Updated at December 22, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Colette |
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Birthdate | January 28, 1873 |
Birth Place | France |
Age (in 2024) | 151 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Novelist |
Colette is best known as Novelist who has born on January 28, 1873 in France. Currently, Colette is 151 years, 10 months and 25 days old. Colette will celebrate 152nd birthday on Tuesday, 28th of January 2025. Below the countdown to Colette upcoming birthday.
French novelist who scandalized and enthralled the public. She is best known for writing Gigi, a work that was later adapted into stage and film musical comedies of the same title.
She learned to play the piano during her childhood and also excelled in the study of mathematics. Early in her career, she published the Claudine book series under a male pen name and also performed in Parisian music halls.
Her novel, Gigi, focused on a girl being groomed to be a courtesan.
She was born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette and was the daughter of a military officer. In 1893, she married Henry Gauthier-Villars; after leaving him, she had several affairs with both men and women. She married her second husband, Henri de Jouvenel, in 1912, and the couple had a daughter prior to their 1924 divorce (which was the result of Colette's affair with her stepson, Bertrand de Jouvenel).
She and Gaston Leroux were both prominent French authors.
Colette is 151 years old today.
Colette was born on January 28, 1873 in France.
Colette zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Colette was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Colette's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1960 | The National Football League announces expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for the 1961 NFL season. |
1964 | An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19. |
1965 | The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament. |
1977 | The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which dumps 3 metres (10Â ft) of snow in one day in Upstate New York. Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected. |
1980 | USCGCÂ Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers. |
1981 | Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States, helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut. |
1982 | US Army General James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades. |
1984 | Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region. |
1985 | Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief. |
1986 | Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board. |
1988 | In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws. |
2002 | TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100, crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 94. |
2006 | The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Poland collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others. |
2021 | A nitrogen leak at a poultry food processing facility in Gainesville, Georgia kills six and injures at least ten. |
2023 | Protests begin after police beat and kill Tyre Nichols. |
1985 | The birth of Daniel Carcillo, Canadian ice hockey player |
1985 | The birth of Lauris DÄrziĆĆĄ, Latvian ice hockey player |
1985 | The birth of Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer |
1985 | The birth of Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer |
1986 | The birth of Jessica Ennis-Hill, English heptathlete and hurdler |
1986 | The birth of Nathan Outteridge, Australian sailor |
1986 | The birth of Asad Shafiq, Pakistani cricketer |
1988 | The birth of Paul Henry, English footballer |
1988 | The birth of Seiya Sanada, Japanese wrestler |
1989 | The birth of Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer |
1991 | The birth of Carl Klingberg, Swedish ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Sergio Araujo, Argentinian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Lin Zhu, Chinese tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Mimi-Isabella Cesar, British rhythmic gymnast |
1998 | The birth of Ariel Winter, American actress |
2014 | The death of Dwight Gustafson, American composer and conductor (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Nigel Jenkins, Welsh poet, journalist, and geographer (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of Jorge Obeid, Argentinian engineer and politician, Governor of Santa Fe (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of Suraj Abdurrahman, Nigerian general, architect, and engineer (b. 1954) |
2015 | The death of Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Lionel Gilbert, Australian historian, author, and academic (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Signe Toly Anderson, American singer (b. 1941) |
2016 | The death of Paul Kantner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941) |
2016 | The death of Franklin Gene Bissell, American football player and coach (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of Buddy Cianci, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Providence (b. 1941) |
2016 | The death of Bob Tizard, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 6th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1924) |
2017 | The death of Alexander Chancellor, British journalist (b. 1940) |
2017 | The death of Geoff Nicholls, British musician (b. 1948) |
2019 | The death of Pepe Smith, Filipino rock musician (b. 1947) |
2021 | The death of Cicely Tyson, American actress (b. 1924) |
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