Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Wayne Karlin |
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Birthdate | June 13, 1945 |
Birth Place | California |
Age (in 2024) | 79 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Essayist |
Wayne Karlin is best known as Essayist who has born on June 13, 1945 in California. Currently, Wayne Karlin is 79 years, 5 months and 20 days old. Wayne Karlin will celebrate 80th birthday on Friday, 13th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Wayne Karlin upcoming birthday.
Known for his historically-themed essays and short stories, he also earned accolades for such novels as Prisoners, Love After War, and The Wished-For Country. Also an editor, he worked on a Curbstone Press anthology titled Voices from Viet Nam.
He served in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, earning such military decorations as the Air Medal and the Vietnam Service Medal.
After graduating from Jerusalem's American College and from Vermont's Goddard College, he taught for many decades at the College of Southern Maryland.
His marriage to Ohnmar Thein Karlin resulted in a son named Adam.
He and fellow writer Homer Hickam both served in the Vietnam War.
Wayne Karlin is 79 years old today.
Wayne Karlin was born on June 13, 1945 in California.
Wayne Karlin zodiac sign is Gemini.
Wayne Karlin was best known as Essayist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Wayne Karlin's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Wayne Karlin's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1994 | A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15Â billion in damages. |
1996 | The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents. |
1996 | Garuda Indonesia flight 865 crashes during takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, killing three people and injuring 170. |
1997 | A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. |
1999 | BMW win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Toyota being a contention for the win until a puncture in the last hour relegated it to second, Toyota not participating in Le Mans again until 2012. The race was also remembered for the flipping incidents involving the Mercedes cars, the team withdrawing mid-race and Mercedes never entering Le Mans again. |
2000 | President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang. |
2000 | Italy pardons Mehmet Ali AÄŸca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. |
2002 | The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. |
2005 | The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of his charges for allegedly sexually molesting a child in 1993. |
2007 | The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time. |
2010 | A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback. |
2012 | A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others. |
2015 | A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in Dallas, Texas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police. |
2018 | Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal. |
2021 | A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others. |
1989 | The birth of Tommy Searle, English motocross racer |
1989 | The birth of Hassan Whiteside, American basketball player |
1989 | The birth of Erica Wiebe, Canadian wrestler |
1990 | The birth of James McCann, American baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Nicole Riner, Swiss tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, English actor |
1991 | The birth of Will Claye, American jumper |
1991 | The birth of Ryan Mason, English footballer |
1992 | The birth of Semi Radradra, Fijian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (d. 2011) |
1993 | The birth of Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (d. 2018) |
1994 | The birth of Deepika Kumari, Indian archer |
1995 | The birth of Emily Fanning, New Zealand tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Laura Ucrós, Colombian tennis player |
2000 | The birth of Penny Oleksiak, Canadian swimmer |
2012 | The death of Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and author (b. 1913) |
2012 | The death of Jože Humer, Slovenian composer and translator (b. 1934) |
2012 | The death of Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer for Lollywood (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of David Deutsch, American businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Albert White Hat, American educator and activist (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946) |
2014 | The death of Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Robert Peters, American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Buddy Boudreaux, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1917) |
2015 | The death of Sergio Renán, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Mike Shrimpton, New Zealand cricketer and coach (b. 1940) |
2021 | The death of Ned Beatty, American actor (b. 1937) |
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