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 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 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 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…
- 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 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 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 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, 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.