Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Oriana Fallaci |
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Birthdate | June 29, 1929 |
Birth Place | Florence, Italy |
Age (in 2024) | 95 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Journalist |
Oriana Fallaci is best known as Journalist who has born on June 29, 1929 in Florence, Italy. Currently, Oriana Fallaci is 95 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Oriana Fallaci will celebrate 96th birthday on Sunday, 29th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Oriana Fallaci upcoming birthday.
Famous for her wartime interviews of such leaders as U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, and even North Vietnamese military leader Vo Nguyen Giap, this Italian journalist won numerous honors, including the Viareggio Prize, the Prix Antibes, and the Bancarella Prize.
When she was still in her teens, she began working as a reporter for an Italian newspaper called Il Mattino dell'Italia Centrale. She went on to travel to Vietnam, South America, and the Middle East as a war correspondent.
During the World War II years, she opposed fascism in her native country and joined the Giustizia e Liberta resistance movement.
She was born and raised in Florence, Italy, and she died of lung cancer in her hometown at the age of seventy-seven. During the 1970s, she was romantically involved with Greek politician Alexandros Panagoulis.
Her numerous, controversial works on the topic of Islamic extremism led many people, including her fellow author Christopher Hitchens, to accuse her of discrimination against Muslims.
Oriana Fallaci is 95 years old today.
Oriana Fallaci was born on June 29, 1929 in Florence, Italy.
Oriana Fallaci zodiac sign is Cancer.
Oriana Fallaci was best known as Journalist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Oriana Fallaci's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1971 | Prior to re-entry (following a record-setting stay aboard the Soviet Union’s Salyut 1 space station), the crew capsule of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurizes, killing the three cosmonauts on board. Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev are the first humans to die in space. |
1972 | The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. |
1972 | A Convair CV-580 and De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter collide above Lake Winnebago near Appleton, Wisconsin, killing 13. |
1974 | Vice President Isabel Perón assumes powers and duties as Acting President of Argentina, while her husband President Juan Perón is terminally ill. |
1974 | Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet. |
1976 | The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom. |
1976 | The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin. |
1987 | Vincent van Gogh's painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, is bought for $20.4Â million at an auction in London, England. |
1995 | Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time. |
1995 | The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937. |
2002 | Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel. |
2006 | Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law. |
2007 | Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone. |
2012 | A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power. |
2014 | The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq. |
1986 | The birth of José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer |
1986 | The birth of Edward Maya, Romanian singer-songwriter and producer |
1988 | The birth of Éver Banega, Argentinian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Kim Little, Scottish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Yann M'Vila, French footballer |
1991 | The birth of Suk Hyun-jun, South Korean footballer |
1991 | The birth of Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Addison Timlin, American actress |
1993 | The birth of Harrison Gilbertson, Australian actor |
1994 | The birth of Camila Mendes, American actress and model |
1996 | The birth of Joseph Manu, New Zealand rugby league player |
1998 | The birth of Michael Porter Jr., American basketball player |
2001 | The birth of Aaron Schoupp, Australian rugby league player |
2003 | The birth of Jude Bellingham, English footballer |
2006 | The birth of Sam Lavagnino, American child voice actor |
2013 | The death of Gilma Jiménez, Colombian politician (b. 1956) |
2014 | The death of Damian D'Oliveira, South African cricketer (b. 1960) |
2014 | The death of Dermot Healy, Irish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of Hisham Barakat, Egyptian lawyer and judge (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of Josef Masopust, Czech footballer and coach (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Charles Pasqua, French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior (b. 1927) |
2016 | The death of Jan Hettema, Springbok cyclist and five times South African National Rally Champion (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur and chairman of Montpellier HSC from 1974 to his death (b. 1943) |
2017 | The death of Dave Semenko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1957) |
2018 | The death of Steve Ditko, American comic writer and illustrator (b. 1927) |
2020 | The death of Carl Reiner, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922) |
2020 | The death of Stepa J. Groggs, American rap artist (b. 1988) |
2020 | The death of Hachalu Hundessa, Ethiopian singer, songwriter (b. 1986) |
2021 | The death of Donald Rumsfeld, American captain and politician, 13th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1932) |
2022 | The death of Hershel W. Williams, American Marine Corps warrant officer, last living Medal of Honor recipient from World War II (b. 1923) |
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