Curated category
1972 births
- Mina KubotaMina Kubota began her professional journey in the Japanese music industry as a composer and vocal arranger. Her early training laid the groundwork for a…
- Jude LawDavid Jude Heyworth Law arrived in the London borough of Lewisham on the 29th of December 1972. His parents were both teachers who had married five years…
- EminemMarshall Bruce Mathers III arrived in the world on the 17th of October 1972, inside a hospital in St. Joseph, Missouri. His mother Deborah Nelson nearly died…
- Naoshi MizutaNaoshi Mizuta was born in Kōchi, Japan, during the year 1972. His fascination with music started when he was a child in the second or third grade of…
- Large ProfessorWilliam Paul Mitchell was born in Harlem on the 21st of March 1972. He grew up in Flushing, Queens, where he attended IS 237 and John Bowne High School.
- Jeru the DamajaKendrick Jeru Davis was born on the 14th of February 1971 in Brooklyn, New York. He spent his early years in the borough's East New York neighborhood where…
- Gwyneth PaltrowGwyneth Kate Paltrow entered the world on the 27th of September 1972 in Los Angeles. Her father Bruce Paltrow worked as a film producer and director while…
- TimbalandIn 1986, a fourteen-year-old Timothy Zachery Mosley sat in the parking lot of a Red Lobster restaurant in Norfolk, Virginia.
- The Notorious B.I.G.Christopher George Latore Wallace was born at Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on the 21st of May 1972. He grew up in the Clinton Hill neighborhood…
- Anna KozlovaAnna Kozlova entered the world on the 30th of December 1972 in Leningrad. Her father taught mathematics while her mother instructed swimming.
- Esther DufloEsther Duflo was born on the 25th of October 1972 at the Port Royal Hospital in Paris, France. Her father taught mathematics while her mother worked as a…
- Shaquille O'NealShaquille Rashaun O'Neal entered the world on the 6th of March 1972, in Newark, New Jersey. His biological father was Joe Toney, a high school basketball…
- Sean PriceSean Duval Price entered the world on the 17th of March 1972. He grew up in the borough of Brooklyn during a time when hip hop was transforming from local…
- Idris ElbaIdrissa Akuna Elba was born on the 6th of September 1972 in the London Borough of Hackney. He grew up as the only child to Winston Elba, a Sierra Leonean man…
- Zinedine ZidaneZinedine Yazid Zidane was born on the 23rd of June 1972 in La Castellane, a neighbourhood in the 16th arrondissement of Marseille.
- Gary WhittaGary Leslie Whitta was born on the 21st of July 1972 in England. His professional journey began within the pages of ACE magazine, a publication dedicated to…
- Samantha SmithNovember 1982 marked a turning point in global tension when Yuri Andropov succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as leader of the Soviet Union.