Newest Stiffs:

  • Val Kilmer

    Val Kilmer · 65

    December 31st, 1959 — April 1st, 2025

    No longer your huckleberry.


  • Gene Hackman

    Gene Hackman · 95

    January 30th, 1930 — February 17th, 2025

    This dude's body of work was massive, so a funny obit should be easy. But we are STILL trying to figure out what happened to him in that mud room.


  • Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter · 100

    October 1st, 1924 — December 29th, 2024

    Aw, nuts.


  • Greg Gumbel

    Greg Gumbel · 78

    May 3rd, 1946 — December 27th, 2024

    His brother was a sports announcer.


  • Rickey Henderson

    Rickey Henderson · 65

    December 25th, 1958 — December 20th, 2024

    They called him "The greatest Oakland A of all time". Impressive, eh?


Today's Celebrity Birthdays:

  • Jesse Ventura

    Jesse Ventura · 74

    (b) July 15th, 1951


  • Linda Ronstadt

    Linda Ronstadt · 79

    (b) July 15th, 1946


  • Jan-Michael Vincent

    Jan-Michael Vincent

    would have been 81 today
    July 15th, 1944 — February 10th, 2019

    Two first names, like 10 drunk driving convictions, a secret prosthetic leg, AND they waited a MONTH to point out that he was dead. What was the DEAL with this guy?

  • Fritz Shurmur

    Fritz Shurmur

    would have been 93 today
    July 15th, 1932 — August 30th, 1999

    Went without a murmur.

  • Clive Cussler

    Clive Cussler

    would have been 94 today
    July 15th, 1931 — February 26th, 2020

    Check out his latest book "Decomposing Old White Guy".

  • Iris Murdoch

    Iris Murdoch

    would have been 106 today
    July 15th, 1919 — February 8th, 1999

    We know she's not related to Rupert, but we're glad anyway. The only good Murdoch is a dead Murdoch.

  • Shirley Povich

    Shirley Povich

    would have been 120 today
    July 15th, 1905 — June 4th, 1998

    He was Maury's father, and he wrote for the Washington Post for more than 70 years, but that didn't stop him from being listed in 1962's Who's Who Of American Women. This guy got around.

  • Walter D. Edmonds

    Walter D. Edmonds

    would have been 122 today
    July 15th, 1903 — January 10th, 1998

    He chronicled the very earliest days of the hardcore punk movement in his bestseller Drums Along The Mohawk.

Today's Celebrity Deaths:

  • Martin Landau

    Martin Landau · 89

    died 8 years ago today
    June 20th, 1928 — July 15th, 2017

    Winning an Academy Award probably paled in comparison to starring in 1981's "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island"

  • Celeste Holm

    Celeste Holm · 95

    died 13 years ago today
    April 29th, 1917 — July 15th, 2012

    Married a 41 year old guy when she turned 87. What a slut.

  • Tex Schramm

    Tex Schramm · 83

    died 22 years ago today
    June 2nd, 1920 — July 15th, 2003

    Maybe he was funny-lookin' ... but he made the best damned oil filters this country's ever seen.

  • Steve Heaston

    died 26 years ago today
    — July 15th, 1999

    Whaddyamean, not a celebrity? He was only the second-best water polo coach that Cal University's ever had. Ingrates.

  • Gianni Versace

    died 28 years ago today
    — July 15th, 1997

    That serial killer stuff is a bunch of hooey. Our underworld sources tell us that Gianni's death was really a contract killing, ordered by the heads of the Five Fashion Families to keep him from going public with the Versace Papers.

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