Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Aharon Appelfeld |
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Birthdate | February 16, 1932 |
Birth Place | Romania |
Age (in 2024) | 92 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Novelist |
Aharon Appelfeld is best known as Novelist who has born on February 16, 1932 in Romania. Currently, Aharon Appelfeld is 92 years, 8 months and 15 days old. Aharon Appelfeld will celebrate 93rd birthday on Sunday, 16th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Aharon Appelfeld upcoming birthday.
An award-winning Israeli novelist, he is known for his Holocaust-themed works. He received the National Jewish Book Award for his 1988 work, The Immortal Bartfuss.
He escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Romania and subsequently worked as a cook in the Soviet Army. Shortly after publishing two of his earliest works-- Badenheim 1939 (1978) and The Age of Wonders (1978)-- he was awarded the prestigious Bialik Prize for Literature.
Although he did not learn Hebrew until he was a teenager, he became one of Israel's most prominent Hebrew-language authors.
He reunited with his father and fellow concentration camp survivor in Israel in 1946. He grew up in Romania and later settled in a suburb of Jerusalem, Israel.
Appelfeld wrote about the Holocaust and the suffering of European Jews. Oscar Schindler , a German businessman, worked tirelessly to save Jews from the horrors of the Holocaust.
Aharon Appelfeld is 92 years old today.
Aharon Appelfeld was born on February 16, 1932 in Romania.
Aharon Appelfeld zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Aharon Appelfeld was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Aharon Appelfeld's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1968 | Civil Air Transport Flight 010 crashes near Shongshan Airport in Taiwan, killing 21 of the 63 people on board and one more on the ground. |
1978 | The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago). |
1983 | The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75. |
1985 | Hezbollah is founded. |
1986 | The Soviet liner MSÂ Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. |
1986 | China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near Penghu Airport in Taiwan, killing all 13 aboard. |
1991 | Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. |
1996 | A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people. |
1998 | China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground. |
2000 | Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, killing all three aboard. |
2005 | The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia. |
2005 | The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-05 regular season and playoffs. |
2006 | The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army. |
2013 | A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others. |
2021 | Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the two year anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria. |
1988 | The birth of Kim Soo-hyun, South Korean actor and singer |
1989 | The birth of Elizabeth Olsen, American actress |
1990 | The birth of Dunamis Lui, Australian-Samoan rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer |
1991 | The birth of Sergio Canales, Spanish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Nicolai Boilesen, Danish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Zsófia Susányi, Hungarian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Annika Beck, German tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Ava Max, American singer and songwriter |
1995 | The birth of Katy Dunne, English tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Carina Witthöft, German tennis player |
1999 | The birth of Marie Ulven Ringheim, Norwegian singer, songwriter and music producer |
2000 | The birth of Koffee, Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter and rapper |
2001 | The birth of Yuki Naito, Japanese tennis player |
2012 | The death of John Macionis, American swimmer and lieutenant (b. 1916) |
2012 | The death of Anthony Shadid, American journalist (b. 1968) |
2013 | The death of Colin Edwards, Guyanese footballer (b. 1991) |
2013 | The death of Grigory Pomerants, Russian philosopher and author (b. 1918) |
2013 | The death of Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940) |
2014 | The death of Ken Farragut, American football player (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Kralle Krawinkel, German guitarist (b. 1947) |
2014 | The death of Michael Shea, American author (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of Lasse Braun, Algerian-Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Lesley Gore, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of R. R. Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1957) |
2015 | The death of Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (b. 1971) |
2016 | The death of Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1922) |
2019 | The death of Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (b. 1941) |
2021 | The death of Gustavo Noboa, Ecuadorian politician, 42nd President of Ecuador |
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