Curated category
1934 births
- Gene CernanGene Cernan stepped off the lunar surface on the 14th of December 1972, climbed the ladder of the Apollo 17 lunar module, and has not been followed by any…
- Seymour DrescherSeymour Drescher was born in 1934 in the Bronx, New York. His parents were Polish Jewish immigrants who brought their history to American soil.
- Carl SaganCarl Sagan grew up in a modest Bensonhurst apartment with parents who, by his own account, "knew almost nothing about science." Yet it was precisely those…
- Yu-Chi HoYu-Chi Ho was born on the 1st of March, 1934, in Shanghai, and by the time he was fifteen, the world had already rerouted his life once.
- Bill RussellBill Russell won eleven NBA championships in thirteen seasons, a record in North American professional sports that no team has matched since.
- Judi DenchJudi Dench stood on stage at the Academy Awards in 1999 and, clutching her Oscar, quipped that for eight minutes of screen time she should only get a little…
- Mitsuteru YokoyamaMitsuteru Yokoyama spent his boyhood during World War II and was evacuated to Tottori with his family. He graduated from Kobe municipal Ota junior high…
- Alexei LeonovAlexei Arkhipovich Leonov was born on the 30th of May 1934 in Listvyanka, a small settlement in West Siberian Krai, and he died in Moscow on the 11th of…
- Heinz EdelmannHeinz Edelmann was born on the 20th of June 1934 in Ústí nad Labem, a city in Czechoslovakia known in German as Aussig, to a family with mixed German and…
- Daniel KahnemanDaniel Kahneman was born on the 5th of March, 1934, in Tel Aviv, while it was still the British Mandate of Palestine. He would go on to win the Nobel…
- Rodney StarkRodney William Stark grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota, in a Lutheran family, attended journalism school, and spent several years as a newspaper reporter…
- Maureen CleaveMaureen Diana Cleave entered the world on the 20th of October 1934 in Mussoorie, British India. Her father was Major John Cleave of the 7th Rajputs.
- Donald SterlingDonald T. Sterling was born Donald Samuel Tokowitz on the 26th of April 1934, in Chicago. His family moved to the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles when he…
- Diana Wynne JonesDiana Wynne Jones was born on the 16th of August 1934 in London. Her fifth birthday arrived just as World War II began. Shortly after that celebration, she…
- Audre LordeAudre Lorde was born on the 18th of February 1934, in Harlem, New York, nearly blind, the youngest daughter of Caribbean immigrants, and already, somehow…
- Edward FredkinEdward Fredkin was born on the 2nd of October 1934 to Russian-Jewish immigrants in Los Angeles. His mother worked as a concert pianist but never performed…
- Brian EpsteinBrian Epstein walked into the Cavern Club on the 9th of November 1961, squeezing past a line of fans in the narrow stairwell of a Liverpool cellar venue he…
- Alfred SchnittkeAlfred Garrievich Schnittke was born on the 24th of November 1934 in Engels, a city in the Volga German ASSR of the Russian SFSR, to parents who straddled…
- Yuri GagarinYuri Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on the 12th of April 1961, and did it in 108 minutes. The spacecraft was called Vostok 1.
- John KeeganJohn Desmond Patrick Keegan was born in Clapham, London on the 15th of May 1934. His father served as an Irish First World War veteran before the boy grew up.
- Oleg KaluginOleg Danilovich Kalugin was born on the 6th of September 1934 in Leningrad. His father served as an officer within the NKVD, the predecessor to the KGB.
- VaváEdvaldo Izidio Neto arrived in the world on the 12th of November 1934. He grew up in a region where football was more than a game, it was survival.