Updated at November 15, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Freya Stark |
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Birthdate | January 31, 1893 |
Birth Place | Paris, France |
Age (in 2024) | 131 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Memoirist |
Freya Stark is best known as Memoirist who has born on January 31, 1893 in Paris, France. Currently, Freya Stark is 131 years, 9 months and 15 days old. Freya Stark will celebrate 132nd birthday on Friday, 31st of January 2025. Below the countdown to Freya Stark upcoming birthday.
Best remembered for her numerous publications detailing her travels in Afghanistan and the Middle East, this 20th-century travel writer also published personal memoirs and essays. Her most famous works include The Journey's Echo: Selected Travel Writings and The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut.
As a child, she taught herself to read both French and Latin. Fascinated from a young age with the book Arabian Nights, she later learned the Arabic and Persian languages and attended the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
After World War II, she traveled to Turkey, documenting her journey in such books as The Lycian Shore and Ionia, a Quest.
Born in France and raised primarily in Italy, she was the daughter of an Italian, German, and Polish mother and an English artist father. In her fifties, she married diplomat, historian, and archaeologist Stewart Perowne.
As a member of the World War I-era Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) service, she served with an Italian-based ambulance corps headed by historian G.M. Trevelyan.
Freya Stark is 131 years old today.
Freya Stark was born on January 31, 1893 in Paris, France.
Freya Stark zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Freya Stark was best known as Memoirist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Freya Stark's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1968 | Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive. |
1968 | Nauru gains independence from Australia. |
1971 | Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon. |
1971 | The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit. |
1978 | The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) goes on public display after being returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II. |
1988 | Doug Williams becomes the first African-American quarterback to play in a Super Bowl and leads the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XXII. |
1996 | An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400. |
2000 | Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard. |
2001 | In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. |
2001 | Two Japan Airlines planes nearly collide over Suruga Bay in Japan. |
2009 | In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people. |
2018 | Both a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse occur. |
2019 | Abdullah of Pahang is sworn in as the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. |
2020 | The United Kingdom's membership within the European Union ceases in accordance with Article 50, after 47 years of being a member state. |
2022 | Sue Gray, a senior civil servant in the United Kingdom, publishes an initial version of her report on the Downing Street Partygate controversy. |
1986 | The birth of Megan Ellison, American film producer, founded Annapurna Pictures |
1986 | The birth of George Elokobi, Cameroonian footballer |
1986 | The birth of Yves Ma-Kalambay, Belgian footballer |
1986 | The birth of Pauline Parmentier, French tennis player |
1987 | The birth of Marcus Mumford, American-English singer-songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Brett Pitman, English footballer |
1988 | The birth of Taijo Teniste, Estonian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Jacopo Fortunato, Italian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Jacob Markström, Swedish ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Kota Yabu, Japanese idol, singer-songwriter, model, actor |
1990 | The birth of Cro, German rapper |
1993 | The birth of Qiu Bo, China Diver |
1994 | The birth of Kenneth Zohore, Danish footballer |
1996 | The birth of Nikita Dragun, American Youtuber |
2006 | The birth of Sára Bejlek, Czech tennis player |
2013 | The death of Hassan Habibi, Iranian lawyer and politician, 1st Vice President of Iran (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Francis M. Fesmire, American cardiologist and physician (b. 1959) |
2014 | The death of Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer, co-founded Anna Records (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somalian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Joseph Willcox Jenkins, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Christopher Jones, American actor (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Vic Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Udo Lattek, German footballer, coach, and journalist (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Lizabeth Scott, American actress (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Richard von Weizsäcker, German captain and politician, 6th President of Germany (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Terry Wogan, Irish radio and television host (b. 1938) |
2017 | The death of Rob Stewart, Canadian filmmaker (b. 1979) |
2018 | The death of Rasual Butler, American professional basketball player (b. 1979) |
2018 | The death of Leah LaBelle, American singer (b. 1986) |
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