Curated category
1945 births
- Rune SlagstadRune Slagstad was born on the 22nd of February 1945 in Bergen, Norway, at a moment when the country was still under German occupation.
- Elvin HayesElvin Ernest Hayes scored 39 points and held Lew Alcindor to just 15 in front of 52,693 fans at the Houston Astrodome on the 20th of January, 1968.
- Eric ClaptonEric Patrick Clapton was born on the 30th of March 1945 in Ripley, Surrey, to a sixteen-year-old mother and a Canadian soldier who had already shipped back…
- Gerd MüllerGerd Müller scored 68 goals in 62 international appearances for West Germany. That is not a misprint. Most top-level strikers celebrate if they average a…
- Angus DeatonAngus Deaton was born on the 19th of October 1945 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and he grew up to become one of the economists whose work most fundamentally…
- Geoff EmerickGeoff Emerick walked into EMI Studios on the 4th of September 1962 for only his second day of work. He was sixteen years old.
- George Miller (filmmaker)George Miller was born on the 3rd of March 1945 in Chinchilla, Queensland, the son of Greek immigrant parents. By the time he turned thirty, he had trained…
- Walt FrazierWalt Frazier posted 36 points, 19 assists, and six steals in the seventh game of the 1970 NBA Finals, while his teammate Willis Reed limped through just two…
- Go NagaiGo Nagai was born on the 6th of September 1945 in Wajima, a city in Ishikawa Prefecture, just as Japan was emerging from the wreckage of the Second World War.
- Richard ThalerRichard H. Thaler walked onto the set of a Hollywood film in 2015 and, alongside pop star Selena Gomez, explained to moviegoers why people make terrible…
- Winston PetersWinston Raymond Peters was born on the 11th of April 1945 in Whangārei, New Zealand. His birth certificate records his name as Wynston Raymond Peters before…
- Mario LivioMario Livio was born on the 19th of June 1945 in Bucharest, Romania. His parents fled their home country for political reasons while he was still an infant.
- Chuck BlazerCharles Gordon Blazer grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in the borough of Queens. His father ran a stationery and newspaper shop on a busy street…
- Phil JacksonPhil Jackson holds eleven NBA championships as a head coach, a record no other coach in league history has matched. Born on the 17th of September, 1945, in…
- David StarkeyDavid Starkey was born on the 3rd of January 1945 in Kendal, Westmorland, with two club feet, into a household that often had no income coming in at all.
- Seppo LinnainmaaSeppo Ilmari Linnainmaa was born on the 28th of September 1945 in Pori, Finland. He pursued his higher education at the University of Helsinki during the…
- James Peter AllenJames Peter Allen was born on the 22nd of April 1945. His father proposed to his mother on an Army requisition form while stationed in Burma.
- Franz BeckenbauerFranz Beckenbauer lifted the World Cup trophy as a captain in 1974, then lifted it again as a manager in 1990. Only two other men in football history…