Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Michael Morpurgo |
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Birthdate | October 05, 1943 |
Birth Place | St Albans, England |
Age (in 2024) | 81 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Michael Morpurgo is best known as Children's Author who has born on October 05, 1943 in St Albans, England. Currently, Michael Morpurgo is 81 years, 1 months and 18 days old. Michael Morpurgo will celebrate 82nd birthday on Sunday, 5th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Michael Morpurgo upcoming birthday.
English author of such children's books as War Horse, Billy the Kid and Kensuke's Kingdom. His other literary works include plays, poems, and libretti.
He attended King's College, London and worked as a schoolteacher in Kent, England for a time. While he was teaching primary school, he discovered his talent for storytelling and began to pursue the writing career that would eventually earn him the honor of British Children's Literature Laureate.
He received a California Young Reader Medal in 2008 for his book Private Peaceful.
His mother was actress Kippe Cammaerts, and he was the biological son of actor Tony Van Bridge, although he was raised by his stepfather, Jack Morpurgo. He married Clare Lane, the daughter of the founder of Penguin Books and he has three children named Sebastian, Rosalind and Horatio.
His novel War Horse was adapted into a 2011 film directed by Steven Spielberg.
Michael Morpurgo is 81 years old today.
Michael Morpurgo was born on October 05, 1943 in St Albans, England.
Michael Morpurgo zodiac sign is Libra.
Michael Morpurgo was best known as Children's Author.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Michael Morpurgo's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Michael Morpurgo's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1963 | The United States suspends the Commercial Import Program in response to repression of the Buddhist majority by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem. |
1966 | A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown. |
1968 | A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police. |
1970 | The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded. |
1970 | The British Trade Commissioner, James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering the October Crisis in Canada. |
1974 | Bombs planted by the PIRA in pubs in Guildford kill four British soldiers and one civilian. |
1982 | Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths. |
1984 | Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space. |
1986 | Mordechai Vanunu's story in The Sunday Times reveals Israel's secret nuclear weapons. |
1988 | A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt. |
1990 | After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper. |
1991 | An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people. |
1999 | The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people. |
2000 | Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević. |
2011 | In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered. |
1987 | The birth of Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Tim Ream, American soccer player |
1987 | The birth of Park So-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress |
1987 | The birth of Luigi Vitale, Italian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Benny Howell, English cricketer |
1988 | The birth of Bahar Kızıl, German singer-songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Maja Salvador, Filipino actress, dancer, singer, and host |
1989 | The birth of Kelsey Adrian, Canadian basketball player |
1989 | The birth of Marcel Baude, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of Ify Ibekwe, American basketball player |
1989 | The birth of Travis Kelce, American football player |
1990 | The birth of Nathan Peats, Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Kevin Magnussen, Danish racing driver |
1993 | The birth of Wakamotoharu Minato, Japanese sumo wrestler |
2006 | The birth of Jacob Tremblay, Canadian actor |
2012 | The death of Edvard Mirzoyan, Georgian-Armenian composer and educator (b. 1921) |
2012 | The death of Claude Pinoteau, French director and screenwriter (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Ruth R. Benerito, American chemist and academic (b. 1916) |
2013 | The death of Carlo Lizzani, Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922) |
2013 | The death of Yakkun Sakurazuka, Japanese voice actress and singer (b. 1976) |
2014 | The death of David Chavchavadze, English-American CIA officer and author (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver (b. 1959) |
2014 | The death of Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (b. 1917) |
2015 | The death of Chantal Akerman, Belgian-French actress, director, and producer (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of Joker Arroyo, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Grace Lee Boggs, American philosopher, author, and activist (b. 1915) |
2015 | The death of Henning Mankell, Swedish author and playwright (b. 1948) |
2016 | The death of Brock Yates, American journalist and author (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Eberhard van der Laan, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam (b. 1955) |
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