Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Dick Higgins |
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Birthdate | March 15, 1938 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 86 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Poet |
Dick Higgins is best known as Poet who has born on March 15, 1938 in England. Currently, Dick Higgins is 86 years, 8 months and 6 days old. Dick Higgins will celebrate 87th birthday on Saturday, 15th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Dick Higgins upcoming birthday.
Poet, composer, printer, and interdisciplinary artist who was part of the Fluxus movement in the 1960s. His publications include On the Composition of Signs and Images and A Dialectic of Centuries: Notes towards a Theory of the New Arts.
He was born in England and raised in New England. In his early adulthood years, he attended the New School of Social Research in New York City.
He invented the term "intermedia" to describe the cross-disciplinary work that he and other Fluxus artists carried out.
He wed Alison Knowles, also an artist, in 1960. Knowles subsequently gave birth to twin daughters.
He studied composition in New York with John Cage.
Dick Higgins is 86 years old today.
Dick Higgins was born on March 15, 1938 in England.
Dick Higgins zodiac sign is Pisces.
Dick Higgins was best known as Poet.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Dick Higgins's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1943 | World War II: Third Battle of Kharkiv: The Germans retake the city of Kharkiv from the Soviet armies. |
1951 | Iranian oil industry is nationalized. |
1961 | At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect. |
1965 | President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act. |
1974 | Fifteen people are killed when Sterling Airways Flight 901, a Sud Aviation Caravelle, catches fire following a landing gear collapse at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran. |
1978 | Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War. |
1986 | Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses. |
1990 | Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union. |
1991 | Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany. |
2008 | Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 people. |
2011 | Beginning of the Syrian Civil War. |
2019 | Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings. |
2019 | Beginning of the 2019-20 Hong Kong protests. |
2019 | Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change. |
2022 | The 2022 Sri Lankan protests begins amidst Sri Lanka's economic collapse. |
1984 | The birth of Olivier Jean, Canadian speed skater |
1984 | The birth of Kostas Vasileiadis, Greek basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Éver Guzmán, Mexican footballer |
1988 | The birth of James Reimer, Canadian ice hockey player |
1989 | The birth of Sam Baldock, English footballer |
1989 | The birth of Sandro, Brazilian international footballer |
1989 | The birth of Gil Roberts, American sprinter |
1989 | The birth of Adrien Silva, Portuguese footballer |
1991 | The birth of Kurt Baptiste, Australian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Xavier Henry, American basketball player |
1993 | The birth of Alia Bhatt, British actress |
1993 | The birth of Aleksandra Krunić, Serbian tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Paul Pogba, French footballer |
1996 | The birth of Seonaid McIntosh, Scottish sports shooter |
2000 | The birth of Kristian Kostov, Russian-Bulgarian singer-songwriter |
2014 | The death of Scott Asheton, American drummer (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of David Brenner, American comedian, actor, and author (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Bo Callaway, American soldier and politician, United States Secretary of the Army (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Clarissa Dickson Wright, English chef, author, and television personality (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of Collins Chabane, South African politician (b. 1960) |
2015 | The death of Robert Clatworthy, English sculptor and educator (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Sally Forrest, American actress and dancer (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Curtis Gans, American political scientist and author (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Mike Porcaro, American bass player (b. 1955) |
2016 | The death of Sylvia Anderson, English voice actress and television and film producer (b. 1927) |
2016 | The death of Asa Briggs, English historian and academic (b. 1921) |
2016 | The death of Seru Rabeni, Fijian rugby player (b. 1978) |
2019 | The death of Larry DiTillio, American film and TV series writer (b. 1948) |
2020 | The death of Vittorio Gregotti, Italian architect (b. 1927) |
2022 | The death of Barbara Maier Gustern, American vocal coach and singer (b. 1935) |
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