Updated at December 12, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Ben Smith |
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Birthdate | November 04, 1976 |
Birth Place | New York City, NY |
Age (in 2024) | 48 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Blogger |
Ben Smith is best known as Blogger who has born on November 04, 1976 in New York City, NY. Currently, Ben Smith is 48 years, 1 months and 8 days old. Ben Smith will celebrate 49th birthday on Tuesday, 4th of November 2025. Below the countdown to Ben Smith upcoming birthday.
Political journalist and blogger who became the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed in December of 2011.
His first gig in journalism was as a crime beat reporter for The Indianapolis Star. He graduated from Yale University in 1999 with a BA summa cum laude.
He has worked for The Baltic Times, Wall Street Journal Europe, New York Sun, New York Observer, the Politicker, the Daily Politics, Room Eight and Politico.
He was born and raised in NYC to attorney Robert S. Smith and mother, Dian G. Smith. He married Latvian writer Liena Zagare in 2002; they have three children.
He was a colleague of Jonathan Steinberg at BuzzFeed.
Ben Smith is 48 years old today.
Ben Smith was born on November 04, 1976 in New York City, NY.
Ben Smith zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Ben Smith was best known as Blogger.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Ben Smith's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Ben Smith's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1967 | Iberia Flight 062 crashes in Blackdown, West Sussex, killing all 37 people on board including British actress June Thorburn. |
1970 | Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam. |
1970 | Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections. |
1973 | The Netherlands experiences the first car-free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters. |
1979 | Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages. |
1980 | Ronald Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter. |
1993 | China Airlines Flight 605, a brand-new 747-400, overruns the runway at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport. |
1995 | Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli. |
2002 | Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress. |
2008 | Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected as President of the United States. |
2010 | Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes into Guasimal, Sancti SpÃritus; all 68 passengers and crew are killed. |
2010 | Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380, suffers an uncontained engine failure over Indonesia shortly after taking off from Singapore, crippling the jet. The crew manage to safely return to Singapore, saving all 469 passengers and crew. |
2015 | A cargo plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan, killing at least 37 people. |
2015 | A building collapses in the Pakistani city of Lahore resulting in at least 45 deaths and at least 100 injuries. |
2020 | The Tigray War begins with Tigrayan rebels launching attacks on Ethiopian command centers. |
1988 | The birth of Dez Bryant, American football player |
1988 | The birth of Nathan Ross, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Canadian actor |
1991 | The birth of Alon Day, Israeli race car driver |
1991 | The birth of Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove, Dutch tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Julian Wießmeier, German footballer |
1992 | The birth of Yurii Bieliaiev, Belarusian ice dancer |
1992 | The birth of Hiroki Nakada, Japanese footballer |
1993 | The birth of Elisabeth Seitz, German gymnast |
1994 | The birth of Billy Stanlake, Australian cricketer |
1996 | The birth of Kaitlin Hawayek, American ice dancer |
1996 | The birth of Michael Christian Martinez, Filipino figure skater |
1996 | The birth of John Olive, Australian rugby league player |
1997 | The birth of Bea Binene, Filipina television actress |
2000 | The birth of Sun Yingsha, Chinese table tennis player |
2013 | The death of Leonid Stolovich, Russian-Estonian philosopher and academic (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Ray Willsey, Canadian-American football player and coach (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Enrique Olivera, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 2nd Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires (b. 1940) |
2014 | The death of George Edgar Slusser, American author and academic (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of S. Donald Stookey, American physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare (b. 1915) |
2015 | The death of Piotr Domaradzki, Polish-American historian and journalist (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of René Girard, French-American historian, philosopher, and critic (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Károly Horváth, Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of Lee Robinson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1943) |
2016 | The death of Catherine Davani, first female Papua New Guinean judge (b. 1960) |
2016 | The death of Mansour Pourheidari, Iranian football player and coach (b. 1946) |
2017 | The death of Isabel Granada, Filipino-Spanish actress and singer (b. 1976) |
2017 | The death of Ned Romero, American actor and opera singer (b. 1926) |
2019 | The death of Gay Byrne, Irish broadcaster (b. 1934) |
2020 | The death of Ken Hensley, English rock singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1945) |
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Website | Ben Smith's Webiste |
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