Updated at December 14, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Don Black |
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Birthdate | June 21, 1938 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 86 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Songwriter |
Don Black is best known as Songwriter who has born on June 21, 1938 in England. Currently, Don Black is 86 years, 5 months and 23 days old. Don Black will celebrate 87th birthday on Saturday, 21st of June 2025. Below the countdown to Don Black upcoming birthday.
Wrote lyrics for such musical artists as John Barry, Michael Jackson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Marvin Hamlisch, and many others.
He briefly worked as a stand-up comedian, song-plugger, and office boy.
He wrote the lyrics for many James Bond film themes, including Thunderball from 1965, Diamonds Are Forever, Tomorrow Never Dies, and several others, usually collaborating with David Arnold along the way. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007.
He was married to Shirley Black for more than five decades.
He created lyrics for Indian composer A.R. Rahman's 2002 Bombay Dreams musical.
Don Black is 86 years old today.
Don Black was born on June 21, 1938 in England.
Don Black zodiac sign is Cancer.
Don Black was best known as Songwriter.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Don Black's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1957 | Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister. |
1963 | Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI. |
1964 | Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. |
1970 | Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date. |
1973 | In its decision in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for determining whether something is obscene and not protected speech under the U.S. constitution. |
1978 | The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London. |
1982 | John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. |
1989 | The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment. |
2000 | Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote. |
2001 | A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen. |
2004 | SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. |
2005 | Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004). |
2006 | Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra. |
2009 | Greenland assumes self-rule. |
2012 | A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsizes in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing. |
1990 | The birth of Ričardas Berankis, Lithuanian tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Sergei Matsenko, Russian chess player |
1990 | The birth of François Moubandje, Swiss footballer |
1990 | The birth of Håvard Nordtveit, Norwegian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Gaël Kakuta, French footballer |
1991 | The birth of Lee Min-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and entertainer |
1992 | The birth of MAX, American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer and model |
1994 | The birth of Başak Eraydın, Turkish tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Tyrone May, Australian rugby league player |
1997 | The birth of Rebecca Black, American singer-songwriter |
1997 | The birth of Derrius Guice, American football player |
1999 | The birth of Ky Rodwell, Australian rugby league player |
2000 | The birth of Dylan Brown, New Zealand rugby league player |
2001 | The birth of Alexandra Obolentseva, Russian chess player |
2011 | The birth of Lil Bub, American celebrity cat (d. 2019) |
2012 | The death of Abid Hussain, Indian economist and diplomat, Indian Ambassador to the United States (b. 1926) |
2012 | The death of Sunil Janah, Indian photographer and journalist (b. 1918) |
2012 | The death of Anna Schwartz, American economist and author (b. 1915) |
2013 | The death of James P. Gordon, American physicist and academic (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of Elliott Reid, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Yozo Ishikawa, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Defense (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Walter Kieber, Austrian-Liechtenstein politician, 7th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Wong Ho Leng, Malaysian lawyer and politician (b. 1959) |
2015 | The death of Darryl Hamilton, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1964) |
2015 | The death of Veijo Meri, Finnish author and poet (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Remo Remotti, Italian actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, German soldier and politician (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and conductor (b. 1925) |
2016 | The death of Pierre Lalonde, Canadian television host and singer (b. 1941) |
2018 | The death of Charles Krauthammer, American columnist and conservative political commentator (b.1950) |
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