Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Anthony Powell |
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Birthdate | December 21, 1905 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 118 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Novelist |
Anthony Powell is best known as Novelist who has born on December 21, 1905 in England. Currently, Anthony Powell is 118 years, 10 months and 15 days old. Anthony Powell will celebrate 119th birthday on Saturday, 21st of December 2024. Below the countdown to Anthony Powell upcoming birthday.
English novelist most well known for his twelve volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published over the course of twenty four years. He was featured in the 2008 list of "50 greatest British writers since 1945" in The Times.
In his last year at Eton, he founded the Eton Society of Arts and went on to attend Oxford University.
He was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1956 and declined knighthood in 1973.
He married Lady Violet Pakenham in 1934, and they were married for seventeen years.
He was a contemporary of the novelist Graham Greene.
Anthony Powell is 118 years old today.
Anthony Powell was born on December 21, 1905 in England.
Anthony Powell zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Anthony Powell was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Anthony Powell's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1963 | "Bloody Christmas" begins in Cyprus, ultimately resulting in the displacement of 25,000-30,000 Turkish Cypriots and destruction of more than 100 villages. |
1965 | International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is adopted. |
1967 | Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a human-to-human heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant. |
1968 | Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans. |
1970 | First flight of F-14 multi-role combat aircraft. |
1973 | The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens. |
1979 | Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara. |
1988 | A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. This is to date the deadliest air disaster to occur on British soil. |
1988 | The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world. |
1992 | A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56. |
1995 | The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control. |
1999 | The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950Â kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain. |
1999 | Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 overshoots the runway at La Aurora International Airport, killing 18. |
2004 | Iraq War: A suicide bomber kills 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers. |
2020 | A great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurs, with the two planets separated in the sky by 0.1 degrees. This is the closest conjunction between the two planets since 1623. |
1978 | The birth of Emiliano Brembilla, Italian swimmer |
1978 | The birth of Charles Dera, American pornographic actor, dancer, model, and mixed martial arts fighter |
1978 | The birth of Shaun Morgan, South African musician, singer, and guitarist |
1979 | The birth of Steve Montador, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015) |
1981 | The birth of Cristian Zaccardo, Italian footballer |
1982 | The birth of Philip Humber, American baseball player |
1983 | The birth of Steven Yeun, American actor |
1985 | The birth of Tom Sturridge, English actor |
1988 | The birth of Perri Shakes-Drayton, English sprinter and hurdler |
1989 | The birth of Mark Ingram II, American football player |
1989 | The birth of Tamannaah, South Indian actress |
1991 | The birth of Riccardo Saponara, Italian footballer |
1995 | The birth of Ronnie Bassett Jr., American race car driver |
1995 | The birth of Kelly Smith, English rugby union player |
2002 | The birth of Clara Tauson, Danish tennis player |
1992 | The death of Albert King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1924) |
1992 | The death of Nathan Milstein, Russian-American violinist and composer (b. 1903) |
1998 | The death of Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician (b. 1904) |
2004 | The death of Autar Singh Paintal, Indian physiologist and neurologist (b. 1925) |
2006 | The death of Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940) |
2009 | The death of Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) |
2009 | The death of Christos Lambrakis, Greek journalist and businessman (b. 1934) |
2010 | The death of Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of John Eisenhower, American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of Sitor Situmorang, Indonesian poet and author (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Billie Whitelaw, English actress (b. 1932) |
2017 | The death of Bruce McCandless II, US astronaut who conducted the first untethered spacewalk (b. 1937) |
2019 | The death of Andrew Clennel Palmer, British engineer (b. 1938) |
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