Updated at December 25, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Nick Hornby |
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Birthdate | April 17, 1957 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 67 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nick Hornby is best known as Novelist who has born on April 17, 1957 in England. Currently, Nick Hornby is 67 years, 8 months and 8 days old. Nick Hornby will celebrate 68th birthday on Thursday, 17th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Nick Hornby upcoming birthday.
A top-selling English author, he is best known for his novels High Fidelity (1995) and About a Boy (1998), both of which were made into popular films. His 1992 autobiographical work, Fever Pitch, won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and was also adapted into a film.
He studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge. Early in his literary career he received the W.H. Smith Award for Fiction for his 2001 novel, How to Be Good.
He published his first young adult novel, Slam, in 2007.
His first marriage produced one child. With his second wife, Amanda Posey, he had two more sons. He is the brother of fellow author, Gill Hornby.
His novel, About a Boy, was made into a feature film starring Hugh Grant .
Nick Hornby is 67 years old today.
Nick Hornby was born on April 17, 1957 in England.
Nick Hornby zodiac sign is Aries.
Nick Hornby was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Nick Hornby's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1951 | The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park. |
1961 | Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. |
1969 | Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy. |
1969 | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed. |
1970 | Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely. |
1971 | The Provisional Government of Bangladesh is formed. |
1975 | The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender. |
1978 | Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan. |
1982 | Constitution Act, 1982 Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada. |
1986 | An alleged state of war lasting 335 years between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace bringing an end to any hypothetical war that may have been legally considered to exist. |
1992 | The Katina P is deliberately run aground off Maputo, Mozambique, and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean. |
2006 | A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing 11 people and injuring 70. |
2013 | An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others. |
2014 | NASA's Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star. |
2021 | The funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. |
1984 | The birth of Jed Lowrie, American baseball player |
1984 | The birth of Raffaele Palladino, Italian footballer |
1985 | The birth of Rooney Mara, American actress |
1985 | The birth of Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model |
1985 | The birth of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player |
1986 | The birth of Romain Grosjean, French race car driver |
1988 | The birth of Takahiro Moriuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter |
1989 | The birth of Paraskevi Papachristou, Greek triple jumper |
1989 | The birth of Avi Kaplan, singer and songwriter |
1990 | The birth of Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer |
1992 | The birth of Lachlan Maranta, Australian rugby league footballer |
1994 | The birth of Alanna Goldie, Canadian fencer |
1996 | The birth of Lorna Fitzgerald, British actress |
1996 | The birth of Caitlin Parker, Australian boxer |
1998 | The birth of Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana, Thai actor and singer |
2013 | The death of V. S. Ramadevi, Indian politician, 13th Governor of Karnataka (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Bernat Klein, Serbian-Scottish fashion designer and painter (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Wojciech Leśnikowski, Polish-American architect and academic (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Robert P. Griffin, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Scotty Probasco, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Jeremiah J. Rodell, American general (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of A. Alfred Taubman, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Chyna, American wrestler (b. 1969) |
2016 | The death of Doris Roberts, American actress (b. 1925) |
2018 | The death of Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States (b. 1925) |
2018 | The death of Carl Kasell, American radio personality (b. 1934) |
2019 | The death of Alan García, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 61st and 64th President of Peru (b. 1949) |
2022 | The death of Radu Lupu, Romanian pianist (b. 1945) |
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