Curated playlist
1977 births
- FabolousFabolous got his name by misspelling "Fabulous." The Brooklyn rapper freestyled on Hot 97 as a teenager.
- Kanye WestKanye West recorded "Through the Wire" with his jaw still wired shut. A 2002 car accident had shattered it.
- Yoshiaki NishimuraProducer Yoshiaki Nishimura left Studio Ghibli in April 2015 to start Studio Ponoc.
- Tom HardyTom Hardy put on 42 pounds to play the English prisoner Charles Bronson. Bronson sent him his shaved-off mustache.
- Manu GinóbiliManu Ginóbili was picked 57th in the NBA draft and still reached the Hall of Fame.
- Orlando BloomOrlando Bloom was named after Orlando Gibbons, an English composer of the 16th century. He was born in Canterbury, Kent, on the 13th of January 1977. Nothing about that start pointed toward a screen career. Some consider him the Errol…
- Tom BradyTom Brady was once drafted by the Montreal Expos as a catcher. He chose football at Michigan instead.
- ShakiraAt age four, Shakira climbed onto a restaurant table and danced to a doumbek. It happened in Barranquilla, Colombia.
- Chris MartinChris Martin, the English singer and pianist born on the 2nd of March 1977, composed a three-minute instrumental called "Electric Thunder" when he was 12 years old. In February 2020, a former fellow pupil found it on a cassette tape.…
- Makoto FukamiFor Psycho-Pass 3, lead writer Tow Ubukata asked that Makoto Fukami alone write the two main characters.
- Brittany MurphyBrittany Murphy stood on the stage of the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards with a very simple job. She was to read the names of five nominees, open an envelope and announce the winner. Instead, the American actress and singer turned the…
- Becky HammonBecky Hammon went to Spurs practices on a knee injury and left as a coach.
- Nuno LoureiroNuno Loureiro, a Portuguese plasma physicist, was shot in the foyer of his apartment building in Brookline, Massachusetts, on the evening of the 15th of December 2025. He was taken to a Boston hospital and died early the next morning. At…
- Jessica MeirJessica Meir took part in the first spacewalk done entirely by women. She and Christina Koch replaced a faulty unit.
- Beau WillimonBeau Willimon says he was the worst student in his Columbia playwriting class. He later created House of Cards.
- Peja StojakovićPeja Stojaković once scored his team's first 20 points before a teammate touched the ball. It was an NBA first.