Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Dan Simmons |
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Birthdate | April 04, 1948 |
Birth Place | Illinois |
Age (in 2024) | 76 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Novelist |
Dan Simmons is best known as Novelist who has born on April 04, 1948 in Illinois. Currently, Dan Simmons is 76 years, 7 months and 13 days old. Dan Simmons will celebrate 77th birthday on Friday, 4th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Dan Simmons upcoming birthday.
An American science fiction author, he is best known for his Hyperion Cantos series and his Ilium/Olympos book cycle. Many of his books take their themes and/or titles from works of classic literature.
He attended Wabash College and Washington University in St. Louis. He worked as an elementary school teacher before publishing his first novel, Song of Kali, in 1986.
He won the 1990 Hugo Award in the Best Novel category for his book, Hyperion.
He was born in Peoria, Illinois. With his wife, Karen, he had a daughter named Jane.
His novel, Summer of Night, was praised by Stephen King.
Dan Simmons is 76 years old today.
Dan Simmons was born on April 04, 1948 in Illinois.
Dan Simmons zodiac sign is Aries.
Dan Simmons was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Dan Simmons's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1981 | Iran-Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft. |
1983 | Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space on STS-6. |
1984 | President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons. |
1988 | Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office. |
1990 | The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress. |
1991 | Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania. |
1991 | Forty-one people are taken hostage inside a Good Guys! Electronics store in Sacramento, California. 3 of the hostage takers and 3 hostages are killed |
1994 | Three people are killed when KLM Cityhopper Flight 433 crashes at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. |
1996 | Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous. |
2002 | The MPLA government of Angola and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War. |
2009 | France announces its return to full participation of its military forces within NATO. |
2010 | A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits south of the Mexico-USA border, killing two and damaging buildings across the two countries. |
2013 | More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India. |
2017 | Syria conducts an air strike on Khan Shaykhun using chemical weapons, killing 89 civilians. |
2020 | China holds a national day of mourning for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease outbreak. |
1989 | The birth of Steven Finn, English cricketer |
1989 | The birth of Chris Herd, Australian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Yui Koike, Japanese singer and actress |
1991 | The birth of Asia Muhammad, American tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Justin O'Neill, Australian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress and singer |
1991 | The birth of Marlon Stöckinger, Filipino race car driver |
1992 | The birth of Lucy May Barker, English actress and singer |
1992 | The birth of Christina Metaxa, Cypriot singer-songwriter |
1992 | The birth of Ricky Dillon, American youtuber and singer |
1993 | The birth of Samir Carruthers, English footballer |
1993 | The birth of Frank Kaminsky, American basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Shunsuke Nishikawa, Japanese actor |
1994 | The birth of Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer and actress |
1996 | The birth of Austin Mahone, American singer-songwriter and actor |
2013 | The death of Carmine Infantino, American illustrator (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Tommy Tycho, Hungarian-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of Ian Walsh, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese author (b. 1972) |
2014 | The death of İsmet Atlı, Turkish wrestler and trainer (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Wayne Henderson, American trombonist and producer (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Kumba Ialá, Bissau-Guinean soldier and politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1953) |
2014 | The death of Margo MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Curtis Bill Pepper, American journalist and author (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Muhammad Qutb, Egyptian author and academic (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of Jamaluddin Jarjis, Malaysian engineer and politician (b. 1951) |
2015 | The death of Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Donald N. Levine, American sociologist and academic (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish author and poet (b. 1931) |
2016 | The death of Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (b. 1930) |
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