Curated category
1959 births
- Emma ThompsonEmma Thompson holds a distinction that no one else in Hollywood history has matched: she has won Academy Awards for both acting and writing.
- Fujihiko HosonoFujihiko Hosono made his manga debut in 1979 with Crusher Joe, while still a student at Keio University. That combination of student life and professional…
- Jonathan FranzenJonathan Franzen was born on the 17th of August, 1959, in Western Springs, Illinois, and by the time he was in his early forties, he had managed to get his…
- Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson stood at the free throw line on the 7th of November 1991 and told the world he had HIV. He was 32 years old, five-time NBA champion, and…
- Daniel HuttenlocherDaniel Peter Huttenlocher entered the world in 1959. His father worked as a neurologist at the University of Chicago Medical School.
- Roger GoodellRoger Stokoe Goodell entered the world on the 19th of February 1959. He was born in Jamestown, New York to United States Senator Charles Ellsworth Goodell…
- Peter MolyneuxPeter Douglas Molyneux was born on the 5th of May 1959, and he has spent four decades doing something most game designers never attempt: building whole…
- Michel Preud'hommeMichel Preud'homme was born on the 24th of January 1959, and by the time he stepped onto the pitch at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, he was already in his…
- Kurtis BlowKurtis Blow stepped into a recording studio in 1979 as a twenty-year-old from Harlem, and walked out as the first rapper ever signed by a major label.
- Nobuo UematsuNobuo Uematsu was born on the 21st of March, 1959, in Kochi, the capital city of Kochi Prefecture, Japan. He never took a single formal piano lesson.
- Douglas A. AndersonDouglas Allen Anderson was born on the 30th of December 1959 in Valparaiso, Indiana. His path into literary scholarship began through a friendship formed in…
- Chris HadfieldChris Hadfield was nine years old when he made up his mind. Sitting in front of a television on a corn farm in southern Ontario in 1969, he watched Apollo 11…