American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

David Duchovny

David William Duchovny is an American actor, writer, director and musician. He received his breakthrough with the role of Fox Mulder in The X-Files franchise earning a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. He received another Golden Globe for his portrayal of Hank Moody on the television series Californication (2007–2014) and executive-produced and starred in the historically based cop drama Aquarius (2015–2016). He wrote and directed the 2004 coming-of-age comedy House of D starring Robin Williams, Téa Leoni and Anton Yelchin.

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1960

August 7

Died

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1960s

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1960 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

461 Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.
626 The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
768 Pope Stephen III is elected to office, and quickly seeks Frankish protection against the Lombard threat, since the Byzantine Empire is no longer able to help.
936 Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.

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The world in 1960

When David arrived

april 1 The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
april 13 The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
april 15 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
april 19 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Jimmy Wales 1966– American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia Elizabeth Báthory 1560–1614 Hungarian countess and purported serial killer (born 1560) Henri Le Sidaner 1862– French painter (died 1939) James Randi 1928–2020 Canadian-American stage magician and author (died 2020) Louis Leakey 1903–1972 Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (died 1972) Ralph Bunche 1904–1971 American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971) Walid Jumblatt 1949– Lebanese journalist and politician

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Aaron Allston 1960–2014 American game designer and author (died 2014) Akbar Ganji 1960– Iranian journalist and author Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 1960– second son of Elizabeth II Annabella Sciorra 1960– American actress Arjen Anthony Lucassen 1960– Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Ayuo Takahashi 1960– Japanese-American singer-songwriter Bernard Rose 1960–1996 English director, screenwriter, and cinematographer Cem Uzan 1960– Turkish businessman and politician Craig Hodges 1960– American basketball player and coach

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