Curated category
1935 births
- Elvis PresleyElvis Aaron Presley walked onto the stage of the International Hotel in Las Vegas on the 31st of July 1969, without a single word of introduction.
- Woody AllenWoody Allen has made 50 feature films. That single fact sits at the center of a career so long and so productive it resists easy summary.
- Roger B. ChaffeeRoger Bruce Chaffee arrived in the world on the 15th of February 1935. His birthplace was Grand Rapids, Michigan. The family had moved there from Greenville…
- Ron PaulRon Paul delivered babies for decades in Brazoria County, Texas, and one of those deliveries was famous Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla.
- Jerry Lee LewisJerry Lee Lewis walked into Sun Records in Memphis in November 1956 with nothing but nerve. Label owner Sam Phillips was out of town, so producer Jack…
- Gene VincentGene Vincent was born Vincent Eugene Craddock on the 11th of February 1935 in Norfolk, Virginia, and he died at 36, largely forgotten in his home country…
- John Bowker (theologian)John Westerdale Bowker was born on the 30th of July 1935. He attended St John's School in Leatherhead before studying at Worcester College and Ripon Hall…
- Jeffrey G. WilliamsonJeffrey Gale Williamson was born on the 26th of November 1935. He began his academic journey at Wesleyan University before moving to Stanford University for…
- Julie AndrewsJulie Andrews stood on a beer crate to reach the microphone. She was not yet ten years old, performing spontaneously in wartime variety shows alongside her…
- Herb AlpertHerb Alpert is the only musician in history to reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 as both a vocalist and an instrumentalist.
- Jerry FodorJerry Fodor walked into philosophy at a moment when the mind was considered either a black box of behavioral inputs and outputs, or a tangle of neurons best…
- John Patrick DigginsJohn Patrick Diggins declared, near the end of his life, "I am left of right and right of left." That phrase captures something essential about a man who…
- Harrison SchmittHarrison Hagan Schmitt stepped off the Moon's surface in December 1972 and boarded the Lunar Module just before his commander, Gene Cernan.
- Peter Brown (historian)Peter Robert Lamont Brown was born on the 26th of July 1935 in Dublin, Ireland. His family background was Scots-Irish Protestant.
- Sylvia RobinsonIn 2022, Sylvia Robinson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Ahmet Ertegun Award category, the first woman to receive that honor…
- Isao TakahataIsao Takahata survived a United States air raid on Okayama City on the 29th of June, 1945. He was nine years old, separated from his parents for two days…
- Larry McDonaldLawrence Patton McDonald was born on the 1st of April 1935 in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up in DeKalb County within the eastern part of that city.
- Charles DukeCharles Duke was 36 years and 201 days old when he stepped onto the Moon on the 21st of April 1972, making him the youngest person ever to walk on another…
- Rusty SchweickartRussell Louis Schweickart arrived in Neptune Township, New Jersey on the 25th of October 1935. He grew up on a hardscrabble farm that produced hay and…
- 14th Dalai LamaTenzin Gyatso was born Lhamo Thondup on the 6th of July 1935, in a small farming hamlet called Taktser, on what the Dalai Lama himself has called the "real…
- Edward Jay EpsteinEdward Jay Epstein entered the world on the 6th of December 1935 within the bustling streets of New York City. His early academic path led him to Cornell…