Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Derek Mahon |
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Birthdate | November 23, 1941 |
Birth Place | Northern Ireland |
Age (in 2024) | 83 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Poet |
Derek Mahon is best known as Poet who has born on November 23, 1941 in Northern Ireland. Currently, Derek Mahon is 83 years, 0 months and 0 days old. Today is Derek Mahon's 83rd birthday. Let's say happy birthday to Derek Mahon.
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Notable for his Irish Times Poetry Now Award-winning collections Harbour Lights (2005) and Life on Earth (2008), Mahon is also recognized for his translations of the work of Moliere, Jean Racine, and Sophocles.
He published some of his early work in the Royal Belfast Academical Institution's school journal and subsequently studied at both Trinity College, Dublin and Paris' Sorbonne. His first poetry collection, Night Crossing, was published in 1967.
Several of his poems fall into the ekphrasis genre, meaning that they interpret visual artworks through language.
Born into a Protesant, working-class family, he spent his youth in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
His poems' metrical forms resemble those employed by the nineteenth-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Derek Mahon is 83 years old today.
Derek Mahon was born on November 23, 1941 in Northern Ireland.
Derek Mahon zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Derek Mahon was best known as Poet.
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1991 | Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury announces in a statement that he is HIV-positive. He dies the following day. |
1992 | The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
1996 | Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125. |
2001 | The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary. |
2003 | Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections. |
2004 | The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated. |
2005 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country. |
2006 | A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003. |
2007 | MSÂ Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities. |
2009 | The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines; 58 opponents of Andal Ampatuan Jr. are kidnapped and killed. |
2010 | Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and two marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. |
2011 | Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity. |
2015 | Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing. |
2018 | Founders of Italian fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana issue an apology following a series of offensive advertisements on social media promoting a fashion show in Shanghai, China, which was canceled. |
2019 | The last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia, Imam, dies, making the species officially extinct in the country. |
1984 | The birth of Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress and dancer |
1984 | The birth of Justin Turner, American baseball player |
1985 | The birth of Viktor An, South Korean speed skater |
1987 | The birth of Nicklas BÀckström, Swedish ice hockey player |
1987 | The birth of Snooki, American reality television personality |
1990 | The birth of Shaun Hutchinson, English footballer |
1990 | The birth of Eddy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1990 | The birth of Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater |
1990 | The birth of Christopher Quiring, German footballer |
1991 | The birth of Ahmed Shehzad, Pakistani cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress |
1992 | The birth of Gabriel Landeskog, Swedish ice hockey player |
1994 | The birth of Wes Burns, Welsh footballer |
1995 | The birth of Kelly Rosen, Estonian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer |
2013 | The death of Connie Broden, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Costanzo Preve, Italian philosopher and theorist (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Marion Barry, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (b. 1916) |
2014 | The death of Murray Oliver, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Pat Quinn, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1943) |
2015 | The death of Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Manmeet Bhullar, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1980) |
2015 | The death of Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Rita BarberĂĄ Nolla, Spanish politician (b. 1948) |
2016 | The death of Ralph Branca, American baseball player (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Joe Esposito, road manager for Elvis Presley (b. 1938) |
2017 | The death of Stela Popescu, Romanian actress (b. 1935) |
2020 | The death of Tarun Gogoi, Indian Chief Minister of Assam (b. 1934) |
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