Updated at December 22, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Alan Dean Foster |
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Birthdate | November 18, 1946 |
Birth Place | New York |
Age (in 2024) | 78 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Novelist |
Alan Dean Foster is best known as Novelist who has born on November 18, 1946 in New York. Currently, Alan Dean Foster is 78 years, 1 months and 4 days old. Alan Dean Foster will celebrate 79th birthday on Tuesday, 18th of November 2025. Below the countdown to Alan Dean Foster upcoming birthday.
An American author of fantasy and science fiction, he wrote several popular series, including the Pip and Flinx books and The Damned Trilogy.
He received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He published his debut Pip and Flinx novel in 1972.
He won the 2008 Grand Master Award.
He was born in New York. Later, he married Joann Oxley.
He wrote the original Star Wars novelization after George Lucas delivered him the film's screenplay.
Alan Dean Foster is 78 years old today.
Alan Dean Foster was born on November 18, 1946 in New York.
Alan Dean Foster zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Alan Dean Foster was best known as Novelist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Alan Dean Foster's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Alan Dean Foster's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1978 | The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet makes its first flight, at the Naval Air Test Center in Maryland, United States. |
1978 | In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. |
1987 | King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras. |
1991 | Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland. |
1991 | After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces. |
1991 | The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia, which would in 1993 become a republic, was established in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
1993 | In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is approved by the House of Representatives. |
1993 | In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule. |
1996 | A fire occurs on a train traveling through the Channel Tunnel from France to England causing several injuries and damaging approximately 500 metres (1,600 ft) of tunnel. |
1999 | At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapses killing 12 students and injuring 27 others. |
2002 | Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq. |
2003 | The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4-3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples. |
2012 | Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria becomes the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. |
2013 | NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars. |
2020 | The Utah monolith, built sometime in 2016 is discovered by state biologists of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. |
1983 | The birth of Jon Lech Johansen, Norwegian computer programmer and engineer, created DeCSS |
1984 | The birth of Ryohei Chiba, Japanese singer and dancer |
1984 | The birth of Enar Jääger, Estonian footballer |
1985 | The birth of Allyson Felix, American sprinter |
1987 | The birth of Yoon Park, South Korean actor |
1988 | The birth of Jeffrey Jordan, American basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Michael Roach, American soccer player |
1988 | The birth of Marie-Josée Ta Lou, Ivorian sprinter |
1989 | The birth of Lu Jiajing, Chinese tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Ahmed Kelly, Iraqi-Australian swimmer |
1991 | The birth of Noppawan Lertcheewakarn, Thai tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Steven Skrzybski, German footballer |
1994 | The birth of Danka Kovinić, Montenegrin professional tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Bernhard Luxbacher, Austrian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Akiyuki Hashimoto, Japanese sprinter |
2013 | The death of Thomas Howard, American football player (b. 1983) |
2013 | The death of S. R. D. Vaidyanathan, Indian nadaswaram player and composer (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Ljubomir Vračarević, Serbian martial artist, founded Real Aikido (b. 1947) |
2013 | The death of Peter Wintonick, Canadian director and producer (b. 1953) |
2014 | The death of Dave Appell, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Pepe Eliaschev, Argentinian journalist and author (b. 1945) |
2014 | The death of Ahmad Lozi, Jordanian educator and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of C. Rudhraiya, Indian director and producer (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Belgian-Moroccan terrorist (b. 1987) |
2015 | The death of Dan Halldorson, Canadian-American golfer (b. 1952) |
2015 | The death of Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1975) |
2016 | The death of Sharon Jones, American soul and funk singer (b. 1956) |
2016 | The death of Denton Cooley, American surgeon and scientist (b. 1920) |
2017 | The death of Malcolm Young, Scottish-Australian hard rock guitarist (b. 1953) |
2022 | The death of Tabassum, Indian actress and talk show host (b. 1944) |
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