Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Jack Vance |
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Birthdate | August 28, 1916 |
Birth Place | San Francisco, CA |
Age (in 2024) | 108 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Novelist |
Jack Vance is best known as Novelist who has born on August 28, 1916 in San Francisco, CA. Currently, Jack Vance is 108 years, 2 months and 8 days old. Jack Vance will celebrate 109th birthday on Thursday, 28th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Jack Vance upcoming birthday.
An American writer of mystery, fantasy, and science fiction, he is famous for his Dying Earth series, as well as for award-winning works such as The Dragon Masters and The Last Castle. In 1984, he won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.
He worked as a rigger at the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, California. He published his first science fiction novella, Son of the Tree, in 1951.
He was legally blind after 1980, but continued to write with the help of BigEd software.
He was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He married Norma Genevieve Ingold in 1946.
Author Neil Gaiman delivered a tribute to Vance following his 2013 death.
Jack Vance is 108 years old today.
Jack Vance was born on August 28, 1916 in San Francisco, CA.
Jack Vance zodiac sign is Virgo.
Jack Vance was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Jack Vance's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1968 | Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chant "The whole world is watching". |
1973 | Norrmalmstorg robbery: Stockholm police secure the surrenders of hostage-takers Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson, defusing the Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis. The behaviours of the hostages later give rise to the term Stockholm syndrome. |
1988 | Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured. |
1990 | Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province. |
1990 | An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people. |
1993 | NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl. |
1993 | Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition. |
1993 | The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina was transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia. |
1996 | Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger, antiwar activist Bradford Lyttle, Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention. |
1998 | Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate. |
1998 | Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa. |
1999 | The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approaches the end of its life. |
2003 | In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device. |
2016 | The first experimental mission of ISRO's Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System was successfully conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. |
2017 | China-India border standoff: China and India both pull their troops out of Doklam, putting an end to a two month-long stalemate over China’s construction of a road in disputed territory. |
1989 | The birth of César Azpilicueta, Spanish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Valtteri Bottas, Finnish race car driver |
1989 | The birth of Jo Kwon, South Korean singer and dancer |
1990 | The birth of Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Felicio Brown Forbes, German footballer |
1991 | The birth of Andreja Pejić, Bosnian model |
1992 | The birth of Gabriela Drăgoi, Romanian gymnast |
1992 | The birth of Bismack Biyombo, Congolese basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Max Collins, American-Filipino actress and model |
1993 | The birth of Jakub SokolÃk, Czech footballer |
1994 | The birth of Manon Arcangioli, French tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Ons Jabeur, Tunisian tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Weston McKennie, American soccer player |
2001 | The birth of Kamilla Rakhimova, Russian tennis player |
2003 | The birth of Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress |
2013 | The death of Lorella Cedroni, Italian political scientist and philosopher (b. 1961) |
2013 | The death of Edmund B. Fitzgerald, American businessman (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Frank Pulli, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1935) |
2013 | The death of Barry Stobart, English footballer (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Rafael DÃaz Ycaza, Ecuadorian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Glenn Cornick, English bass guitarist (b. 1947) |
2014 | The death of Hal Finney, American cryptographer and programmer (b. 1956) |
2014 | The death of John Anthony Walker, American soldier and spy (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Al Arbour, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Mark Krasniqi, Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Nelson Shanks, American painter and educator (b. 1937) |
2016 | The death of Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter (b. 1950) |
2016 | The death of Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1934) |
2017 | The death of Mireille Darc, French actress and model (b. 1938) |
2020 | The death of Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (b. 1976) |
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