Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | GK Chesterton |
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Birthdate | May 29, 1874 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 150 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Novelist |
GK Chesterton is best known as Novelist who has born on May 29, 1874 in England. Currently, GK Chesterton is 150 years, 5 months and 23 days old. GK Chesterton will celebrate 151st birthday on Thursday, 29th of May 2025. Below the countdown to GK Chesterton upcoming birthday.
Author who wrote the Father Brown mystery books and such Christian apologetic works as Orthodoxy (1908) and The Everlasting Man (1925). Over the course of his literary career, he wrote hundreds of poems, nearly one hundred fiction and non-fiction books, thousands of essays, and close to two hundred short stories.
He attended the Slade School of Art at University College London, intending to become an illustrator. In the early 1900s, he began writing columns for both The Daily News and The Illustrated London News.
He was a close friend of poet and author, Hilaire Belloc. Both men were early, vocal critics of Hitler's Nazi regime.
He wed Frances Blogg in 1901. The two remained married until his death at age sixty-two from heart failure.
He was good friends with philosopher Bertrand Russell.
GK Chesterton is 150 years old today.
GK Chesterton was born on May 29, 1874 in England.
GK Chesterton zodiac sign is Gemini.
GK Chesterton was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with GK Chesterton's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1985 | Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses. |
1985 | Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months. |
1988 | The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. |
1989 | Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt. |
1990 | The Congress of People's Deputies of Russia elects Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. |
1993 | The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war-torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens. |
1999 | Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule. |
1999 | Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station. |
2001 | The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments. |
2004 | The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. |
2005 | France rejects the Constitution of the European Union in a national referendum. |
2006 | The roof of Porvoo Cathedral in the town of Porvoo was destroyed by arson. |
2008 | A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people. |
2012 | A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people. |
2015 | One World Observatory at One World Trade Center opens. |
1988 | The birth of Muath Al-Kasasbeh, Jordanian captain and pilot (d. 2015) |
1988 | The birth of Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast |
1988 | The birth of Steve Mason, Canadian ice hockey player |
1989 | The birth of Ezekiel Ansah, Ghanaian-American football player |
1989 | The birth of Diego Barisone, Argentinian footballer (d. 2015) |
1989 | The birth of Riley Keough, American model and actress |
1990 | The birth of Joe Biagini, American baseball pitcher |
1990 | The birth of Erica Garner, American civil rights activist (d. 2017) |
1991 | The birth of Yaime Perez, Cuban discus thrower |
1992 | The birth of Sarah Moundir, Swiss tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Jana Čepelová, Slovak tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Maika Monroe, American actress and kiteboarder |
1993 | The birth of Grete Å adeiko, Estonian heptathlete |
1998 | The birth of Markelle Fultz, American basketball player |
1999 | The birth of Park Ji-hoon, South Korean actor and singer |
2014 | The death of Peter Glaser, Czech-American scientist and engineer (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Miljenko Prohaska, Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of William M. Roth, American businessman (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of Henry Carr, American football player and sprinter (b. 1942) |
2015 | The death of Doris Hart, American tennis player (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Betsy Palmer, American actress (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general and politician, Military Leader of Panama (b. 1934) |
2017 | The death of Mordechai Tzipori, Israeli Lieutenant General and minister (b. 1924) |
2017 | The death of Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Greek politician and prime minister (b. 1918) |
2020 | The death of Maikanti Baru, Nigerian engineer, former chief of state oil firm. (b. 1959) |
2021 | The death of Gavin MacLeod, American actor, Christian activist, and author (b. 1931) |
2021 | The death of Mark Eaton, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1957) |
2021 | The death of B. J. Thomas, American singer (b. 1942) |
2022 | The death of Ronnie Hawkins, American rockabilly singer-songwriter and guitarist. |
2022 | The death of Sidhu Moosewala, Indian singer, rapper, actor and politician. (b. 1993) |
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