Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Eric Idle |
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Birthdate | March 29, 1943 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 81 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Comedian |
Eric Idle is best known as Comedian who has born on March 29, 1943 in England. Currently, Eric Idle is 81 years, 7 months and 7 days old. Eric Idle will celebrate 82nd birthday on Saturday, 29th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Eric Idle upcoming birthday.
Member of the groundbreaking Monty Python comedy troupe who wrote the hit Broadway musical Spamalot. He first became known to American audiences in 1978 when NBC aired a mockumentary film, All You Need Is Cash, a parody of The Beatles movies, which he wrote and starred in.
While studying English at Pembroke College at Cambridge he became the first president of the Cambridge University Footlights Club to allow membership to women. He later starred in the children's television comedy series Do Not Adjust Your Set co-starring his future Python fellows Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
He helped close the 2012 Summer Olympics at the Olympic Stadium in London on 12 August, by performing the song Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, which was first featured in the 1979 Monty Python film Life of Brian.
He had a son, Carey, in 1973 with his wife Lyn Ashley, who he married in 1969 and divorced in 1975. He has another child, Lily, with his second wife Tania, who he married in 1981.
In 2002 he played against Martha Stewart and Charles Barkley on a celebrity edition of "Jeopardy!" and won.
Eric Idle is 81 years old today.
Eric Idle was born on March 29, 1943 in England.
Eric Idle zodiac sign is Aries.
Eric Idle was best known as Comedian.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Eric Idle's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1974 | Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China. |
1982 | The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982. |
1984 | The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to Indianapolis. |
1990 | The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War. |
1993 | Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province. |
1999 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble. |
1999 | A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103. |
2002 | In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War. |
2004 | Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members. |
2010 | Two suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40. |
2013 | At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. |
2014 | The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed. |
2015 | Air Canada Flight 624 skids off the runway at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, after arriving from Toronto shortly past midnight. All 133 passengers and five crews on board survive, with 23 treated for minor injuries. |
2016 | A United States Air Force F-16 crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. The pilot ejected safely and was recovered by coalition forces, according to a U.S. military statement. |
2017 | Prime Minister Theresa May invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union. |
1987 | The birth of Dimitri Payet, French footballer |
1987 | The birth of Romain Hamouma, French footballer |
1988 | The birth of Esther Cremer, German runner |
1988 | The birth of Jesús Molina, Mexican footballer |
1988 | The birth of Jürgen Zopp, Estonian tennis player |
1989 | The birth of James Tomkins, English footballer |
1990 | The birth of Carlos Peña, Mexican footballer |
1990 | The birth of Teemu Pukki, Finnish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Lyle Taylor, English footballer |
1991 | The birth of Irene, South Korean idol, actress and television host |
1991 | The birth of Fabio Borini, Italian footballer |
1991 | The birth of N'Golo Kanté, French footballer |
1993 | The birth of Thorgan Hazard, Belgian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Jung Jae-won, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, and actor |
1996 | The birth of Wade Baldwin IV, American basketball player |
2012 | The death of Bill Jenkins, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Reginald Gray, Irish-French painter (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Brian Huggins, English-Canadian journalist and actor (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Liu Kang, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1961) |
2013 | The death of Ralph Klein, Canadian journalist and politician, 12th Premier of Alberta (b. 1942) |
2013 | The death of Art Phillips, Canadian businessman and politician, 32nd Mayor of Vancouver (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Marc Platt, American actor and dancer (b. 1913) |
2014 | The death of Ruth A. M. Schmidt, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of William Delafield Cook, Australian-English painter (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of Patty Duke, American actress (b. 1946) |
2017 | The death of Alexei Abrikosov, Russian physicist, 2003 Nobel laureate in Physics (b. 1928) |
2019 | The death of Agnès Varda, French film director (b. 1928) |
2020 | The death of Joe Diffie, American country music singer (b. 1958) |
2020 | The death of Alan Merrill, American musician (b. 1951) |
2020 | The death of Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1933) |
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