Curated category
1943 births
- Christopher WalkenRonald Walken was born on the 31st of March 1943 in Astoria, Queens. His parents were Rosalie Russell and Paul Wälken. They owned a bakery called Walken's…
- 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 MitchellRoberta Joan Anderson was born on the 7th of November 1943 in Fort Macleod, Alberta. Her father served as a Royal Canadian Air Force flight lieutenant during…
- Jim MorrisonJames Douglas Morrison was born on the 8th of December 1943, in Melbourne, Florida. His father served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy and…
- Terrence MalickTerrence Malick was born on the 30th of November 1943 in Ottawa, Illinois. His father Emil worked as a geologist and his mother Irene came from an Irish…
- Joseph StiglitzJoseph Eugene Stiglitz was born on the 9th of February, 1943 in Gary, Indiana. He grew up in a Jewish family where his mother Charlotte worked as a…
- George HarrisonOn the 25th of February 1943, George Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool. He grew up as the youngest of four children to Harold and…
- Nout WellinkArnout Henricus Elisabeth Maria Wellink arrived in the small village of Bredevoort on the 27th of August 1943. He began his academic journey at Leiden…
- 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 Manuel Ribeiro Constâncio was born on the 12th of October 1943 in Portugal. He graduated from the Technical University of Lisbon with an economics…
- Jan Terje FaarlundJan Terje Faarlund entered the world on the 3rd of May 1943 in Østre Toten Municipality. This rural area in Norway became the starting point for a life…
- Ben KingsleyOn the 31st of December 1943, a boy named Krishna Pandit Bhanji entered the world in Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire.
- Gloria GaynorGloria Fowles entered the world on the 7th of September 1943 at Beth Israel Hospital in Newark. Her family lived nearby with her grandmother playing a key…
- William W. FitzhughWilliam W. Fitzhugh IV began his academic journey at Deerfield Academy before moving to Dartmouth College. Professor Elmer Harp introduced him to…
- Bo HanssonBo Hansson spent his early years in a village surrounded by pine forests in Jämtland, northern Sweden. His family moved to Stockholm when he was young…
- Stephen GreenblattStephen Jay Greenblatt arrived in the world on the 7th of November 1943. He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts after his family moved from Boston.
- William DearWilliam Dear was born on the 30th of November 1943 in Toronto, Ontario. His professional journey began in the early 1970s when he directed industrial films…
- Tom ShippeyThomas Alan Shippey entered the world on the 9th of September 1943 in Calcutta, British India. His father Ernest worked as an engineer while his mother…
- Jed S. RakoffJed Saul Rakoff was born on the 1st of January 1943, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He grew up in the Germantown section of that city and attended Central…
- Eric FonerEric Foner was born on the 7th of February 1943 in New York City. His father Jack D. Foner worked actively within the trade union movement and campaigned for…
- Chris MontezEzekiel Christopher Montañez arrived in Los Angeles on the 17th of January 1943. He grew up in Hawthorne, California within a Mexican-American family.
- Peter TrudgillPeter Trudgill arrived in the world on the 7th of November 1943. He grew up in Thorpe St Andrew, a district just outside Norwich, England.