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:
M. Shyamalan · 56
(b) August 6th, 1970
Elliott Smith
would have been 57 today
August 6th, 1969 — December 21st, 2003From a basement on the hill indeed.
Paul Bartel
would have been 88 today
August 6th, 1938 — May 17th, 2000He gave us Death Race 2000, and then he won the damned thing.
Freddie Laker
would have been 104 today
August 6th, 1922 — February 9th, 2006He started an airline and named it after himself. What a pompous dickweed.
Robert Mitchum
would have been 109 today
August 6th, 1917 — July 1st, 1997You want tough? Mitchum made guys like Charles Bronson and Sylvester Stallone look like the Lennon Sisters.
Charles Crichton
would have been 116 today
August 6th, 1910 — September 14th, 1999Cut! That's a wrap.
Today's Celebrity Deaths:
Pete Fountain · 86
died 10 years ago today
July 3rd, 1930 — August 6th, 2016Fountain of Old.
John Hughes · 59
died 17 years ago today
February 18th, 1950 — August 6th, 2009Alone, but not at home.
Rick James · 56
died 22 years ago today
February 1st, 1948 — August 6th, 2004"Give It To Me Baby" is such a catchy little groove, it almost makes you forget that he did time for tying up one woman and burning her with a crack pipe, and for beating another woman while she was kept bound for 12 hours. Nice hair, too.
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| 1. | 2026 At Random | 0 | 0 |
| 2. | 2026 Autopsy Listing | 0 | 0 |
| 3. | 2026 Corpse Train | 0 | 0 |
| 4. | 2026 Inductees #1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5. | 2026 Inductees #2 | 0 | 0 |
| 6. | 2026 Inductees #3 | 0 | 0 |
| 7. | 2026 List | 0 | 0 |
| 8. | 2026 Stiffs R Us 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 9. | 2026 Stiffs R Us 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 10. | 2026 Stiffs R Us 3 | 0 | 0 |