Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Mo Yan |
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Birthdate | February 17, 1955 |
Birth Place | China |
Age (in 2024) | 69 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Novelist |
Mo Yan is best known as Novelist who has born on February 17, 1955 in China. Currently, Mo Yan is 69 years, 8 months and 16 days old. Mo Yan will celebrate 70th birthday on Monday, 17th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Mo Yan upcoming birthday.
A Nobel Prize-winning Chinese fiction writer, he is best known for his 1987 novel, Red Sorghum Clan. His other popular works include Life and Death are Wearing Me Out and The Republic of Wine.
He earned a Masters of Literature and Art from the Beijing Normal University in 1991.
He received both the 2009 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature and the 2011 Mao Dun Literature Prize.
He was born into a farming family in the Shandong Province of China. With his wife, Du Qinlan, he had a child named Guan.
His popular novel, Red Sorghum, inspired a 1987 film starring Jiang Wen .
Mo Yan is 69 years old today.
Mo Yan was born on February 17, 1955 in China.
Mo Yan zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Mo Yan was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Mo Yan's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1978 | The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30 others, all Protestants. |
1979 | The Sino-Vietnamese War begins. |
1980 | First winter ascent of Mount Everest by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy. |
1991 | Ryan International Airlines Flight 590 crashes during takeoff from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, killing both pilots, the aircraft's only occupants. |
1992 | First Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian troops massacre more than 20 Azerbaijani civilians during the Capture of Garadaghly. |
1995 | The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a ceasefire brokered by the UN. |
1996 | In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match. |
1996 | NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros. |
1996 | The 8.2 Mw  Biak earthquake shakes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami followed, leaving one-hundred sixty-six people dead or missing and 423 injured. |
2006 | A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126. |
2008 | Kosovo declares independence from Serbia. |
2011 | Arab Spring: Libyan protests against Muammar Gaddafi's regime begin. |
2011 | Arab Spring: In Bahrain, security forces launch a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama; the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday. |
2015 | Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti. |
2016 | Military vehicles explode outside a Turkish Armed Forces barracks in Ankara, Turkey, killing at least 29 people and injuring 61 others. |
1982 | The birth of Adriano, Brazilian footballer |
1982 | The birth of Brian Bruney, American baseball player |
1983 | The birth of Kevin Rudolf, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer |
1984 | The birth of AB de Villiers, South African cricketer |
1984 | The birth of Katie Hill, Australian 3.0 point wheelchair basketball player |
1984 | The birth of Marcin Gortat, Polish basketball player |
1985 | The birth of Anders Jacobsen, Norwegian ski jumper |
1988 | The birth of Vasyl Lomachenko, Ukrainian boxer |
1989 | The birth of Rebecca Adlington, English swimmer |
1989 | The birth of Chord Overstreet, American actor and singer |
1990 | The birth of Marianne St-Gelais, Canadian speed skater |
1991 | The birth of Ed Sheeran, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer |
1993 | The birth of Nicola Leali, Italian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Marc Márquez, Spanish motorcycle racer |
1997 | The birth of Madison Keys, American tennis player |
2014 | The death of Bob Casale, American guitarist, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1952) |
2014 | The death of Peter Florin, German politician and diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Wayne Smith, Jamaican singer (b. 1965) |
2015 | The death of John Barrow, American-Canadian football player and manager (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Cathy Ubels-Veen, Dutch politician (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Liu Yudi, Chinese general and pilot (b. 1923) |
2016 | The death of Andy Ganteaume, Trinidadian cricketer (b. 1921) |
2016 | The death of Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Egyptian journalist (b. 1923) |
2016 | The death of Claude Jeancolas, French historian, author, and journalist (b. 1949) |
2016 | The death of Tony Phillips, American baseball player (b. 1959) |
2016 | The death of Andrzej Żuławski, Polish film director (b. 1940) |
2017 | The death of Robert H. Michel, American politician (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of Michael Novak, American Roman Catholic theologian (b. 1933) |
2021 | The death of Rush Limbaugh, American talk show host and author (b. 1951) |
2021 | The death of Seif Sharif Hamad, Tanzanian politician (b. 1943) |
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Website | Mo Yan's Webiste |
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