Updated at December 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Ian Wilmut |
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Birthdate | July 07, 1944 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 80 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Physicist |
Ian Wilmut is best known as Physicist who has born on July 07, 1944 in England. Currently, Ian Wilmut is 80 years, 5 months and 16 days old. Ian Wilmut will celebrate 81st birthday on Monday, 7th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Ian Wilmut upcoming birthday.
Famous for leading the mid-1990s scientific group that created a cloned sheep named Dolly from an adult sheep's somatic cell, he taught at the University of Edinburgh's MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine and was knighted in 2008 for his groundbreaking scientific work.
After earning his undergraduate degree in Agriculture from the University of Nottingham, he received his doctorate in Cryobiology from the University of Cambridge.
He co-wrote a 2006 publication titled After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning.
The son of math teacher Leonard Wilmut, he was born and raised in Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire, England.
Wilmut and American veterinary scientist Gordon Woods both undertook successful cloning projects (Woods cloned a mule in 2003).
Ian Wilmut is 80 years old today.
Ian Wilmut was born on July 07, 1944 in England.
Ian Wilmut zodiac sign is Cancer.
Ian Wilmut was best known as Physicist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Ian Wilmut's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Ian Wilmut's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1980 | During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre. |
1981 | US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. |
1983 | Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov. |
1985 | Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17. |
1991 | Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. |
1992 | The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public. |
1997 | The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War. |
2003 | NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover-B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket. |
2005 | A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others. |
2007 | The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world. |
2012 | At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia. |
2013 | A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people. |
2016 | Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb. |
2019 | The United States women's national soccer team defeated the Netherlands 2-0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Final in Lyon, France. |
2022 | Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party following days of pressure from the Members of Parliament (MPs) during the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis. |
1986 | The birth of Sevyn Streeter, American singer-songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Kaci Brown, American singer-songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Lukas Rosenthal, German rugby player |
1989 | The birth of Landon Cassill, American race car driver |
1989 | The birth of Miina Kallas, Estonian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Karl-August Tiirmaa, Estonian skier |
1990 | The birth of Lee Addy, Ghanaian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Pascal Stöger, Austrian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Alesso, Swedish DJ, record producer and musician |
1992 | The birth of Ellina Anissimova, Estonian hammer thrower |
1992 | The birth of Dominik Furman, Polish footballer |
1994 | The birth of Nigina Abduraimova, Uzbekistani tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Timothy Cathcart, Northern Irish race car driver (d. 2014) |
1997 | The birth of Mizuho Habu, Japanese idol |
1999 | The birth of Moussa Diaby, French footballer |
2012 | The death of Doris Neal, American baseball player (b. 1928) |
2012 | The death of Jerry Norman, American sinologist and linguist (b. 1936) |
2012 | The death of Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (b. 1962) |
2013 | The death of Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, theologian, and author (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Donald J. Irwin, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Ben Pucci, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Peter Underwood, Australian lawyer and politician, 27th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Maria Barroso, Portuguese actress and politician (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Bob MacKinnon, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927) |
2021 | The death of Robert Downey Sr., American actor and director. Father of Robert Downey Jr. (b. 1936) |
2021 | The death of Jovenel Moïse, Haitian entrepreneur and politician, President of Haiti (b. 1968) |
2021 | The death of Dilip Kumar, Indian film actor (b. 1922) |
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