Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Jim Lee |
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Birthdate | August 11, 1964 |
Birth Place | Seoul, South Korea |
Age (in 2024) | 60 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Comic Book Artist |
Jim Lee is best known as Comic Book Artist who has born on August 11, 1964 in Seoul, South Korea. Currently, Jim Lee is 60 years, 4 months and 0 days old. Jim Lee will celebrate 61st birthday on Monday, 11th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Jim Lee upcoming birthday.
Korean-American comic book artist and writer whose works included "Batman: Hush" and "Superman: For Tomorrow." He co-founded Image Comics in 1992 for creator-owned titles, including his own "WildC.A.T.s" and "Gen¹³" from his Wildstorm Productions.
He studied psychology at Princeton University and originally intended to become a medical doctor. He was hired as an artist by Marvel Comics in 1987, where he worked on "Alpha Flight" and "Punisher War Journal," before gaining fame on "The Uncanny X-Men," the sales of which broke all existing records.
He was named Co-Publisher of DC Comics, alongside Dan DiDio, in February 2010, replacing the longtime head, Paul Levitz.
His family was a rather ordinary middle-class clan residing in St. Louis, Missouri. He married Carla Michelle Lee.
He was interviewed by Stan Lee for the documentary film, "The Comic Book Greats," from 1991.
Jim Lee is 60 years old today.
Jim Lee was born on August 11, 1964 in Seoul, South Korea.
Jim Lee zodiac sign is Leo.
Jim Lee was best known as Comic Book Artist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Jim Lee's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1965 | Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California. |
1969 | The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon. |
1972 | Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam. |
1975 | East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin. |
1979 | Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners. |
1982 | A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others. |
1984 | "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio. |
1988 | A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda. |
1992 | The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States. |
2000 | An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries. |
2003 | NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. |
2003 | Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. |
2006 | The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill. |
2012 | At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran. |
2017 | At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt. |
1987 | The birth of Drew Storen, American baseball player |
1988 | The birth of Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Filipino basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Patty Mills, Australian basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Mustafa Pektemek, Turkish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete (d. 2013) |
1989 | The birth of Sebastian Huke, German footballer |
1990 | The birth of Lenka JurÃková, Slovak tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Tomi Lahren, American conservative political commentator |
1994 | The birth of Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Anton Cooper, New Zealand cross-country cyclist |
1994 | The birth of Joseph Barbato, French footballer |
1994 | The birth of Song I-han, South Korean singer |
1997 | The birth of Sarah Clelland, Scottish footballer |
2001 | The birth of Moyuka Uchijima, Japanese tennis player |
2013 | The death of David Howard, English ballet dancer and educator (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Vladimir Beara, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Raymond Gravel, Canadian priest and politician (b. 1952) |
2014 | The death of Kika Szaszkiewiczowa, Polish author and blogger (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (b. 1951) |
2015 | The death of Serge Collot, French viola player and educator (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Richard Oriani, Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (b. 1920) |
2017 | The death of Yisrael Kristal, Polish-Israeli supercentenarian; oldest living Holocaust survivor and one of the ten oldest men ever (b. 1903) |
2017 | The death of Segun Bucknor, Nigerian musician and journalist (b. 1946) |
2018 | The death of V S Naipaul, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932) |
2019 | The death of Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1931) |
2020 | The death of Trini Lopez, Mexican American singer and guitarist (b. 1937) |
2020 | The death of Sumner Redstone, American billionaire businessman (b. 1923) |
2022 | The death of Anne Heche, American actress (b. 1969) |
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