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Full Name | Russell Hoban |
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Birthdate | February 04, 1925 |
Birth Place | Pennsylvania |
Age (in 2024) | 99 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Novelist |
Russell Hoban is best known as Novelist who has born on February 04, 1925 in Pennsylvania. Currently, Russell Hoban is 99 years, 10 months and 10 days old. Russell Hoban will celebrate 100th birthday on Tuesday, 4th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Russell Hoban upcoming birthday.
An American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and poetry, he is known for works such as Kleinzeit, Pilgermann, and The Medusa Frequency. He was a 1982 recipient of the Campbell Memorial Award.
He enlisted in the Army when he was eighteen years old and served in the Philippines and Italy as a radio operator during World War II.
He received the Whitbread Prize in 1974.
His three-decade marriage to Lillian Aberman produced four children. With his second wife, Gundula Ahl, he had three more children.
Glenda Jackson admired Hoban's literary work.
Russell Hoban is 99 years old today.
Russell Hoban was born on February 04, 1925 in Pennsylvania.
Russell Hoban zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Russell Hoban was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Russell Hoban's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1974 | The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California. |
1974 | M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed. |
1975 | Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China. |
1976 | In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000. |
1977 | A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history. |
1992 | A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez. |
1997 | En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel, killing 73. |
1997 | The Bojnurd earthquake measuring Mw 6.5 strikes Iran. With a Mercalli intensity of VIII, it kills at least 88 and damages 173 villages. |
1998 | The 5.9 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme. |
1999 | Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city. |
2000 | The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year. |
2003 | The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopts a new constitution, becoming a loose confederacy between Montenegro and Serbia. |
2004 | Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. |
2015 | TransAsia Airways Flight 235, with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after takeoff, killing 43 people. |
2020 | The COVID-19 pandemic causes all casinos in Macau to be closed down for 15 days. |
1980 | The birth of Raimonds Vaikulis, Latvian basketball player |
1981 | The birth of Jason Kapono, American basketball player |
1981 | The birth of Johan Vansummeren, Belgian cyclist |
1982 | The birth of Ivars Timermanis, Latvian basketball player |
1982 | The birth of Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian cyclist |
1983 | The birth of Lee Stempniak, American ice hockey player |
1983 | The birth of Rebecca White, Australian politician |
1984 | The birth of Sandeep Acharya, Indian singer (d. 2013) |
1984 | The birth of Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer |
1986 | The birth of Maximilian Götz, German racing driver |
1986 | The birth of Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer |
1987 | The birth of Darren O'Dea, Irish footballer |
1987 | The birth of Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player |
1988 | The birth of Carly Patterson, American gymnast and singer |
1998 | The birth of Maximilian Wöber, Austrian footballer |
2013 | The death of Donald Byrd, American trumpet player (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Keith Allen, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Eugenio Corti, Italian soldier, author, and playwright (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Dennis Lota, Zambian footballer (b. 1973) |
2015 | The death of Fitzhugh L. Fulton, American colonel and pilot (b. 1925) |
2016 | The death of Edgar Mitchell, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Steve Lang, Canadian bass player (b. 1949) |
2017 | The death of Bano Qudsia, Pakistani writer (b. 1928) |
2018 | The death of John Mahoney, English-American actor, voice artist, and comedian (b. 1940) |
2019 | The death of Matti Nykänen, Finnish Olympic-winning ski jumper and singer (b. 1963) |
2020 | The death of Daniel arap Moi, Former President of Kenya (b. 1924) |
2021 | The death of Millie Hughes-Fulford, American astronaut, molecular biologist and NASA payload specialist (b. 1945) |
2023 | The death of Vani Jairam, Indian playback singer (b. 1945) |
2023 | The death of Sherif Ismail, 53rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1955) |
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