Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Mario Puzo |
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Birthdate | October 15, 1920 |
Birth Place | New York City, NY |
Age (in 2024) | 104 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Novelist |
Mario Puzo is best known as Novelist who has born on October 15, 1920 in New York City, NY. Currently, Mario Puzo is 104 years, 1 months and 27 days old. Mario Puzo will celebrate 105th birthday on Wednesday, 15th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Mario Puzo upcoming birthday.
Italian-American novelist and screenwriter whose Mafia novel, The Godfather, was adapted into Francis Ford Coppola's legendary film trilogy. He also wrote the screenplays for the Superman movies, as well as novels titled Fools Die and The Dark Arena.
He served in the US Army Air Forces during World War II and graduated from the City College of New York. He published his first short story, The Last Christmas, in 1950.
He was greatly influenced by Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, using quotes from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and other works in multiple publications including The Fourth K, The Family and The Dark Arena.
He grew up in New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. In 1921, he married Erika Puzo, with whom he went on to have three sons and two daughters.
The Godfather became a widely successful film starring Al Pacino and Marlon Brando.
Mario Puzo is 104 years old today.
Mario Puzo was born on October 15, 1920 in New York City, NY.
Mario Puzo zodiac sign is Libra.
Mario Puzo was best known as Novelist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Mario Puzo's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Mario Puzo's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1987 | A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara. |
1989 | Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL. |
1990 | Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation. |
1991 | The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. |
1991 | The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland. |
1994 | The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island. |
1997 | The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn. |
2001 | NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 180 km of Jupiter's moon Io. |
2003 | China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission. |
2006 | The 6.7 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport. |
2007 | Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids. |
2008 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history. |
2013 | The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed. |
2016 | One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons. |
2018 | 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered. |
1985 | The birth of Marcos Martínez, Spanish racing driver |
1986 | The birth of Lee Donghae, South Korean singer-songwriter |
1986 | The birth of Carlo Janka, Swiss skier |
1986 | The birth of Nolito, Spanish footballer |
1987 | The birth of Ott Tänak, Estonian racing driver |
1988 | The birth of Lassy Mbouity, Congolese writer and politician |
1988 | The birth of Mesut Özil, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of Leandro Antonio Martínez, Argentinian-Italian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Anthony Joshua, British professional boxer |
1990 | The birth of Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer |
1995 | The birth of Jakob Pöltl, Austrian basketball player |
1995 | The birth of Jack Flaherty, American baseball player |
1996 | The birth of Zelo, South Korean rapper and dancer |
1996 | The birth of Charly Musonda, Belgian footballer |
1999 | The birth of Bailee Madison, American actress |
2013 | The death of Gloria Lynne, American singer (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Rudy Minarcin, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Hans Riegel, German businessman (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Giovanni Reale, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic designer (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Robert Tiernan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Nobby Wirkowski, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Sergei Filippenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1971) |
2015 | The death of Nate Huffman, American basketball player (b. 1975) |
2015 | The death of Neill Sheridan, American baseball player (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian businessman and diplomat (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Tyrone Young, American football player (b. 1960) |
2017 | The death of Chinggoy Alonzo, Filipino theater, movie & television actor (b. 1950) |
2018 | The death of Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks (b. 1953) |
2021 | The death of David Amess, British politician, member of Parliament for Southend West (b. 1952) |
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Wikipedia | Mario Puzo on Wikipedia |
Website | Mario Puzo's Webiste |
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