As per our current Database, Larry Niven is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Larry Niven is 85 years, 11 months and 26 days old. Larry Niven will celebrate 86rd birthday on a Tuesday 30th of April 2024. Below we countdown to Larry Niven upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Larry Niven |
Occupation | Novelist |
Age | 85 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
Born | April 30, 1938 (California) |
Birthday | April 30 |
Town/City | California |
Nationality | California |
Larry Niven’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Larry Niven was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
A twentieth-century American author, he is best known for his award-winning science fiction novel, Ringworld. The novel, published in 1970, received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards.
He graduated from Washburn University (Topeka, Kansas) with a degree in mathematics, and went on to a year of graduate study at the University of California-Los Angeles.
He adapted several of his works into scripts for The Outer Limits and other science fiction series.
His great-grandfather, Edward L. Doheny, was involved in the Teapot Dome political scandal in the 1920s.
He helped advise Ronald Reagan on the Space Defensive Initiative, also called Star Wars, during the Cold War.