Curated category
1948 births
- Tom MoldvayThomas Steven Moldvay was born on the 5th of November 1948 in Ohio. He attended Kent State University during the early 1970s while writing for a science…
- Andrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd Webber walked into Her Majesty's Theatre on the 11th of February 2012 to mark a milestone that no Broadway show had ever reached: the 10,000th…
- Samuel L. JacksonSamuel Leroy Jackson was born on the 21st of December, 1948, in Washington, D.C., the only child of Elizabeth Harriett and Roy Henry Jackson.
- Al GoreAl Gore won more votes than his opponent on Election Day 2000, yet still lost the presidency. That outcome, decided by a Supreme Court ruling of 5-4 in Bush…
- Richard SwedbergRichard Swedberg was born on the 18th of May 1948 in Sweden. He began his academic journey with a law degree from Stockholm University in 1970.
- Ian MacDonaldIan MacCormick entered the world on the 3rd of October 1948 in London. He attended Dulwich College before moving to King's College, Cambridge.
- Cat StevensCat Stevens sold more than 100 million records before he walked away from pop music entirely. Born Steven Demetre Georgiou on the 21st of July 1948, in the…
- Toshio SuzukiToshio Suzuki was born in 1948 within the industrial city of Nagoya, located in Aichi Prefure. He developed a deep interest in literature and the arts during…
- Stephen Holmes (political scientist)Stephen Holmes was born on the 21st of February 1948. He began his higher education journey at Denison University in Ohio.
- Dave CowensDave Cowens stood six feet nine inches tall, which made him one of the shortest centers in the NBA during the 1970s. In an era when rivals like Kareem…
- George R. R. MartinGeorge Raymond Richard Martin was born on the 20th of September, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of a longshoreman.
- Svetlana SavitskayaSvetlana Savitskaya was sixteen years old when she began jumping out of aircraft without telling her parents. She had hidden a parachute knife in her school…
- Oliver Hart (economist)Oliver Hart walked into a courtroom not to give testimony about a crime, but to explain what it means to truly own something.
- Dan IsselDan Issel grew up in Batavia, Illinois, with a backyard that touched his friend Ken Anderson's backyard. Anderson went on to become an NFL quarterback and…
- Ray KurzweilRay Kurzweil was born on the 12th of February 1948 in Queens, New York City, to parents who had fled Austria just before World War II.
- Hans MoravecHans Peter Moravec was born on the 30th of November 1948, and he grew up to ask a question that most scientists would not dare put on paper: what happens…
- Olivier BlanchardOlivier Blanchard arrived at the International Monetary Fund as its chief economist in September 2008. He started the job two weeks before Lehman Brothers…
- Bruce VilanchBruce Vilanch is the man behind the jokes you heard at the Oscars for a quarter century. His name never appeared on the screen during those telecast moments…
- Alexis SandersonAlexis Sanderson is an English indologist whose scholarly life took a decisive turn when he left Oxford and spent six years in Kashmir learning from a Shaiva…
- Ben BurttBen Burtt grew up in Jamesville, New York, and by the time he was a child he was already making films. His father taught chemistry at Syracuse University;…
- Olivia HarrisonOlivia Trinidad Harrison was born on the 18th of May 1948 in Los Angeles. Her grandparents had migrated from Guanajuato, Mexico to California before she…