Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Gabriel García Márquez |
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Birthdate | March 06, 1927 |
Birth Place | Aracataca, Colombia |
Age (in 2024) | 97 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Novelist |
Gabriel García Márquez is best known as Novelist who has born on March 06, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia. Currently, Gabriel García Márquez is 97 years, 9 months and 7 days old. Gabriel García Márquez will celebrate 98th birthday on Thursday, 6th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Gabriel García Márquez upcoming birthday.
Influential Colombian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. His most famous novels include One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
He studied law at the National University of Colombia during the 1940s. During this period, he segued into a journalistic career, writing articles and columns for such local newspapers as El Universal and El Heraldo.
His novel, Love in the Time of Cholera, was adapted into a film directed by Mike Newell and released in the United States in 2007.
He was born in Colombia and was raised primarily by his maternal grandparents. He married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; the couple had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
He followed in the footsteps of American author, William Faulkner, to become a Nobel Laureate.
Gabriel García Márquez is 97 years old today.
Gabriel García Márquez was born on March 06, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia.
Gabriel García Márquez zodiac sign is Pisces.
Gabriel García Márquez was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Gabriel García Márquez's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1964 | Constantine II becomes the last King of Greece. |
1965 | Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office. |
1967 | Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. |
1968 | Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation. |
1970 | An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three. |
1975 | For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. |
1975 | Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute. |
1984 | In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners. |
1987 | The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193. |
1988 | Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius. |
1992 | The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers. |
2003 | Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar - Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board. |
2008 | A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem. |
2018 | Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person, for the first time, at $112 billion net worth. |
2020 | 32 people are killed and 81 are injured when gunmen open fire on a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack. |
1988 | The birth of Marina Erakovic, New Zealand tennis player |
1988 | The birth of Simon Mignolet, Belgian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Agnieszka Radwańska, Polish tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Derek Drouin, Canadian athlete |
1991 | The birth of Lex Luger, American keyboard player and producer |
1991 | The birth of Emma McDougall, English footballer (d. 2013) |
1991 | The birth of Tyler Gregory Okonma, American rapper |
1992 | The birth of Sam Bankman-Fried, American businessman |
1993 | The birth of Andrés Rentería, Colombian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Marcus Smart, American basketball player |
1995 | The birth of Georgi Kitanov, Bulgarian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Christian Coleman, American sprinter |
1996 | The birth of Tyrell Fuimaono, Australian rugby player |
1996 | The birth of Timo Werner, German footballer |
1999 | The birth of Ylena In-Albon, Swiss tennis player |
2013 | The death of W. Wallace Cleland, American biochemist and academic (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Alemayehu Atomsa, Ethiopian educator and politician (b. 1969) |
2014 | The death of Frank Jobe, American soldier and surgeon (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Sheila MacRae, English-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Martin Nesbitt, American lawyer and politician (b. 1946) |
2014 | The death of Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Fred Craddock, American minister and academic (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Ram Sundar Das, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Enrique "Coco" Vicéns, Puerto Rican-American basketball player and politician (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of Nancy Reagan, American actress, 42nd First Lady of the United States (b. 1921) |
2016 | The death of Sheila Varian, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1937) |
2017 | The death of Robert Osborne, American actor and historian (b. 1932) |
2018 | The death of Peter Nicholls, Australian science fiction critic and encyclopedist (b. 1939) |
2021 | The death of Lou Ottens, Dutch engineer and inventor (b.1926) |
2021 | The death of Graham Pink, British nurse (b. 1929) |
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