Curated category
1981 births
- Travis WillinghamTravis Willingham grew up in Dallas with a brother named Carson and a private school education that ended after sixth grade, when his family moved him to J.L.
- Natalie PortmanNatalie Portman was born on the 9th of June 1981, in Jerusalem, at Hadassah Medical Center. She has spent most of her life navigating two worlds: the…
- Charlie SlothCharlie Sloth built a reputation on one simple idea: put a microphone in front of an MC and let them freestyle, unfiltered, in front of the world.
- Monty OumMonyreak "Monty" Oum was born on the 22nd of June 1981, and by the time he died on the 1st of February 2015, he had remade what amateur animation on the…
- David J. PetersonDavid J. Peterson built languages for worlds that do not exist. In 2009, HBO needed a language for the Dothraki people in Game of Thrones, and they turned to…
- Daigo UmeharaDaigo Umehara was down to his last pixel of life. Any hit from Justin Wong's Chun-Li, even a blocked one, would end the match.
- Nayib BukeleNayib Bukele was born on the 24th of July 1981 in San Salvador, a city he would one day govern as mayor and later reshape as president.
- Hayden ChristensenHayden Christensen got the role of Anakin Skywalker only after a casting director reviewed about 1,500 other candidates.
- Iker CasillasIker Casillas Fernández was born on the 20th of May 1981 in Móstoles, a town in the province of Madrid, to a civil servant and a hairdresser.
- Andrei KirilenkoAndrei Kirilenko was born on the 18th of February 1981 in Izhevsk, a Soviet industrial city whose most famous export was a rifle.