Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Ben Lerner |
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Birthdate | February 04, 1979 |
Birth Place | Kansas |
Age (in 2024) | 45 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Poet |
Ben Lerner is best known as Poet who has born on February 04, 1979 in Kansas. Currently, Ben Lerner is 45 years, 9 months and 17 days old. Ben Lerner will celebrate 46th birthday on Tuesday, 4th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Ben Lerner upcoming birthday.
An American fiction author, essayist, and poet, he is best known for his work, Angle of Yaw, which was a 2006 finalist for the National Book Award. His debut novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was nominated for a Los Angeles Times first book award.
He attended Brown University, earning a bachelor's degree in political theory and a master's of fine arts degree in poetry. Early in his career, he received the Hayden Carruth prize for The Lichtenberg Figures, a book of sonnets.
He taught at Brooklyn College after leaving the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh.
He was raised in Topeka, Kansas. His mother, Harriet Lerner, was a famous psychologist.
He named his novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, after a John Ashbery poem.
Ben Lerner is 45 years old today.
Ben Lerner was born on February 04, 1979 in Kansas.
Ben Lerner zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Ben Lerner was best known as Poet.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Ben Lerner's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1974 | The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California. |
1974 | M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed. |
1975 | Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China. |
1976 | In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000. |
1977 | A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history. |
1992 | A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez. |
1997 | En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel, killing 73. |
1997 | The Bojnurd earthquake measuring Mw  6.5 strikes Iran. With a Mercalli intensity of VIII, it kills at least 88 and damages 173 villages. |
1998 | The 5.9 Mw  Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme. |
1999 | Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city. |
2000 | The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year. |
2003 | The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopts a new constitution, becoming a loose confederacy between Montenegro and Serbia. |
2004 | Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. |
2015 | TransAsia Airways Flight 235, with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after takeoff, killing 43 people. |
2020 | The COVID-19 pandemic causes all casinos in Macau to be closed down for 15 days. |
1980 | The birth of Raimonds Vaikulis, Latvian basketball player |
1981 | The birth of Jason Kapono, American basketball player |
1981 | The birth of Johan Vansummeren, Belgian cyclist |
1982 | The birth of Ivars Timermanis, Latvian basketball player |
1982 | The birth of Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian cyclist |
1983 | The birth of Lee Stempniak, American ice hockey player |
1983 | The birth of Rebecca White, Australian politician |
1984 | The birth of Sandeep Acharya, Indian singer (d. 2013) |
1984 | The birth of Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer |
1986 | The birth of Maximilian Götz, German racing driver |
1986 | The birth of Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer |
1987 | The birth of Darren O'Dea, Irish footballer |
1987 | The birth of Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player |
1988 | The birth of Carly Patterson, American gymnast and singer |
1998 | The birth of Maximilian Wöber, Austrian footballer |
2013 | The death of Donald Byrd, American trumpet player (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Keith Allen, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Eugenio Corti, Italian soldier, author, and playwright (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Dennis Lota, Zambian footballer (b. 1973) |
2015 | The death of Fitzhugh L. Fulton, American colonel and pilot (b. 1925) |
2016 | The death of Edgar Mitchell, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Steve Lang, Canadian bass player (b. 1949) |
2017 | The death of Bano Qudsia, Pakistani writer (b. 1928) |
2018 | The death of John Mahoney, English-American actor, voice artist, and comedian (b. 1940) |
2019 | The death of Matti Nykänen, Finnish Olympic-winning ski jumper and singer (b. 1963) |
2020 | The death of Daniel arap Moi, Former President of Kenya (b. 1924) |
2021 | The death of Millie Hughes-Fulford, American astronaut, molecular biologist and NASA payload specialist (b. 1945) |
2023 | The death of Vani Jairam, Indian playback singer (b. 1945) |
2023 | The death of Sherif Ismail, 53rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1955) |
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