Curated category
1963 births
- Hideo KojimaHideo Kojima was born on the 24th of August 1963 in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo, and his father named him Hideo because it was the most common name among the…
- 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 TheodoreGrand Wizzard Theodore was born Theodore Livingston on the 5th of March 1963 in the Bronx, New York. Most people who have heard a DJ scratch a record have no…
- Quentin TarantinoQuentin Tarantino was born on the 27th of March 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee, to a mother who let him watch R-rated films as a child and a father he never…
- Karl MaloneKarl Anthony Malone grew up on a farm in Summerfield, Louisiana, the youngest of nine children raised by a single mother named Shirley.
- George MichaelGeorge Michael died on Christmas Day 2016, at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. He was 53. His partner, Fadi Fawaz, found him in bed in the early…
- 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 Abdul Olajuwon did not pick up a basketball until the age of 15. He was a soccer goalkeeper in Lagos, Nigeria, a city he would later describe as "very…
- 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 JordanMichael Jeffrey Jordan was born on the 17th of February 1963, in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, and before he was done, he would hold every…
- Charles BarkleyCharles Wade Barkley was born on the 20th of February 1963 in Leeds, Alabama, a small town 17 miles east of Birmingham. He was the first Black baby born at…
- Conan O'BrienConan Christopher O'Brien was born on the 18th of April 1963, in Brookline, Massachusetts, into a family defined by high achievers.
- Michel GondryMichel Gondry grew up in Versailles as the grandson of an inventor. That family connection to making things with your hands turns out to be the thread…
- Garry KasparovOn the 9th of November 1985, in Moscow, Garry Kasparov needed only to hold his own against Anatoly Karpov to take the world chess crown.
- 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 founded Nvidia at age 30 in a Denny's restaurant booth in East San Jose, California, and has led the company every single day since the 5th of…
- James MangoldJames Mangold grew up in Washingtonville, New York, a small Hudson Valley town, but his ambitions pointed far beyond it.
- Michel WeberMichel Weber, born in 1963, arrived at philosophy by way of applied economics. He began at Saint-Louis University in Brussels, earning a degree in commercial…
- Ha-Joon ChangHa-Joon Chang opens his book Kicking Away the Ladder with a charge that sounds almost like an accusation. The rich countries of the world, he argues, climbed…
- 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 LennonJulian Lennon was born John Charles Julian Lennon on the 8th of April 1963 at Sefton General Hospital in Liverpool, carrying a name almost nobody calls him…
- 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…