Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Mohamed Amin |
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Birthdate | August 29, 1943 |
Birth Place | Kenya |
Age (in 2024) | 81 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Photographer |
Mohamed Amin is best known as Photographer who has born on August 29, 1943 in Kenya. Currently, Mohamed Amin is 81 years, 2 months and 23 days old. Mohamed Amin will celebrate 82nd birthday on Friday, 29th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Mohamed Amin upcoming birthday.
During the period from 1983 until 1985, this prominent photojournalist produced many devastating images of the Ethiopian famine. He also established the Kenyan-based Camerapix company and wrote and published several books, including Pilgrimage to Mecca and Journey Through Pakistan.
He rose to prominence during the 1970s, when his photojournalism pieces were picked up by numerous Western newspapers and television news stations.
He was killed during the hijacking and subsequent crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961.
A native of the Eastleigh suburb of Nairobi, Kenya, he later lived briefly in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, before traveling widely in Ethiopia and ultimately settling in his native Kenya.
He documented the fall of corrupt Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada.
Mohamed Amin is 81 years old today.
Mohamed Amin was born on August 29, 1943 in Kenya.
Mohamed Amin zodiac sign is Virgo.
Mohamed Amin was best known as Photographer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Mohamed Amin's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1975 | El Tacnazo: Peruvian Prime Minister Francisco Morales Bermúdez carries out a coup d’état in the city of Tacna, forcing the sitting President of Peru, Juan Velasco Alvarado, to resign and assuming his place as the new President. |
1982 | The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany. |
1987 | Odaeyang mass suicide: 33 individuals linked to a religious cult are found dead in the attic of a cafeteria in Yongin, South Korea. Investigators attribute their deaths to a murder-suicide pact. |
1991 | Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party. |
1991 | Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo, is killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands. |
1996 | Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard. |
1997 | Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service. |
1997 | At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria. |
1998 | Eighty people are killed when Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 crashes during a rejected takeoff from the Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador. |
2001 | Four people are killed when Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 crashes into the N-340 highway near Málaga Airport. |
2003 | Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf. |
2005 | Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage. |
2012 | At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province. |
2012 | The XIV Paralympic Games open in London, England, United Kingdom. |
2022 | Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukraine begins its southern counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast, eventually culminating in the liberation of the city of Kherson. |
1982 | The birth of Ruhila Adatia-Sood, Kenyan journalist and radio host (d. 2013) |
1982 | The birth of Carlos Delfino, Argentinian-Italian basketball player |
1982 | The birth of Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer |
1983 | The birth of Antti Niemi, Finnish ice hockey player |
1986 | The birth of Hajime Isayama, Japanese illustrator |
1986 | The birth of Lea Michele, American actress and singer |
1987 | The birth of Tony Kane, Irish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Jakub Kosecki, Polish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer |
1991 | The birth of Néstor Araujo, Mexican footballer |
1991 | The birth of Deshaun Thomas, American basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter |
1992 | The birth of Noah Syndergaard, American baseball player |
1993 | The birth of Liam Payne, English singer-songwriter |
1994 | The birth of Ysaline Bonaventure, Belgian tennis player |
2012 | The death of Shoshichi Kobayashi, Japanese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1932) |
2012 | The death of Anne McKnight, American soprano (b. 1924) |
2012 | The death of Les Moss, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1925) |
2012 | The death of Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1969) |
2013 | The death of Joan L. Krajewski, American lawyer and politician (b. 1934) |
2013 | The death of Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Zambian cardinal (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Bruce C. Murray, American geologist and academic, co-founded The Planetary Society (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Octavio Brunetti, Argentinian pianist and composer (b. 1975) |
2014 | The death of Björn Waldegård, Swedish race car driver (b. 1943) |
2016 | The death of Gene Wilder, American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (b. 1933) |
2018 | The death of James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1936) |
2018 | The death of Paul Taylor, American choreographer (b. 1930) |
2021 | The death of Ed Asner, American actor (b. 1929) |
2021 | The death of Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican reggae producer (b. 1936) |
2021 | The death of Jacques Rogge, Olympic sailor and Orthopedic Surgeon who served as the 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1942) |
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