German director, producer, screenwriter, and composer

Tom Tykwer

Tom Tykwer is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films Run Lola Run (1998), Heaven (2002), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), and The International (2009). He collaborated with The Wachowskis as co-director for the science fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012) and the Netflix series Sense8 (2015–2018), and worked on the score for Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections (2021). Tykwer is also well known as the co-creator of the internationally acclaimed German television series Babylon Berlin (2017–).

Born

1965

May 23

Died

Living

Era

1960s

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Key dates

1965 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

1430 Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction.
1498 Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
1533 The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1568 Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau defeat Jean de Ligne and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.

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The world in 1965

When Tom arrived

april 11 The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-five tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states of the United States, killing 266 people.
april 21 The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
april 24 Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
april 28 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate US Army troops.

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Also born on May 23

Alan García 1949–2019 Peruvian lawyer and politician, twice President of Peru (born 1949) Annemarie Schwarzenbach 1908–1942 Swiss author and photographer (died 1942) Barbara Ward 1914–1981 Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist, journalist, and prominent Catholic layperson (died 1981) C. R. M. F. Cruttwell 1887–1941 English historian (born 1887) Charles Barry 1795–1860 English architect, designed Upper Brook Street Chapel and the Palace of Westminster (born 1795) Franz Kline 1910–1962 American painter and academic (born 1910) Franz Mesmer 1734–1815 German physician and astrologist (born 1734) H. Jon Benjamin 1966– American actor, comedian, writer, and producer Lea DeLaria 1958– American actress and singer

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Dmitry Medvedev 1965– Russia businessperson 2 Cold Scorpio 1965– American wrestler Andrew Stanton 1965– American voice actor, director, producer, screenwriter Annie Duke 1965– American poker player and author Aravinda de Silva 1965– Sri Lankan cricketer Claude Lemieux 1965– Canadian ice hockey player Craig Biggio 1965– American baseball player and coach David Miliband 1965– English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Dennis Lehane 1965– American author, screenwriter, and producer

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