Curated category
1953 births
- Jon ParelesJon Pareles was born in 1953 within the quiet borders of Connecticut. His early life unfolded through the keys of a piano and the mouthpiece of a jazz flute.
- Gary Taylor (scholar)Gary Taylor was born in 1953, the first member of his family to ever graduate from high school. That detail alone reframes everything that followed.
- Xi JinpingXi Jinping was born on the 15th of June 1953 in Beijing, the son of a Communist Party revolutionary who would later be imprisoned by the very system he had…
- Kathleen Kennedy (producer)Kathleen Kennedy was born on the 5th of June 1953 in Berkeley, California. Her father Donald R. Kennedy served as a judge and attorney while her mother Dione…
- Ken BurnsKen Burns sat at a family dinner table in Newark, Delaware, in the summer of 1962. He was almost nine years old. The day was hot and sweltering, and when he…
- Paul KrugmanPaul Krugman grew up in Merrick, a hamlet on Long Island, and traces his interest in economics not to a professor or a recession, but to science fiction.
- Michaël Dudok de WitMichaël Dudok de Wit was born on the 15th of July 1953 in Abcoude, Netherlands. He completed his high school education within the borders of his home country…
- George Dyson (science historian)George Dyson was born on the 26th of March 1953 into a family of remarkable minds. His father was the theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson.
- Steve BannonSteve Bannon sat aboard a luxury yacht off the coast of Connecticut on the 20th of August 2020, when federal agents arrived to arrest him.
- Kaoru KurimotoKaoru Kurimoto was still in her twenties when she became the youngest person ever to win the Edogawa Rampo Prize. That happened in 1978, just one year after…
- Johan de MeijJohannes Abraham de Meij was born on the 23rd of November 1953 in Voorburg. He began his formal musical education at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.
- Wayne G. HammondWayne Gordon Hammond entered the world on the 11th of February 1953 in Cleveland. He grew up in Brooklyn, Ohio where his early life took shape.
- Hiroyuki NambaHiroyuki Namba began his career in the late 1970s as a pop musician. He started working with Tatsuro Yamashita in 1978. This collaboration laid the…
- André WinkAndré Wink was born in 1953, in Hollandia, Netherlands New Guinea. This location is now known as Jayapura, Indonesia. He studied at Leiden University and…
- Victor Davis HansonVictor Davis Hanson was born on the 5th of September 1953 in Selma, California. He grew up working the family orchard and vineyard that had been in his…
- Cornel WestCornel Ronald West was born on the 2nd of June 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the same city where his grandfather Clifton L. West, Sr.
- Byron PreissByron Preiss was buried with a secret that nine people are still trying to find. In 1982, he published a puzzle book called The Secret, hiding twelve…