Curated category
1964 births
- Christopher Kelly (historian)Christopher Kelly, a British-Australian classicist and historian born in London and raised in Sydney, has spent his career asking a question that most people…
- Koichi IshiiKoichi Ishii created the chocobo and the moogle. These two characters became fixtures of the Final Fantasy universe, recognized by players across decades of…
- Stephen ColbertStephen Colbert walked to the podium at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, stood a few yards from President George W.
- Marisa TomeiMarisa Tomei walked onto the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on the 29th of March, 1993, and heard her name called as the winner of the Academy Award…
- Guillermo del ToroGuillermo del Toro was born on the 9th of October 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, and grew up in a house his father once described as "an enchanted castle."…
- Kazushige NojimaKazushige Nojima has written some of the most emotionally charged scripts in video game history, yet most players who wept over Cloud Strife or Tidus have…
- Nick SzaboNick Szabo looked at the Internet in the early 1990s and saw a fundamental problem: strangers doing business with each other had no reliable way to enforce…
- Hiroyuki MoritaHiroyuki Morita danced the idol choreography himself before drawing a single frame of it into Perfect Blue. That instinct, to get the fundamentals right…
- Yoshua BengioYoshua Bengio became, in November 2025, the first AI researcher to pass one million citations on Google Scholar. He was already the most-cited computer…
- Andy SerkisAndy Serkis was born Andrew Clement Serkis on the 20th of April 1964, in Ruislip Manor, Middlesex. His father, Clement, was an Iraqi-Armenian gynaecologist…
- Joss WhedonJoss Whedon grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in a household where Shakespeare was vacation reading and silence was a punishment for children who…
- Shūkō MuraseShūkō Murase entered the animation industry during a period of intense growth for Studio Sunrise. His early career began with work on Yoroiden Samurai…
- Jürgen KlinsmannJürgen Klinsmann scored sixteen goals in a single football match at the age of eight. He was playing for an amateur club in the small town of Gingen an der…
- Salvatore SchillaciSalvatore Schillaci was born on the 1st of December 1964 in Palermo, Italy. He grew up in a poor family within that Sicilian city.
- Arvydas SabonisArvydas Sabonis was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round of the 1986 NBA draft, but he would not step onto an NBA court until 1995 …
- Jack MaJack Ma rode his bicycle 17 miles every day for nine years to reach the Hangzhou International Hotel, where foreign tourists gathered, so he could practice…
- Iain Stewart (geologist)Iain Stewart was born in 1964 in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, and by the time he stood inside an 8-by-2-by-2 meter box with banana trees while scientists…
- Dražen PetrovićDražen Petrović scored 112 points in a single basketball game. Not in a pickup game, not in a fantasy league. In a real, professional match, against a club…
- Šarūnas MarčiulionisRaimondas Šarūnas Marčiulionis was born on the 13th of June 1964 in Lithuania. His mother Laimutė worked as a geography teacher while his father Juozas…