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1957 births
- Steve Winter (game designer)Steve Winter was born on the 8th of December, 1957, in Dubuque, Iowa, with his heart set on becoming a journalist. He covered murders, presidential campaign…
- John LasseterJohn Lasseter was fired from the Walt Disney Company for believing too hard in the future. The year was 1984, the project was a test film blending…
- Daniel Day-LewisDaniel Day-Lewis was born on the 29th of April 1957 in Kensington, London, to a poet and an actress. Before most people had ever heard his name, he was…
- Afrika BambaataaAfrika Bambaataa was born Lance Taylor on the 17th of April, 1957, in the Bronx River Projects of New York City, to Jamaican and Barbadian immigrants.
- Fumio KishidaFumio Kishida stood at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on the 19th of May 2023, alongside leaders of the world's most powerful democracies, in the city…
- Saeko HimuroSaeko Himuro was born on the 11th of January 1957 in Iwamizawa, Hokkaido Prefecture, and she would go on to become one of the most widely read authors under…
- Dave WolvertonJohn David Wolverton arrived in Springfield, Oregon on the 28th of May 1957. His family moved to a farm in Monroe when he was six years old.
- Russell SimmonsRussell Simmons heard Eddie Cheeba perform in Harlem in 1977 and walked away convinced he had just witnessed, in his own words, "the invention of the wheel."…
- Daniel LichtDaniel Licht was born on the 13th of March 1957, and by the time he died in August 2017, he had scored some of the most distinctive television and video game…
- Gary GenslerGary Gensler spent the afternoon of the 9th of January 2024 doing damage control. At 4:11pm Eastern time, a post appeared on the Securities and Exchange…
- Antonio CabriniAntonio Cabrini stepped onto the pitch for his country's opening match of the 1978 FIFA World Cup without a single senior international cap to his name.