Updated at November 24, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Ken Follett |
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Birthdate | June 05, 1949 |
Birth Place | Wales |
Age (in 2024) | 75 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Novelist |
Ken Follett is best known as Novelist who has born on June 05, 1949 in Wales. Currently, Ken Follett is 75 years, 5 months and 19 days old. Ken Follett will celebrate 76th birthday on Thursday, 5th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Ken Follett upcoming birthday.
A Welsh author, he is best known for writing popular thrillers such as Eye of the Needle, Fall of Giants, The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, and World Without End. Many of his New York Times bestselling novels have been adapted into films.
He was prohibited from watching television or movies as a child and spent much of his time reading. He went on to study philosophy at University College London in the late 1960s.
There are over 100 million copies of his books in circulation globally.
He and his first wife, Mary, became parents to a son named Emanuele in 1968. His second marriage, in 1984, was to Labour Party politician, Barbara Broer.
He is a New York Times bestselling author, much like Dan Brown.
Ken Follett is 75 years old today.
Ken Follett was born on June 05, 1949 in Wales.
Ken Follett zodiac sign is Gemini.
Ken Follett was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Ken Follett's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1984 | Operation Blue Star: Under orders from India's prime minister, Indira Gandhi, the Indian Army begins an invasion of the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion. |
1989 | The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. |
1993 | Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK, fall into the sea following a landslide. |
1995 | The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created. |
1997 | The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War begins. |
1998 | A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks. |
2000 | The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed. |
2001 | Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5Â billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history. |
2003 | A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50 °C (122 °F) in the region. |
2004 | Noël MamÚre, Mayor of BÚgles, celebrates marriage for two men for the first time in France. |
2006 | Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. |
2009 | After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru. |
2015 | An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.0 strikes Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia, killing 18 people, including hikers and mountain guides on Mount Kinabalu, after mass landslides that occurred during the earthquake. This is the strongest earthquake to strike Malaysia since 1975. |
2017 | Montenegro becomes the 29th member of NATO. |
2017 | Six Arab countriesâBahrain, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emiratesâcut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region. |
1987 | The birth of Marcus Thornton, American basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Alessandro Salvi, Italian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Cam Atkinson, American ice hockey player |
1989 | The birth of Megumi Nakajima, Japanese voice actress and singer |
1990 | The birth of Radko Gudas, Czech ice hockey defenceman |
1991 | The birth of Sören Bertram, German footballer |
1992 | The birth of Joazhiño Arroe, Peruvian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer |
1993 | The birth of Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Samoan-New Zealand rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Troye Sivan, South African-born Australian singer-songwriter, actor, and YouTuber |
1995 | The birth of Ross Wilson, English table tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Sam Darnold, American football player |
1998 | The birth of Jaqueline Cristian, Romanian tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Yulia Lipnitskaya, Russian figure skater |
1999 | The birth of Suzan Lamens, Dutch tennis player |
2013 | The death of Helen McElhone, Scottish politician (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of StanisĆaw Nagy, Polish cardinal (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of RuairĂ Ă BrĂĄdaigh, Irish republican activist and politician (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Michel Ostyn, Belgian physiologist and physician (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi, Iraqi commander (b. 1971) |
2014 | The death of Don Davis, American songwriter and producer (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Reiulf Steen, Norwegian journalist and politician, Norwegian Minister of Transport and Communications (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Tariq Aziz, Iraqi journalist and politician, Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Alan Bond, English-Australian businessman (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Richard Johnson, English actor (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Roger Vergé, French chef and author (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (b. 1915) |
2017 | The death of Andy Cunningham, English actor (b. 1950) |
2017 | The death of Cheick Tioté, Ivorian footballer (b. 1986) |
2018 | The death of Kate Spade, American fashion designer (b. 1962) |
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