Curated category
1962 births
- Clyde DrexlerClyde Austin Drexler Sr. was born on the 22nd of June, 1962, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and by the time his professional basketball career ended, he had…
- Marley MarlMarley Marl was the first producer who inspired Madlib to make beats. That single fact, drawn from an interview Madlib gave about his own origins, tells you…
- Sha-RockSha-Rock, born Sharon Green on the 25th of October 1962, holds a title no one else can claim: the first female rapper. She did not grow up with hip hop…
- Patrick EwingPatrick Aloysius Ewing Sr. was born on the 5th of August, 1962, in Kingston, Jamaica, one day before his home country declared independence.
- Philippa BoyensPhilippa Boyens has three children, and every one of them has turned up on screen in a film she helped write. Boyens is a screenwriter from New Zealand who…
- David FincherDavid Andrew Leo Fincher was born on the 28th of August 1962, in Denver, Colorado, and grew up to become one of the most recognizable directors working in…
- MC HammerStanley Kirk Burrell grew up in a three-bedroom housing project apartment in East Oakland, California, with eight siblings and a mother who worked as a…
- Adam SilverAdam Silver was born on the 25th of April, 1962, into a family already shaped by the law. His father Edward Silver was a senior partner at the prominent firm…
- Lewis GordonLewis Ricardo Gordon was born on the 12th of May 1962, and he has spent his career asking a question that most philosophical traditions have avoided: what…
- Bhikkhu AnalayoBhikkhu Analayo arrived in Sri Lanka in 1994 with one specific goal: to meet Nyanaponika Thera, a scholar-monk whose book The Heart of Buddhist Meditation…
- John KnollJohn Knoll was born on the 6th of October 1962. He began his career as a motion control camera operator in 1986 for the film Captain EO.
- John StocktonJohn Stockton walked off the court for the last time on the 2nd of May 2003, not at a press conference surrounded by cameras and microphones, but through a…
- James Dallas Egbert IIIJames Dallas Egbert III walked out of Case Hall dormitory at Michigan State University on the 15th of August, 1979, and did not come back.
- Hironobu SakaguchiHironobu Sakaguchi named the lead character of his debut film after his dead mother. Aki Ross, the protagonist of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, carried…
- Jim Farley (businessman)James Duncan Farley Jr. now leads the company where his grandfather worked. In 1918, that grandfather held a job at Henry Ford's River Rouge Plant.
- Jennifer HigdonJennifer Higdon picked up a flute her mother had bought and began teaching herself to play from an old flute method book.
- Manuel AmorosManuel Amoros was born on the 1st of February 1962, in Nîmes, in the Gard department of southern France. His parents were Spanish, and they had left Spain to…
- Kevin J. AndersonKevin J. Anderson sold his very first story for $12.50 during his senior year of high school. That modest payment marked the beginning of a career that would…
- Victor PelevinVictor Pelevin was born in Moscow on the 22nd of November 1962, the son of an English teacher and a military department instructor at Bauman University.
- Stuart J. RussellStuart Jonathan Russell was born in England in 1962, and has spent his career at the center of artificial intelligence research.
- Viktor TsoiViktor Tsoi died on the 15th of August 1990, at 12:28 in the afternoon, on a highway in Latvia. His dark blue Moskvitch-2141 crossed into oncoming traffic at…