Newest Stiffs:

  • Anita Bryant

    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

    Gil Gerard · 82

    January 23rd, 1943 — December 16th, 2025

    Out of time.


  • Diane Ladd

    Diane Ladd · 89

    November 29th, 1935 — November 3rd, 2025

    Diane doesn't live here anymore.


  • Dick Cheney

    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

    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:

  • Robin Williams

    Robin Williams

    would have been 75 today
    July 21st, 1951 — August 11th, 2014

    Dead People's Society.

  • Kenneth Starr

    Kenneth Starr

    would have been 80 today
    July 21st, 1946 — September 13th, 2022

    You should only say good about the dead. Ken Starr is dead. Good.

  • Paul Wellstone

    Paul Wellstone

    would have been 82 today
    July 21st, 1944 — October 25th, 2002

    Sorry for the delay. Couldn't find anything funny here. Except maybe Walter Mondale.

  • Edward Herrmann

    Edward Herrmann

    would have been 83 today
    July 21st, 1943 — December 31st, 2014

    He was a GOD at sea.

  • John Negroponte · 87

    (b) July 21st, 1939


  • Janet Reno

    Janet Reno

    would have been 88 today
    July 21st, 1938 — November 7th, 2016

    They say she was the first female attorney general, but we're just not sure.

  • Norman Jewison

    Norman Jewison

    would have been 100 today
    July 21st, 1926 — January 20th, 2024

    D.E.A.D.

  • Don Knotts

    Don Knotts

    would have been 102 today
    July 21st, 1924 — February 24th, 2006

    You don't even want to know what Mr. Furley did to that poor girl.

  • Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway

    would have been 127 today
    July 21, 1899 — July 2nd, 1961

    The bell tolled.

Today's Celebrity Deaths:

  • Tony Bennett

    Tony Bennett · 96

    died 3 years ago today
    August 3rd, 1926 — July 21st, 2023

    Wait, wait. You left your heart WHERE?

  • Theo Bikel

    Theo Bikel · 91

    died 11 years ago today
    May 2nd, 1924 — July 21st, 2015

    That should put an end to all that damned fiddling.

  • Milly Del Rubio

    Milly Del Rubio · 89

    died 15 years ago today
    August 23rd, 1921 — July 21st, 2011

    The reunion tour starts this winter.

  • Ralph Houk

    Ralph Houk · 90

    died 16 years ago today
    August 9th, 1919 — July 21st, 2010

    Totally out.

  • John Baldry

    John Baldry · 64

    died 21 years ago today
    January 12th, 1941 — July 21st, 2005

    He was hailed as a British blues legend, a phrase with about as much meaning as "French war hero."

  • Robert Young

    died 28 years ago today
    — July 21st, 1998

    While the titles of the two shows he's best known for, Father Knows Best and Marcus Welby, M.D., would indicate a man of some intelligence, the truth is that behind that bemused smile lurked a complete moron.

  • Alan Shepard

    died 28 years ago today
    — July 21st, 1998

    The right stiff.

  • Herb Edelman

    died 30 years ago today
    — July 21st, 1996

    One of the poker buddies from The Odd Couple. Stay away from the brown sandwiches.

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