Korean singer-songwriter and actress

IU

Lee Ji-eun, also known by her stage name IU (아이유), is a South Korean singer-songwriter and actress. She signed with LOEN Entertainment in 2007 as a trainee and debuted as a singer at the age of fifteen with the EP Lost and Found (2008). Although her follow-up albums brought mainstream success, it was only after the release of "Good Day", the lead single from her 2010 EP Real, that she achieved national stardom. "Good Day" went on to spend five consecutive weeks at the top of South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart, and in 2019, it was ranked number one on Billboard's "100 Greatest K-Pop Songs of the 2010s" list.

Born

1993

May 16

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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1993 Born

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The world in 1993

When IU arrived

april 1 NASCAR champion Alan Kulwicki is killed in a plane crash near the Tri-Cities Regional Airport in Blountville, Tennessee.
april 11 Four hundred fifty prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and would continue to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
april 11 Guillem Agulló, pro-Catalan independence and anti-fascist Valencian young activist, is assassinated by a group of Spanish nationalists and neo-nazis in Montanejos.
april 19 The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, US, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including 18 children under age 10, died in the fire.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Billy Martin 1928–1989 American baseball player and manager (born 1928) David Boreanaz 1969– American actor Janet Jackson 1966– American singer-songwriter actress Kenji Mizoguchi 1898–1956 Japanese director and screenwriter (born 1898) Kevin McDonald 1961– Canadian actor and screenwriter Kitanoumi Toshimitsu 1953–2015 Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Yokozuna (died 2015) Rick Rypien 1984–2011 Canadian ice hockey player (born 1984) Robert Fripp 1946– English guitarist, songwriter and producer Thomas Brodie-Sangster 1990– English actor

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1993

Adam Gemili 1993– English sprinter Anitta 1993– Brazilian singer and entertainer Ben Platt 1993– American actor, singer, and songwriter Gunna 1993– American rapper Harry Kane 1993– English footballer Ichinojō Takashi 1993– Mongolian sumo wrestler Johnny Gaudreau 1993–2024 American ice hockey player (died 2024) Mark McMorris 1993– Canadian snowboarder Maya DiRado 1993– American swimmer

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