Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | John Cunliffe |
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Birthdate | June 16, 1933 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 91 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Children's Author |
John Cunliffe is best known as Children's Author who has born on June 16, 1933 in England. Currently, John Cunliffe is 91 years, 4 months and 16 days old. John Cunliffe will celebrate 92nd birthday on Monday, 16th of June 2025. Below the countdown to John Cunliffe upcoming birthday.
English children's author and television presenter who is best known for having created the characters Postman Pat and Rosie and Jim. He is also known for the book Farmer Barnes Buys a Pig as well as several books of poetry and plays including The Twelve Days of Christmas.Â
He worked as a librarian and teacher at Castle Park Primary School before being commissioned by the BBC to write Postman Pat which premiered in 1981. He then went on to write Rosie and Jim in the 1990s. In 2010, he went on to publish the iPad children's book Ghosts.Â
He has a room dedicated to him at Kendal's Museum of Lakeland Life. He was also a patron of the Ilkley Literature Festival.Â
He was born and raised in Colne, Lancashire and married Sylvia Thompson in 1960. Together they had a son named Edward.Â
Other English children's authors include Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Morpurgo.Â
John Cunliffe is 91 years old today.
John Cunliffe was born on June 16, 1933 in England.
John Cunliffe zodiac sign is Gemini.
John Cunliffe was best known as Children's Author.
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Below are historical events that coincided with John Cunliffe's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1972 | The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station. |
1976 | Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd. |
1977 | Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL), by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. |
1981 | US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor. |
1989 | Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary. |
1997 | Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria. |
2000 | The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, 22Â years after its issuance, and completely withdrew from Lebanon. The Resolution does not encompass the Shebaa farms, which is claimed by Israel, Syria and Lebanon. |
2002 | Padre Pio is canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. |
2010 | Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco. |
2012 | China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module. |
2012 | The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission. |
2013 | A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami. |
2015 | American businessman Donald Trump announces his campaign to run for President of the United States in the upcoming election. |
2016 | Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in Mainland China, opens to the public. |
2019 | Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019-20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history. |
1991 | The birth of Siya Kolisi, South African rugby player |
1991 | The birth of Matt Moylan, Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Vladimir Morozov, Russian swimmer |
1993 | The birth of Park Bo-gum, South Korean actor |
1993 | The birth of Gnash, American singer, songwriter, rapper, DJ and record producer |
1994 | The birth of Grete-Lilijane Küppas, Estonian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Rezar, Albanian professional wrestler |
1995 | The birth of Euan Aitken, Australian rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Akira Ioane, New Zealand rugby Union player |
1995 | The birth of Joseph Schooling, Singaporean swimmer |
1995 | The birth of Ki Hui-hyeon, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress |
1998 | The birth of Karman Thandi, Indian tennis player |
2000 | The birth of Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player |
2002 | The birth of Sam Walker, English-Australian rugby league player |
2003 | The birth of Anna Cathcart, Canadian actress |
2012 | The death of Jorge Lankenau, Mexican banker and businessman (b. 1944) |
2012 | The death of SÅ‚awomir Petelicki, Polish general (b. 1946) |
2012 | The death of Susan Tyrrell, American actress (b. 1945) |
2013 | The death of Sam Farber, American businessman, co-founded OXO (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Hans Hass, Austrian biologist and diver (b. 1919) |
2013 | The death of Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, Bangladesh poet and academic (b. 1950) |
2013 | The death of Norman Ian MacKenzie, English journalist and author (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of Ottmar Walter, German footballer (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Tony Gwynn, American baseball player and coach (b. 1960) |
2014 | The death of Cándido Muatetema Rivas (b. 1960), Equatoguinean politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea |
2015 | The death of Charles Correa, Indian architect and urban planner (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Jean Vautrin, French director, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1933) |
2016 | The death of Jo Cox, English political activist and MP (b. 1974) |
2017 | The death of Helmut Kohl, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1930) |
2020 | The death of Eduardo Cojuangco Jr., Filipino businessman and politician (b. 1935) |
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