Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Colleen McCullough |
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Birthdate | June 01, 1937 |
Birth Place | Australia |
Age (in 2024) | 87 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Novelist |
Colleen McCullough is best known as Novelist who has born on June 01, 1937 in Australia. Currently, Colleen McCullough is 87 years, 5 months and 3 days old. Colleen McCullough will celebrate 88th birthday on Sunday, 1st of June 2025. Below the countdown to Colleen McCullough upcoming birthday.
Australian author best remembered for her 1977 international bestseller The Thorn Birds, which was adapted into one of the highest-rated miniseries of all time. Her other works include 1974's Tim, 1981's An Indecent Obsession and 2000's Morgan's Run.
She was born in Wellington, New South Wales and originally studied to become a medical doctor at the University of Sydney.
She taught in the Department of Neurology at Yale Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut from 1967 to 1976.
She married Ric Robinson in 1983. Her younger brother Carl, who drowned at age 25, was the inspiration for a character in The Thorn Birds.
She published a sequel to Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice titled The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet in 2008.
Colleen McCullough is 87 years old today.
Colleen McCullough was born on June 01, 1937 in Australia.
Colleen McCullough zodiac sign is Gemini.
Colleen McCullough was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Colleen McCullough's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1988 | European Central Bank is founded in Brussels. |
1988 | The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect. |
1990 | Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production. |
1993 | Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo. |
1994 | Republic of South Africa becomes a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations. |
1999 | American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock. |
2001 | Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother. |
2001 | Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv. |
2004 | Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole. |
2008 | A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019. |
2009 | Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed. |
2009 | General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history. |
2011 | A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people. |
2011 | Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing after 25 flights. |
2015 | A ship carrying 458 people capsizes in the Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people. |
1985 | The birth of Sam Young, American basketball player |
1986 | The birth of Moses Ndiema Masai, Kenyan runner |
1986 | The birth of Chinedu Obasi, Nigerian footballer |
1986 | The birth of Ben Smith, New Zealand rugby player |
1987 | The birth of Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Yarisley Silva, Cuban pole vaulter |
1988 | The birth of Javier Hernández, Mexican footballer |
1989 | The birth of Nataliya Goncharova, Ukrainian/Russian volleyball player |
1989 | The birth of Sammy Alex Mutahi, Kenyan runner |
1990 | The birth of Miller Bolaños, Ecuadoran footballer |
1990 | The birth of Carlota Ciganda, Spanish golfer |
1991 | The birth of Tyrone Roberts, Australian rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Kagayaki Taishi, Japanese sumo wrestler |
1996 | The birth of Edvinas Gertmonas, Lithuanian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Tom Holland, English actor |
2010 | The death of Andrei Voznesensky, Russian poet (b. 1933) |
2011 | The death of Haleh Sahabi, Iranian humanitarian and activist (b. 1957) |
2012 | The death of Faruq Z. Bey, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1942) |
2012 | The death of Pádraig Faulkner, Irish educator and politician, 19th Irish Minister of Defence (b. 1918) |
2012 | The death of Milan Gaľa, Slovak politician (b. 1953) |
2013 | The death of James Kelleher, Canadian lawyer and politician, 33rd Solicitor General of Canada (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Ann B. Davis, American actress (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Valentin Mankin, Ukrainian sailor (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Charles Kennedy, Scottish journalist and politician (b. 1959) |
2015 | The death of Joan Kirner, Australian educator and politician, 42nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Nicholas Liverpool, Dominican lawyer and politician, 6th President of Dominica (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Jacques Parizeau, Canadian economist and politician, 26th Premier of Quebec (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Jean Ritchie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1922) |
2018 | The death of Sinan Sakić, Serbian pop-folk singer (b. 1956) |
2019 | The death of Ani Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician, 6th First Lady of Indonesia. (b. 1952) |
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