Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Robert Pinsky |
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Birthdate | October 20, 1940 |
Birth Place | Long Branch, NJ |
Age (in 2024) | 84 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Poet |
Robert Pinsky is best known as Poet who has born on October 20, 1940 in Long Branch, NJ. Currently, Robert Pinsky is 84 years, 1 months and 3 days old. Robert Pinsky will celebrate 85th birthday on Monday, 20th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Robert Pinsky upcoming birthday.
American poet, translator, literary critic, and United States Poet Laureate (1997-2000) who is known for The Want Bone, Selected Poems, and other works. He also served as poetry editor of Slate magazine.
He studied at Rutgers University and Stanford University. He published his debut poetry collection, Sadness and Happiness, in 1975.
He once played saxophone. In fact, jazz music, with its elements of improvisation and deep emotion, became a major influence on Pinsky's poetic work.
He married psychologist Ellen Jane Bailey in 1961. The couple had three children.
His translation of Czeslaw Milosz's The Separate Notebooks received much critical acclaim.
Robert Pinsky is 84 years old today.
Robert Pinsky was born on October 20, 1940 in Long Branch, NJ.
Robert Pinsky zodiac sign is Libra.
Robert Pinsky was best known as Poet.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Robert Pinsky's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1961 | The Soviet Navy performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine. |
1962 | China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War. |
1973 | Watergate scandal: "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Solicitor General Robert Bork. |
1973 | The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction. |
1976 | The Luling-Destrehan Ferry MV George Prince is struck by the Norwegian freighter SS Frosta while crossing the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die, and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive. |
1977 | A plane carrying the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in woodland in Mississippi, United States. Six people, including three band members, are killed. |
1981 | Two police officers and a Brink's armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground in Nanuet, New York. |
1982 | During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster. |
1986 | Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashes while landing at Kuibyshev Airport (now Kuromoch International Airport) in Kuibyshev (now present-day Samara, Russia), killing 70 people. |
1991 | A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people. |
1991 | A massive firestorm breaks out in the hills of Oakland and Berkeley, California killing 25 people and destroying more than 3,000 homes, apartments and condominiums. |
2003 | The Sloan Great Wall, once the largest cosmic structure known to humanity, is discovered by students at Princeton University. |
2011 | Libyan Crisis: Rebel forces capture Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mutassim in his hometown of Sirte and kill him shortly thereafter, ending the first Libyan civil war. |
2017 | Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declare victory in the Raqqa campaign. |
2022 | Liz Truss steps down as British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party amid the country's political crisis, serving for 45 days before resigning, serving for the least time of any British Prime Minister . |
1985 | The birth of Dominic McGuire, American basketball player |
1985 | The birth of Alphonso Smith, American football player |
1985 | The birth of James Sutton, English race car driver |
1986 | The birth of Wanlop Saechio, Thai footballer |
1986 | The birth of Elyse Taylor, Australian model |
1987 | The birth of Raphael Hackl, German rugby player |
1988 | The birth of Candice Swanepoel, South African supermodel and philanthropist |
1989 | The birth of Jess Glynne, English singer-songwriter |
1990 | The birth of Sam Mataora, Cook Islands rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Ksenia Semyonova, Russian gymnast |
1992 | The birth of Ferhat Yazgan, Turkish footballer |
1996 | The birth of Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, Indonesian badminton player |
1997 | The birth of Andrey Rublev, Russian tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Jordan Ridley, Australian rules footballer |
1999 | The birth of Chuu, South Korean singer and television personality |
2013 | The death of Sid Yudain, American journalist, founded Roll Call (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of René Burri, Swiss photographer and journalist (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Christophe de Margerie, French businessman (b. 1951) |
2015 | The death of Makis Dendrinos, Greek basketball player and coach (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of Arno Gruen, German-Swiss psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Kazimierz Łaski, Polish-Austrian economist and academic (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Michael Meacher, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Ian Steel, Scottish cyclist and manager (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Robert E. Kramek, former United States Coast Guard admiral (b. 1939) |
2016 | The death of Michael Massee, American actor (b. 1952) |
2016 | The death of Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1939) |
2018 | The death of Wim Kok, Dutch prime minister (b. 1938) |
2020 | The death of James Randi, Canadian-American stage magician and author (b. 1928) |
2022 | The death of Lucy Simon, American composer and songwriter (b. 1940) |
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