Updated at September 7, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | James Burke |
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Birthdate | July 05, 1931 |
Birth Place | New York |
Age (in 2024) | 93 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Criminal |
James Burke is best known as Criminal who has born on July 05, 1931 in New York. Currently, James Burke is 93 years, 2 months and 2 days old. James Burke will celebrate 94th birthday on Saturday, 5th of July 2025. Below the countdown to James Burke upcoming birthday.
Infamous for his key role in the Lufthansa cash and jewelry heist that occurred at John F. Kennedy International Airport in 1978, Burke had ties to both the Lucchese and Bonanno crime families of New York City and was directly or indirectly involved in dozens of murders.
A ward of the foster care system, he suffered a traumatic childhood that involved all manner of abuse. In his early adulthood years, he was responsible for the murder of his wife's former boyfriend.
Before being apprehended by police, Burke owned and operated a Queens bar called Robert's Lounge that was a popular gathering place for those involved in organized crime.
Born James Conway, he was the child of Irishwoman Jane Conway. He and his wife Mickey raised children named Frankie and Catherine Burke.
Burke was the inspiration for Robert De Niro 's "Jimmy The Gent Conway" character in the famous mafia-themed movie Goodfellas.
James Burke is 93 years old today.
James Burke was born on July 05, 1931 in New York.
James Burke zodiac sign is Cancer.
James Burke was best known as Criminal.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about James Burke's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with James Burke's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1987 | Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic. |
1989 | Iran-Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions are later overturned. |
1994 | Jeff Bezos founds Amazon. |
1995 | Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after its independence from the Soviet Union. |
1996 | Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. |
1997 | Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP A. Thangathurai is shot dead at Sri Shanmuga Hindu Ladies College in Trincomalee. |
1999 | U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. |
2003 | The World Health Organization announces that the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak has been contained. |
2004 | The first direct Indonesian presidential election is held. |
2006 | North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan. |
2009 | A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. |
2009 | The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in Britain, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. |
2012 | The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft). |
2016 | The Juno space probe arrives at Jupiter and begins a 20-month survey of the planet. |
2022 | British government ministers Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak resign from the second Johnson ministry, beginning the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis. |
1987 | The birth of Mohd Safiq Rahim, Malaysian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Andrija Kaluđerović, Serbian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Alexander Kristoff, Norwegian cyclist |
1988 | The birth of Martin Liivamägi, Estonian swimmer |
1988 | The birth of Samir Ujkani, Albanian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Charlie Austin, English footballer |
1989 | The birth of Georgios Efrem, Cypriot footballer |
1989 | The birth of Dwight King, Canadian ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Abeba Aregawi, Ethiopian-Swedish runner |
1992 | The birth of Alberto Moreno, Spanish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Chiara Scholl, American tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Yaroslav Kosov, Russian ice hockey player |
1994 | The birth of Diana Harkusha, Ukrainian lawyer, dancer, model and beauty queen |
1994 | The birth of Shohei Ohtani, Japanese baseball player |
1998 | The birth of Emily Fox, American soccer player |
2012 | The death of Gerrit Komrij, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (b. 1944) |
2012 | The death of Colin Marshall, Baron Marshall of Knightsbridge, English businessman and politician (b. 1933) |
2012 | The death of Ruud van Hemert, Dutch actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Bud Asher, American lawyer and politician (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of David Cargo, American politician, 22nd Governor of New Mexico (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Lambert Jackson Woodburne, South African admiral (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Rosemary Murphy, American actress (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Volodymyr Sabodan, Ukrainian metropolitan (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian and academic (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Brett Wiesner, American soccer player (b. 1983) |
2015 | The death of Uffe Haagerup, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1949) |
2015 | The death of Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921) |
2020 | The death of Nick Cordero, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1978) |
2021 | The death of Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer, television presenter and actress (b. 1943) |
2021 | The death of Richard Donner, American film director (b. 1930) |
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