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  • 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:

  • Jeff Dunham

    Jeff Dunham · 64

    (b) April 18th, 1962


  • Malcolm Marshall

    Malcolm Marshall

    would have been 68 today
    April 18th, 1958 — November 4th, 1999

    One of the world's most accomplished and celebrated cricket players, which means he couldn't make it in a real sport.

  • James Woods

    James Woods · 79

    (b) April 18th, 1947


  • Hayley Mills

    Hayley Mills · 80

    (b) April 18th, 1946


  • Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown

    Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown

    would have been 102 today
    April 18th, 1924 — September 10th, 2005

    Truly an inspiration, Clarence became a successful musician and singer despite his horrific dental deformity.

  • Henry Hyde

    Henry Hyde

    would have been 102 today
    April 18th, 1924 — November 29th, 2007

    Dr. Jekyll, however, is doing fine.

  • Barbara Hale

    Barbara Hale

    would have been 104 today
    April 18th, 1922 — January 27th, 2017

    She was in movies for 35 years and on TV for 48 years. And she'll still be remembered as Perry Mason's secretary. Raymond Burr can suck it.

  • Leonid Kinskey

    Leonid Kinskey

    would have been 123 today
    April 18th, 1903 — September 8th, 1998

    We're no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of one little character actor don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.

Today's Celebrity Deaths:

  • Doris Roberts

    Doris Roberts · 90

    died 10 years ago today
    November 4th, 1925 — April 18th, 2016

    Everybody mourns, Raymond.

  • Dick Clark

    Dick Clark · 82

    died 14 years ago today
    November 30th, 1929 — April 18th, 2012

    5!

    4!

    3!

    2!



    Dick? Dick?

  • Thor Heyerdahl

    Thor Heyerdahl · 87

    died 24 years ago today
    October 6th, 1914 — April 18th, 2002

    After a lifetime of bold research and daring exploration, including crossing both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans on rafts made out of twigs and fucking reeds, he died of boredom.

  • Rick Rude

    Rick Rude · 40

    died 27 years ago today
    December 7th, 1958 — April 18th, 1999

    One of his fans eulogized him in an e-mail to us, which read "... he was a pretty good guy in real life, and just acted like a schmuck in the ring." Rest in peace, ravishing one.

  • Terry Sanford

    Terry Sanford · 80

    died 28 years ago today
    August 20th, 1917 — April 18th, 1998

    A former Senator, Governor and University President who twice ran for the Democratic Presidential nomination, but you can bet that if he weren't on 59 lists, we wouldn't even be talking about him.

  • Linda Schele

    Linda Schele · 55

    died 28 years ago today
    October 30th, 1942 — April 18th, 1998

    The noted Mayan scholar and historian, of course. Not only did we not know who she was when she was alive, but she was dead for a week before somebody finally pointed out that she was on a list. What are we, the goddamned FBI?

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