Curated category
1978 births
- Matthew Robinson (writer)Matthew Robinson was born on the 26th of May 1978, and by his early thirties he had managed to co-create a film that asked one of the stranger philosophical…
- Dirk NowitzkiDirk Nowitzki stood in the visiting locker room in Miami in June 2011, carrying a 101-degree fever, his left middle finger held together by a surgically…
- Kobe BryantKobe Bean Bryant scored 81 points on the 22nd of January, 2006, the second-highest total in a single NBA game in the history of the sport.
- Brad RutterBrad Rutter walked into a Jeopardy! studio on the 30th of October 2000 and never lost a game against a human opponent for nearly two decades.
- Miroslav KloseMiroslav Klose scored 16 goals in the FIFA World Cup across four tournaments, a record no player has matched. He was born on the 9th of June 1978 in Opole, a…
- Geoff KeighleyGeoff Keighley was born on the 24th of June 1978, and by the time he was a teenager he was already writing nomination announcements for the first video game…
- Kate MadisonKate Madison grew up in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, and by the age of four she was already performing on stage, pulled into her local amateur dramatic group by…
- Richard B. SpencerRichard Bertrand Spencer was born on the 11th of May, 1978, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of an ophthalmologist and an heiress to Louisiana cotton farms.
- Sharmeen Obaid-ChinoySharmeen Obaid-Chinoy was seventeen years old and already filing investigative reports for a local English-language newspaper in Karachi.
- Gianluigi BuffonGianluigi Buffon was born on the 28th of January 1978 in Carrara, Tuscany, into a family that treated sport as a way of life.