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 was thirty-one years old when he climbed into the Apollo 1 command module on the afternoon of the 27th of January, 1967.
- 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, and he spent decades asking a question that makes many people uncomfortable: what if science and…
- Jeffrey G. WilliamsonJeffrey Gale Williamson was born on the 26th of November 1935, and over the course of a career spanning more than six decades, he became one of the world's…
- 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. He is an Irish historian who reshaped how scholars think about an entire era.
- Luciano PavarottiLuciano Pavarotti hit nine high Cs during the aria "Ah! mes amis" at New York's Metropolitan Opera on the 17th of February 1972, then returned for seventeen…
- 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 McDonaldOn the 1st of September, 1983, Soviet fighters shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 before it reached Seoul. Lawrence Patton McDonald was among those killed.
- 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 SchweickartRusty Schweickart spent five minutes tethered outside his spacecraft, suspended above the Earth, and felt something shift inside him.
- 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 died in his Manhattan apartment on the 9th of January 2024, at 88 years old, from COVID-19. He had spent more than half a century making…