 77. Harry Langdon died 76 years ago in 1944 at age 60. Al Ritz died 55 years ago in 1965 at age 64. Josef von Sternberg died 51 years ago in 1969 at age 75. Samuel Beckett died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 83. Butterfly McQueen died 25 years ago in 1995 at age 84. Joe Cocker died six years ago in 2014 at age 70.

Today Phil Donahue is 85, and Jeffrey Katzenberg is 70. Today is also the birthday of Jane Fonda, Samuel L. Jackson, Kiefer Sutherland, Ray Romano, Julie Delpy, Andy Dick, Jane Kaczmarek, Steven Yeun, Emmanuel Macron, Rutina Wesley, Michael Horse, Josh Mostel, Fabiana Udenio, Kaitlyn Dever, Dennis Boutsikaris, Steven Mnuchin, and the late Frank Zappa, who would be 80, Paul Winchell, John G. Avildsen, Jack Nance, Ulli Lommel, Ed Nelson, Carl Wilson, and Joe Paterno. Ted Healy died 83 years ago in 1937 at age 41. F. Scott Fitzgerald died eighty years ago in 1940 at age 44. Stella Adler died 28 years ago in 1992 at age 91. Billie Whitelaw died six years ago in 2014 at age 82.

Today Peter Criss is 75, and Todd Phillips is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jonah Hill, Michael Badalucco, Jenny Agutter, Ramon Rodriguez, Brian O’Halloran, Joe Cornish, Dick Wolf, Terry George, Uri Geller, Eduardo Sánchez, and the late Irene Dunne, Dennis Morgan, George Roy Hill, Audrey Totter, John Spencer, Charlie Callas, Kathryn Joosten, Ki-duk Kim, who would be 60, John Hillerman, Mala Powers, Charley Grapewin, and Albert Dekker. John Steinbeck died 52 years ago in 1968 at age 66. Bobby Darin died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 37. Carl Sagan died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 62. Foster Brooks died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 89. Brittany Murphy and Arnold Stang died eleven years ago in 2009. Murphy was 32. Stang was 91.

Today Cicely Tyson is 96, Jack Fisk is 75, Mike Lookinland is 60, and Jake Gyllenhaal is 40. Today is also the birthday of Jennifer Beals, Ronan Farrow, Alyssa Milano, Kristy Swanson, Béatrice Dalle, Ken Marino, Criss Angel, Til Schweiger, Richard Hammond, Paul Rhys, Tim Reid, Robert MacNaughton, Jill Talley, and the late Edith Piaf, Jean Genet, Ralph Richardson, Maurice White, Robert Urich, Gordon Jackson, Paul Brinegar, and Robert B. Sherman. Marcello Mastroiani died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 72. Hope Lange died seventeen years ago in 2003 at age 70.

Today Leonard Maltin is 70, and Christina Aguilera is 40. Today is also the birthday of Brad Pitt, Steven Spielberg, Ray Liotta, Katie Holmes, Keith Richards, Casper Van Dien, Sia, Ashley Benson, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Ron White, Rachel Griffiths, Jason Mantzoukas, Koyuki, Alan Rudolph, Ravi Patel, and the late Betty Grable, Ossie Davis, Gladys Cooper, Roger Smith, George Stevens, Jules Dassin, Peggy Cummins, and Joseph Stalin. Chris Farley died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 33. Robert Bresson died 21 years ago in 1999 at age 98. Joseph Barbera died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 95. Zsa Zsa Gabor died four years ago in 2016 at age 99.