Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Jan Smuts |
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Birthdate | May 24, 1870 |
Birth Place | South Africa |
Age (in 2024) | 154 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | World Leader |
Jan Smuts is best known as World Leader who has born on May 24, 1870 in South Africa. Currently, Jan Smuts is 154 years, 6 months and 10 days old. Jan Smuts will celebrate 155th birthday on Saturday, 24th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Jan Smuts upcoming birthday.
From 1919 until 1924 and again from 1939 until 1948, Smuts served as Prime Minister of South Africa. Also a military man, he was a hero in the Second Boer War and a member of the United Kingdom's War Cabinet.
He earned his law degree from Christ's College, Cambridge, and subsequently returned to his native South Africa, where he pursued careers in journalism and politics.
He signed the treaties that ended both World War I and World War II.
Born to Afrikaner farmers Catharina and Jacobus Smuts, he grew up in the Cape Colony. His marriage to Issie Krige resulted in six children.
As a member of the British Army, Smuts was appointed to Winston Churchill's Imperial War Cabinet.
Jan Smuts is 154 years old today.
Jan Smuts was born on May 24, 1870 in South Africa.
Jan Smuts zodiac sign is Gemini.
Jan Smuts was best known as World Leader.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Jan Smuts's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Jan Smuts's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1991 | Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel. |
1992 | The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests. |
1992 | The ethnic cleansing in Kozarac, Bosnia and Herzegovina begins when Serbian militia and police forces enter the town. |
1993 | Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia. |
1993 | Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport in Mexico. |
1994 | Four men are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993; each one is sentenced to 240 years in prison. |
1995 | While attempting to return to Leeds Bradford Airport in the United Kingdom, Knight Air Flight 816 crashes in Harewood, North Yorkshire, killing all 12 people on board. |
1999 | The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo. |
2000 | Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. |
2002 | Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty. |
2014 | A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people. |
2014 | At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium. |
2019 | Twenty-two students die in a fire in Surat (India). |
2019 | Under pressure over her handling of Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as Leader of the Conservative Party, effective as of June 7. |
2022 | A mass shooting occurs at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, resulting in the deaths of 21 people, including 19 children. |
1988 | The birth of Monica Lin Brown, American sergeant |
1988 | The birth of Billy Gilman, American musician |
1988 | The birth of Lucian Wintrich, American political artist and White House correspondent |
1989 | The birth of G-Eazy, American rapper |
1989 | The birth of Andrew Jordan, English race car driver |
1989 | The birth of Kalin Lucas, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Mattias Ekholm, Swedish ice hockey player |
1991 | The birth of Aled Davies, Welsh discus thrower |
1991 | The birth of Cody Eakin, Canadian ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Marcus Bettinelli, English footballer |
1994 | The birth of Jarell Martin, American basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Emily Nicholl, Scottish netball player |
1994 | The birth of Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer |
1994 | The birth of Emily Temple Wood, American 2016 Wikipedian of the Year award |
1999 | The birth of Tarjei Sandvik Moe, Norwegian actor |
2013 | The death of Helmut Braunlich, German-American violinist and composer (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Ron Davies, Welsh footballer (b. 1942) |
2013 | The death of Gotthard Graubner, German painter (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Haynes Johnson, American journalist and author (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Pyotr Todorovsky, Ukrainian-Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of David Allen, English cricketer (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Stormé DeLarverie, known as the "Rosa Parks of the lesbian community" (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Mahafarid Amir Khosravi, Iranian businessman (b. 1969) |
2014 | The death of Knowlton Nash, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of John Vasconcellos, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Dean Carroll, English rugby player (b. 1962) |
2015 | The death of Kenneth Jacobs, Australian lawyer and judge (b. 1917) |
2015 | The death of Tanith Lee, English author (b. 1947) |
2018 | The death of Gudrun Burwitz, daughter of Margarete Himmler and Heinrich Himmler (b. 1929) |
2018 | The death of John Bain (TotalBiscuit), English gaming commentator and critic (b. 1984) |
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Website | Jan Smuts's Webiste |
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