John Romero

Alfonso John Romero is an American director, designer, programmer and developer in the video game industry. He is a co-founder of id Software and designed their early games, including Wolfenstein 3D (1992), Doom (1993), Doom II (1994), Hexen (1995) and Quake (1996). His designs and development tools, along with programming techniques developed by id Software's lead programmer, John Carmack, popularized the first-person shooter (FPS) genre. Romero is also credited with coining the multiplayer term "deathmatch".

28 October 1967

Born on the same birth date (28 October 1967): Julia Roberts • Kevin Macdonald (director)

Born on the same birth day (28 October): Alan Clarke • Anthony Lerew • Curtis Lee • Dave Budd • Gerry Anderson (broadcaster) • Hank Marvin • Jack Eichel • Joaquin Phoenix • John Connell (actor) • Ludo Delcroix • Malwida von Meysenbug • Maria Anna of Neuburg • Marie of the Incarnation (Ursuline) • Stetson Bennett • Suryakantham (actress) • Terence Donovan (actor) • Tyrone Barnett • Vicente Moreno

Born in the same month (October 1967): Adam Schlesinger • Aleksander Čeferin • Becky Iverson • Carling Bassett-Seguso • Carlos Mencia • Chris Collingwood • Dale Crover • Dan Forest • Gavin Lovegrove • Gavin Newsom • Götz Otto • Jonathan Littell • Julia Roberts • Kevin Walters • Liev Schreiber • Martin Marinov • Michael Laffy • Olo Brown • Omar Linares • Simone Moro • Svend Karlsen • Teddy Riley • Trevor Hoffman • Werner Daehn