Category: All posts in order

Today Sally Ann Howes is 90, and Naseeruddin Shah and Tantoo Cardinal are 70. Today is also the birthday of Cormac McCarthy, Diana Rigg, Sandra Oh, Judy Greer, Omar Epps, Josh Holloway, John Francis Daley, Carlos Santana, Julianne Hough, Frank Whaley, Dean Winters, Simon Rex, Rodney Eastman, Camille Keaton, Randal Kleiser, and the late Natalie Wood, Alexander the Great, Verna Felton, Lola Albright, Aleksey German, and Billy Mays. Franklin Pangborn died 62 years ago in 1958 at age 69. Bruce Lee died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 32.

Today George Dzundza is 75, Tommy McLoughlin is 70, Atom Egoyan is 60, and Josh Fadem is 40. Today is also the birthday of Benedict Cumberbatch, Abel Ferrara, Anthony Edwards, Jim Norton, Brian May, Jared Padalecki, Vinessa Shaw, Kaitlin Doubleday, Lisa Lampanelli, Mark Holton, Campbell Scott, Nancy Carell, Saïd Taghmaoui, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hideo Nakata, Juan José Campanella, Matthew Libatique, Shane Dawson, and the late Pat Hingle, Richard Jordan, Max Fleischer, George McGovern, and Lizzie Borden. Joe Flynn died 46 years ago in 1974 at age 49. Jack Warden died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 85. Mel Smith died seven years ago in 2013 at age 60. James Garner died six years ago in 2014 at age 86. Garry Marshall died four years ago in 2016 at age 81. Rutger Hauer died one year ago in 2019 at age 75.

Today James Brolin is 80, Richard Branson is 70, Ann-Marie Johnson is 60, and Kristen Bell is 40. Today is also the birthday of Vin Diesel, Margo Martindale, Elizabeth McGovern, Paul Verhoeven, Wendy Williams, Kelly Reilly, Michiel Huisman, Andre Royo, James Faulkner, Priyanka Chopra, Chace Crawford, Hampton Fancher, Grant Bowler, Audrey Landers, Lee Arenberg, Jared Hess, and the late Nelson Mandela, Red Skelton, Hunter S. Thompson, Hume Cronyn, Chill Wills, John Glenn, Richard Dix, Gene Lockhart, Harriet Nelson, Lupe Velez, Burt Kwouk, and William Makepeace Thackeray. Jane Austen died 203 years ago in 1817 at age 41. Nico died 32 years ago in 1988 at age 49. Alex Rocco died five years ago in 2015 at age 79.

Today Donald Sutherland is 85, P.J. Soles is 70, and Mark Burnett is 60. Today is also the birthday of Jason Clarke, Kar-Wai Wong, David Hasselhoff, Alex Winter, Heather Langenkamp, Mélanie Thierry, Cécile de France, Elena Anaya, Billie Lourd, F. Gary Gray, Lucie Arnaz, John Ventimiglia, Robert Romanus, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Angela Merkel, and the late James Cagney, Phyllis Diller, Diahann Carroll, Art Linkletter, Barbara O’Neil, William Gargan, and Jack Conway. Billie Holiday died 61 years ago in 1959 at age 44. John Coltrane died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 40. Geraldine Fitzgerald died fifteen years ago in 2005 at age 91. Elaine Stritch died six years ago in 2014 at age 89.

Today Apichatpong Weerasethakul is 50. Today is also the birthday of Will Ferrell, Corey Feldman, Phoebe Cates, Tony Kushner, Rubén Blades, Rosa Salazar, Jayma Mays, Milly Shapiro, Chris Pontius, Daryl Mitchell, Scott Derrickson, Rain Pryor, and the late Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, Percy Kilbride, Jerry Doyle, Vincent Sherman, Barnard Hughes, Corin Redgrave, Larry Semon, Orville Redenbacher, and Ida B. Wells. George A. Romero died three years ago in 2017 at age 77.

Today Arianna Huffington is 70. Today is also the birthday of Linda Ronstadt, Forest Whitaker, Diane Kruger, Brigitte Nielsen, Travis Fimmel, Eddie Griffin, Jesse Ventura, Terry O’Quinn, Scott Foley, Celia Imrie, Brian Austin Green, Joe Turkel, Laura Benanti, Adam Savage, Patrick Wayne, Greg Sestero, Jim Rash, Tony Hendra, Gabriel Iglesias, Beth Stern, and the late Rembrandt, D.A. Pennebaker, Larry Cohen, Ian Curtis, Alex Karras, William Dieterle, and Bill Gunn. Anton Chekhov died 116 years ago in 1904 at age 44. Dana Hill died 24 years ago in 1996 at age 32. Gianni Versace died 23 years ago in 1997 at age 50. Celeste Holm died eight years ago in 2012 at age 95. Martin Landau died three years ago in 2017 at age 89.

Today Jane Lynch and Kyle Gass are 60. Today is also the birthday of Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Fox, Nancy Olson, David Mitchell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Stan Shaw, Vincent Pastore, Joel Silver, Scott Rudin, Conor McGregor, Franklin Graham, and the late Ingmar Bergman, Harry Dean Stanton, Woody Guthrie, Sid Haig, Polly Bergen, Terry-Thomas, William Hanna, Dale Robertson, Donald Meek, Laurie Mitchell, George Tobias, Gerald Ford, and Gustav Klimt. Meredith MacRae died twenty years ago in 2000 at age 56.

Today Patrick Stewart is 80, and Sharon Horgan is 50. Today is also the birthday of Harrison Ford, Cheech Marin, Cameron Crowe, Tom Kenny, Ken Jeong, Aya Cash, Colton Haynes, Daphne Reid, Catherine Breillat, Gil Birmingham, Michael Jace, Kenny Johnson, Didi Conn, Michael Mando, Jacques Perrin, Robert Gant, Kari Wahlgren, Steven R. McQueen, and the late Robert Forster, Bob Crane, Sidney Blackmer, James Anderson, and René Laloux. Red Buttons died fourteen years ago in 2006 at age 87. Cory Monteith died seven years ago in 2013 at age 31.

Today Edwin Neal is 75, Byung-Hun Lee is 50, and Rachel Brosnahan is 30. Today is also the birthday of Bill Cosby, Topher Grace, Michelle Rodriguez, Richard Simmons, Malala Yousafzai, Cheryl Ladd, Cheyenne Jackson, Monte Hellman, Brian Grazer, Phil Lord, Anna Friel, Steve Howey, Natalie Martinez, Tamsin Greig, Erik Per Sullivan, Jamey Sheridan, Mel Harris, Denise Nicholas, and the late Milton Berle, Tod Browning, Joe DeRita, Jay Thomas, Beah Richards, who would be 100, Charlie Murphy, Louis B. Meyer, Jean Hersholt, George Eastman, Henry David Thoreau, Pablo Neruda, and Donald E. Westlake. Lon Chaney Jr. died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 67.

Today Bruce McGill is 70, Jafar Panahi is 60, and Justin Chambers is 50. Today is also the birthday of Stephen Lang, Richie Sambora, Lil’ Kim, Tom Holland, Sela Ward, Michael Rosenbaum, Rachael Taylor, Mindy Sterling, Greg Grunberg, Greg Mottola, Giorgio Armani, and the late Yul Brynner, who would be 100, Tab Hunter, John Quincy Adams, David Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Brett Somers, and E.B. White. Robert Ryan died 47 years ago in 1973 at age 63. Laurence Olivier died 31 years ago in 1989 at age 82.