Curated category
1950 births
- George W. BernardGeorge William Bernard was born in London. He attended Reading School before moving to Oxford University. At St. Catherine's College, he pursued advanced…
- William HurtWilliam McChord Hurt was born on the 20th of March 1950 in Washington, D.C., the son of a State Department official who would take the family to Lahore…
- Yoshifumi KondōYoshifumi Kondō died on the 21st of January 1998, at age 47, of an aortic dissection at Tachikawa City Hospital in Tokyo.
- Grzegorz LatoGrzegorz Lato arrived at Stal Mielec as a teenager in 1966, a boy from Malbork joining a club stuck in the Second Division.
- Gary W. GallagherGary William Gallagher entered the academic world in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts from Adams State College. He pursued graduate studies at the University of…
- David BrinGlen David Brin was born on the 6th of October 1950 in Glendale, California. His parents were Selma and Herb Brin, who raised him as a Jewish child.
- Rick McCallumRichard McCallum arrived in England during the 1980s after a commercial failure in his native United States. The film Pennies from Heaven had closed its…
- Keiko TakemiyaKeiko Takemiya published a short story in 1970 that most readers would have passed over without a second thought. It appeared in Bessatsu Shojo Comic under…
- Joe HisaishiJoe Hisaishi was born in Nakano, Nagano, Japan, and by the age of four he was already holding a violin, learning through the Suzuki method his parents had…
- Ken DowdenKen Dowden arrived in the world during 1950. His family roots lay firmly within Newcastle upon Tyne. This industrial city on the River Tyne shaped his early…
- Julius ErvingJulius Winfield Erving II was born on the 22nd of February, 1950, in East Meadow, Long Island, and by the time he retired in 1987, he had scored more than…