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:

  • Roger Federer

    Roger Federer · 45

    (b) August 8th, 1981


  • The Edge

    The Edge · 65

    (b) August 8th, 1961


  • Robin Quivers

    Robin Quivers · 74

    (b) August 8th, 1952


  • Dustin Hoffman

    Dustin Hoffman · 89

    (b) August 8th, 1937


  • Frank Howard

    Frank Howard

    would have been 90 today
    August 8th, 1936 — October 30th, 2023

    The guy had nicknames like "Hondo", "the Washington Monument" and "the Capital Punisher". Pretty cool, considering he hurt is back on his first swing playing in the Japanese League. What a wuss.

  • Mel Tillis

    Mel Tillis

    would have been 94 today
    August 8th, 1932 — November 19th, 2017

    M-M-M-M-Mel's D-D-D-D-D-Dead.

  • Jerry Tarkanian

    Jerry Tarkanian

    would have been 96 today
    August 8th, 1930 — February 11th, 2015

    Rebel without...well, anything, really.

  • Ronnie Biggs

    Ronnie Biggs

    would have been 97 today
    August 8th, 1929 — December 18th, 2013

    Isn't every train robbery pretty great?

  • Richard Anderson

    Richard Anderson

    would have been 100 today
    August 8th, 1926 — August 31st, 2017

    He was best known as Oscar Goldman on The Six Million Dollar Man. Right.
    We said BEST known.

  • Rory Calhoun

    Rory Calhoun

    would have been 104 today
    August 8th, 1922 — April 28th, 1999

    After countless Western movie roles, he played the part of Looney Tunes in the timeless classic Hell Comes To Frogtown. Truth is almost always stranger than fiction.

  • Esther Williams

    Esther Williams

    would have been 105 today
    August 8th, 1921 — June 6th, 2013

    Sleeping with the fishes.

  • Jimmy Witherspoon

    Jimmy Witherspoon

    would have been 106 today
    August 8th, 1920 — September 18th, 1997

    Dead blues guy.

  • Dino de Laurentiis

    Dino de Laurentiis

    would have been 107 today
    August 8th, 1919 — November 11th, 2010

    He made Manhunter, Hannibal, and Red Dragon but decided to pass on Silence of the Lambs. Good move there, Dino.

  • Benny Carter

    Benny Carter

    would have been 119 today
    August 8th, 1907 — July 12th, 2003

    The King is dead. Long live the King.

Today's Celebrity Deaths:

  • Olivia Newton-John

    Olivia Newton-John · 73

    died 4 years ago today
    September 26th, 1948 — August 8th, 2022

    Look at me
    I'm Sandra Dee
    Dead as a
    Doornail can be.

  • Bobby Bowden

    Bobby Bowden · 91

    died 5 years ago today
    November 8th, 1929 — August 8th, 2021

    Vacated.

  • Glen Campbell

    Glen Campbell · 81

    died 9 years ago today
    April 22nd, 1936 — August 8th, 2017

    He released his last album just 2 months ago. It was titled "Adios". So, yeah. There you go.

  • Karen Black

    Karen Black · 74

    died 13 years ago today
    July 1st, 1939 — August 8th, 2013

    Blacked out.

  • Patricia Neal

    Patricia Neal · 84

    died 16 years ago today
    January 20th, 1926 — August 8th, 2010

    Breakfast, lunch, and dinner now six feet under.

  • Gene Mauch

    Gene Mauch · 79

    died 21 years ago today
    November 18th, 1925 — August 8th, 2005

    Loser.

  • Barbara Geddes

    Barbara Geddes · 82

    died 21 years ago today
    October 31st, 1922 — August 8th, 2005

    Miss Ellie just wasn't the same after J.R.'s second marriage failed, and then when she had to throw Clayton out of the house, well, you know the kind of strain that can put on a woman's heart, plus, with the boys fighting all the time...how the hell did anybody watch this crap?

  • Gypsy Boots

    Gypsy Boots · 89

    died 22 years ago today
    August 19th, 1914 — August 8th, 2004

    There was a boy

    A very strange enchanted boy ...

  • Fay Wray

    Fay Wray · 96

    died 22 years ago today
    September 15th, 1907 — August 8th, 2004

    That should put an end to all that goddamned screaming.

  • Maureen Reagan

    died 25 years ago today
    — August 8th, 2001

    Ol' Shit-for-brains is going to be the last one left, isn't he?

  • Rose Blumkin

    died 28 years ago today
    — August 8th, 1998

    A blumkin by any other name, would smell as -- wait, that's not right. Well, she's dead, anyway.

  • Frank Zamboni

    died 38 years ago today
    — August 8th, 1988

    On ice.

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