Updated at November 7, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Michel Faber |
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Birthdate | April 13, 1960 |
Birth Place | The Hague, Netherlands |
Age (in 2024) | 64 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Novelist |
Michel Faber is best known as Novelist who has born on April 13, 1960 in The Hague, Netherlands. Currently, Michel Faber is 64 years, 6 months and 24 days old. Michel Faber will celebrate 65th birthday on Sunday, 13th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Michel Faber upcoming birthday.
Perhaps most famous for his novel The Crimson Petal and the White, this Dutch writer also penned the O. Henry Prize winning short story "Bye Bye Natalia" and several other acclaimed works of long and short fiction.
Before beginning his literary career, he graduated from the University of Melbourne and worked for a decade as a nurse. He published his first short story collection, Some Rain Must Fall, in 1998 and his debut novel, Under the Skin, in 2000.
A journalist as well as a novelist, he wrote for the Sunday Herald; Scotland on Sunday; and The Sunday Times.
Though he was born in The Hague, Netherlands, he spent the majority of his childhood in Melbourne, Australia. He and his second wife, Eva, eventually settled in Scotland.
His novel Under the Skin was the basis for a 2013 film starring Scarlett Johansson.
Michel Faber is 64 years old today.
Michel Faber was born on April 13, 1960 in The Hague, Netherlands.
Michel Faber zodiac sign is Aries.
Michel Faber was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Michel Faber's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1945 | World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna. |
1948 | In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre. |
1953 | CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra. |
1958 | American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. |
1960 | The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system. |
1964 | At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field. |
1970 | An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed "Odyssey") while en route to the Moon. |
1972 | The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan. |
1972 | Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lá»™c begins. |
1975 | An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War. |
1976 | The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration. |
1976 | Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland. |
1996 | Two women and four children are killed after Israeli helicopter fired rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon. |
1997 | Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament. |
2017 | The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. |
1963 | The birth of Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player and author |
1964 | The birth of Davis Love III, American golfer and sportscaster |
1965 | The birth of Patricio Pouchulu, Argentinian architect and educator |
1967 | The birth of Michael Eisen, American biologist and academic |
1967 | The birth of Olga Tañón, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter |
1971 | The birth of Franck Esposito, French swimmer |
1971 | The birth of Danie Mellor, Australian painter and sculptor |
1972 | The birth of Aaron Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1977 | The birth of Margus Tsahkna, Estonian lawyer and politician |
1978 | The birth of Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer |
1982 | The birth of Nellie McKay, British-American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress |
1987 | The birth of John-Allison Weiss, American singer-songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Allison Williams, American actress and singer |
1989 | The birth of Josh Reynolds, Australian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Darrun Hilliard, American basketball player |
2005 | The death of Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1924) |
2005 | The death of Phillip Pavia, American painter and sculptor (b. 1912) |
2006 | The death of Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1918) |
2008 | The death of John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist and academic (b. 1911) |
2012 | The death of Cecil Chaudhry, Pakistani pilot, academic, and activist (b. 1941) |
2012 | The death of Shūichi Higurashi, Japanese illustrator (b. 1936) |
2013 | The death of Stephen Dodgson, English composer and educator (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian-Spanish philosopher and theorist (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Michael Ruppert, American journalist and author (b. 1951) |
2015 | The death of Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist and author (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, and illustrator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Herb Trimpe, American author and illustrator (b. 1939) |
2017 | The death of Dan Rooney, American football executive and former United States Ambassador to Ireland (b. 1932) |
2022 | The death of Michel Bouquet, French stage and film actor (b. 1925) |
2022 | The death of Gloria Parker, American musician and bandleader (b.1921) |
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