Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Dana Gioia |
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Birthdate | December 24, 1950 |
Birth Place | Hawthorne, CA |
Age (in 2024) | 73 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Poet |
Dana Gioia is best known as Poet who has born on December 24, 1950 in Hawthorne, CA. Currently, Dana Gioia is 73 years, 10 months and 24 days old. Dana Gioia will celebrate 74th birthday on Tuesday, 24th of December 2024. Below the countdown to Dana Gioia upcoming birthday.
American poet, author, and National Endowment for the Arts Chairman (2003-2009). His acclaimed poetry collections include The Gods of Winter and Interrogations at Noon; the latter work won the 2002 American Book Award.
Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked in marketing at General Foods Corporation and promoted Jell-O products.
He began teaching at the University of Southern California in 2011.
He married Mary Elizabeth Hiecke in 1980. One of his three sons died as a baby, and Gioia memorialized the child in his poem "Planting a Sequoia."
He was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal in 2008 by then-American President George W. Bush.
Dana Gioia is 73 years old today.
Dana Gioia was born on December 24, 1950 in Hawthorne, CA.
Dana Gioia zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Dana Gioia was best known as Poet.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Dana Gioia's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Dana Gioia's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1964 | Flying Tiger Line Flight 282 crashes after takeoff from San Francisco International Airport, killing three. |
1966 | A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 111. |
1968 | Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures. |
1969 | Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the Biafran capital. |
1971 | LANSA Flight 508 is struck by lightning and crashes in the Puerto Inca District in the Department of Huánuco in Peru, killing 91. |
1973 | District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government. |
1974 | Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia. |
1994 | Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked on the ground at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria. Over the course of three days three passengers are killed, as are all four terrorists. |
1996 | A Learjet 35 crashes into Smarts Mountain near Dorchester, New Hampshire, killing both pilots on board. |
1997 | The Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria kills between 50 and 100 people. |
1999 | Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is killed). |
2003 | The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station. |
2005 | Chad-Sudan relations: Chad declares a state of belligerence against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead. |
2008 | The Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks against civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400. |
2018 | A helicopter crash kills Martha Érika Alonso, first female Governor of Puebla, Mexico, and her husband Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, former governor. |
1988 | The birth of Stefanos Athanasiadis, Greek footballer |
1988 | The birth of Emre Özkan, Turkish footballer |
1988 | The birth of Simon Zenke, Nigerian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Brigetta Barrett, American high jumper |
1990 | The birth of Marcus Jordan, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Ryo Miyake, Japanese fencer |
1991 | The birth of Lara Michel, Swiss tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Louis Tomlinson, English singer |
1992 | The birth of Davante Adams, American football player |
1994 | The birth of Fa'amanu Brown, New Zealand rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Miguel Castro, Dominican baseball player |
1994 | The birth of Matt Frawley, Australian rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Han Seung-woo, South Korean singer |
1994 | The birth of Seola, South Korean singer and actress |
1995 | The birth of Anett Kontaveit, Estonian tennis player |
2013 | The death of Allan McKeown, English-American screenwriter and producer (b. 1946) |
2014 | The death of Buddy DeFranco, American clarinet player (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Edward Greenspan, Canadian lawyer and author (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Herbert Harris, American lawyer and politician (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Krzysztof Krauze, Polish director and screenwriter (b. 1953) |
2015 | The death of Turid Birkeland, Norwegian businesswoman and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture (b. 1962) |
2015 | The death of Letty Jimenez Magsanoc, Filipino journalist (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Adriana Olguín, Chilean lawyer and politician, Chilean Minister of Justice (b. 1911) |
2016 | The death of Rick Parfitt, British musician (b. 1948) |
2016 | The death of Liz Smith, English actress (b. 1921) |
2016 | The death of Richard Adams, English author (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Ben Xi, Chinese singer (b.1994) |
2017 | The death of Jerry Kindall, American baseball player and coach (b. 1935) |
2017 | The death of Heather Menzies, Canadian-American model and actress (b. 1949) |
2018 | The death of Martha Érika Alonso, first female Governor of Puebla, Mexico, and her husband Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, former governor; helicopter crash (Alonso b. 1973, Valle b. 1968) |
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