Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Birthdate | January 03, 1892 |
Birth Place | Bloemfontein, South Africa |
Age (in 2024) | 132 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Novelist |
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known as Novelist who has born on January 03, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Currently, J.R.R. Tolkien is 132 years, 10 months and 14 days old. J.R.R. Tolkien will celebrate 133rd birthday on Friday, 3rd of January 2025. Below the countdown to J.R.R. Tolkien upcoming birthday.
English author, poet, and professor who wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He was ranked by The Times, a London newspaper, as one of the 50 greatest English authors since 1945 and he is widely considered to be the father of the modern fantasy genre.
He began reading when he was just four years old and, in 1915, he graduated from Exeter College, Oxford, with honors. He subsequently served in the British Army during World War I and later accepted a professorship in Anglo-Saxon literature at Pembroke College, Oxford.
He cited Old English stories, including Beowulf, as inspiration for the legends of Middle-earth. He also served as a codebreaker during World War II.
He and his younger brother were born in South Africa to Mabel Suffield Tolkien and English banker Arthur Reuel Tolkien. J.R.R. Tolkien married Edith Mary Bratt in 1916, and she became the inspiration for several of his fantasy characters, most notably Arwen Evenstar and Luthien Tinuviel. He had three sons, Christopher, Michael, and John, and a daughter, Priscilla.
He was close friends with the author C.S. Lewis; they were both members of a literary group called the Inklings.
J.R.R. Tolkien is 132 years old today.
J.R.R. Tolkien was born on January 03, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
J.R.R. Tolkien zodiac sign is Capricorn.
J.R.R. Tolkien was best known as Novelist.
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1987 | Varig Flight 797 crashes near Akouré in the Ivory Coast, resulting in 50 deaths. |
1990 | United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces. |
1992 | CommutAir Flight 4821 crashes on approach to Adirondack Regional Airport, in Saranac Lake, New York, killing two people. |
1993 | In Moscow, Russia, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). |
1994 | Baikal Airlines Flight 130 crashes near Mamoney, Irkutsk, Russia, resulting in 125 deaths. |
1999 | The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA. |
2002 | Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons. |
2004 | Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history. |
2009 | The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, is established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto. |
2015 | Boko Haram militants destroy the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the Baga massacre and killing as many as 2,000 people. |
2016 | In response to the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Iran ends its diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia. |
2018 | For the first time in history, all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm. |
2019 | Chang'e 4 makes the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon, deploying the Yutu-2 lunar rover. |
2020 | Iranian General Qasem Soleimani is killed by an American airstrike near Baghdad International Airport, igniting global concerns of a potential armed conflict. |
2023 | Singapore's Jurong Bird Park permanently closes. |
1989 | The birth of KĆhei Uchimura, Japanese artistic gymnast |
1990 | The birth of Yoichiro Kakitani, Japanese footballer |
1991 | The birth of Jerson Cabral, Dutch footballer |
1991 | The birth of ĂzgĂŒr Ăek, Turkish footballer |
1991 | The birth of SĂ©bastien Faure, French footballer |
1991 | The birth of Dane Gagai, Australian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Goo Hara, South Korean singer and actress (d. 2019) |
1994 | The birth of Isaquias Queiroz, Brazilian sprint canoeist |
1995 | The birth of Kim Jisoo, South Korean singer and actress |
1995 | The birth of Kim Seol-hyun, South Korean singer and actress |
1996 | The birth of Florence Pugh, English actress |
1997 | The birth of Kyron McMaster, British Virgin Islands hurdler |
2001 | The birth of Deni Avdija, Israeli-Serbian basketball player |
2003 | The birth of Kyle Rittenhouse, American conservative personality |
2003 | The birth of Greta Thunberg, Swedish environmental activist |
2014 | The death of Phil Everly, American singer and guitarist (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of George Goodman, American economist and author (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Saul Zaentz, American film producer (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Martin Anderson, American economist and academic (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Edward Brooke, American captain and politician, 47th Massachusetts Attorney General (b. 1919) |
2016 | The death of Paul Bley, Canadian-American pianist and composer (b. 1932) |
2016 | The death of Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Bill Plager, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1945) |
2016 | The death of Igor Sergun, Russian general and diplomat (b. 1957) |
2017 | The death of H. S. Mahadeva Prasad, Indian politician (b. 1958) |
2018 | The death of Colin Brumby, Australian composer (b. 1933) |
2019 | The death of Herb Kelleher, American businessman, co-founder of Southwest Airlines (b. 1931) |
2020 | The death of Qasem Soleimani, Iranian major general, commander of the Iranian Quds Force (b. 1957) |
2021 | The death of Eric Jerome Dickey, American author (b. 1961) |
2023 | The death of Elena Huelva, Spanish cancer activist and influencer (b. 2002) |
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