Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Joan Vollmer |
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Birthdate | February 04, 1923 |
Birth Place | New York |
Age (in 2024) | 101 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Family Member |
Joan Vollmer is best known as Family Member who has born on February 04, 1923 in New York. Currently, Joan Vollmer is 101 years, 9 months and 13 days old. Joan Vollmer will celebrate 102nd birthday on Tuesday, 4th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Joan Vollmer upcoming birthday.
Central figure of the Beat Generation who was most famous for her relationship with William S. Burroughs. Her son portrayed her in his 1973 novel, Kentucky Ham, as gentle, compassionate, and deferential.
She met Edie Parker while both were attending Barnard College. She was invited by Parker to live in her New York apartment. They often provided lodging for writers, hustlers, and drug addicts, many of whom would become prominent Beats in just a few years.
She hosted and took part in marathon, late-night discussions with famous Beat Generation figures such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
She had a passionate love affair with William S. Burroughs that ended in tragedy when Burroughs shot her to death during a drunken game of William Tell. Her death had a profound effect upon William's writing career. She had two children, her daughter Julie Adams with first husband Paul Adams and her son William S. Burroughs Jr. with Burroughs.
She was portrayed by Courtney Love in the 2000 film "Beat;" Burroughs was played by Kiefer Sutherland.
Joan Vollmer is 101 years old today.
Joan Vollmer was born on February 04, 1923 in New York.
Joan Vollmer zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Joan Vollmer was best known as Family Member.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Joan Vollmer's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1974 | The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California. |
1974 | M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed. |
1975 | Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China. |
1976 | In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000. |
1977 | A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history. |
1992 | A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez. |
1997 | En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel, killing 73. |
1997 | The Bojnurd earthquake measuring Mw  6.5 strikes Iran. With a Mercalli intensity of VIII, it kills at least 88 and damages 173 villages. |
1998 | The 5.9 Mw  Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme. |
1999 | Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city. |
2000 | The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year. |
2003 | The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopts a new constitution, becoming a loose confederacy between Montenegro and Serbia. |
2004 | Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. |
2015 | TransAsia Airways Flight 235, with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after takeoff, killing 43 people. |
2020 | The COVID-19 pandemic causes all casinos in Macau to be closed down for 15 days. |
1980 | The birth of Raimonds Vaikulis, Latvian basketball player |
1981 | The birth of Jason Kapono, American basketball player |
1981 | The birth of Johan Vansummeren, Belgian cyclist |
1982 | The birth of Ivars Timermanis, Latvian basketball player |
1982 | The birth of Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian cyclist |
1983 | The birth of Lee Stempniak, American ice hockey player |
1983 | The birth of Rebecca White, Australian politician |
1984 | The birth of Sandeep Acharya, Indian singer (d. 2013) |
1984 | The birth of Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer |
1986 | The birth of Maximilian Götz, German racing driver |
1986 | The birth of Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer |
1987 | The birth of Darren O'Dea, Irish footballer |
1987 | The birth of Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player |
1988 | The birth of Carly Patterson, American gymnast and singer |
1998 | The birth of Maximilian Wöber, Austrian footballer |
2013 | The death of Donald Byrd, American trumpet player (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Keith Allen, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Eugenio Corti, Italian soldier, author, and playwright (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Dennis Lota, Zambian footballer (b. 1973) |
2015 | The death of Fitzhugh L. Fulton, American colonel and pilot (b. 1925) |
2016 | The death of Edgar Mitchell, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Steve Lang, Canadian bass player (b. 1949) |
2017 | The death of Bano Qudsia, Pakistani writer (b. 1928) |
2018 | The death of John Mahoney, English-American actor, voice artist, and comedian (b. 1940) |
2019 | The death of Matti Nykänen, Finnish Olympic-winning ski jumper and singer (b. 1963) |
2020 | The death of Daniel arap Moi, Former President of Kenya (b. 1924) |
2021 | The death of Millie Hughes-Fulford, American astronaut, molecular biologist and NASA payload specialist (b. 1945) |
2023 | The death of Vani Jairam, Indian playback singer (b. 1945) |
2023 | The death of Sherif Ismail, 53rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1955) |
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