American director, producer, and screenwriter

Zack Snyder

Zachary Edward Snyder is an American filmmaker. After starting his career primarily directing music videos, he made his feature film debut in 2004 with Dawn of the Dead, a remake of the 1978 horror film of the same name. Since then, he has directed or produced a number of comic book and superhero films, including 300 (2006) and Watchmen (2009), as well as the Superman film that started the DC Extended Universe, Man of Steel (2013), and its follow-ups, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017), the latter of which had a director's cut released in 2021.

Born

1966

March 1

Died

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1960s

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-509 Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
293 Emperor Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesars. This is considered the beginning of the Tetrarchy, known as the Quattuor Principes Mundi ("Four Rulers of the World").
350 Vetranio proclaims himself Caesar after being encouraged to do so by Constantina, sister of Constantius II.
834 Emperor Louis the Pious is restored as sole ruler of the Frankish Empire.

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The world in 1966

When Zack arrived

april 21 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
april 22 American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83.
april 23 Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula, killing 33 people.
april 26 The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Big E 1986– American professional wrestler Dinah Shore 1917–1994 American actress and singer (born 1916) Ja'Marr Chase 2000– American football player Mercedes de Acosta 1893–1968 American author, poet, and playwright (died 1968) Richard Wilbur 1921– American poet, translator, and essayist (died 2017) Sergei Kourdakov 1951– Russian-American KGB agent (died 1973) William Cushing 1732– American lawyer and judge (died 1810) Yitzhak Rabin 1922–1995 Israeli general and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)

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Also born in 1966

Jimmy Wales 1966– American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia Allan Donald 1966– South African cricketer and coach Andrew Adamson 1966– New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter Andrew Wood 1966–1990 American singer-songwriter (died 1990) Ben Folds 1966– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Bill Ranford 1966– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Calvin Borel 1966– American jockey Charles Hazlewood 1966– English conductor Cynthia Nixon 1966– American actress

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