Updated at November 7, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Connie Willis |
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Birthdate | December 31, 1945 |
Birth Place | Colorado |
Age (in 2024) | 78 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Novelist |
Connie Willis is best known as Novelist who has born on December 31, 1945 in Colorado. Currently, Connie Willis is 78 years, 10 months and 7 days old. Connie Willis will celebrate 79th birthday on Tuesday, 31st of December 2024. Below the countdown to Connie Willis upcoming birthday.
An American science fiction writer, she received a Hugo Award in 2011 for Black Out/All Clear, a two-volume, time-travel-themed series. Her other popular novels include Doomsday Book (1992) and To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998).
She attended the University of Northern Colorado. She published her first fantasy story, The Secret of Santa Titicaca, in 1970.
She received a Nebula Award for her 1982 short story, Fire Watch.
She married physics professor Courtney Willis. The couple became parents to a daughter named Cordelia.
She admired the work of fellow science fiction writer, Madeline L'Engle.
Connie Willis is 78 years old today.
Connie Willis was born on December 31, 1945 in Colorado.
Connie Willis zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Connie Willis was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Connie Willis's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1994 | The First Chechen War: The Russian Ground Forces begin a New Year's storming of Grozny. |
1998 | The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency. |
1999 | The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor. |
1999 | The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties. |
1999 | Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ends after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan. |
2000 | The last day of the 20th Century and 2nd Millennium. |
2004 | The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670Â ft). |
2009 | Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur. |
2010 | Tornadoes touch down in midwestern and southern United States, including Washington County, Arkansas; Greater St. Louis, Sunset Hills, Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma, with a few tornadoes in the early hours. A total of 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages. |
2011 | NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon. |
2014 | A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others. |
2015 | A fire breaks out at the Downtown Address Hotel in Downtown Dubai, United Arab Emirates, located near the Burj Khalifa, two hours before the fireworks display is due to commence. Sixteen injuries were reported; one had a heart attack, another suffered a major injury, and fourteen others with minor injuries. |
2018 | Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-story building collapses in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia. |
2019 | The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
2020 | The World Health Organization issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine. |
1984 | The birth of Calvin Zola, Congolese footballer |
1985 | The birth of Jonathan Horton, American gymnast |
1985 | The birth of Jan Smit, Dutch singer and television host |
1986 | The birth of Nate Freiman, American baseball player |
1986 | The birth of Kade Snowden, Australian rugby league player |
1987 | The birth of Javaris Crittenton, American basketball player |
1987 | The birth of Danny Holla, Dutch footballer |
1987 | The birth of Nemanja Nikolić, Hungarian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater |
1991 | The birth of ND Stevenson, American cartoonist |
1992 | The birth of Amy Cure, Australian track cyclist |
1992 | The birth of Karl Kruuda, Estonian racing driver |
1995 | The birth of Gabby Douglas, American gymnast |
2000 | The birth of Alycia Parks, American tennis player |
2001 | The birth of Katie Volynets, American tennis player |
2013 | The death of James Avery, American actor (b. 1945) |
2013 | The death of Roberto Ciotti, Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1953) |
2013 | The death of Bob Grant, American radio host (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Irina Korschunow, German author and screenwriter (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Edward Herrmann, American actor (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Abdullah Hussain, Malaysian author (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Norm Phelps, American author and activist (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of S. Arthur Spiegel, American captain, lawyer, and judge (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, British soldier and politician (b. 1915) |
2015 | The death of Natalie Cole, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of Wayne Rogers, American actor and investor (b. 1933) |
2016 | The death of William Christopher, American actor (b. 1932) |
2018 | The death of Kader Khan, Indian actor (b. 1937) |
2021 | The death of Betty White, American actress, comedian and producer (b. 1922) |
2022 | The death of Pope Benedict XVI, German Roman Catholic cardinal and theologian, pope (2005-2013) and archbishop of Munich and Freising (1977-1982) (b. 1927) |
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