Souleymane Cissé (film director)

Souleymane Cissé is a Malian film director, regarded as one of the first generation of African filmmakers. He has been called "Africa's greatest living filmmaker" while his film Yeelen has been called "conceivably the greatest African film ever made."

21 April 1940

Born on the same birth date (21 April 1940): Jacques Caron

Born on the same birth day (21 April): Ahmed Arif • Gary Peters (baseball) • Herbert Wetterauer • Marcel Camus • Mike Wingfield • Morgan Wootten • Patti LuPone • Simon de la Loubère • Toby Stephens • Ulrich von Hutten

Born in the same month (April 1940): Benoît Bouchard • Col Firmin • Gloria Hunniford • Jim Roberts (ice hockey, born 1940) • Joan Snyder • Lester Chambers • Tommy Cash • Wangarĩ Maathai