Curated category
1963 births
- Hideo KojimaHideo Kojima was born in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo on the 24th of August 1963. His father Kingo worked as a pharmacist and traveled frequently for business.
- Yoko UenoYoko Ueno began her professional journey within the Japanese pop-rock band Oranges & Lemons. She later joined the group Vita Nova, expanding her vocal range…
- Spoonie GeeGabriel Jackson arrived in Harlem on the 27th of May 1963. He grew up using a spoon as his only eating utensil during early childhood years.
- Grand Wizzard TheodoreTheodore Livingston was born on the 5th of March 1963 in the Bronx, New York. His life changed during a domestic dispute in 1975 when his mother entered his…
- Quentin TarantinoQuentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on the 27th of March 1963. His father Tony Tarantino left the family before his son's birth.
- Karl MaloneKarl Anthony Malone was born on the 24th of July, 1963 in Summerfield, Louisiana. He grew up as the youngest of nine children on a farm run by his single…
- George MichaelGeorgios Kyriacos Panayiotou arrived in East Finchley, Middlesex on the 25th of June 1963. He was the youngest child and only son of a Greek Cypriot…
- David GolumbiaDavid Alan Golumbia entered the world in Detroit during 1963. His early years unfolded within that industrial city before he moved toward higher education.
- Kathleen McGowanKathleen McGowan was born on the 22nd of March 1963. Her first book appeared under her maiden name Kathleen Harkey-Smith in 1997.
- Hakeem OlajuwonHakeem Olajuwon was born on the 21st of January 1963 in Lagos, Nigeria. He grew up as the third child among eight siblings in a working-class family that…
- Allison ShearmurAllison Ivy Brecker entered the world on the 23rd of October 1963 as one of four quadruplets born to Martin and Rhoda Brecker.
- Michael JordanOn a Tuesday in the summer of 1978, Michael Jordan stood on the basketball court at Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina.
- Charles BarkleyCharles Wade Barkley was born on the 20th of February, 1963 in Leeds, Alabama. He grew up as the first black baby to be born at a segregated, all-white town…
- Conan O'BrienConan Christopher O'Brien was born on the 18th of April 1963, in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father Thomas Francis O'Brien worked as a physician and…
- Michel GondryMichel Gondry grew up in Versailles, France. He was the grandson of inventor Constant Martin. This family history of invention likely influenced his later…
- Garry KasparovGarik Kimovich Weinstein was born on the 13th of April 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR. His father worked as a geologist and his mother taught at a university.
- Jürgen SchmidhuberJürgen Schmidhuber was born on the 17th of January 1963 in Germany. He began his higher education at the Technical University of Munich where he completed an…
- Amir GhalenoeiTehran, 1963. The city buzzed with life as Ardeshir Ghalenoei took his first breath on the 21st of November that year. His father worked as a taxi driver and…
- Jensen HuangJensen Huang arrived in Oneida, Kentucky, as a ten-year-old boy with long hair and heavily accented English. He was an undersized Asian immigrant who…
- James MangoldJames Allen Mangold entered the world on the 16th of December 1963 within New York City. He grew up in Washingtonville, a small town located deep inside the…
- Michel WeberMichel Weber was born in 1963. He began his academic journey studying applied economics at the Saint-Louis University in Brussels.
- Ha-Joon ChangHa-Joon Chang was born on the 7th of October 1963 in South Korea. He grew up as the son of a former minister of industry and resources named Chang Jae-sik.
- Carl L. ThunbergOctober 1979 marked the founding of Homy Hogs, a pioneering hardcore punk band in Sweden. Carl L. Thunberg stood at the center of this musical explosion…
- Julian LennonOn the 8th of April 1963, a boy named John Charles Julian Lennon entered the world at Sefton General Hospital in Liverpool.
- Detlef SchrempfDetlef Schrempf was born on the 21st of January 1963 in Leverkusen, West Germany. He began his basketball journey with youth teams at Bayer Leverkusen before…