Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Patrick White |
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Birthdate | May 28, 1912 |
Birth Place | London, England |
Age (in 2024) | 112 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Novelist |
Patrick White is best known as Novelist who has born on May 28, 1912 in London, England. Currently, Patrick White is 112 years, 6 months and 16 days old. Patrick White will celebrate 113th birthday on Wednesday, 28th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Patrick White upcoming birthday.
Twentieth-century novelist who became Australia's first literary Nobel Laureate in 1973. His best-known works include Happy Valley (1939), The Living and the Dead (1941), The Eye of the Storm (1973), and Voss (1957).
He wrote his first play at the age of ten, while attending the Tudor House boarding school. He later studied at King's College, Cambridge University.
His last book, The Hanging Garden, was published posthumously.
He was born in London to a British mother and an Australian-English father. He was in a committed relationship with partner Manoly Lascaris at the time of his death.
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature six years before Isaac Bashevis Singer received the same honor.
Patrick White is 112 years old today.
Patrick White was born on May 28, 1912 in London, England.
Patrick White zodiac sign is Gemini.
Patrick White was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Patrick White's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1979 | Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community. |
1987 | An 18-year-old West German pilot, Mathias Rust, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. |
1991 | The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War. |
1995 | The 7.0 Mw  Neftegorsk earthquake shakes the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1-300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt. |
1996 | U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud. |
1998 | Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually. |
1999 | In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display. |
2002 | The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City. |
2003 | Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia following criticism of his handling of child sexual abuse allegations during his tenure as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane. |
2004 | The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government. |
2008 | The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty. |
2010 | In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers. |
2011 | Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year. |
2016 | Harambe, a gorilla, is shot to death after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, resulting in widespread criticism and sparking various internet memes. |
2017 | Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first Indianapolis 500, the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from an engine issue in his first entry of the event. |
1988 | The birth of NaVorro Bowman, American football player |
1988 | The birth of Percy Harvin, American football player |
1988 | The birth of Craig Kimbrel, American baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Kyle Walker, English footballer |
1991 | The birth of Sharrif Floyd, American football player |
1991 | The birth of Alexandre Lacazette, French footballer |
1991 | The birth of Danielle Lao, American tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Kail Piho, Estonian skier |
1993 | The birth of Daniel Alvaro, Australian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Bárbara Luz, Portuguese tennis player |
1994 | The birth of John Stones, English footballer |
1998 | The birth of Kim Dahyun, South Korean rapper and singer |
1999 | The birth of Jodie Burrage, British tennis player |
2000 | The birth of Phil Foden, English footballer |
2000 | The birth of Risi Pouri-Lane, New Zealand rugby sevens player |
2013 | The death of Gerd Schmückle, German general (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Maya Angelou, American memoirist and poet (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Stan Crowther, English footballer (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Oscar Dystel, American publisher (b. 1912) |
2014 | The death of Malcolm Glazer, American businessman (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Bob Houbregs, Canadian-American basketball player and manager (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Isaac Kungwane, South African footballer (b. 1971) |
2015 | The death of Steven Gerber, American pianist and composer (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of Johnny Keating, Scottish trombonist, composer, and producer (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Reynaldo Rey, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1940) |
2018 | The death of Neale Cooper, Scottish footballer (b. 1963) |
2018 | The death of Jens Christian Skou, Danish medical doctor and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) |
2018 | The death of Cornelia Frances, English-Australian actress (b. 1941) |
2021 | The death of Mark Eaton, American basketball player (b. 1957) |
2022 | The death of Patricia Brake, English actress (b. 1942) |
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