Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Jia Zhangke |
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Birthdate | May 24, 1970 |
Birth Place | Fenyang, China |
Age (in 2024) | 54 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Director |
Jia Zhangke is best known as Director who has born on May 24, 1970 in Fenyang, China. Currently, Jia Zhangke is 54 years, 5 months and 12 days old. Jia Zhangke will celebrate 55th birthday on Saturday, 24th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Jia Zhangke upcoming birthday.
Director of the film Still Life, which won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion Award in 2006.
He majored in Film Theory at the Beijing Film Academy and created a trilogy of films based in his home province of Shanxi.
His success operating outside of China's state-run film bureaucracy led NPR film critic John Powers to name him as one of the most important filmmakers of his generation. He was a leading figure of China's Sixth Generation of cinema.
He married actress Tao Zhao in January 2012.
His 2008 film 24 City featured actress Joan Chen of The Last Emperor fame.
Jia Zhangke is 54 years old today.
Jia Zhangke was born on May 24, 1970 in Fenyang, China.
Jia Zhangke zodiac sign is Gemini.
Jia Zhangke was best known as Director.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Jia Zhangke'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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