Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Damien Hirst |
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Birthdate | June 07, 1965 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 59 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Painter |
Damien Hirst is best known as Painter who has born on June 07, 1965 in England. Currently, Damien Hirst is 59 years, 4 months and 25 days old. Damien Hirst will celebrate 60th birthday on Saturday, 7th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Damien Hirst upcoming birthday.
Unconventional artist and foremost member of the Young British Artists. Known for his death-themed works such as "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living," which was part of a series of artworks in which he preserved whole and dissected animals in formaldehyde.
He studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London. He sold his complete 2008 show, "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever," at Sotheby's for $198 million, a record.
He created a British Union flag that was displayed at the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Summer Olympics.
He was born to a motor mechanic who deserted his family when Damien was 12. His mother, Mary Brennan, struggled to adequately raise him as a single mother while being employed with the Citizens Advice Bureau. He married Maia Norman in 1992 and he and Maia have three sons named Connor, Cyrus and Cassius.
His work was compared to that of Donald Judd.
Damien Hirst is 59 years old today.
Damien Hirst was born on June 07, 1965 in England.
Damien Hirst zodiac sign is Gemini.
Damien Hirst was best known as Painter.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Damien Hirst's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Damien Hirst's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1948 | Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state. |
1955 | Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films. |
1962 | The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books. |
1965 | The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples. |
1967 | Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem. |
1971 | The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
1971 | The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades. |
1975 | Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format. |
1977 | Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television. |
1981 | The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. |
1982 | Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits. |
1989 | Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard. |
1991 | Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3Â mi) high. |
2000 | The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon. |
2017 | A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard. |
1960 | The birth of Bill Prady, American screenwriter and producer |
1965 | The birth of Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector |
1965 | The birth of Mick Foley, American professional wrestler and author |
1967 | The birth of Dave Navarro, American musician |
1970 | The birth of Cafu, Brazilian footballer |
1974 | The birth of Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host |
1975 | The birth of Allen Iverson, American basketball player |
1978 | The birth of Bill Hader, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter |
1981 | The birth of Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player |
1988 | The birth of Michael Cera, Canadian actor and musician |
1990 | The birth of Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and model |
1991 | The birth of Fetty Wap, American rapper, singer, and songwriter |
1991 | The birth of Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress |
1993 | The birth of George Ezra, English singer-songwriter |
1996 | The birth of Christian McCaffrey, American football player |
1970 | The death of E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (b. 1879) |
1978 | The death of Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) |
1980 | The death of Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (b. 1883) |
1980 | The death of Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (b. 1913) |
1980 | The death of Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (b. 1891) |
1985 | The death of Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (b. 1906) |
1987 | The death of Cahit ZarifoÄŸlu, Turkish poet and author (b. 1940) |
1992 | The death of Bill France Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (b. 1909) |
1995 | The death of Hsuan Hua, Chinese monk and educator (b. 1918) |
2001 | The death of VÃctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (b. 1907) |
2001 | The death of Betty Neels, English nurse and author (b. 1910) |
2002 | The death of Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress (b. 1915) |
2012 | The death of Phillip V. Tobias, South African paleontologist and academic (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922) |
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