Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Marcel Proust |
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Birthdate | July 10, 1871 |
Birth Place | France |
Age (in 2024) | 153 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Novelist |
Marcel Proust is best known as Novelist who has born on July 10, 1871 in France. Currently, Marcel Proust is 153 years, 5 months and 3 days old. Marcel Proust will celebrate 154th birthday on Thursday, 10th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Marcel Proust upcoming birthday.
A French novelist and essayist, he is best known for the seven-volume, 4,300-page novel, In Search of Lost Time (also known as Remembrance of Things Past). His other works include Swann's Way and Time Regained.
He was a sickly child who suffered from severe asthma attacks. He began attending the Lycee Condorcet at the age of eleven and later served in the French Army.
His famous novel, In Search of Lost Time, is known for its length as well its reputation as one of the greatest works of modernist fiction.
He was a homosexual who based one of his famous characters on his lover, Albert, whose name he feminized to Albertine to better serve the novel's plot. His father, Achille Adrien Proust, was a renowned epidemiologist.
He was referred to by English author Graham Greene as the greatest novelist of the 20th century.
Marcel Proust is 153 years old today.
Marcel Proust was born on July 10, 1871 in France.
Marcel Proust zodiac sign is Cancer.
Marcel Proust was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Marcel Proust's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1997 | In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. |
1997 | Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests. |
1998 | Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest. |
1999 | In women's association football, the United States defeated China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. The final was watched by 90,185 spectators, which set a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event. |
2000 | EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA. |
2000 | Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria. |
2002 | At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens's painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson. |
2006 | A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board. |
2007 | Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world. |
2008 | Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal. |
2011 | Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths. |
2012 | The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage. |
2016 | Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title. |
2017 | Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of Iraq. |
2019 | The last Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico. The last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum. |
1983 | The birth of Anthony Watmough, Australian rugby league player |
1984 | The birth of Nikolaos Mitrou, Greek footballer |
1985 | The birth of Park Chu-young, South Korean footballer |
1985 | The birth of B. J. Crombeen, American ice hockey player |
1985 | The birth of Mario Gómez, German footballer |
1988 | The birth of Antonio Brown, American football player |
1988 | The birth of Heather Hemmens, American actress, director, and producer |
1988 | The birth of Sarah Walker, New Zealand BMX rider |
1990 | The birth of Adam Reynolds, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Trent Richardson, American footballer |
1990 | The birth of Chiyonokuni Toshiki, Japanese sumo wrestler |
1991 | The birth of Daishōmaru Shōgo, Japanese sumo wrestler |
1999 | The birth of April Ivy, Portuguese composer and singer |
2001 | The birth of Isabela Merced, American actress |
2002 | The birth of Reece Walsh, Australian rugby league player |
2013 | The death of Ku Ok-hee, South Korean golfer (b. 1956) |
2013 | The death of Gokulananda Mahapatra, Indian author and academic (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Robert C. Broomfield, American lawyer and judge (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Juozas Kazickas, Lithuanian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1918) |
2014 | The death of Paul G. Risser, American ecologist and academic (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1912) |
2014 | The death of Gloria Schweigerdt, American baseball player (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor and director (b. 1944) |
2015 | The death of Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of Katharina Focke, German politician (b. 1922) |
2018 | The death of Henry Morgenthau III, American author and television producer (b. 1917) |
2020 | The death of Lara van Ruijven, Dutch short track speed skater (b. 1992) |
2020 | The death of Jack Charlton, English footballer and manager (b. 1935) |
2022 | The death of Maurice Boucher, Canadian outlaw biker (b. 1953) |
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Website | Marcel Proust's Webiste |
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