Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Gunter Grass |
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Birthdate | October 16, 1927 |
Birth Place | Germany |
Age (in 2024) | 97 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Novelist |
Gunter Grass is best known as Novelist who has born on October 16, 1927 in Germany. Currently, Gunter Grass is 97 years, 0 months and 17 days old. Gunter Grass will celebrate 98th birthday on Thursday, 16th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Gunter Grass upcoming birthday.
An important 20th-century German author, he is best known for his 1959 novel, The Tin Drum, which is a prime example of the European genre of magic realism. He was honored with the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He was conscripted into the Waffen-SS during World War II, and he later spent time as a political refugee. Upon his return to Germany, he studied graphic design and sculpture at the Berlin University of the Arts.
He is best known for his Danzig Trilogy, which includes The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years.
He and his sister grew up in a Protestant family in the city of Danzig. He married his second wife in 1979.
He became a Nobel Laureate in 1999, six years before English writer Harold Pinter received the same honor.
Gunter Grass is 97 years old today.
Gunter Grass was born on October 16, 1927 in Germany.
Gunter Grass zodiac sign is Libra.
Gunter Grass was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Gunter Grass's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1973 | Henry Kissinger and LĂȘ Äức Thá» are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
1975 | Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, in Portuguese Timor. |
1975 | Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox. |
1975 | The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget. |
1978 | Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523. |
1984 | Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
1985 | The Finnish dry cargo ship MS Hanna-Marjut, on its way from Mariehamn to Naantali, sank in hard sea on the open water of Kihti between the Kökar and Sottunga islands of à land, leading to the drowning of four people. |
1991 | George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20. |
1995 | The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend. |
1995 | The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened. |
1996 | Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City. |
1998 | Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant. |
2002 | The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria. |
2013 | Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people. |
2017 | Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss. |
1985 | The birth of Peter Wallace, Australian rugby league player |
1986 | The birth of Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer |
1986 | The birth of Derk Boerrigter, Dutch footballer |
1988 | The birth of ZoltĂĄn Stieber, Hungarian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player |
1991 | The birth of Shardul Thakur, Indian cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Kostas Fortounis, Greek footballer |
1992 | The birth of Bryce Harper, American baseball player |
1992 | The birth of Stuart Lightbody, Irish badminton player |
1992 | The birth of Viktorija Golubic, Swiss tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Jovit Baldivino, Filipino singer and actor (d. 2022) |
1993 | The birth of Caroline Garcia, French tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player |
1997 | The birth of Charles Leclerc, Monégasque Formula One driver |
1997 | The birth of Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player |
2013 | The death of Saggy Tahir, Pakistani-American lawyer and politician (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Allen Forte, American musicologist and theorist (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Seppo Kuusela, Finnish basketball player and coach (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Richard J. Cardamone, American lawyer and judge (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of James W. Fowler, American psychologist and academic (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of William James, Australian general and physician (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Memduh Ăn, Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb, Canadian professor and computer scientist (b. 1921) |
2017 | The death of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist and blogger (b. 1964) |
2017 | The death of Roy Dotrice, British actor (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of John Dunsworth, Canadian actor (b. 1946) |
2017 | The death of Sean Hughes, British-born Irish stand-up comedian (b. 1965) |
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