Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Pat Conroy |
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Birthdate | October 26, 1945 |
Birth Place | Atlanta, GA |
Age (in 2024) | 79 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Novelist |
Pat Conroy is best known as Novelist who has born on October 26, 1945 in Atlanta, GA. Currently, Pat Conroy is 79 years, 0 months and 7 days old. Pat Conroy will celebrate 80th birthday on Sunday, 26th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Pat Conroy upcoming birthday.
An important writer of the American South, he is known for novels such as The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini (both of which were adapted into Hollywood movies). His 1972 teaching memoir, The Water Is Wide, was also made into a film.
His experiences as a student at The Citadel inspired both his memoir, My Losing Season, and his novel, The Lords of Discipline. Following his graduation from The Citadel, he taught English in South Carolina and was subsequently fired for refusing to follow the school's pro-corporal punishment policy.
He set his 2009 work, South of Broad, in Charleston, South Carolina.
He married his third wife, fellow writer Cassandra King, in May of 1997. Previously, he had been married to Barbara Bolling (1969-1977) and Lenore Gurewitz (1981-1995).
His novel, The Prince of Tides, was adapted into a 1991 film starring Nick Nolte.
Pat Conroy is 79 years old today.
Pat Conroy was born on October 26, 1945 in Atlanta, GA.
Pat Conroy zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Pat Conroy was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Pat Conroy's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1985 | The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aboriginals. |
1989 | China Airlines Flight 204 crashes after takeoff from Hualien Airport in Taiwan, killing all 54 people on board. |
1991 | Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia. |
1994 | Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty. |
1995 | Mossad agents assassinate Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shaqaqi in his hotel in Malta. |
1995 | An avalanche hits the Icelandic village of Flateyri, destroying 29 homes and burying 45 people, and killing 20. |
1999 | The United Kingdom's House of Lords votes to end the right of most hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament. |
2000 | A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election. |
2001 | The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law. |
2002 | Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian special forces troops storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before. |
2003 | The Cedar Fire, the third-largest wildfire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000Â km2), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego. |
2004 | Rockstar Games releases Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the PlayStation 2 in North America, which sold 12 million units for the PS2, becoming the console's best-selling video game. |
2012 | Microsoft made a public release of Windows 8 and made available it on new PCs. |
2015 | A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in South Asia, killing 399 people and leaving 2,536 people injured. |
2017 | At a level crossing of the Hanko-Hyvinkää railway line, a passenger train collides with an off-road truck of the Nyland Brigade in Raseborg, Finland; four people die and 11 are injured. |
1986 | The birth of Schoolboy Q, German-American rapper |
1987 | The birth of Abudramae Bamba, Ivorian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Shawn Lauvao, American football player |
1988 | The birth of Greg Zuerlein, American figure skater |
1988 | The birth of Nosliw RodrÃguez, Venezuelan politician |
1989 | The birth of Dre Kirkpatrick, American football player |
1989 | The birth of Emil Sayfutdinov, Russian motorcycle racer |
1990 | The birth of Mark Swanepoel, South African rugby player |
1991 | The birth of Riho Iida, Japanese model and actress |
1992 | The birth of Joseph Cramarossa, Canadian hockey player |
1994 | The birth of Waqa Blake, Fijian rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Allie DeBerry, American model and actress |
1996 | The birth of Rebecca Tunney, English gymnast |
2002 | The birth of Julian Dennison, New Zealand actor |
2002 | The birth of Lee Eunsang, South Korean singer |
2013 | The death of Gabriel of Komana (b. 1946) |
2014 | The death of Vic Allen, English sociologist, economist, and historian (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Jack Bruce, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Mo Collins, American football player and coach (b. 1976) |
2014 | The death of Germain Gagnon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Senzo Meyiwa, South African footballer (b. 1987) |
2014 | The death of Brian Moore, Australian rugby league player (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Jeff Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1961) |
2014 | The death of Gordy Soltau, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Oscar Taveras, Dominican baseball player (b. 1992) |
2015 | The death of Willis Carto, American activist and theorist (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Leo Kadanoff, American physicist and academic (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Giuseppe Nazzaro, Italian-Syrian bishop and theologian (b. 1937) |
2017 | The death of Ali Ashraf Darvishian, Iranian novelist, short story writer and academic. (b. 1941) |
2021 | The death of Roh Tae-woo, South Korean general and politician, 6th President of South Korea (b. 1932) |
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