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1945 births

  • Rune SlagstadRune Slagstad arrived in the world on the 22nd of February 1945 within the coastal city of Bergen. He grew up there before moving to Oslo for his higher…
  • Elvin HayesIn the senior year of 1963, Elvin Hayes led his Britton High School team to a state championship in Louisiana. He averaged thirty-five points per game during…
  • Eric ClaptonEric Patrick Clapton was born on the 30th of March 1945 in Ripley, Surrey. His mother Patricia Molly Clapton was only sixteen years old when he arrived into…
  • Gerd MüllerGerd Müller was born on the 3rd of November 1945 in Nördlingen, Germany. He began playing football for his hometown club TSV 1861 Nördlingen youth ranks in…
  • Angus DeatonAngus Deaton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 19th of October 1945. He attended Hawick High School before moving to Fettes College as a foundation…
  • Geoff EmerickGeoffrey Ernest Emerick entered the recording industry at age 16. He worked as an assistant engineer at EMI Studios in north London.
  • George Miller (filmmaker)George Miller was born on the 3rd of March 1945 in Chinchilla, Queensland. He studied medicine at the University of New South Wales alongside his twin…
  • Walt FrazierWalter Frazier Jr. was born on the 29th of March 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up as the eldest of nine children attending David Tobias Howard High…
  • Go NagaiGo Nagai was born on the 6th of September 1945 in the Ishikawa Prefecture city of Wajima. His family had just returned from Shanghai when he arrived into the…
  • Richard ThalerRichard H. Thaler was born on the 12th of September 1945 in East Orange, New Jersey. He grew up in a Jewish family where his mother Roslyn worked as a…
  • 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 JacksonPhilip Douglas Jackson was born on the 17th of September, 1945 in Deer Lodge, Montana. His parents Charles and Elisabeth Funk Jackson served as ministers for…
  • David StarkeyDavid Robert Starkey arrived in the world on the 3rd of January 1945 within the quiet town of Kendal, Westmorland. He was the only child born to Quaker…
  • 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 Anton Beckenbauer was born on the 11th of September 1945 at a clinic in the Maxvorstadt borough of Munich. He grew up in the working-class district of…