Updated at December 22, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Daniel Owen |
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Birthdate | October 20, 1836 |
Birth Place | Mold, Wales |
Age (in 2024) | 188 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Novelist |
Daniel Owen is best known as Novelist who has born on October 20, 1836 in Mold, Wales. Currently, Daniel Owen is 188 years, 2 months and 2 days old. Daniel Owen will celebrate 189th birthday on Monday, 20th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Daniel Owen upcoming birthday.
Considered the most important nineteenth-century Welsh novelist, Owen famously penned an 1885 Welsh-language work titled Rhys Lewis. His other well-known novels include Enoc Huws and Gwen Tomos.
Before publishing his debut novel, Y Dreflan, in 1881, Owen penned a number of poems under the pen name "Glaslwyn."
He trained to become a Methodist minister but abandoned this career goal to work as a tailor and writer.
He grew up in Mold, Flintshire, Wales, as the son of coal miner Robert Owen. Tragically, his father, as well as his brothers Robert Jr. and James, died in a late 1830s mining disaster.
He translated American writer Timothy Shay Arthur's most famous work, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There, into the Welsh language.
Daniel Owen is 188 years old today.
Daniel Owen was born on October 20, 1836 in Mold, Wales.
Daniel Owen zodiac sign is Libra.
Daniel Owen was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Daniel Owen's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1961 | The Soviet Navy performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine. |
1962 | China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War. |
1973 | Watergate scandal: "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Solicitor General Robert Bork. |
1973 | The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction. |
1976 | The Luling-Destrehan Ferry MV George Prince is struck by the Norwegian freighter SS Frosta while crossing the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die, and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive. |
1977 | A plane carrying the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in woodland in Mississippi, United States. Six people, including three band members, are killed. |
1981 | Two police officers and a Brink's armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground in Nanuet, New York. |
1982 | During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster. |
1986 | Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashes while landing at Kuibyshev Airport (now Kuromoch International Airport) in Kuibyshev (now present-day Samara, Russia), killing 70 people. |
1991 | A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people. |
1991 | A massive firestorm breaks out in the hills of Oakland and Berkeley, California killing 25 people and destroying more than 3,000 homes, apartments and condominiums. |
2003 | The Sloan Great Wall, once the largest cosmic structure known to humanity, is discovered by students at Princeton University. |
2011 | Libyan Crisis: Rebel forces capture Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mutassim in his hometown of Sirte and kill him shortly thereafter, ending the first Libyan civil war. |
2017 | Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declare victory in the Raqqa campaign. |
2022 | Liz Truss steps down as British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party amid the country's political crisis, serving for 45 days before resigning, serving for the least time of any British Prime Minister . |
1985 | The birth of Dominic McGuire, American basketball player |
1985 | The birth of Alphonso Smith, American football player |
1985 | The birth of James Sutton, English race car driver |
1986 | The birth of Wanlop Saechio, Thai footballer |
1986 | The birth of Elyse Taylor, Australian model |
1987 | The birth of Raphael Hackl, German rugby player |
1988 | The birth of Candice Swanepoel, South African supermodel and philanthropist |
1989 | The birth of Jess Glynne, English singer-songwriter |
1990 | The birth of Sam Mataora, Cook Islands rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Ksenia Semyonova, Russian gymnast |
1992 | The birth of Ferhat Yazgan, Turkish footballer |
1996 | The birth of Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, Indonesian badminton player |
1997 | The birth of Andrey Rublev, Russian tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Jordan Ridley, Australian rules footballer |
1999 | The birth of Chuu, South Korean singer and television personality |
2013 | The death of Sid Yudain, American journalist, founded Roll Call (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of René Burri, Swiss photographer and journalist (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Christophe de Margerie, French businessman (b. 1951) |
2015 | The death of Makis Dendrinos, Greek basketball player and coach (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of Arno Gruen, German-Swiss psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Kazimierz Łaski, Polish-Austrian economist and academic (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Michael Meacher, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Ian Steel, Scottish cyclist and manager (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Robert E. Kramek, former United States Coast Guard admiral (b. 1939) |
2016 | The death of Michael Massee, American actor (b. 1952) |
2016 | The death of Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1939) |
2018 | The death of Wim Kok, Dutch prime minister (b. 1938) |
2020 | The death of James Randi, Canadian-American stage magician and author (b. 1928) |
2022 | The death of Lucy Simon, American composer and songwriter (b. 1940) |
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