Curated category
1943 births
- Christopher WalkenChristopher Walken was born Ronald Walken on the 31st of March 1943, in Astoria, Queens, New York City. His parents were Rosalie Russell, a Scottish…
- Horst-Dieter HöttgesHorst-Dieter Höttges was born on the 10th of September 1943 in the city of Mönchengladbach. He started playing football at local sides named Blau-Weiß Dahl…
- Wolfgang OverathWolfgang Overath spent his entire professional career at 1. FC Köln between 1962 and 1977. He appeared in 765 matches for the club during that fifteen-year…
- Joni MitchellJoni Mitchell saved up to buy a single album at a bootleg price because she could not find it in Canada. The record was The Hottest New Group in Jazz by…
- Jim MorrisonJim Morrison was found dead in a Paris bathtub on the morning of Saturday, the 3rd of July, 1971. He was 27 years old. No doctor had been called.
- Terrence MalickTerrence Malick graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in 1965, won a Rhodes Scholarship to study philosophy at Oxford, then walked away from the…
- Joseph StiglitzJoseph Stiglitz grew up in Gary, Indiana, a steel town whose economic fortunes would later give shape to many of the questions he spent a career trying to…
- George HarrisonGeorge Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool, on the 25th of February 1943, in a terraced house on a cul-de-sac with an outdoor toilet…
- Nout WellinkNout Wellink was named, in 2010, the single person believed to have wielded the greatest influence on worldwide financial oversight.
- Mark GranovetterMark Granovetter stood at the front of Henry Snyder High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, on a day in January 1961. He was the valedictorian of his class…
- Vítor ConstâncioVítor Constâncio was born on the 12th of October 1943, and by the time he was in his early thirties, Portugal was in the midst of a revolution.
- Jan Terje FaarlundJan Terje Faarlund spent decades explaining Norwegian grammar, then used one paper to challenge the family tree of English itself.
- Osamu DezakiOsamu Dezaki could freeze time. Not literally, but on screen he came as close as anyone in the history of Japanese animation.
- Ben KingsleyBen Kingsley was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji on the 31st of December 1943, in Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire. He carries within him a world of…
- Gloria GaynorGloria Gaynor was born Gloria Fowles on the 7th of September 1943, in Newark, New Jersey. Her father played the ukulele and guitar and sang professionally in…
- William W. FitzhughWilliam Wyvill Fitzhugh IV has spent more than forty years asking a simple question: what does it take for people to survive at the edges of the world?
- Bo HanssonBo Hansson purloined his girlfriend's copy of The Lord of the Rings in 1969, then moved into a friend's vacant apartment to write music.
- Stephen GreenblattStephen Greenblatt once recalled the moment he realized the term "New Historicism" had taken on a life of its own. When he heard that American universities…
- William DearWilliam Dear was born in Toronto, Ontario, on the 30th of November 1943. He worked as a Canadian actor, director, producer and screenwriter.
- Tom ShippeyTom Shippey was 14 years old when a borrowed copy of The Hobbit changed the course of his life. That chance encounter with Tolkien's work set him on a path…
- Jed S. RakoffJed S. Rakoff keeps a baseball signed by Mariano Rivera in a glass case on his desk. It is a small, telling detail about a man who has spent decades…
- Eric FonerEric Foner, born on the 7th of February 1943 in New York City, is the historian that college professors reach for most often.
- Chris MontezChris Montez was born Ezekiel Christopher Montanez on the 17th of January, 1943, in Los Angeles, California. He grew up in Hawthorne in a Mexican-American…
- Peter TrudgillPeter Trudgill was born on the 7th of November 1943 in Norwich, England, and grew up in the nearby area of Thorpe St Andrew.