Curated category
1969 births
- Jay-ZJay-Z was born Shawn Corey Carter on the 4th of December 1969, in Brooklyn, New York City, and grew up in the Marcy Houses, a public housing project in the…
- Wes AndersonWes Anderson grew up in Houston, Texas, making silent films on his father's Super 8 camera, casting his brothers and friends as the talent.
- Birdman (rapper)Birdman was born Bryan Christopher Brooks on the 15th of February 1969 at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, without a given first name.
- Greg ZeschukGreg Zeschuk spent one summer as a child making games on an Apple II computer with a group of friends in Edmonton, Alberta.
- Mariah CareyMariah Carey walked into a music executive's party in December 1988 as an unknown backup singer and left without speaking to anyone important.
- Sean CombsSean Combs was born on the 4th of November 1969, in Harlem, New York City, and by the time he reached his mid-twenties he had reshaped American popular music…
- Mark MillarMark Millar was born on the 24th of December 1969, in Coatbridge, Scotland, a working-class town near Glasgow where he would spend the first half of his life.
- DJ QbertRichard Quitevis arrived in this world on the 7th of October 1969. His parents came from Bacolod and Ilocos Sur before settling in San Francisco.
- Hitoshi SakimotoHitoshi Sakimoto was born on the 26th of February 1969 in Tokyo, Japan, and by the age of 16 he was already being paid to compose music for video games.
- Rana MitterRana Mitter was born in Cambridge on the 11th of August 1969, into a household where scholarship was the family trade. His father, Partha Mitter, taught art…
- Alexander McQueenAlexander McQueen drew a dress on the wall of his East London family home when he was three years old. That crayon scrawl in Stratford is where the story of…
- Adrian GoldsworthyAdrian Goldsworthy, born in 1969, once summed up his outlook in a single blunt line. "English, so obviously do not have a philosophy.
- Yoshitaka MurayamaYoshitaka Murayama died on the 6th of February 2024, just weeks before the game he had spent years building finally reached players. He was 55 years old.
- Marilyn MansonBrian Hugh Warner was born on the 5th of January 1969 in Canton, Ohio. He grew up in a household where his mother attended Episcopal church while his father…
- Chris WeitzChristopher John Weitz was born on the 30th of November 1969 in New York City. His mother Susan Kohner worked as an actress while his father John Weitz…
- Giles MartinGiles Martin was born on the 9th of October 1969, which happened to be John Lennon's 29th birthday. That coincidence of dates hints at how thoroughly the…
- Oliver KahnOliver Kahn won the Golden Ball at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the award for the tournament's best individual performer, despite having fumbled a shot directly…
- Christian LaettnerChristian Laettner topped an ESPN fan poll as the most hated college basketball player in history. That vote came more than twenty years after he left Duke…
- Ryuhei KitamuraRyuhei Kitamura walked out of his high school classroom in Osaka at age 16. He told his teacher he was leaving and moved to Australia just seven days later.
- Norman ReedusNorman Mark Reedus was born on the 6th of January 1969 in Hollywood, Florida, to a teacher and former Playboy bunny named Marianne and a father named Ira…
- Clifford AndoClifford Ando was born in 1969, and by the time he reached Princeton University as an undergraduate, he was already drawn to a world two millennia removed…
- Gabriel BatistutaGabriel Omar Batistuta was born on the 1st of February 1969 in the Argentine town of Avellaneda, to a slaughterhouse worker and a school secretary.
- Oleg SalenkoOleg Anatolyevich Salenko entered the world on the 25th of October 1969 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR. His father was Ukrainian and his mother was Russian.
- Robert ProsinečkiRobert Prosinečki arrived in the world on the 12th of January 1969 inside a small apartment in Schwenningen, West Germany.
- Luc LongleyLuc Longley was born in Melbourne on the 19th of January 1969, and by the time he was 25 years old he was standing at the Fremantle Port watching a new…