American illustrator and voice actor

Chris Sanders

Christopher Michael Sanders is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. His credits include Lilo & Stitch (2002) and How to Train Your Dragon (2010), both of which he co-wrote and directed with Dean DeBlois; The Croods (2013) with Kirk DeMicco; and The Wild Robot (2024), receiving nominations for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for all of them. In 2020, he made his live-action directorial debut with the adventure-drama The Call of the Wild. He created the popular Disney character Stitch in 1985, wrote the film's story, and voiced Stitch in most of his media appearances.

Born

1962

March 12

Died

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1960s

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1962 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

538 Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
1088 Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is best known for initiating the Crusades.
1158 German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I.
1391 Konrad von Wallenrode is elected the 24th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (date is O.S.).

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The world in 1962

When Chris arrived

april 21 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
april 26 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
april 26 The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
august 11 Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.

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Also born on March 12

Dale Murphy 1956– American baseball player Dave Eggers 1970– American author and screenwriter George Berkeley 1685–1753 Anglo-Irish philosopher and author (born 1685) John Aubrey 1626– English historian and philosopher (died 1697) Mary Karadja 1868–1943 Swedish writer, spiritualist and princess (died 1943) Pádraig Faulkner 1918–2012 Irish educator and politician, 19th Irish Minister of Defence (born 1918) Steve Finley 1965– American baseball player Thomas Arne 1710–1778 English composer (died 1778) Tian Han 1898– Chinese playwright (died 1968)

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Art Alexakis 1962– American singer-songwriter and musician Billy Beane 1962– American baseball player and manager Brian Azzarello 1962– American author Clint Black 1962– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer David Arnold 1962– English composer Dee Bradley Baker 1962– American voice actor Denis O'Hare 1962– American actor and singer Evander Holyfield 1962– American boxer and actor Flea 1962– Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor

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