Curated playlist
1996 births
- LordeLorde was 16 years old when her single "Royals" reached number one in the United States. That made her the youngest artist to earn an American chart-topper since Tiffany in 1987. Lorde is the stage name of Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor,…
- ZendayaAt 24, Zendaya became the youngest person ever to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She took the prize at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards in 2020, for her work in the HBO series Euphoria. Zendaya…
- Jalen BrunsonJalen Brunson spent part of his childhood inside NBA locker rooms. When his father Rick played for the New York Knicks, Tom Thibodeau worked there as an assistant coach. Years later Thibodeau became Jalen's head coach, and the boy from…
- Sophie TurnerSophie Turner was 14 years old in July 2010, when cameras began turning on the HBO fantasy drama Game of Thrones. The part of Sansa Stark, a young noblewoman, was her first role on television. She would stay with the character for the…
- Jennie (singer)Jennie opened her own YouTube channel on the 16th of January 2021, her 25th birthday, and it passed one million subscribers in under seven hours. Within a day it held more than 1.75 million. Only the Brazilian singer Marília Mendonça had…
- Florence PughFlorence Pugh insisted on jumping from the top of Merdeka 118 herself, with no stunt double, while making Thunderbolts in 2025. Marvel Studios was reluctant at first because of insurance concerns. Pugh kept pressing, and after…
- Tom HollandTom Holland, the English actor, has led films that together have grossed more than $9.9 billion worldwide, according to The Numbers. That total places him among the highest-grossing film actors of all time. In 2019 he appeared on the…
- Anya Taylor-JoyAnya Taylor-Joy was born in Miami on the 16th of April 1996, in a city her parents were only visiting on vacation. She calls her birth there a "fluke". That accident gave her American citizenship. She nevertheless grew up in Buenos Aires…
- Paul MescalPaul Mescal was born in Dublin on the 2nd of February 1996. As a teenager, he was a defender for Kildare, first at minor level and then at under-21 level. A physical trainer named Cian O'Neill once described the young player as "mature…
- Hailey BieberHailey Bieber was named after a comet. Halley's Comet, the famous visitor that swings past Earth only once in a lifetime, gave her the first name she carries today. Born Hailey Rhode Baldwin, she has been a model, a television host, a…
- Ben SimmonsBen Simmons went first overall in the 2016 NBA draft without ever playing in the NCAA tournament.
- Josh AllenJosh Allen finished high school in Firebaugh, California, without a single scholarship offer from any NCAA Division I program, whether at the top level or the one beneath it. Years later, the National Football League named him its most…
- Hailee SteinfeldHailee Steinfeld once ran a swear jar on a film set. During the making of True Grit, the harshest word cost its speaker five dollars, and other vulgarities cost a dollar each. Steinfeld fined herself fifty cents whenever she said the word…