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1929 births
- James McDivittJames Alton McDivitt Jr. was born on the 10th of June 1929, in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he earned the rank of Tenderfoot…
- Raymond L. GarthoffRaymond Leonard Garthoff spent nearly eight decades inside the machinery of American foreign policy, trying to understand what the Soviet Union actually…
- Audrey HepburnAudrey Hepburn stood on a train platform in occupied Arnhem as a young girl, watching a boy in an oversized coat board a train bound for a concentration camp.
- Djalma SantosDjalma Pereira Dias dos Santos began his professional journey in 1949 with Portuguesa, a club based in São Paulo. He started as a central defender before…
- Sándor KocsisSándor Kocsis scored 11 goals at a single World Cup and left Switzerland in the summer of 1954 with a record that had never been matched.
- Hafizullah AminHafizullah Amin held supreme power over Afghanistan for a little over three months in 1979. In that time he seized the presidency, executed his own mentor…
- Imelda MarcosImelda Marcos stepped onto a palace balcony on the 25th of February 1986, and sang a song to a loyalist crowd while the Philippine government collapsed…
- Thomas J. Kelly (aerospace engineer)Thomas Joseph Kelly was born on the 14th of June 1929 in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in Merrick, a middle-class neighborhood where parents compared their…
- Helmut RahnHelmut Rahn had six minutes left, and a nation's fragile self-belief riding on his boots. It was the final of the 1954 FIFA World Cup, West Germany against…
- Babrak KarmalBabrak Karmal was born Sultan Hussein on the 6th of January 1929, a general's son from one of Kabul's wealthier families.
- Gordon MooreGordon Earle Moore was born on the 3rd of January, 1929, in a world where the idea of a transistor had not yet been publicly demonstrated.
- Richard F. Gordon Jr.Richard Francis Gordon Jr. was born in Seattle, Washington, on the 5th of October 1929, and he died 88 years later having orbited the Moon 45 times.
- Peter BranscombePeter John Branscombe arrived in Vienna not as a scholar but as a soldier completing his military service, and whatever he found there changed the direction…
- Hubert DreyfusHubert Dreyfus walked into the RAND Corporation in 1964 with a commission that seemed routine: review the latest work in artificial intelligence.
- Lev YashinLev Yashin won the Ballon d'Or in 1963 as a goalkeeper. That sentence alone deserves a pause. In the entire history of that award, given annually to the…
- Edison DenisovEdison Denisov trained as a mathematician before he ever wrote a note of music. He gave that up to compose instead, and the decision won an unlikely ally.
- Barbara RemingtonBarbara Remington painted a cover for The Lord of the Rings. J. R. R. Tolkien himself later said it showed what looked like pumpkins in a tree, and a lion…
- George SteinerFrancis George Steiner was born on the 23rd of April 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. His right arm withered from birth yet his mother insisted he use…
- Antonio CarbajalAntonio Félix Carbajal Rodríguez walked onto the pitch at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on the 24th of June 1950, a 21-year-old goalkeeper from…