Updated at November 8, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Dennis Lee |
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Birthdate | August 31, 1939 |
Birth Place | Toronto, Canada |
Age (in 2024) | 85 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Poet |
Dennis Lee is best known as Poet who has born on August 31, 1939 in Toronto, Canada. Currently, Dennis Lee is 85 years, 2 months and 8 days old. Dennis Lee will celebrate 86th birthday on Sunday, 31st of August 2025. Below the countdown to Dennis Lee upcoming birthday.
Award-winning poet and children's author who is best known for a rhyming book entitled Alligator Pie. His other notable works include The Ice Cream Store, The Gods, and Civil Elegies.
After graduating from the University of Toronto, he became co-founder and editorial director of House of Anansi Press.
He served as Toronto's first Poet Laureate from 2001-2004.
He was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He married Susan Perly in 1985.
His scholarly work, "Savage Fields: An Essay in Literature and Cosmology," includes a critical analysis of the work of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen.
Dennis Lee is 85 years old today.
Dennis Lee was born on August 31, 1939 in Toronto, Canada.
Dennis Lee zodiac sign is Virgo.
Dennis Lee was best known as Poet.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Dennis Lee's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Dennis Lee's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1987 | Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard. |
1988 | Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during takeoff from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, killing 14. |
1988 | CAAC Flight 301 overshoots the runway at Kai Tak Airport and crashes into Kowloon Bay, killing seven people. |
1991 | Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union. |
1993 | Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania. |
1994 | Russia completes removing its troops from Estonia. |
1996 | Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK. |
1997 | Diana, Princess of Wales, her partner Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris. |
1999 | The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others. |
1999 | A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground. |
2002 | Typhoon Rusa, the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, made landfall, killing at least 236 people. |
2005 | The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 953 people. |
2006 | Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police. |
2016 | Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office. |
2019 | A sightseeing helicopter crashes in the mountains of Skoddevarre , Alta, Norway, killing all 6 occupants. |
1988 | The birth of David Ospina, Colombian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Ember Moon, Professional Wrestler |
1989 | The birth of Dezmon Briscoe, American football player |
1990 | The birth of Tadeja Majerič, Slovenian tennis player |
1991 | The birth of António Félix da Costa, Portuguese race car driver |
1991 | The birth of Cédric Soares, Portuguese footballer |
1992 | The birth of Holly Earl, British actress |
1992 | The birth of Tyler Randell, Australian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Pablo Marí, Spanish football player |
1993 | The birth of Ilnur Alshin, Russian football player |
1993 | The birth of Anna Karnaukh, Russian water polo player |
1994 | The birth of Alex Harris, Scottish footballer |
1994 | The birth of Can Aktav, Turkish football player |
2001 | The birth of Amanda Anisimova, American tennis player |
2004 | The birth of Jang Won-young, South Korean singer and model |
2014 | The death of Ștefan Andrei, Romanian politician, 87th Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Stan Goldberg, American illustrator (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1945) |
2015 | The death of Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, English politician, founded the National Motor Museum (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Tom Scott, American football player (b. 1930) |
2018 | The death of Carole Shelley, British-American actress (b. 1939) |
2018 | The death of Jennifer Ramírez Rivero, Venezuelan model and businesswoman (b. 1978) |
2019 | The death of Anthoine Hubert, French race car driver (b. 1996) |
2019 | The death of Alec Holowka, Canadian game developer (b. 1983) |
2020 | The death of Pranab Mukherjee, Former President of India (b. 1935) |
2020 | The death of Tom Seaver, American baseball player (b. 1944) |
2021 | The death of Mahal, Filipino comedian and actress (b. 1974) |
2021 | The death of Francesco Morini, Italian footballer (b. 1944) |
2021 | The death of Michael Constantine, Greek-American actor (b. 1927) |
2021 | The death of Geronimo, British alpaca (b. 2013) |
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