Curated category
1961 births
- Barack ObamaBarack Obama was born on the 4th of August 1961 at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, making him the only person to become…
- Peter JacksonPeter Jackson was born on the 31st of October 1961 in Wellington, New Zealand, and grew up in the far northern suburb of Pukerua Bay.
- David A. BellDavid Avrom Bell was born in New York City in 1961, into a family that thought seriously about ideas for a living. His father was the sociologist Daniel Bell.
- Isiah ThomasIsiah Lord Thomas III grew up on the West Side of Chicago, the youngest of nine children, in a household that would eventually be without his father.
- Julia GillardJulia Eileen Gillard was sworn in as Australia's 27th prime minister on the 24th of June 2010, and at that moment, two firsts converged on a single country.
- Eric Allin CornellEric Allin Cornell was born on the 19th of December, 1961, in Palo Alto, California, to parents who were finishing graduate degrees at Stanford University.
- Julia Louis-DreyfusJulia Louis-Dreyfus has won more Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards than any other performer in the history of television.
- EnyaEnya was born Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin on the 17th of May 1961 in Dore, in the Irish-speaking village of Gweedore, County Donegal.
- Tetsuo HaraTetsuo Hara was born in Tokyo in 1961, but his childhood unfolded in Matsubara-danchi, a housing complex in Soka, Saitama.
- Yuri MilnerYuri Milner was born on the 11th of November 1961 in Moscow. He grew up as the second child of Soviet intellectuals. His father worked at the Institute of…
- Richard FoltzRichard Foltz began his life in 1961 as a Canadian citizen. He did not start as an academic historian. His early career took him to Europe where he worked as…
- Lothar MatthäusLothar Matthäus was born on the 21st of March 1961 in Erlangen, Bavaria, to a father who had fled across the Oder River in 1944 ahead of the Soviet advance.