Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Terry Brooks |
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Birthdate | January 08, 1944 |
Birth Place | Sterling, IL |
Age (in 2024) | 80 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Novelist |
Terry Brooks is best known as Novelist who has born on January 08, 1944 in Sterling, IL. Currently, Terry Brooks is 80 years, 10 months and 13 days old. Terry Brooks will celebrate 81st birthday on Wednesday, 8th of January 2025. Below the countdown to Terry Brooks upcoming birthday.
An American writer of epic fantasy novels, he is known for the Shannara books; The Word & Void series; and the Magic Kingdom of Landover series. Over the course of his career, he published over twenty New York Times bestselling books.
After earning a degree in English literature from Hamilton College, he obtained a J.D. from Washington and Lee University.
His books sold over twenty-one million copies during his lifetime.
He was born in Sterling, Illinois, and he later settled in Seattle, Washington with his wife, Judine.
He was inspired to become a writer after reading the works of William Faulkner.
Terry Brooks is 80 years old today.
Terry Brooks was born on January 08, 1944 in Sterling, IL.
Terry Brooks zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Terry Brooks was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Terry Brooks's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1994 | Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. |
1996 | An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 people on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed. |
2002 | President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act. |
2003 | Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers. |
2003 | Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board. |
2004 | The RMSÂ Queen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. |
2005 | The nuclear sub USSÂ San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired. |
2009 | A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32. |
2010 | Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three people and injuring another nine. |
2011 | Sitting US Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is shot in the head along with 18 others in a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Giffords survived the assassination attempt, but six others died, including John Roll, a federal judge. |
2016 | JoaquÃn Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico. |
2016 | West Air Sweden Flight 294 crashes near the Swedish reservoir of Akkajaure; both pilots, the only people on board, are killed. |
2020 | Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashes immediately after takeoff at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport; all 176 on board are killed. The plane was shot down by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile. |
2021 | Twenty-three people are killed in what is described as a police ″massacre″ in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela. |
2023 | Supporters of former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian Congress. |
1981 | The birth of Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player |
1982 | The birth of Gaby Hoffmann, American actress |
1982 | The birth of Kim Jong-un, North Korean soldier and politician, 3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea (probable) |
1988 | The birth of Adrián López, Spanish footballer |
1988 | The birth of Michael Mancienne, English footballer |
1988 | The birth of Alex Tyus, American-Israeli basketball player |
1989 | The birth of Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player |
1991 | The birth of Josh Hazlewood, Australian cricketer |
1991 | The birth of Stefan Johansen, Norwegian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Stefan Savić, Montenegrin footballer |
1992 | The birth of Stefanie Dolson, American basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Koke, Spanish footballer |
1993 | The birth of Sophie Pascoe, New Zealand swimmer |
1999 | The birth of Damiano David, Italian singer-songwriter |
2000 | The birth of Noah Cyrus, American singer, songwriter, and actress |
2014 | The death of Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Dutch-Australian swimmer (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Antonino P. Roman, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Andraé Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor (b. 1942) |
2015 | The death of Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 23rd Attorney-General for Australia (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Patsy Garrett, American actress and singer (b. 1921) |
2016 | The death of Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of German Moreno, Filipino television host, actor, comedian and talent manager (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (b. 1925) |
2017 | The death of James Mancham, Seychellois politician, President 1976-77 (b. 1939) |
2017 | The death of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian politician (b. 1934) |
2017 | The death of Peter Sarstedt, Indian-British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941) |
2020 | The death of Pat Dalton, Australian footballer (b. 1942) |
2020 | The death of Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1930) |
2021 | The death of Iancu Țucărman, Romanian Holocaust survivor (b. 1922) |
2022 | The death of Michael Lang, American concert promoter and producer (b. 1944) |
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Website | Terry Brooks's Webiste |
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