Updated at November 7, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | John Dvorak |
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Birthdate | April 05, 1952 |
Birth Place | California |
Age (in 2024) | 72 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Journalist |
John Dvorak is best known as Journalist who has born on April 05, 1952 in California. Currently, John Dvorak is 72 years, 7 months and 2 days old. John Dvorak will celebrate 73rd birthday on Saturday, 5th of April 2025. Below the countdown to John Dvorak upcoming birthday.
Known for his technology-themed journalistic work, Dvorak wrote for publications such as PCMagazine, MacUser, and Forbes, and also penned several books, including Dvorak's Guide to Desktop Telecommunications and Online! The Book. He also hosted the NPR program Technically Speaking and the podcast No Agenda.
After earning a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley, he began his career by writing articles on the subject of wine.
In the mid-1980s, he criticized Apple's innovative use of a then-new computer pointing device called a "mouse."
He grew up in Los Angeles, California, and later lived in both Washington state and the San Francisco area with his wife, Mimi Smith-Dvorak. His uncle, August Dvorak, was a prominent educational psychologist.
He and Alison Haislip both hosted technology-themed podcasts.
John Dvorak is 72 years old today.
John Dvorak was born on April 05, 1952 in California.
John Dvorak zodiac sign is Aries.
John Dvorak was best known as Journalist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about John Dvorak's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with John Dvorak's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1966 | During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempted to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down. |
1969 | Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities. |
1971 | In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike. |
1976 | In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident. |
1977 | The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip. |
1991 | An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter. |
1992 | Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force. |
1992 | Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War. |
1998 | In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world. |
1999 | Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands. |
2007 | The cruise ship MS Sea Diamond strikes a volcanic reef near Nea Kameni and sinks the next day. Two passengers were never recovered and are presumed dead. |
2009 | North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks. |
2010 | Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. |
2018 | Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 undocumented Hispanic workers in one of the largest workplace raids in the history of the United States. |
2021 | Nguyễn Xuân Phúc took office as President of Vietnam after dismissing the title of Prime Minister. |
1993 | The birth of Laura Feiersinger, Austrian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Benjamin Garcia, French rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Scottie Wilbekin, American-Turkish basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Mateusz Bieniek, Polish volleyball player |
1994 | The birth of Edem Rjaïbi, Tunisian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Richard Sánchez, Mexican footballer |
1995 | The birth of Viliame Kikau, Fijian rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Sei Muroya, Japanese footballer |
1995 | The birth of Gleb Rassadkin, Belarusian footballer |
1995 | The birth of Sebastian Starke Hedlund, Swedish footballer |
1996 | The birth of Nicolas Beer, Danish race car driver |
1996 | The birth of Raouf Benguit, Algerian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Borja Mayoral, Spanish footballer |
2000 | The birth of Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Indian actor |
2001 | The birth of Thylane Blondeau, French model and actress |
2016 | The death of Koço Kasapoğlu, Turkish footballer (b. 1936) |
2017 | The death of Attilio Benfatto, Italian cyclist (b. 1943) |
2017 | The death of Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster (b. 1929) |
2017 | The death of Paul G. Comba, Italian-American computer scientist and astronomer (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of Makoto Ōoka, Japanese poet and literary critic (b. 1931) |
2017 | The death of Paul O'Neill, American rock composer and producer (b. 1956) |
2017 | The death of Tim Parnell, British race car driver (b. 1932) |
2017 | The death of Memè Perlini, Italian actor and director (b. 1947) |
2017 | The death of Atanase Sciotnic, Romanian sprint canoeist (b. 1942) |
2017 | The death of Ilkka Sinisalo, Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1958) |
2018 | The death of Isao Takahata, Japanese director (b. 1935) |
2019 | The death of Sydney Brenner, South African biologist (b. 1927) |
2021 | The death of Paul Ritter, English actor (b. 1966) |
2022 | The death of Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor (b. 1919) |
2022 | The death of Jimmy Wang Yu, Taiwanese actor (b.1943) |
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