Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Gore Vidal |
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Birthdate | October 03, 1925 |
Birth Place | West Point, NY |
Age (in 2024) | 99 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Playwright |
Gore Vidal is best known as Playwright who has born on October 03, 1925 in West Point, NY. Currently, Gore Vidal is 99 years, 0 months and 30 days old. Gore Vidal will celebrate 100th birthday on Friday, 3rd of October 2025. Below the countdown to Gore Vidal upcoming birthday.
Iconoclastic American author, playwright, screenwriter and social critic. His most famous works include the socially-themed novel, Myra Breckinridge, and the screenplay for the Academy Award-winning film, Ben-Hur.
He attended the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. He rebelled against his peers and his social class, however, by choosing to enlist in the U.S. Army instead of attending an Ivy League college.
In addition to being a writer and a political activist, he was known as the arch enemy of political intellectual and author, Normal Mailer.
He was the only child of Eugene Luther Vidal and Nina Gore. In his adulthood, Gore Vidal had numerous partners of both sexes and had a long-lasting and, he claimed, sexless, relationship with Howard Austen.
He was briefly engaged to Joanne Woodward, before she married Paul Newman.
Gore Vidal is 99 years old today.
Gore Vidal was born on October 03, 1925 in West Point, NY.
Gore Vidal zodiac sign is Libra.
Gore Vidal was best known as Playwright.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Gore Vidal's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1963 | A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule. |
1981 | The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths. |
1985 | The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J. |
1986 | TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened. |
1989 | A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed. |
1990 | The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day. |
1991 | Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
1993 | An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die. |
1995 | O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. |
2008 | The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush. |
2009 | Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council. |
2013 | At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa. |
2015 | Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan. |
2021 | Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy. |
2022 | Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
1987 | The birth of Martin Plowman, English race car driver |
1987 | The birth of Starley, Australian pop singer |
1988 | The birth of Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress |
1988 | The birth of Dustin Gazley, American ice hockey player |
1988 | The birth of ASAP Rocky, American rapper and songwriter |
1989 | The birth of Nate Montana, American football player |
1989 | The birth of Alex Trimble, Irish singer |
1990 | The birth of Johan Le Bon, French cyclist |
1991 | The birth of Jenny McLoughlin, English sprinter |
1991 | The birth of Aki Takajo, Japanese singer |
1993 | The birth of Raffaele Di Gennaro, Italian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Victoria Bosio, Argentinian tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Lil Tracy, American rapper |
1997 | The birth of Jin Boyang, Chinese figure skater |
2004 | The birth of Noah Schnapp, American actor |
2012 | The death of Robert F. Christy, American physicist and astrophysicist (b. 1916) |
2012 | The death of Albie Roles, English footballer (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of Sari Abacha, Nigerian footballer (b. 1978) |
2013 | The death of Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player and coach (b. 1944) |
2013 | The death of Joan Thirsk, English cryptologist, historian, and academic (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Ewen Gilmour, New Zealand comedian and television host (b. 1963) |
2014 | The death of Benedict Groeschel, American priest, psychologist, and talk show host (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Jean-Jacques Marcel, French footballer (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Kevin Metheny, American businessman (b. 1954) |
2014 | The death of Ward Ruyslinck, Belgian author (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1917) |
2015 | The death of Muhammad Nawaz Khan, Pakistani historian and author (b. 1943) |
2015 | The death of Javed Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher and judge (b. 1925) |
2021 | The death of Todd Akin, American politician (b. 1947) |
2021 | The death of Dan Petrescu, Romanian businessman and billionaire (b. 1953) |
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