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Full Name | Richard Ford |
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Birthdate | February 16, 1944 |
Birth Place | Jackson, MS |
Age (in 2024) | 80 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Novelist |
Richard Ford is best known as Novelist who has born on February 16, 1944 in Jackson, MS. Currently, Richard Ford is 80 years, 10 months and 7 days old. Richard Ford will celebrate 81st birthday on Sunday, 16th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Richard Ford upcoming birthday.
Award-winning novelist and short story writer who is best known for the novels The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land. His acclaimed short story collections include Rock Springs, Women with Men, and A Multitude of Sins.
He received his bachelor's degree from Michigan State University. Later, he attended the creative writing program at the University of California, Irvine.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, Independence Day.
He was born in Jackson, Mississippi and, following the early death of his father, was raised in Little Rock, Arkansas by his grandfather. He married Kristina Hensley in 1968.
He and Raymond Carver are both considered to be part of the literary movement known as dirty realism.
Richard Ford is 80 years old today.
Richard Ford was born on February 16, 1944 in Jackson, MS.
Richard Ford zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Richard Ford was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Richard Ford's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1968 | Civil Air Transport Flight 010 crashes near Shongshan Airport in Taiwan, killing 21 of the 63 people on board and one more on the ground. |
1978 | The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago). |
1983 | The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75. |
1985 | Hezbollah is founded. |
1986 | The Soviet liner MSÂ Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. |
1986 | China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near Penghu Airport in Taiwan, killing all 13 aboard. |
1991 | Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. |
1996 | A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people. |
1998 | China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground. |
2000 | Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, killing all three aboard. |
2005 | The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia. |
2005 | The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-05 regular season and playoffs. |
2006 | The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army. |
2013 | A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others. |
2021 | Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the two year anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria. |
1988 | The birth of Kim Soo-hyun, South Korean actor and singer |
1989 | The birth of Elizabeth Olsen, American actress |
1990 | The birth of Dunamis Lui, Australian-Samoan rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer |
1991 | The birth of Sergio Canales, Spanish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Nicolai Boilesen, Danish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Zsófia Susányi, Hungarian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Annika Beck, German tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Ava Max, American singer and songwriter |
1995 | The birth of Katy Dunne, English tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Carina Witthöft, German tennis player |
1999 | The birth of Marie Ulven Ringheim, Norwegian singer, songwriter and music producer |
2000 | The birth of Koffee, Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter and rapper |
2001 | The birth of Yuki Naito, Japanese tennis player |
2012 | The death of John Macionis, American swimmer and lieutenant (b. 1916) |
2012 | The death of Anthony Shadid, American journalist (b. 1968) |
2013 | The death of Colin Edwards, Guyanese footballer (b. 1991) |
2013 | The death of Grigory Pomerants, Russian philosopher and author (b. 1918) |
2013 | The death of Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940) |
2014 | The death of Ken Farragut, American football player (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Kralle Krawinkel, German guitarist (b. 1947) |
2014 | The death of Michael Shea, American author (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of Lasse Braun, Algerian-Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Lesley Gore, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of R. R. Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1957) |
2015 | The death of Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (b. 1971) |
2016 | The death of Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1922) |
2019 | The death of Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (b. 1941) |
2021 | The death of Gustavo Noboa, Ecuadorian politician, 42nd President of Ecuador |
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