Category: On this date

Today Matthew Morrison is 40, and Brett Kelly is 25. Today is also the birthday of Henry Winkler, Kevin Pollak, Nia Long, Larry Wilmore, Harry Hamlin, Gavin Rossdale, Maria Thayer, Michael Beach, Joe Berlinger, Leon Rippy, Mark Steven Johnson, Fiona Dourif, Claude Lelouch, Jessica Hynes, Juliet Stevenson, Richard LaGravenese, Charles Martin Smith, Andrea Mitchell, Ivanka Trump, and the late John Adams, Ruth Gordon, Louis Malle, Ezra Pound, Ruth Hussey, Jane Randolph, Herschel Bernardi, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michael Winner, Ed Lauter, and Dick Gautier. Samuel Fuller died 21 years ago in 1997 at age 85. Steve Allen died eighteen years ago in 2000 at age 78. Jam Master Jay died sixteen years ago in 2002 at age 37. Robert Goulet died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 73. Al Molinaro died three years ago in 2015 at age 96.

Today Ralph Bakshi is 80, and Kate Jackson is 70. Today is also the birthday of Richard Dreyfuss, Winona Ryder, Ben Foster, Gabrielle Union, Peter Green, Dan Castellaneta, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rufus Sewell, Joely Fisher, Lee Child, Peter Watkins, Michael Schur, Beth Chapman, and the late Bob Ross, Fanny Brice, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Hardy, Geraldine Brooks, Eddie Constantine, Isao Takahata, and Joseph Goebbels. Adolphe Menjou died 55 years ago in 1963 at age 73. Vaughn Meader died fourteen years ago in 2004 at age 68.

Today Telma Hopkins is 70, and Gwendoline Christie is 40. Today is also the birthday of Julia Roberts, Joaquin Phoenix, Andy Richter, Joan Plowright, Jane Alexander, Dennis Franz, Frank Ocean, Bill Gates, Matt Smith, Daphne Zuniga, Finn Wittrock, Brad Paisley, Ben Harper, Lauren Holly, Annie Potts, Joe Thomas, Chris Bauer, Jami Gertz, Sheryl Underwood, Kevin Macdonald, Jake Kasdan, Michael Dougherty, Joe Lansdale, Caitlyn Jenner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the late Elsa Lanchester, Edith Head, Alan Clarke, Joe Spinell, Jack Soo, Dody Goodman, and Evelyn Waugh. Alice Brady died 79 years ago in 1939 at age 46. James MacArthur died eight years ago in 2010 at age 72.

Today Lara Parker is 80, Simon Le Bon is 60, and David Walton is 40. Today is also the birthday of John Cleese, Roberto Benigni, Patrick Fugit, Peter Firth, Kelly Osbourne, Fran Lebowitz, Ivan Reitman, Robert Picardo, Michael Shamus Wiles, James Cosmo, Joanna Scanlan, Ming-liang Tsai, Theodore Melfi, Brontis Jodorowsky, Marla Maples, and the late Theodore Roosevelt, Sylvia Plath, Ruby Dee, Teresa Wright, who would be 100, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Dylan Thomas, Nanette Fabray, Scott Weiland, Carrie Snodgress, Jack Carson, Carolyn Craig, Frederick De Cordova, Leif Erickson, Bernie Wrightson, and John Gotti. Sammee Tong died 54 years ago in 1964 at age 63. Allan “Rocky” Lane died 45 years ago in 1973 at age 64. James M. Cain died 41 years ago in 1977 at age 85.

Today is the birthday of Dylan McDermott, Seth MacFarlane, Keith Urban, Rosemarie DeWitt, Hillary Clinton, Cary Elwes, Rita Wilson, Jon Heder, Anthony Rapp, Pat Sajak, Julian Schnabel, Hank Garrett, Tom Cavanagh, James Pickens Jr., Jaclyn Smith, SoKo, Roger Allam, Rupert Wyatt, and the late Bob Hoskins, Don Siegel, Jackie Coogan, Ted Demme, Pat Conroy, Margaret Wycherly, Mark Sandrich, and H.B. Warner. Hattie McDaniel died 66 years ago in 1952 at age 57. Hoyt Axton died nineteen years ago in 1999 at age 61.

