Scottish director, producer, and screenwriter

Kevin Macdonald

Kevin Macdonald is a Scottish film director. His films include One Day in September (1999), a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, which won him the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the climbing documentary Touching the Void (2003), the drama The Last King of Scotland (2006), the political thriller State of Play (2009), the Bob Marley documentary Marley (2012), the post-apocalyptic drama How I Live Now (2013), the thriller Black Sea (2014), the Whitney Houston documentary Whitney (2018), and the legal drama film The Mauritanian (2021).

Born

1967

October 28

Died

Living

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1960s

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1967 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

97 Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
306 Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.
312 Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.
969 The Byzantine Empire recovers Antioch from Arab rule.

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The world in 1967

When Kevin arrived

april 14 Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new President of Togo, a title he will hold for the next 38 years.
april 21 A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
april 21 A tornado outbreak in Illinois, United States, kills over 50 and injures over 1,000. Belvidere sustains over 500 casualties as a violent tornado strikes the high school. Another tornado near Chicago causes another 500 casualties, devastating Oak Lawn.
april 23 Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1), a crewed spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov, is launched into orbit.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Bill Gates 1955– American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft Auguste Escoffier 1846–1935 French chef and author (born 1846) Christopher Kelk Ingold 1893– British chemist (died 1970) Gwendoline Christie 1978– English actress Hans Speidel 1897– German general (died 1984) Jarrett Jack 1983– American basketball player Kanō Jigorō 1860–1938 Japanese founder of judo (born 1860) Lenny Wilkens 1937– American basketball player and coach (died 2025) Lucy Bronze 1991– English footballer

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Same-year contemporaries

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Sung Jae-gi 1967–2013 South Korean philosopher and activist (born 1967) A. R. Rahman 1967– Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician, and philanthropist Adam Hughes 1967– American author and illustrator Anderson Cooper 1967– American journalist and author Carl Ouellet 1967– Canadian wrestler and sportscaster Carrie-Anne Moss 1967– Canadian actress Cynthia Breazeal 1967– American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic Deion Sanders 1967– American football and baseball player and coach Jane Sixsmith 1967– English field hockey player

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