Avi Arad

Avi Arad is an Israeli-American film producer who became the CEO of the company Toy Biz in the 1990s and soon afterward became the chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment, and the chairman, CEO, and founder of Marvel Studios. Since then, he has produced and sometimes written a wide array of live-action, animated, and television comic book adaptations, including Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the 2018 Academy Award winner for Best Animated Feature.

1 August 1948

Born on the same birth date (1 August 1948): Cliff Branch • David Gemmell

Born on the same birth day (1 August): Augusta Read Thomas • Bodene Thompson • Cliff Branch • Don Hertzfeldt • Douglas Osheroff • Emperor Go-Komatsu • Frank Worrell • Gaston Doumergue • George Coulthard • Jerry Garcia • Karl Kobelt • Kevin Jarvis • Konstantinos Logothetopoulos • Laurie Taylor (sociologist) • Lionel Bart • María Teresa López Boegeholz • Meena Kumari • Raymond Mays • Ron Brown • Suzi Gardner • Taylor Negron • Terry Kiser • Veerle Dejaeghere • William Clark

Born in the same month (August 1948): Alexander Ivashkin • Andrei Pleșu • Christy O'Connor Jnr • Cliff Branch • David Hungate • Elizabeth Wilmshurst • Greg Chappell • Jean-Michel Jarre • Joey Spampinato • John Scarlett • Kim Sung-il (general) • Lowell Ganz • Marty Appel • Mike Jorgensen • Murray Parker (cricketer) • Pierre Reid • Robert Plant • Rudolf Schenker • Sauli Niinistö • Sgt. Slaughter • Siddaramaiah • Tipper Gore