Today Marion Ross is 90, and Zachary Knighton is 40. Today is also the birthday of Katy Perry, Mathieu Amalric, James Carville, Craig Robinson, Adam Goldberg, Samantha Bee, Chad Smith, Leslie Grossman, Nancy Cartwright, Michael Weston, Sang-soo Hong, Bob Knight, Kevin Michael Richardson, and the late Pablo Picasso, Leo G. Carroll, Billy Barty, John Matuszak, Anthony Franciosa, Minnie Pearl, Abel Gance, Annie Girardot, Whit Bissell, Jeanne Cooper, Barbara Cook, and Klaus Barbie. Forrest Tucker died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 67. Vincent Price died 25 years ago in 1993 at age 82. Richard Harris died sixteen years ago in 2002 at age 72. Marcia Wallace died five years ago in 2013 at age 70.

Today Martin Campbell is 75. Today is also the birthday of Kevin Kline, F. Murray Abraham, Drake, Jean Allison, Casey Wilson, BD Wong, Zahn McClarnon, Bill Wyman, Tila Tequila, Sal Governale, PewDiePie, Scott Peterson, and the late Bob Kane, David Nelson, Maggie Pierce, I. Stanford Jolley, Moss Hart, and Merian C. Cooper. Edith Massey died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 66. Raúl Juliá died 24 years ago in 1994 at age 54. Rosa Parks died thirteen years ago in 2005 at age 92. Maureen O’Hara died three years ago in 2015 at age 95. Pete Burns died two years ago in 2016 at age 57. Fats Domino and Robert Guillaume died one year ago in 2017, both at 89.

Today Amandla Sternberg is 20. Today is also the birthday of Ryan Reynolds, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Emilia Clarke, Sam Raimi, Ang Lee, Dwight Yoakam, Philip Kaufman, Cat Deeley, Alex Gibney, Pelé, Grant Imahara, Meghan McCain, Nancy Grace, and the late Johnny Carson, Michael Crichton, Coleen Gray, Diana Dors, Frank Sutton, Una O’Connor, Hayden Rorke, Gummo Marx, and Harold P. Warren. Al Jolson died 68 years ago in 1950 at age 64. Oskar Werner died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 61.

Today Ray Stern is 91, Christopher Lloyd and Derek Jacobi are 80, Catherine Deneuve and Jan de Bont are 75, and Corey Hawkins is 30. Today is also the birthday of Jeff Goldblum, Bob Odenkirk, Carmen Ejogo, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jonathan Lipnicki, Tony Roberts, Spike Jonze, Kyle Gallner, Saffron Burrows, Valeria Golino, Carlos Mencia, Bill Condon, Alan Ladd Jr., Julie Dash, Marc Shaiman, Marc Lawrence, Jennifer Lee, and the late Joan Fontaine, Curly Howard, Annette Funicello, Constance Bennett, Timothy Leary, and Catherine E. Coulson. Cleavon Little died 26 years ago in 1992 at age 53. Mary Wickes died 23 years ago in 1995 at age 85. Soupy Sales died nine years ago in 2009 at age 83.

Today Joyce Randolph is 94, Julio Medem is 60, Michael McMillian is 40, and Glen Powell and Hope Hicks are 30. Today is also the birthday of Ken Watanabe, Edith Scob, Melora Walters, Steve Cropper, Andrew Scott, Everett McGill, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Matt Dallas, Jeff Richards, Catherine Hardwicke, Judge Judy Sheindlin, Patti Davis, Benjamin Netanyahu, Amber Rose, Kim Kardashian West, and the late Carrie Fisher, Edna Purviance, Dizzy Gillespie, Leonard Rossiter, and Alfred Nobel. Jack Kerouac died 49 years ago in 1969 at age 47. François Truffaut died 34 years ago in 1984 at age 52.