Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Lawrence Durrell |
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Birthdate | February 27, 1912 |
Birth Place | India |
Age (in 2024) | 112 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Novelist |
Lawrence Durrell is best known as Novelist who has born on February 27, 1912 in India. Currently, Lawrence Durrell is 112 years, 8 months and 4 days old. Lawrence Durrell will celebrate 113th birthday on Thursday, 27th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Lawrence Durrell upcoming birthday.
An Indian-born novelist, poet, and travel writer, he is best known for his Alexandria Quartet, which includes the novels Justine (1957), Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), and Clea (1960). Between 1931 and 1980, he also published nearly a dozen poetry collections, such as A Private Country (1943) and Cities, Plains and People (1946).
He failed his entrance exams for university study but nevertheless published his first collection of poetry at age nineteen. His first novel, Pied Piper of Lovers, was published in 1935.
He named his second daughter Sappho after the famous Greek poet.
He was born in British-controlled India, and he died at the age of seventy-eight in France. He married four times; his first and second marriages (to Nancy Isobel Myers and Eve Cohen) produced a total of two daughters.
During the 1930s, he collaborated with Anais Nin on several literary works.
Lawrence Durrell is 112 years old today.
Lawrence Durrell was born on February 27, 1912 in India.
Lawrence Durrell zodiac sign is Pisces.
Lawrence Durrell was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Lawrence Durrell's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1973 | The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in protest of the federal government. |
1976 | The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. |
1988 | Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent pogrom. |
1991 | Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated". |
2001 | Loganair Flight 670A crashes while attempting to make a water landing in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. |
2002 | Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation. |
2002 | Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims. |
2004 | A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116. |
2004 | Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack. |
2007 | Chinese stock bubble of 2007: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest daily fall in ten years, following speculation about a crackdown on illegal share offerings and trading, and fears about accelerating inflation. |
2008 | Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari escapes from a detention center in Singapore, hiding in Johor, Malaysia until he was recaptured over a year later. |
2010 | An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggers a tsunami which strikes Hawaii shortly after. |
2013 | A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured. |
2015 | Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow while out walking with his girlfriend. |
2019 | Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder downs Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman's Mig-21 in an aerial dogfight and capture him after conducting airstrikes in Jammu and Kashmir. |
1986 | The birth of Jonathan Moreira, Brazilian footballer |
1986 | The birth of Sandeep Singh, Indian field hockey player |
1987 | The birth of Florence Kiplagat, Kenyan runner |
1987 | The birth of Valeriy Andriytsev, Ukrainian wrestler |
1988 | The birth of Iain Ramsay, Australian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Dustin Jeffrey, Canadian ice hockey player |
1989 | The birth of David Button, English footballer |
1989 | The birth of Lloyd Rigby, English footballer |
1990 | The birth of Elijah Taylor, New Zealand rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Azeem Rafiq, Pakistani cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Ioannis Potouridis, Greek footballer |
1992 | The birth of Jonjo Shelvey, English footballer |
1995 | The birth of Laura Gulbe, Latvian tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul, Thai singer and dancer |
1998 | The birth of Todd Cantwell, English footballer |
2012 | The death of Helga Vlahović, Croatian journalist and producer (b. 1945) |
2013 | The death of Van Cliburn, American pianist (b. 1934) |
2013 | The death of Ramon Dekkers, Dutch mixed martial artist and kick-boxer (b. 1969) |
2013 | The death of Dale Robertson, American actor (b. 1923) |
2013 | The death of Adolfo ZaldÃvar, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Aaron Allston, American game designer and author (b. 1960) |
2014 | The death of Terry Rand, American basketball player (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Boris Nemtsov, Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1959) |
2015 | The death of Leonard Nimoy, American actor (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Julio César Strassera, Argentinian lawyer and jurist (b. 1933) |
2016 | The death of Yi Cheol-seung, South Korean lawyer and politician (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of James Z. Davis, American lawyer and judge (b. 1943) |
2018 | The death of Steve Folkes, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1959) |
2019 | The death of France-Albert René, Seychellois politician, 2nd President of Seychelles (b. 1935) |
2021 | The death of Ng Man-tat, Hong Kong actor (b. 1952) |
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