Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Oscar Wilde |
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Birthdate | October 16, 1854 |
Birth Place | Dublin, Ireland |
Age (in 2024) | 170 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Novelist |
Oscar Wilde is best known as Novelist who has born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. Currently, Oscar Wilde is 170 years, 1 months and 5 days old. Oscar Wilde will celebrate 171st birthday on Thursday, 16th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Oscar Wilde upcoming birthday.
Irish playwright, poet, and novelist who is best known for The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray. He is also famous for his memorable, witty epigrams.
He studied at Trinity College, Dublin and at Magdalen College, Oxford and was known during his university years for his humorously eccentric persona. He published his collected Poems in 1881, when he was twenty-seven years old.
His dramatic tragedy Salome was written in French and was performed in both Paris and London.
He and his two siblings were the children of Sir William and Jane Wilde, prominent Dublin intellectuals. Oscar Wilde later married and had two children with Constance Lloyd, but his marriage disintegrated after he was arrested on charges of sodomy.
He was a contemporary and acquaintance of the French symbolist poet Stephane Mallarme.
Oscar Wilde is 170 years old today.
Oscar Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland.
Oscar Wilde zodiac sign is Libra.
Oscar Wilde was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Oscar Wilde's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1973 | Henry Kissinger and LĂȘ Äức Thá» are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
1975 | Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, in Portuguese Timor. |
1975 | Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox. |
1975 | The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget. |
1978 | Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523. |
1984 | Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
1985 | The Finnish dry cargo ship MS Hanna-Marjut, on its way from Mariehamn to Naantali, sank in hard sea on the open water of Kihti between the Kökar and Sottunga islands of à land, leading to the drowning of four people. |
1991 | George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20. |
1995 | The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend. |
1995 | The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened. |
1996 | Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City. |
1998 | Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant. |
2002 | The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria. |
2013 | Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people. |
2017 | Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss. |
1985 | The birth of Peter Wallace, Australian rugby league player |
1986 | The birth of Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer |
1986 | The birth of Derk Boerrigter, Dutch footballer |
1988 | The birth of ZoltĂĄn Stieber, Hungarian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player |
1991 | The birth of Shardul Thakur, Indian cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Kostas Fortounis, Greek footballer |
1992 | The birth of Bryce Harper, American baseball player |
1992 | The birth of Stuart Lightbody, Irish badminton player |
1992 | The birth of Viktorija Golubic, Swiss tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Jovit Baldivino, Filipino singer and actor (d. 2022) |
1993 | The birth of Caroline Garcia, French tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player |
1997 | The birth of Charles Leclerc, Monégasque Formula One driver |
1997 | The birth of Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player |
2013 | The death of Saggy Tahir, Pakistani-American lawyer and politician (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Allen Forte, American musicologist and theorist (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Seppo Kuusela, Finnish basketball player and coach (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Richard J. Cardamone, American lawyer and judge (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of James W. Fowler, American psychologist and academic (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of William James, Australian general and physician (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Memduh Ăn, Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb, Canadian professor and computer scientist (b. 1921) |
2017 | The death of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist and blogger (b. 1964) |
2017 | The death of Roy Dotrice, British actor (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of John Dunsworth, Canadian actor (b. 1946) |
2017 | The death of Sean Hughes, British-born Irish stand-up comedian (b. 1965) |
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