Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Yusef Komunyakaa |
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Birthdate | April 29, 1941 |
Birth Place | Louisiana |
Age (in 2024) | 83 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Poet |
Yusef Komunyakaa is best known as Poet who has born on April 29, 1941 in Louisiana. Currently, Yusef Komunyakaa is 83 years, 6 months and 24 days old. Yusef Komunyakaa will celebrate 84th birthday on Tuesday, 29th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Yusef Komunyakaa upcoming birthday.
African-American poet and Pulitzer Prize recipient whose works include Copacetic and I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head. The former collection is marked by the rhythms of jazz music; the latter received the San Francisco Poetry Prize.
He was one of five children born to a Louisiana carpenter. He fought in the Vietnam War before studying at the University of Colorado.
He taught at Indiana University, Princeton University, New York University, and the University of New Orleans.
He was married to author Mandy Sayer for ten years and later had a child with poet Reetika Vazirani. Tragically, Vazirani killed herself and the couple's child in 2003.
He and Philip Levine were both recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry during the 1990s.
Yusef Komunyakaa is 83 years old today.
Yusef Komunyakaa was born on April 29, 1941 in Louisiana.
Yusef Komunyakaa zodiac sign is Taurus.
Yusef Komunyakaa was best known as Poet.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Yusef Komunyakaa's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1974 | Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal. |
1975 | Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end. |
1975 | Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held TrÆ°á»ng Sa Islands. |
1986 | A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items. |
1986 | The United States Navy aircraft carrier USSÂ Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USSÂ Coral Sea. |
1986 | Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant. |
1991 | A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249Â km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless. |
1991 | The 7.0 Mw⯠Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people. |
1992 | Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed. |
1997 | The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories. |
2004 | The final Oldsmobile is built in Lansing, Michigan, ending 107 years of vehicle production. |
2011 | The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London. |
2013 | A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people. |
2013 | National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing seven people. |
2015 | A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests. |
1989 | The birth of Candace Owens, American conservative influencer, political commentator, and activist. |
1990 | The birth of James Faulkner, Australian cricketer |
1990 | The birth of Chris Johnson, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Adam Smith, English footballer |
1991 | The birth of Jung Hye-sung, South Korean actress |
1991 | The birth of Misaki Doi, Japanese tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Emilio Orozco, American soccer player |
1992 | The birth of Alina Rosenberg, German Paralympic equestrian |
1994 | The birth of Christina Shakovets, German tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Victoria Sinitsina, Russian ice dancer |
1996 | The birth of Katherine Langford, Australian actress |
1998 | The birth of Kimberly Birrell, Australian tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Mallory Pugh, American soccer player |
2002 | The birth of Sinja Kraus, Austrian tennis player |
2007 | The birth of Infanta SofĂa of Spain, Spanish princess |
2013 | The death of John La Montaine, American pianist and composer (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Ernest Michael, American mathematician and scholar (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Kevin Moore, English footballer (b. 1958) |
2013 | The death of Marianna Zachariadi, Greek pole vaulter (b. 1990) |
2014 | The death of Iveta BartoĆĄovĂĄ, Czech singer and actress (b. 1966) |
2014 | The death of Al Feldstein, American author and illustrator (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Bob Hoskins, English actor (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Michael Kadosh, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of François Michelin, French businessman (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman, co-founded Weight Watchers (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Calvin Peete, American golfer (b. 1943) |
2015 | The death of Dan Walker, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (b. 1948) |
2019 | The death of Josef Ć ural, Czech footballer (b. 1990) |
2021 | The death of Cate Haste, English author (b. 1945) |
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