Jon Voight was born on 29 December 1938 in Yonkers. An American actor, Voight achieved fame with the film Midnight Cowboy, for which he received an Academy Award nomination, and he won the Oscar for Best Actor for Coming Home. His other films include Deliverance, The Champ, Runaway Train, Heat, Enemy of the State and Mission: Impossible, and he appeared in the television series Ray Donovan. He is the father of the actress Angelina Jolie. A political conservative and supporter of Donald Trump, he was named by Trump as a special ambassador to Hollywood.
Before and after
- 9 October 1938Birth of Heinz Fischer
- 29 October 1938Birth of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- November 1938Kristallnacht
- 10 November 1938Death of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 29 December 1938Birth of Jon Voight
- 1939Porajmos
- from 1939 to 1946Manhattan Project
- from 1939 to 1941Aktion T4
- 1939Founding of Marvel Comics
More in Art, literature & culture
- c. 1920sRise of surrealism
- 1 May 1931Construction of Empire State Building
- 1935Construction of Da Nang International Airport
- 28 May 1937Construction of Golden Gate Bridge
- c. 1940sRise of Postmodernism
- 6 April 1943Publication of The Little Prince
The era
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