Curated category
1952 births
- Cliff EisenCliff Eisen entered the world on the 21st of January 1952 in Toronto. This Canadian musicologist began his formal education at the University of Toronto…
- David Wootton (historian)David Wootton was born on the 15th of January 1952. He holds the title of Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York.
- Vladimir PutinVladimir Putin was born on the 7th of October 1952 in Leningrad, a city shaped by some of the most catastrophic violence of the 20th century.
- Clive BarkerClive Barker was three years old when he saw a man fall out of the sky. At an air show in Liverpool, the French skydiver Leo Valentin plummeted to the ground…
- Shigeru MiyamotoShigeru Miyamoto was born on the 16th of November, 1952, in the small Japanese town of Sonobe, in Kyoto Prefecture. His parents were of modest means, and his…
- Kenji TeradaKenji Terada wrote the scripts for the first three Final Fantasy games, a trilogy that launched one of the most enduring video game franchises in history.
- George GervinGeorge Gervin scored 63 points in a single regular-season game while protecting a scoring title by the slimmest margin in NBA history: seven-hundredths of a…
- Hilary MantelHilary Mantel stood at the podium at the Guildhall in London in 2009 and told the audience she was "happily flying through the air." She had just won the…
- Michael Hirst (writer)Michael Hirst was born on the 21st of September 1952 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and he would go on to reshape how television tells stories about history.
- Yoshitaka AmanoYoshitaka Amano was born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in 1952, the youngest of four children. His father, Yoshio Amano, was a lacquer artist who…
- Walter IsaacsonWalter Seff Isaacson was born on the 20th of May, 1952, in New Orleans, Louisiana, the city that would leave its mark on nearly every chapter of his life.
- Donald S. Lopez Jr.Donald Sewell Lopez Jr. entered the world in 1952 within Washington, D.C. His father served as a U.S. Air Force pilot and later worked for the Smithsonian…