Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Leif GW Persson |
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Birthdate | March 12, 1945 |
Birth Place | Stockholm, Sweden |
Age (in 2024) | 79 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Novelist |
Leif GW Persson is best known as Novelist who has born on March 12, 1945 in Stockholm, Sweden. Currently, Leif GW Persson is 79 years, 7 months and 23 days old. Leif GW Persson will celebrate 80th birthday on Wednesday, 12th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Leif GW Persson upcoming birthday.
Swedish award-winning novelist who is known for his work in crime fiction and for working as a criminologist. He is best recognized for his novels He Who Kills the Dragon Falling Freely and Grisfesten.
He started working for the Swedish National Police Board in 1977 where he gained attention as a whistleblower connecting Prime Minister Olof Palme to a prostitution ring. He was fired for his work and went on to lecture at Stockholm University. He published his first novel in 1992 based on the experience.
He won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award multiple times including for Samhallsbararna in 1982 and Den Doende Detektiven in 2010 by the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy.
He was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden and shared a photo with his daughter Malin through Instagram in November of 2018.
His novel was the inspiration for the American television series Backstrom which starred Rainn Wilson.
Leif GW Persson is 79 years old today.
Leif GW Persson was born on March 12, 1945 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Leif GW Persson zodiac sign is Pisces.
Leif GW Persson was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Leif GW Persson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1968 | Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom. |
1971 | The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns. |
1989 | Sir Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web. |
1992 | Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. |
1993 | Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more. |
1993 | North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites. |
1999 | Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO. |
2003 | Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade. |
2003 | The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). |
2004 | The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history. |
2009 | Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history. |
2011 | A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. |
2014 | A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others. |
2019 | In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes. |
2020 | The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
1993 | The birth of Anton Shramchenko, Belarusian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist |
1994 | The birth of Jerami Grant, American basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016) |
1996 | The birth of Sehrou Guirassy, French footballer |
1996 | The birth of Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Robert Murić, Croatian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Cene Prevc, Slovenian ski jumper |
1997 | The birth of Dean Henderson, English footballer |
1997 | The birth of Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer |
1997 | The birth of Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer |
1998 | The birth of Mecole Hardman, American football player |
1998 | The birth of Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater |
1998 | The birth of Elizaveta Ukolova, Czech figure skater |
2001 | The birth of Kim Min-kyu, South Korean singer and actor |
2012 | The death of Michael Hossack, American drummer (b. 1946) |
2012 | The death of Friedhelm Konietzka, German-Swiss footballer and manager (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Michael Grigsby, English director and producer (b. 1936) |
2013 | The death of Ganesh Pyne, Indian painter and illustrator (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Willie Barrow, American minister and activist (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Michael Graves, American architect and academic, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet and author (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1948) |
2016 | The death of Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet and author (b. 1942) |
2016 | The death of Felix Ibru, Nigerian architect and politician, Governor of Delta State (b. 1935) |
2016 | The death of Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923) |
2021 | The death of Ronald DeFeo Jr., American criminal (b. 1951) |
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