Updated at November 8, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Francois Van Coke |
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Birthdate | September 18, 1980 |
Birth Place | Brakpan, South Africa |
Age (in 2024) | 44 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Rock Singer |
Francois Van Coke is best known as Rock Singer who has born on September 18, 1980 in Brakpan, South Africa. Currently, Francois Van Coke is 44 years, 1 months and 20 days old. Francois Van Coke will celebrate 45th birthday on Thursday, 18th of September 2025. Below the countdown to Francois Van Coke upcoming birthday.
South African punk rock musician who rose to fame as lead singer of the band Van Coke Kartel and Fokofpolisiekar. Van Coke Kartel's second album won a SAMA (South African Music Award) for Best Afrikaans Rock Album in 2008, as well as their album, Bloed, Sweet & Trane, which won for Best Rock Album in 2014.
He married Lauren Wild in 2012 and they have one daughter, Alex Lila.
He performs predominantly in Afrikaans instead of English. Fokofpolisiekar won a SAMA for Best Afrikaans Rock album in 2007.
His father was a minister who asked Francois to change his name when churchgoers complained about the type of music he was playing. His given name is Francois Badenhorst.
His band, Van Coke Cartel, has performed with Muse, Good Charlotte and Metallica.
Francois Van Coke is 44 years old today.
Francois Van Coke was born on September 18, 1980 in Brakpan, South Africa.
Francois Van Coke zodiac sign is Virgo.
Francois Van Coke was best known as Rock Singer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Francois Van Coke's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Francois Van Coke's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1984 | Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic. |
1988 | The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end. |
1988 | General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril. |
1990 | Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations. |
1992 | An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada. |
1997 | United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations. |
1997 | The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted. |
2001 | First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. |
2007 | Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution. |
2011 | The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet. |
2012 | Greater Manchester Police officers PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone are murdered in a gun and grenade ambush attack in Greater Manchester, England. |
2014 | Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%. |
2015 | Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar. |
2016 | The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers. |
2021 | A ferry capsizes in Guizhou province, China due to bad weather, killing ten people and five missing. |
1980 | The birth of Petri Virtanen, Finnish basketball player |
1981 | The birth of Jennifer Tisdale, American actress and singer |
1981 | The birth of Kristaps Valters, Latvian basketball player |
1981 | The birth of Han Ye-seul, South Korean actress |
1982 | The birth of Alessandro Cibocchi, Italian footballer |
1982 | The birth of Arvydas Eitutavičius, Lithuanian basketball player |
1982 | The birth of Leono, Mexican wrestler |
1982 | The birth of Alfredo Talavera, Mexican footballer |
1984 | The birth of Anthony Gonzalez, American football player and politician |
1984 | The birth of Dizzee Rascal, British hip hop musician |
1987 | The birth of Seiko Oomori, Japanese singer-songwriter |
1989 | The birth of Serge Ibaka, Congolese-Spanish basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Lewis Holtby, German footballer |
1998 | The birth of Christian Pulisic, American soccer player |
2003 | The birth of Ana Galindo, Mexican rhythmic gymnast |
2013 | The death of Arthur Lamothe, French-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of Ken Norton, American boxer (b. 1943) |
2013 | The death of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-German author and critic (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Richard C. Sarafian, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Milan Marcetta, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Earl Ross, Canadian racing driver (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Hirofumi Uzawa, Japanese economist and academic (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Kenny Wheeler, Canadian-English trumpet player and composer (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean footballer and manager (b. 1955) |
2015 | The death of James R. Houck, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Mario Benjamín Menéndez, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, Pakistani writer, poet, translator and playwright (b. 1937) |
2020 | The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court justice (b. 1933) |
2021 | The death of Jolidee Matongo, South African politician, 97th Mayor of Johannesburg (b. 1975) |
2021 | The death of Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish road bicycle racer (b. 1984) |
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