Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Harry Patch |
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Birthdate | June 17, 1898 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 126 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Supercentenarian |
Harry Patch is best known as Supercentenarian who has born on June 17, 1898 in England. Currently, Harry Patch is 126 years, 4 months and 15 days old. Harry Patch will celebrate 127th birthday on Tuesday, 17th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Harry Patch upcoming birthday.
British war veteran who was a supercentenarian and the last surviving soldier who fought in the First World War. At the time of his death he was the oldest man in Europe at 111 years and 38 days old.Â
He left school in 1913 and worked as an apprentice plumber in Bath.
He published an autobiography entitled The Last Fighting Tommy in 2007.
He married Ada Billington in 1918 and they had two sons.
Poet Andrew Motion wrote a poem in his honor titled The Five Acts of Harry Patch.
Harry Patch is 126 years old today.
Harry Patch was born on June 17, 1898 in England.
Harry Patch zodiac sign is Gemini.
Harry Patch was best known as Supercentenarian.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Harry Patch's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Harry Patch's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1960 | The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4Â million for 7Â million acres (28,000Â km2) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty. |
1963 | The United States Supreme Court rules 8-1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools. |
1963 | A day after South Vietnamese President NgĂŽ ÄĂŹnh Diá»m announced the Joint CommuniquĂ© to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed. |
1967 | Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon. |
1971 | U.S. President Richard Nixon in a televised press conference called drug abuse "America's public enemy number one", starting the War on drugs. |
1972 | Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee during an attempt by members of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to illegally wiretap the political opposition as part of a broader campaign to subvert the democratic process. |
1985 | Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist. |
1987 | With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct. |
1989 | Interflug Flight 102 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Berlin Schönefeld Airport, killing 21 people. |
1991 | Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth. |
1992 | A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II). |
1994 | Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. |
2015 | Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. |
2017 | A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others. |
2021 | Juneteenth National Independence Day, was signed into law by President Joe Biden, to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. |
1987 | The birth of Kendrick Lamar, American rapper |
1987 | The birth of Nozomi Tsuji, Japanese singer and actress |
1988 | The birth of Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Shaun MacDonald, Welsh footballer |
1988 | The birth of Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer |
1989 | The birth of Georgios Tofas, Cypriot footballer |
1989 | The birth of Simone Battle, American singer and actress (d. 2014) |
1990 | The birth of Jordan Henderson, English footballer |
1990 | The birth of Josh Mansour, Australian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Daniel Tupou, Australian-Tongan rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Amari Cooper, American football player |
1995 | The birth of Clément Lenglet, French footballer |
1997 | The birth of KJ Apa, New Zealand actor |
1997 | The birth of Raluca Èerban, Romanian-Cypriot tennis player |
1999 | The birth of Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstani tennis player |
2013 | The death of James Holshouser, American politician, 68th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of Patsy Byrne, English actress (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Ăric Dewailly, Canadian epidemiologist and academic (b. 1954) |
2014 | The death of Stanley Marsh 3, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Arnold S. Relman, American physician and academic (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Larry Zeidel, Canadian-American ice hockey player and sportscaster (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Ron Clarke, Australian runner and politician, Mayor of the Gold Coast (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of John David Crow, American football player and coach (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of SĂŒleyman Demirel, Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Roberto M. Levingston, Argentinian general and politician, 36th President of Argentina (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Clementa C. Pinckney, American minister and politician (b. 1973) |
2017 | The death of Baldwin Lonsdale, president of Vanuatu (b. 1948) |
2019 | The death of Gloria Vanderbilt, American artist, author actress, fashion designer, heiress and socialite (b. 1924) |
2019 | The death of Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian professor and politician, first elected president of Egypt after Egyptian revolution (b. 1951) |
2021 | The death of Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian educator and politician, first president of Zambia (b. 1924) |
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