Curated category
1938 births
- Leonard H. LeskoLeonard H. Lesko has spent decades reading the words of ancient Egyptians - words carved into coffins, inscribed on papyrus, and spoken by scribes who lived…
- Jerry WestJerry West died in Los Angeles on the 12th of June, 2024, at the age of 86. That same night, before game 3 of the NBA Finals between the Celtics and the…
- Ralph BakshiRalph Bakshi was born on the 29th of October 1938 in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine, into a Krymchak Jewish family, and by the time he was a teenager in Brooklyn…
- Eddie CochranEddie Cochran played his last concert on the night of the 16th of April 1960, at the Bristol Hippodrome. He was 21 years old.
- Astrid KirchherrAstrid Kirchherr was born on the 20th of May 1938 in Hamburg, Germany. Her father had been an executive for the German branch of Ford Motor Company before he…
- Klaus VoormannKlaus Voormann was standing in a Hamburg doorway on an ordinary evening in the early 1960s when the course of his life changed entirely.
- Jan AssmannJohann Christoph Assmann, known as Jan, was born on the 7th of July 1938 in Germany. He studied Egyptology and classical archaeology across four cities…
- Bill HarryBill Harry was born on the 17th of September 1938 at Smithdown Road Hospital in Liverpool, and by the time he was in his early twenties he had done something…
- Lill-BabsLill-Babs was born Barbro Margareta Svensson on the 9th of March 1938, in Järvsö, a town 290 kilometres north of Stockholm.
- Gary GygaxGary Gygax grew up close enough to Wrigley Field that he could hear the roar of the crowds from his bedroom window. That detail matters, because it tells you…
- Alan SiegelAlan Siegel stood before a TED audience in 2010 and delivered a challenge: make clarity, transparency, and simplicity a national priority.
- Vladimir VysotskyVladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky died on the 25th of July 1980, aged 42, in a Moscow apartment on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, while his personal physician slept…