Curated category
1959 births
- Emma ThompsonEmma Thompson arrived at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1977 to study English. Her father Eric Thompson had been a beloved children's television writer known…
- Jonathan FranzenJonathan Earl Franzen was born on the 17th of August 1959 in Western Springs, Illinois. He grew up in an affluent neighborhood in the St.
- Magic JohnsonEarvin Johnson Jr. was born on the 14th of August 1959 in Lansing, Michigan. His father worked at General Motors while his mother cleaned homes and prepared…
- 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 Molyneux began his career in 1982 by distributing and selling floppy disks which contained video games for Atari and the Commodore 64.
- Michel Preud'hommeMichel Georges Jean Ghislain Preud'homme joined Standard Liège's youth system at 10 years old in 1969. He made his senior debut in August 1977 after early…
- Kurtis BlowKurtis Blow made history in 1979 when he became the first rapper signed to a major label. Mercury Records released his single Christmas Rappin' that same…
- Nobuo UematsuNobuo Uematsu began playing the piano at age twelve in Kōchi, Japan. He never took formal lessons despite having an older sister who played the instrument.
- 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 Austin Hadfield was born on the 29th of August 1959, in Sarnia, Ontario. He grew up on a corn farm in Southern Ontario with his parents Eleanor and…