Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | George Plimpton |
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Birthdate | March 18, 1927 |
Birth Place | New York City, NY |
Age (in 2024) | 97 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Journalist |
George Plimpton is best known as Journalist who has born on March 18, 1927 in New York City, NY. Currently, George Plimpton is 97 years, 8 months and 5 days old. George Plimpton will celebrate 98th birthday on Tuesday, 18th of March 2025. Below the countdown to George Plimpton upcoming birthday.
An American journalist and sports writer, he is best known for works such as Paper Lion (1966) and Out of My League (1961). Outside of sports writing, he co-founded the respected literary publication, The Paris Review.
He was an amateur athlete. Also a participatory journalist, he often wrote about his experiences, which included playing quarterback in a pre-season NFL game; pitching to several all-stars prior to a 1959 All-Star baseball game; performing as a trapeze artist for the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus, and fighting boxers Archie and Sugar Ray Robinson.
He once played with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
He married his second wife, Sarah Whitehead Dudley, in 1991. Previously, he had been married to Freddy Medora Espy.
He played a small role in the Matt Damon movie Good Will Hunting.
George Plimpton is 97 years old today.
George Plimpton was born on March 18, 1927 in New York City, NY.
George Plimpton zodiac sign is Pisces.
George Plimpton was best known as Journalist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with George Plimpton's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1965 | Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. |
1966 | United Arab Airlines Flight 749 crashes on approach to Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt, killing 30 people. |
1967 | The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast. |
1968 | Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. |
1969 | The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam. |
1970 | Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. |
1971 | Peru: A landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar. |
1980 | A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people. |
1990 | Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship. |
1990 | In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. |
1994 | Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
1996 | A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people. |
1997 | The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board. |
2014 | The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty. |
2015 | The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. Twenty-three people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded. |
1986 | The birth of Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani, Algerian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Rebecca Soni, American swimmer |
1989 | The birth of Francesco Checcucci, Italian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Lily Collins, English-American actress |
1989 | The birth of Shreevats Goswami, Indian cricketer |
1989 | The birth of Kana Nishino, Japanese singer-songwriter |
1989 | The birth of Paul Marc Rousseau, Canadian guitarist and producer |
1989 | The birth of Ming Xi, Chinese model |
1991 | The birth of Dylan Mattingly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1991 | The birth of Sam Williams, Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Ryan Truex, American race car driver |
1992 | The birth of Takuya Terada, Japanese singer, actor, and model |
1995 | The birth of Irina Bara, Romanian tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Ciara Bravo, American actress |
1997 | The birth of Rieko Ioane, New Zealand rugby union player |
2013 | The death of Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and pilot (b. 1935) |
2013 | The death of Henry Bromell, American novelist, screenwriter, and director (b. 1947) |
2013 | The death of Clay Ford, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian author, playwright, and academic (b. 1951) |
2014 | The death of Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1953) |
2014 | The death of Lucius Shepard, American author and critic (b. 1943) |
2015 | The death of Zhao Dayu, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1961) |
2015 | The death of Thomas Hopko, American priest and theologian (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Grace Ogot, Kenyan nurse, journalist, and politician (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter (b. 1939) |
2016 | The death of Jan Němec, Czech director and screenwriter (b. 1936) |
2016 | The death of Tray Walker, American football player (b. 1992) |
2016 | The death of Guido Westerwelle, German lawyer and politician, 15th Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1961) |
2017 | The death of Chuck Berry, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1926) |
2020 | The death of Alfred Worden, American test pilot, engineer and astronaut (b. 1932) |
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