Updated at December 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Brooke Astor |
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Birthdate | March 30, 1902 |
Birth Place | Portsmouth, NH |
Age (in 2024) | 122 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Family Member |
Brooke Astor is best known as Family Member who has born on March 30, 1902 in Portsmouth, NH. Currently, Brooke Astor is 122 years, 8 months and 18 days old. Brooke Astor will celebrate 123rd birthday on Sunday, 30th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Brooke Astor upcoming birthday.
Remembered best as the third wife of wealthy businessman Vincent Astor, this socialite and one-time chairperson of the Vincent Astor Foundation also had a career as a writer. Her publications include The Bluebird is at Home and Patchwork Child: Early Memories.
Born Roberta Brooke Russell, she grew up in New Hampshire, Maryland, Virginia, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti, as the only child of Mabel Howard and United States Marine Corps Commander John Henry Russell, Jr.
A prominent philanthropist, she supported organizations such as The New York Public Library, The Animal Medical Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Her first marriage, to politician John Dryden Kuser, began when she was just seventeen years old and ended eleven years later. Following the death of her second husband, Charles Henry Marshall (an investment banker and the father of her son Anthony), she married Vincent Astor.
She was a distant relative of German-born multi-millionaire John Jacob Astor.
Brooke Astor is 122 years old today.
Brooke Astor was born on March 30, 1902 in Portsmouth, NH.
Brooke Astor zodiac sign is Aries.
Brooke Astor was best known as Family Member.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Brooke Astor's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Brooke Astor's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1959 | Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India. |
1961 | The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City. |
1965 | Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others. |
1967 | Delta Air Lines Flight 9877 crashes at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, killing 19. |
1972 | Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam. |
1976 | Israeli-Palestinian conflict: in the first organized response against Israeli policies by a Palestinian collective since 1948, Palestinians create the first Land Day. |
1979 | Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament (MP), is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility. |
1981 | U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident. |
1982 | Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. |
2002 | The 2002 Lyon car attack takes place. |
2008 | Drolma Kyi arrested by Chinese authorities. |
2009 | Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan. |
2017 | SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket. |
2018 | Israeli Army killed 17 Palestinians and wounded 1,400 in Gaza during Land Day protests. |
2019 | Pope Francis visits Morocco. |
1988 | The birth of Will Matthews, Australian rugby league player |
1988 | The birth of Thanasis Papazoglou, Greek footballer |
1988 | The birth of Richard Sherman, American football player |
1988 | The birth of Larisa Yurkiw, Canadian alpine skier |
1989 | The birth of Chris Sale, American baseball player |
1989 | The birth of João Sousa, Portuguese tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Thomas Rhett, American country music singer and songwriter |
1990 | The birth of Michal Březina, Czech figure skater |
1992 | The birth of Palak Muchhal, Indian playback singer |
1993 | The birth of Anitta, Brazilian singer and entertainer |
1994 | The birth of Jetro Willems, Dutch footballer |
1997 | The birth of Lee Dong-min, South Korean singer, actor, and model |
1998 | The birth of Kalyn Ponga, Australian rugby league player |
2000 | The birth of Colton Herta, American race car driver |
2001 | The birth of Anastasia Potapova, Russian tennis player |
2013 | The death of Daniel Hoffman, American poet and academic (b. 1923) |
2013 | The death of Bobby Parks, American basketball player and coach (b. 1962) |
2013 | The death of Phil Ramone, South African-American songwriter and producer, co-founded A & R Recording (b. 1934) |
2013 | The death of Edith Schaeffer, Chinese-Swiss religious leader and author, co-founded L'Abri (b. 1914) |
2013 | The death of Bob Turley, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Ray Hutchison, American lawyer and politician (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Kate O'Mara, English actress (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Helmut Dietl, German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944) |
2015 | The death of Roger Slifer, American author, illustrator, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1954) |
2015 | The death of Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1921) |
2018 | The death of Bill Maynard, English actor (b. 1928) |
2020 | The death of Manolis Glezos, Greek left-wing politician, journalist, author, and folk hero (b. 1922) |
2020 | The death of Bill Withers, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938) |
2021 | The death of G. Gordon Liddy, chief operative in the Watergate scandal (b. 1930) |
2021 | The death of Myra Frances, British actress (b. 1942) |
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