Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Gary Mark Smith |
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Birthdate | April 27, 1956 |
Birth Place | Pennsylvania |
Age (in 2024) | 68 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Photographer |
Gary Mark Smith is best known as Photographer who has born on April 27, 1956 in Pennsylvania. Currently, Gary Mark Smith is 68 years, 6 months and 20 days old. Gary Mark Smith will celebrate 69th birthday on Sunday, 27th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Gary Mark Smith upcoming birthday.
American photographer best known for his creative and experimental street photos of the aftermath of tragedies such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. He has also featured gang occupied favelas in Rio de Janeiro and refugee camps and war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He studied journalism at the University of Kansas at Lawrence and went on to receive his MA via a teaching fellowship at Purdue University.
His artwork is included in many renowned public and private collections and he has published several collections of street photography, including Favela de Rocinha, Brazil (2011) and GOMA: The Poetry of Everyday Life on the Streets of a UN Peacekeeping Mission (2016).
He had an extremely trying childhood; he was twice struck by lightning during his teenage years, once escaped being swept a mile downstream in a flood, and his mother killed herself when he was in the fifth grade.
He was asked by his famous neighbor and gallery mate William Burroughs to contribute perspective about childhood friend Keith Haring to a 1986 exhibition by Burroughs and Haring at the University of Kansas' Spencer Art Museum.
Gary Mark Smith is 68 years old today.
Gary Mark Smith was born on April 27, 1956 in Pennsylvania.
Gary Mark Smith zodiac sign is Taurus.
Gary Mark Smith was best known as Photographer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Gary Mark Smith's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1986 | The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster. |
1987 | The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II. |
1989 | The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. |
1992 | The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed. |
1992 | Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history. |
1992 | The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. |
1993 | Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal. |
1994 | South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force. |
2005 | Airbus A380 aircraft had its maiden test flight. |
2006 | Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City. |
2007 | Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia. |
2007 | Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem. |
2011 | The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more. |
2012 | At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured. |
2018 | The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict. |
1987 | The birth of Wang Feifei, Chinese singer and actress |
1988 | The birth of Joeri Dequevy, Belgian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Kris Thackray, English footballer |
1988 | The birth of Semyon Varlamov, Russian ice hockey player |
1988 | The birth of Lizzo, American singer and rapper |
1989 | The birth of Lars Bender, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of Sven Bender, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of Dmytro Kozban, Ukrainian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Trude Raad, Norwegian deaf track and field athlete |
1991 | The birth of Isaac Cuenca, Spanish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Lara Gut, Swiss skier |
1992 | The birth of Keenan Allen, American football player |
1994 | The birth of Corey Seager, American baseball player |
1995 | The birth of Nick Kyrgios, Australian tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Josh Onomah, English footballer |
2013 | The death of Antonio DÃaz Jurado, Spanish footballer (b. 1969) |
2013 | The death of Jérôme Louis Heldring, Dutch journalist and author (b. 1917) |
2013 | The death of Aloysius Jin Luxian, Chinese bishop (b. 1916) |
2013 | The death of Mutula Kilonzo, Kenyan lawyer and politician, Kenyan Minister of Justice (b. 1948) |
2014 | The death of Yigal Arnon, Israeli lawyer (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Vujadin Boškov, Serbian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Daniel Colchico, American football player and coach (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Harry Firth, Australian race car driver and manager (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Gene Fullmer, American boxer (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Verne Gagne, American football player, wrestler, and trainer (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Alexander Rich, American biologist, biophysicist, and academic (b. 1924) |
2017 | The death of Vinod Khanna, Indian actor, producer and politician (b. 1946) |
2017 | The death of Sadanoyama Shinmatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1938) |
2021 | The death of Manoj Das, Indian writer (b. 1934) |
2022 | The death of Liao Guoxun, Chinese politician (b.1963) |
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