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…
- Charles MansonCharles Milles Manson was born on the 12th of November 1934, in Cincinnati General Hospital to Ada Kathleen Maddox, a 16-year-old woman from Ashland…
- Seymour DrescherSeymour Drescher argued, in his 1977 book Econocide, that Britain did not end the slave trade because it had become unprofitable.
- 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 died at 10:00 in the evening on the 15th of April, 2004. He was 69. A fire had broken out in his house that morning.
- 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 Cleave was the first woman ever invited to speak at the Oxford Union. She later built a career on getting people to talk, including some of the…
- Donald SterlingDonald Sterling owned a professional basketball team for 33 years, and in nearly every one of those years, that team lost more games than it won.
- Diana Wynne JonesDiana Wynne Jones was born in London on the 16th of August 1934, and by the time she died on the 26th of March 2011, she had written some of the most…
- 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 bought chemistry supplies at age 10, made his own fireworks in Los Angeles, and got in trouble because fireworks were illegal.
- 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 Keegan spent 26 years teaching war to men who would fight it, yet he himself never fired a shot in anger. Born in Clapham, London, on the 15th of May…
- 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.
- VaváVavá scored in two consecutive World Cup finals, a feat no other footballer managed for sixty years. Born Edvaldo Izidio Neto on the 12th of November 1934…