Updated at November 8, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Dick King-Smith |
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Birthdate | March 27, 1922 |
Birth Place | Bitton, England |
Age (in 2024) | 102 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Dick King-Smith is best known as Children's Author who has born on March 27, 1922 in Bitton, England. Currently, Dick King-Smith is 102 years, 7 months and 12 days old. Dick King-Smith will celebrate 103rd birthday on Thursday, 27th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Dick King-Smith upcoming birthday.
English children's author whose 1983 work, The Sheep-Pig, was later adapted into the popular film Babe. His more than a hundred other works for children include Tumbleweed, Cuckoobush Farm, The Finger Eater, Mr. Ape, and the Sophie series.
He served in Italy during World War II and worked as a farmer for two decades. He published his first children's book, The Fox Busters, in 1978.
He won the 1984 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for The Sheep-Pig.
He had three children and was married twice. He wed Zona Bedding in 2001, a year after the death of his first wife, Myrle.
His 1978 work, The Fox Busters, was adapted into an animated TV series starring Whoopi Goldberg.
Dick King-Smith is 102 years old today.
Dick King-Smith was born on March 27, 1922 in Bitton, England.
Dick King-Smith zodiac sign is Aries.
Dick King-Smith was best known as Children's Author.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Dick King-Smith's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Dick King-Smith's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1986 | A car bomb explodes outside Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, Australia, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people. |
1990 | The United States begins broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba on TV Martí. |
1993 | Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China. |
1993 | Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo. |
1998 | The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States. |
1999 | Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav Army SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat. |
2000 | A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others. |
2002 | Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel. |
2002 | Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors; 19 other people are injured. |
2004 | HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe. |
2009 | The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people. |
2014 | Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict. |
2015 | Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead. |
2016 | A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter. |
2020 | North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO. |
1988 | The birth of Brenda Song, American actress |
1988 | The birth of Mauro Goicoechea, Uruguayan footballer |
1988 | The birth of Holliday Grainger, English actress |
1989 | The birth of Matt Harvey, American baseball player |
1989 | The birth of Camilla Lees, New Zealand netball player |
1990 | The birth of Erdin Demir, Swedish-Turkish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Ben Hunt, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Nicolas Nkoulou, Cameroonian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Luca Zuffi, Swiss footballer |
1990 | The birth of Kimbra, New Zealand musician |
1990 | The birth of Brodha V, Indian Rapper and Music Producer |
1992 | The birth of Marc Muniesa, Spanish footballer |
1995 | The birth of Bill Tuiloma, New Zealand footballer |
1998 | The birth of Giannis Bouzoukis, Greek footballer |
2002 | The birth of Daria Snigur, Ukrainian tennis player |
2008 | The death of Jean-Marie Balestre, French businessman (b. 1921) |
2009 | The death of Irving R. Levine, American journalist and author (b. 1922) |
2010 | The death of Dick Giordano, American illustrator (b. 1932) |
2011 | The death of Clement Arrindell, Nevisian judge and politician, 1st Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (b. 1931) |
2011 | The death of Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925) |
2012 | The death of Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist and feminist (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1923) |
2013 | The death of Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American scientist and engineer (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Richard N. Frye, American scholar and academic (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of James R. Schlesinger, American economist and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Defense and first United States Secretary of Energy (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Johnny Helms, American trumpet player, bandleader, and educator (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of T. Sailo, Indian soldier and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Mizoram (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of Mother Angelica, American Roman Catholic religious leader and media personality (b. 1923) |
2018 | The death of Bert Nievera, Filipino-American singer (b. 1936) |
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