Curated category
1960 births
- Jean-Claude Van DammeJean-Claude Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg on the 18th of October 1960, in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels.
- Keef CowboyRobert Keith Wiggins stood in a Bronx hallway on the 20th of September 1960. He would later become known as Keef Cowboy, but his name was just a sound to him…
- Dee NastyDaniel Bigeault heard the first sounds of hip hop in 1979. This moment changed his life forever. He was born in 1960 and lived through a time when this music…
- Christophe GansChristophe Gans was born on the 11th of March 1960 in France. He studied at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques and graduated during the early…
- Neil GaimanNeil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman was born on the 10th of November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire, into a family whose name had been changed from Chaiman to…
- Kenneth BranaghKenneth Branagh was nine years old when his family packed up and left Belfast, fleeing the early violence of the Troubles.
- Odd Arne WestadOdd Arne Westad was born on the 5th of January 1960 in Norway. He began his academic journey at the University of Oslo as an undergraduate student.
- Jérôme ValckeJérôme Valcke stood at the center of world football for nearly a decade. As Secretary General of FIFA, he sat just below the most powerful office in the…
- Mehdi TajMehdi Taj began his career within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. This military background shaped his early administrative style before he entered…
- James SpaderJames Todd Spader was born on the 7th of February, 1960, in Boston, Massachusetts, and somewhere along the way he became the actor nobody wanted in their…
- Hideaki AnnoHideaki Anno was born in Ube, Yamaguchi, the son of Fumiko and Takuya Anno, and the world of Japanese animation would eventually pivot on decisions he made…
- Pius MalekandathilPius Malekandathil was born in 1960. He entered the Syro-Malabar Church as a priest. This dual identity shaped his entire career.
- Tushar GandhiTushar Arun Gandhi carries a name that opens doors and closes them in equal measure. Born on the 17th of January 1960 in Shegaon, Maharashtra, he is the…
- Yann LeCunYann LeCun was born on the 8th of July 1960 in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, a suburb of Paris, and his surname carries the fingerprints of a culture older than…
- Diego MaradonaDiego Armando Maradona was born on the 30th of October 1960 in a polyclinic hospital in Lanús, Buenos Aires Province, and raised in Villa Fiorito, a…
- Gary LinekerGary Lineker was born on the 30th of November 1960 in Leicester, and a teacher once wrote on his school report that he concentrated too much on football and…
- Franco BaresiFranco Baresi made his Serie A debut on the 23rd of April 1978, stepping onto the pitch for AC Milan at age 17. He had arrived at the club only because Inter…
- Aaron AllstonAaron Dale Allston was born on the 8th of December 1960 in Corsicana, Texas, and by the time he died on the 27th of February 2014, he had shaped two worlds…
- Douglas BrinkleyDouglas Brinkley was born on the 14th of December 1960 in Atlanta, Georgia, and today holds the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities at Rice…