Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Jan Hammer |
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Birthdate | April 17, 1948 |
Birth Place | Czech Republic |
Age (in 2024) | 76 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Composer |
Jan Hammer is best known as Composer who has born on April 17, 1948 in Czech Republic. Currently, Jan Hammer is 76 years, 6 months and 15 days old. Jan Hammer will celebrate 77th birthday on Thursday, 17th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Jan Hammer upcoming birthday.
Composed the "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme" for "Miami Vice," the classic 1980s television show. He scored 90 episodes of the series and 20 episodes of "Chancer," a hit British show.
He attended the Prague Academy of Musical Arts and was given a scholarship to Boston's Berklee College of Music. His time at the Prague Academy ended prematurely upon the invasion of the Warsaw Pact in 1968.
His list of collaborators was a Who's Who of music greats, including Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, Elvin Jones, and Stanley Clarke.
He was the son of the renowned Czech singer Vlasta Průchová. His father, although primarily a physician, was also skilled at the bass guitar and Vibraphone. He fathered two children with his wife Ivona.
He recorded the keyboards on "She's the Boss," Mick Jagger's album from 1985.
Jan Hammer is 76 years old today.
Jan Hammer was born on April 17, 1948 in Czech Republic.
Jan Hammer zodiac sign is Aries.
Jan Hammer was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Jan Hammer's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1951 | The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park. |
1961 | Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. |
1969 | Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy. |
1969 | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed. |
1970 | Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely. |
1971 | The Provisional Government of Bangladesh is formed. |
1975 | The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender. |
1978 | Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan. |
1982 | Constitution Act, 1982 Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada. |
1986 | An alleged state of war lasting 335 years between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace bringing an end to any hypothetical war that may have been legally considered to exist. |
1992 | The Katina P is deliberately run aground off Maputo, Mozambique, and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean. |
2006 | A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing 11 people and injuring 70. |
2013 | An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others. |
2014 | NASA's Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star. |
2021 | The funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. |
1984 | The birth of Jed Lowrie, American baseball player |
1984 | The birth of Raffaele Palladino, Italian footballer |
1985 | The birth of Rooney Mara, American actress |
1985 | The birth of Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model |
1985 | The birth of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player |
1986 | The birth of Romain Grosjean, French race car driver |
1988 | The birth of Takahiro Moriuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter |
1989 | The birth of Paraskevi Papachristou, Greek triple jumper |
1989 | The birth of Avi Kaplan, singer and songwriter |
1990 | The birth of Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer |
1992 | The birth of Lachlan Maranta, Australian rugby league footballer |
1994 | The birth of Alanna Goldie, Canadian fencer |
1996 | The birth of Lorna Fitzgerald, British actress |
1996 | The birth of Caitlin Parker, Australian boxer |
1998 | The birth of Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana, Thai actor and singer |
2013 | The death of V. S. Ramadevi, Indian politician, 13th Governor of Karnataka (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Bernat Klein, Serbian-Scottish fashion designer and painter (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Wojciech Leśnikowski, Polish-American architect and academic (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Robert P. Griffin, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Scotty Probasco, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Jeremiah J. Rodell, American general (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of A. Alfred Taubman, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Chyna, American wrestler (b. 1969) |
2016 | The death of Doris Roberts, American actress (b. 1925) |
2018 | The death of Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States (b. 1925) |
2018 | The death of Carl Kasell, American radio personality (b. 1934) |
2019 | The death of Alan García, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 61st and 64th President of Peru (b. 1949) |
2022 | The death of Radu Lupu, Romanian pianist (b. 1945) |
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