Curated category
1941 births
- Bob DylanBob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman on the 24th of May, 1941, at St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota. His Hebrew name was Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham.
- Hayao MiyazakiHayao Miyazaki was born on the 5th of January 1941 in Akebono-cho, Hongō, Tokyo City, the second of four sons in a family that manufactured rudders for…
- George Clinton (funk musician)George Edward Clinton was born on the 22nd of July, 1941, in Kannapolis, North Carolina. He grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, where as a teenager he did two…
- Chas NewbyCharles Newby stood in a Liverpool rehearsal room on the 17th of December 1960. The Beatles needed a bassist after Stuart Sutcliffe left for Hamburg to…
- Linda McCartneyLinda McCartney was born Linda Louise Eastman in Manhattan on the 24th of September 1941, and by the time she died on the 17th of April 1998, she had been a…
- Yoshiyuki TominoYoshiyuki Tomino was born on the 5th of November 1941 in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, into a family shaped by civic power and industrial engineering.
- Neil AspinallNeil Stanley Aspinall was born on the 13th of October 1941, in Prestatyn, North Wales, not because his family lived there, but because the air-raids on…
- King TubbyKing Tubby was born Osbourne Ruddock on the 28th of January 1941 in Jamaica, and by the time he died on the 6th of February 1989, he had quietly changed the…
- James HansenJames Hansen stood before the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on the 23rd of June 1988, and told the assembled lawmakers that…
- Pete BestPete Best was the drummer for the Beatles from 1960 to 1962, fired ten weeks after the group's first EMI recording session, just before the band became…
- Michael K. FrithMichael Kingsbury Frith was born on the 8th of July 1941 in Bermuda, and before most people had ever heard the names Kermit or Fozzie or Fraggle, he was…
- Flórián AlbertFlórián Albert stood on a pitch in England in 1966, and made a crowd forget about Pelé. That is not a small claim. Hungary were facing Brazil in a must-win…
- Kevin Crossley-HollandKevin John William Crossley-Holland arrived in the world on the 7th of February 1941. He grew up in Whiteleaf, a quiet village nestled within the Chilterns…
- Slobodan MiloševićSlobodan Milošević was born in Požarevac on the 20th of August 1941, four months after Axis forces had overrun the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
- Frank McLynnFrank McLynn was born Francis James McLynn on the 29th of August 1941, and by any measure he became one of Britain's most prolific writer-scholars.
- John Lewis GaddisJohn Lewis Gaddis was born on the 2nd of April 1941 in Cotulla, Texas. He began his higher education journey at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Charley RosenCharley Rosen grew up in The Bronx with a body built for basketball and a mind built for argument. By the time he died in Kingston, New York, on the 13th of…