American television host, comedian, and writer

Conan O'Brien

Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host, comedian, writer, actor, and podcaster. He is best known for having hosted late-night talk shows, beginning with Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993–2009) and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009–2010) on the NBC television network, and Conan (2010–2021) on the cable channel TBS. Before his hosting career, O'Brien was a writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1988 to 1991, and the Fox animated sitcom The Simpsons from 1991 to 1993. He has hosted the podcast series Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend since 2018, and starred in the 2024 travel show Conan O'Brien Must Go on HBO Max.

Born

1963

April 18

Died

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1960s

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1963 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

796 King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
1428 Peace of Ferrara between Republic of Venice, Duchy of Milan, Republic of Florence and House of Gonzaga: ending of the second campaign of the Wars in Lombardy fought until the Treaty of Lodi in 1454, which will then guarantee the conditions for the development of the Italian Renaissance.
1506 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
1518 Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.

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The world in 1963

When Conan arrived

april 10 One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
april 11 Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
april 12 The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.[citation needed]
april 16 U.S. civil rights campaigner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes his open letter from Birmingham Jail, sometimes known as "The Negro Is Your Brother", while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama, for protesting against segregation.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on April 18

Alia Shawkat 1989– American actress Audrey Tang 1981– Taiwanese Minister of Digital Affairs and programmer Derrick Brooks 1973– American football player Franz von Suppé 1819–1895 Austrian composer and conductor (died 1895) James Woods 1947– American actor and producer Jeff Dunham 1962– American ventriloquist and comedian Joseph L. Goldstein 1940– American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate Kathy Acker 1944–1997 American author and poet (died 1997) Miguel Cabrera 1983– Venezuelan baseball player

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1963

Alberto Nisman 1963–2015 Argentinian lawyer (died 2015) Alec Stewart 1963– English cricketer Andrea Leadsom 1963– English politician Anne-Sophie Mutter 1963– German violinist Arthur Adams 1963– American comic book artist and writer Brian Greene 1963– American physicist Brian Robbins 1963– American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Chip Kelly 1963– American football player and coach Coolio 1963–2022 American rapper, producer, and actor (died 2022)

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