Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | James Ellroy |
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Birthdate | March 04, 1948 |
Birth Place | California |
Age (in 2024) | 76 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Novelist |
James Ellroy is best known as Novelist who has born on March 04, 1948 in California. Currently, James Ellroy is 76 years, 8 months and 17 days old. James Ellroy will celebrate 77th birthday on Tuesday, 4th of March 2025. Below the countdown to James Ellroy upcoming birthday.
An American crime fiction writer, he is best known for works such as The Black Dahlia (1987) and White Jazz (1992). His densely-plotted works are marked by an economy of language and an inherent pessimism.
He briefly served in the U.S. Army and had periods of homelessness before publishing his first novel, Brown's Requiem, in 1981. He suffered from depression in his young adulthood.
His popular Underworld USA Trilogy includes American Tabloid, The Cold Six-Thousand, and Blood's a Rover.
His memoir, My Dark Places, deals with his mother's 1958 murder and the subsequent police investigation into her death. He was married twice; his second wife, Helen Knode, was also a novelist.
He co-wrote the screenplay for Rampart, a film starring Woody Harrelson.
James Ellroy is 76 years old today.
James Ellroy was born on March 04, 1948 in California.
James Ellroy zodiac sign is Pisces.
James Ellroy was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with James Ellroy's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1980 | Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister. |
1985 | The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States. |
1986 | The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus. |
1990 | American basketball player Hank Gathers dies after collapsing during the semifinals of a West Coast Conference tournament game. |
1990 | Lennox Sebe, President for life of the South African Bantustan of Ciskei, is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by Brigadier Oupa Gqozo. |
1994 | Space Shuttle program: the Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-62. |
1996 | A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin (USA) causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days. |
1998 | Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex. |
2001 | BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person; the attack was attributed to the Real IRA. |
2002 | Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission. |
2009 | The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002. |
2012 | A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people. |
2015 | At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in the rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine. |
2018 | Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved. |
2020 | Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to walk on the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua. |
1990 | The birth of Fran Mérida, Spanish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Nick Castellanos, American baseball player |
1992 | The birth of Erik Lamela, Argentinian international footballer |
1992 | The birth of Bernd Leno, German footballer |
1992 | The birth of Karl Mööl, Estonian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Bobbi Kristina Brown, American singer and actress (d. 2015) |
1993 | The birth of Richard Peniket, English footballer |
1994 | The birth of Callum Harriott, English footballer |
1994 | The birth of AJ Tracey, British hip-hop artist and record producer |
1995 | The birth of Chlöe Howl, British singer-songwriter |
1995 | The birth of Bill Milner, English actor |
1996 | The birth of Lukas Webb, Australian rules footballer |
2001 | The birth of Freya Anderson, English freestyle swimmer |
2002 | The birth of Jacob Hopkins, American actor |
2007 | The birth of Miya Cech, American actress |
2014 | The death of Jack Kinzler, American engineer (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Wu Tianming, Chinese director and producer (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Dušan Bilandžić, Croatian historian and politician (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Ray Hatton, English-American runner, author, and academic (b. 1932) |
2016 | The death of Bud Collins, American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1929) |
2016 | The death of Pat Conroy, American author (b. 1945) |
2016 | The death of P. A. Sangma, Indian lawyer and politician, Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1947) |
2016 | The death of Zhou Xiaoyan, Chinese soprano and educator (b. 1917) |
2017 | The death of Clayton Yeutter, American politician (b. 1930) |
2018 | The death of Davide Astori, Italian soccer player (b. 1987) |
2019 | The death of Keith Flint, English singer (The Prodigy) (b. 1969) |
2019 | The death of Luke Perry, American actor (b. 1966) |
2020 | The death of Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian politician and diplomat (b. 1920) |
2022 | The death of Rod Marsh, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1947) |
2022 | The death of Shane Warne, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1969) |
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