Welsh screenwriter and producer

Russell T Davies

Stephen Russell Davies, known professionally as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for being the original showrunner and head writer of the revival of the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who, from 2005 to 2010 and again since 2023. His other notable works include creating the series Queer as Folk (1999–2000), Bob & Rose (2001), The Second Coming (2003), Casanova (2005), Doctor Who spin-offs Torchwood (2006–2011), The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007–2011), and The War Between the Land and the Sea (2025), Cucumber (2015), A Very English Scandal (2018), Years and Years (2019), It's a Sin (2021) and Nolly (2023).

Born

1963

April 27

Died

Living

Era

1960s

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Russell, in brief

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Key dates

1963 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

247 Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ludi saeculares.
395 Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
711 Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1296 First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

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The world in 1963

When Russell 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 27

Arielle Dombasle 1953– French-American actress and model August Wilson 1945–2005 American author and playwright (died 2005) Fethullah Gülen 1941–2024 Turkish preacher and theologian (died 2024) Frank Abagnale Jr. 1948– American security consultant and criminal Frank Catalanotto 1974– American baseball player Irving Adler 1913–2012 American mathematician, author, and academic (died 2012) Kate Pierson 1948– American singer-songwriter and bass player Lim Bo Seng 1909– Chinese businessman, resistance fighter of Force 136 and war hero of Singapore (died 1944) Mumtaz Mahal 1593–1631 Mughal empress buried at the Taj Mahal (died 1631)

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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 Conan O'Brien 1963– American television host, comedian, and writer

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