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Place of birth missing (living people)
- Brian T. DelaneyBrian T. Delaney is an American actor whose credits include voicing Scarecrow on Batman Unlimited and the male Sole Survivor in Fallout 4.
- Christopher Kelly (historian)Christopher Kelly, a British-Australian classicist and historian born in London and raised in Sydney, has spent his career asking a question that most people…
- Tarnya CooperTarnya Cooper has spent her career bringing Tudor faces back to life. As Chief Curator and eventually Curatorial Director at the National Portrait Gallery in…
- 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.
- Jeff PerrenJeff Perren wrote four pages of rules. That modest document, drafted for a batch of Elastikon toy soldiers, helped set in motion one of the most…
- RaekwonRaekwon was accidentally shot four times in a crossfire, and he later called it an "important eye opener." That near-death moment pushed Corey Woods, born on…
- Ed StarkEd Stark is a game designer whose name appears on some of the most recognized titles in tabletop role-playing history. He began at West End Games writing for…
- Walter Everett (musicologist)Walter Everett is a music theorist at the University of Michigan whose career has been built on a single, stubborn question: what actually happens, note by…
- Retha WarnickeRetha Warnicke believes that Anne Boleyn was not born in 1501, as most historians long assumed, but in the summer of 1507.
- Bryan BurkBryan Burk was born on the 30th of December 1968 into a Jewish family. He grew up hearing stories that shaped his identity and later influenced his creative…
- Eric Goldberg (game designer)Eric Goldberg is an American game designer who built much of his career inside the tabletop role-playing game industry. Long before it became a satirical…
- Tom ShoneTom Shone spent five years as the Sunday Times film critic, from 1994 to 1999, sitting in darkened cinemas and wrestling with questions that most critics of…
- Stephen Glover (screenwriter)Stephen Antuan Glover, born on the 18th of June 1988, once recorded rap vocals meant to sound like someone else. The character was Alfred Miles, an aspiring…
- James Graham-CampbellJames Graham-Campbell entered the world on the 7th of February 1947. This date marks the beginning of a life that would eventually reshape our understanding…
- Russo brothersThe Russo brothers directed Avengers: Endgame on a budget paid in part by student loans and credit cards. That credit card film came first.
- Chris Perkins (game designer)Christopher Perkins was born on the 29th of February 1968, which means his birthday falls on the calendar only once every four years.
- ND StevensonND Stevenson was born on the 31st of December 1991, in Columbia, South Carolina, into a family he would later describe as "very religious." That upbringing…
- J. D. DillardJ. D. Dillard was born on the 26th of December 1987 into a family defined by service and flight. His father Bruce worked as a Naval flight officer who became…
- The Duffer BrothersMatt Duffer and Ross Duffer, identical twins credited together as the Duffer Brothers, were born on the 15th of February 1984.
- Naomi ZackNaomi Zack was born in 1944 in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish mother and a father who was Black and Native American. That combination of identities placed…
- Claudia GrayClaudia Gray is not a real name. It is a mask worn by Amy Vincent, an American writer who has built one of the more quietly remarkable careers in…