Curated category
1955 births
- Coke La RockCoke La Rock was born on the 24th of April 1955 in The Bronx, New York City. His family roots traced back to North Carolina before he arrived in the city.
- Peter Hedström (sociologist)Peter Hedström arrived in the world on the 14th of July 1955. His birthplace was the small town of Norsjö in Sweden. This northern Swedish setting marked the…
- Bill GatesBill Gates was born on the 28th of October, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, and by age 31 he had become the world's youngest-ever billionaire.
- Eric SchmidtEric Schmidt was born on the 27th of April, 1955, in Falls Church, Virginia, into a family shaped by academia and government service.
- J. K. SimmonsJ. K. Simmons has accumulated more than 200 screen and stage credits since his 1986 debut, and yet for decades most audiences could not quite name him.
- John GrishamJohn Grisham did not set out to write 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers. He set out to survive. At 17, working an asphalt crew in Mississippi, he…
- Moses MaloneMoses Eugene Malone Sr. grew up in Petersburg, Virginia as an only child, raised almost entirely by his mother Mary, who had left school after the fifth…
- K. T. S. SaraoKaram Tej Singh Sarao entered the world on the 1st of April 1955 in the village of Chatha Gobindpura. This small settlement sits within the Sangrur district…
- DJ Kool HercDJ Kool Herc threw a party on the 11th of August, 1973, and the music that came out of it would change the world. The address was 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the…
- David ChaumDavid Lee Chaum, born in 1955, sketched the blueprint for digital privacy long before most people had an email address. In 1982, the same year he finished…
- Kelsey GrammerKelsey Grammer was born on the 21st of February 1955 in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, a place he would later describe simply as home, calling himself "a…
- Roland EmmerichRoland Emmerich was born on the 10th of November 1955 in Stuttgart, West Germany. He grew up in the nearby town of Sindelfingen while his father Hans ran a…
- Jeremy Black (historian)Jeremy Black entered the academic world through a specific sequence of institutions. He studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, before moving to St John's…
- Mark David ChapmanMark David Chapman stood outside the Dakota apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for most of the day on the 8th of December 1980, talking…
- James S. ShapiroJames S. Shapiro was born in 1955 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Midwood High School before earning his bachelor's degree from Columbia…
- Raymond BensonRaymond Benson was born in Midland, Texas, in 1955, a place known for its oil fields and wide-open skies, far removed from the smoky London clubs and exotic…
- Maria DowlingMaria Dowling was born in 1955. She died in 2011 after a career dedicated to the study of Tudor England. Her life spanned fifty-six years, yet her influence…
- Lee SmolinLee Smolin dropped out of Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. That might seem like an unlikely starting point for one of the most provocative…
- Michel PlatiniMichel Platini scored nine goals in five matches at the 1984 European Championship, a record that stood for 37 years. That tournament, played on home soil in…
- Vladimir SorokinVladimir Sorokin was born on the 7th of August 1955 in Bykovo, a district of Moscow Oblast, and he went on to become one of the most provocative literary…