Updated at December 22, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Alfred Russel Wallace |
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Birthdate | January 08, 1823 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 201 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Biologist |
Alfred Russel Wallace is best known as Biologist who has born on January 08, 1823 in England. Currently, Alfred Russel Wallace is 201 years, 11 months and 14 days old. Alfred Russel Wallace will celebrate 202nd birthday on Wednesday, 8th of January 2025. Below the countdown to Alfred Russel Wallace upcoming birthday.
Best known for his papers on the topic of evolution, this award-winning, 19th-century naturalist independently developed the idea of natural selection around the same time that Charles Darwin became famous for formulating the important theory.
In his late teens and early twenties, he worked as an apprentice to his surveyor brother, William. He later taught cartography classes at a school in Leicester, England.
He formulated the "Wallace effect" hypothesis, which laid out the idea that natural selection protects against the hybridization of animal species. Also an expert on biogeography (the study of the distribution of different species), he traveled widely and conducted research in both the Malay Archipelago and the Amazon River basin.
His marriage to Annie Mitten resulted in a daughter named Violet and sons named Herbert and William.
He defended Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species against the attacks of numerous late 19th-century critics.
Alfred Russel Wallace is 201 years old today.
Alfred Russel Wallace was born on January 08, 1823 in England.
Alfred Russel Wallace zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Alfred Russel Wallace was best known as Biologist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Alfred Russel Wallace'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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