Newest Stiffs:
Anita Bryant · 85
March 25th, 1940 — December 16th, 2025
Head of the Florida Citrus Commission from 1969 - 1980. We think she also made some records or something.
Gil Gerard · 82
January 23rd, 1943 — December 16th, 2025
Out of time.
Diane Ladd · 89
November 29th, 1935 — November 3rd, 2025
Diane doesn't live here anymore.
Dick Cheney · 84
January 30th, 1941 — November 3rd, 2025
White House Chief of Staff, Secretary of Defense, Vice President - and all we remember is when he shot that dude in the face while hunting.
June Lockhart · 100
June 25th, 1925 — October 23rd, 2025
Started with A Christmas Carol and All This, and Heaven Too and finished with Zombie Hamlet and Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm. Solid.
Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Jesse Ventura · 75
(b) July 15th, 1951
Linda Ronstadt · 80
(b) July 15th, 1946
Jan-Michael Vincent
would have been 82 today
July 15th, 1944 — February 10th, 2019Two 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
would have been 94 today
July 15th, 1932 — August 30th, 1999Went without a murmur.
Clive Cussler
would have been 95 today
July 15th, 1931 — February 26th, 2020Check out his latest book "Decomposing Old White Guy".
Iris Murdoch
would have been 107 today
July 15th, 1919 — February 8th, 1999We know she's not related to Rupert, but we're glad anyway. The only good Murdoch is a dead Murdoch.
Shirley Povich
would have been 121 today
July 15th, 1905 — June 4th, 1998He 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
would have been 123 today
July 15th, 1903 — January 10th, 1998He chronicled the very earliest days of the hardcore punk movement in his bestseller Drums Along The Mohawk.
Today's Celebrity Deaths:
Martin Landau · 89
died 9 years ago today
June 20th, 1928 — July 15th, 2017Winning an Academy Award probably paled in comparison to starring in 1981's "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island"
Celeste Holm · 95
died 14 years ago today
April 29th, 1917 — July 15th, 2012Married a 41 year old guy when she turned 87. What a slut.
Tex Schramm · 83
died 23 years ago today
June 2nd, 1920 — July 15th, 2003Maybe he was funny-lookin' ... but he made the best damned oil filters this country's ever seen.Steve Heaston
died 27 years ago today
— July 15th, 1999Whaddyamean, not a celebrity? He was only the second-best water polo coach that Cal University's ever had. Ingrates.Gianni Versace
died 29 years ago today
— July 15th, 1997That 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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