Curated category
1976 births
- Derek ConnollyDerek Connolly is a screenwriter who has quietly helped shape some of the biggest blockbusters of the past decade, yet his name rarely appears on a movie…
- Rick RossRick Ross was born William Leonard Roberts II on the 28th of January 1976 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and grew up in Carol City, Florida.
- Tim DuncanTim Duncan was born on the 25th of April 1976, on the island of Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and he nearly never played basketball at all.
- Benedict CumberbatchBenedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born on the 19th of July 1976 at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in Hammersmith, London. His parents were both actors.
- Ryan ReynoldsRyan Rodney Reynolds chose not to get paid for Deadpool to make sure the film would actually get made. That detail, small as it sounds, tells you almost…
- Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima scored five goals for Cruzeiro in a single game against Bahia on the 7th of November 1993. He was 17 years old.
- Makoto YukimuraMakoto Yukimura read his first manga at age 5. The cover of Akira Toriyama's Dr. Slump stopped him cold. That single image planted something that would take…
- Yuval Noah HarariYuval Noah Harari taught himself to read at age three. That detail alone tells you something about the man who would go on to write one of the best-selling…
- Demis HassabisDemis Hassabis was born Dimitrios Hassapis on the 27th of July 1976, and his very surname carries a story. The original name, Hassapis, means “butcher” in…
- Chauncey BillupsChauncey Ray Billups was born on the 25th of September, 1976 in Denver, Colorado. He grew up in a city that would later become his professional home base for…
- Alexei NavalnyAlexei Navalny boarded a flight from Tomsk to Moscow on the 20th of August 2020 having consumed, by his spokeswoman's account, nothing that morning but a cup…
- Andrew NgAndrew Yan-Tak Ng was born in London on the 18th of April 1976, to a hematologist father and an arts administrator mother who had both immigrated from Hong…
- Colin TrevorrowColin Trevorrow grew up singing in the chorus of the San Francisco Opera, a detail that seems almost too cinematic for a boy who would later direct one of…
- David M. EwaltDavid M. Ewalt's first book arrived in 2013. Its subject was Dungeons & Dragons, a pioneering role-playing game. Ewalt, born in 1976, had spent years in…
- Joe ManganielloJoseph Michael Manganiello arrived in the world on the 28th of December 1976. He grew up in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, an affluent suburb bordering…
- Chris TerrioChris Terrio spent months trying to figure out whether Gatorade existed in December 1979. He needed to know if Tony Mendez could plausibly have made a joke…
- Damon JonesDamon Jones once told anyone who would listen that he was "the best shooter in the world." Not one of the best. Not among the best. The best.