Updated at December 15, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Ben Folds |
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Birthdate | September 12, 1966 |
Birth Place | Winston-Salem, NC |
Age (in 2024) | 58 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Rock Singer |
Ben Folds is best known as Rock Singer who has born on September 12, 1966 in Winston-Salem, NC. Currently, Ben Folds is 58 years, 3 months and 3 days old. Ben Folds will celebrate 59th birthday on Friday, 12th of September 2025. Below the countdown to Ben Folds upcoming birthday.
Singer-songwriter and music producer known as both a successful solo artist and as the frontman of Ben Folds Five.
He attended University of Miami as a music major on a scholarship; after dropping out, he began acting in New York.
His band Ben Folds Five temporarily broke up so he started doing solo work; Ben Folds Five reunited in 2011.
He married Anna Goodman in 1987, Kate Rosen in 1996, Frally Hynes in 1998, and Fleur Folds in 2007. He and Fleur split up in 2011. He has a son named Louis and two daughters named Julia-Rose and Gracie.
He collaborated on William Shatner's album Has Been.
Ben Folds is 58 years old today.
Ben Folds was born on September 12, 1966 in Winston-Salem, NC.
Ben Folds zodiac sign is Virgo.
Ben Folds was best known as Rock Singer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Ben Folds's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Ben Folds's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1990 | The Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal suspects after two days of talks in Kinmen, Fujian Province in response to the two tragedies in repatriation in the previous two months. It is the first agreement reached by private organizations across the Taiwan Strait. |
1992 | NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space. |
1992 | Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well. |
1994 | Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties. |
2001 | Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed. |
2003 | The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. |
2003 | Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers. |
2003 | Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan. |
2005 | Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished. |
2007 | Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder. |
2007 | Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Scale hits the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 25 people and injuring 161. |
2008 | The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people. |
2011 | The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City opens to the public. |
2013 | NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space. |
2015 | A series of explosions involving propane triggering nearby illegally stored mining detonators in the Indian town of Petlawad in the state of Madhya Pradesh kills at least 105 people with over 150 injured. |
1986 | The birth of Alfie Allen, English actor |
1986 | The birth of Emmy Rossum, American singer and actress |
1988 | The birth of Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1989 | The birth of Freddie Freeman, American-Canadian baseball player |
1989 | The birth of Andrew Luck, American football player |
1991 | The birth of Thomas Meunier, Belgian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Mike Towell, Scottish professional boxer (d. 2016) |
1991 | The birth of Scott Wootton, English footballer |
1992 | The birth of Sviatlana Pirazhenka, Belarusian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Gideon Jung, German footballer |
1994 | The birth of RM, South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer |
1994 | The birth of Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Steven Gardiner, Bahamian sprinter |
1997 | The birth of Sydney Sweeney, American actress |
1997 | The birth of Almida de Val, Swedish curler |
2013 | The death of Erich Loest, German author and screenwriter (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (b. 1946) |
2014 | The death of Atef Ebeid, Egyptian academic and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of John Gustafson, English singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Ian Paisley, Northern Irish evangelical pastor (Free Presbyterian Church) and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Hugh Royer, Jr., American golfer (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Frank D. Gilroy, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Al Monchak, American baseball player and coach (b. 1917) |
2015 | The death of Aronda Nyakairima, Ugandan general and politician (b. 1959) |
2017 | The death of Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1921) |
2017 | The death of Edith Windsor, American LGBT rights activist and technology manager at IBM (b. 1929) |
2018 | The death of Shen Chun-shan, Taiwanese academic (b. 1932) |
2019 | The death of ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician and activist, Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1941) |
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