Curated category
1966 births
- Yoshinori KitaseIn July 1978, an eleven-year-old boy named Yoshinori Kitase watched the movie Star Wars for the first time. He was deeply impressed by the film and later…
- David CameronDavid William Donald Cameron was born on the 9th of October 1966 at the London Clinic in Marylebone, London. He grew up at Peasemore in Berkshire with two…
- Mary Elizabeth McGlynnOn the 16th of October 1966, a girl named Mary Elizabeth McGlynn was born in the United States. Her professional journey began under a different name.
- Masaharu IwataMasaharu Iwata was born in Tokyo on the 26th of October 1966. His earliest attempts at music were poor experiments during his school years.
- J. J. AbramsOn a day in 1982, Jeffrey Jacob Abrams composed the music for a horror movie called Nightbeast. He was only sixteen years old when he wrote that score.
- Mike TysonMichael Gerard Tyson was born on the 30th of June 1966 at Cumberland Hospital in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. He grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant before his family…
- Dikembe MutomboDikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo arrived in the United States at age 21 with a specific goal. He intended to study medicine and return…
- Grigori PerelmanGrigori Yakovlevich Perelman was born on the 13th of June 1966 in Leningrad, Soviet Union. His mother Lyubov gave up her own graduate work in mathematics to…
- David X. CohenDavid Samuel Cohen was born on the 13th of July 1966 in New York City. Both of his parents were biologists, and he grew up planning to be a scientist himself.
- RomárioRomário de Souza Faria arrived in the world on the 29th of January 1966. He grew up in a poor neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.
- Rik SmitsRik Smits was born on the 23rd of August 1966 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. He began playing basketball at age 14 for a local club called PSV, Almonte.
- Dan the AutomatorDaniel M. Nakamura entered the world on the 29th of August 1966, in San Francisco, California. His family history carried a heavy weight from the era of…
- Jeremy BlausteinJeremy Blaustein was born in 1966. He moved from simple translation work to voice direction during the mid-1990s. This shift happened while he worked for…
- Jon FavreauJonathan Kolia Favreau was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, on the 19th of October 1966. He grew up as the only child of Madeleine, an elementary school…
- Kenji KamiyamaKenji Kamiyama began his career painting backgrounds for the 1987 animated series DuckTales. He moved to work on Patlabor between 1988 and 1989 as an…
- David ChalmersDavid John Chalmers was born on the 20th of April 1966 in Sydney, New South Wales. He grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where he attended Unley High…
- Hristo StoichkovHristo Stoichkov arrived in the world on the 8th of February 1966. He grew up in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Football found him when he was just eleven…
- Enzo ScifoVincenzo Scifo arrived in the world on the 19th of February 1966 inside a house in La Louvière, Wallonia. His parents had traveled from Sicily to Belgium…
- Zaw ZawZaw Zaw was born in Yegyi Township, Ayeyarwady Region in 1967. He graduated from University of Yangon, majoring in Mathematics.
- Mikhail MishustinMikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin entered the world on the 3rd of March 1966 in Lobnya, a town situated very close to Moscow.