Newest Stiffs:

  • Shecky Greene

    Shecky Greene · 97

    April 8th, 1926 — December 31st, 2023

    He was funny. Mostly because his name was actually Shecky.


  • Les McCann

    Les McCann · 88

    September 23rd, 1935 — December 29th, 2023

    Les no more.


  • Gaston Glock

    Gaston Glock · 94

    July 19th, 1929 — December 27th, 2023

    Bang! You're dead!


  • Tommy Smothers

    Tommy Smothers · 86

    February 2nd, 1937 — December 26th, 2023

    Bald. Played guitar. Yo yo master. Quite the ladies man.


  • Ryan O'Neal

    Ryan O'Neal · 82

    April 20th, 1941 — December 8th, 2023

    Tough call on his best film here. It was either Love Story or An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn. Thoughts?


Today's Celebrity Birthdays:

  • Keith Olbermann

    Keith Olbermann · 65

    (b) January 27th, 1959


  • John Roberts

    John Roberts · 69

    (b) January 27th, 1955


  • Mikhail Baryshnikov

    Mikhail Baryshnikov · 76

    (b) January 27th, 1948


  • Troy Donahue

    Troy Donahue

    would have been 88 today
    January 27th, 1936 — September 2nd, 2001

    His new exchange? Turfside 6.

  • Jerry Buss

    Jerry Buss

    would have been 90 today
    January 27th, 1934 — February 18th, 2013

    Buss Stopped.

  • Mohammed al Fayed

    Mohammed al Fayed

    would have been 91 today
    January 27th, 1933 — August 30th, 2023

    OK, OK. We get that he owned hotels and department stores and "football" clubs, but would anyone know this dud if it son wasn't with Diana? We say no. But here we are.

  • Skitch Henderson

    Skitch Henderson

    would have been 106 today
    January 27th, 1918 — November 1st, 2005

    His newest generation of fans had come to know him as "Skeeyotch."

Today's Celebrity Deaths:

  • Cloris Leachman

    Cloris Leachman · 94

    died 3 years ago today
    April 30th, 1926 — January 27th, 2021

    She posed nude on the cover of Alternative Medicine Digest in 1997. THAT'S why she was famous.

  • Barbara Hale

    Barbara Hale · 94

    died 7 years ago 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.

  • John Hurt

    John Hurt · 77

    died 7 years ago today
    January 22nd, 1940 — January 27th, 2017

    I am not an animal! I am a human be - oh wait. Never mind.

  • Pete Seeger

    Pete Seeger · 94

    died 10 years ago today
    May 3rd, 1919 — January 27th, 2014

    Where have all the folkies gone?

  • Howard Zinn

    Howard Zinn · 87

    died 14 years ago today
    August 24th, 1922 — January 27th, 2010

    History.

  • J.D. Salinger

    J.D. Salinger · 91

    died 14 years ago today
    January 1st, 1919 — January 27th, 2010

    Catcher in the Ground.

  • Zelda Rubinstein

    Zelda Rubinstein · 76

    died 14 years ago today
    May 28th, 1933 — January 27th, 2010

    Go into the light!

  • John Updike

    John Updike · 76

    died 15 years ago today
    March 18th, 1932 — January 27th, 2009

    Rabbit make space.

  • . Suharto

    . Suharto · 86

    died 16 years ago today
    June 8th, 1921 — January 27th, 2008

    He knew first-hand what the rest of us learned from Johnny Cash — it's tough being a boy named Suharto.

  • Tige Andrews

    Tige Andrews · 86

    died 17 years ago today
    March 19th, 1920 — January 27th, 2007

    Now Captain of the Sod Squad.

  • Jack Paar

    Jack Paar · 85

    died 20 years ago today
    May 1st, 1918 — January 27th, 2004

    Insert golf joke here.

  • Richard Slattery

    died 27 years ago today
    — January 27th, 1997

    Slattery will get you nowhere.

  • Cecil Lewis

    died 27 years ago today
    — January 27th, 1997

    He was decorated as a World War I flying ace, won an Academy Award for his screen adaptation of Pygmalion and also wrote 19 novels, but he'll be best remembered for the endearing relationship he shared with Beany.

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