Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Paul Shaffer |
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Birthdate | November 28, 1949 |
Birth Place | Thunder Bay, Canada |
Age (in 2024) | 75 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Composer |
Paul Shaffer is best known as Composer who has born on November 28, 1949 in Thunder Bay, Canada. Currently, Paul Shaffer is 75 years, 0 months and 15 days old. Paul Shaffer will celebrate 76th birthday on Friday, 28th of November 2025. Below the countdown to Paul Shaffer upcoming birthday.
David Letterman's musical director, bandleader, and sidekick for over 30 years. He co-wrote and produced The Weather Girls' hit song "It's Raining Men" in 1979.
He performed at local bars while attending the University of Toronto, from which he graduated in 1971 with a B.A. in Sociology. During this time, he frequently played with jazz guitarist Tisziji Muñoz.
He was a member of "Saturday Night Live's" house band from 1975 until 1980.
He was born into a Jewish family and was the son of a lawyer. He married Cathy Vasapoli in 1990, with whom he fathered two children.
He and The World's Most Dangerous Band from the NBC Letterman show were featured in the 1992 film "Beethoven" playing "Roll Over Beethoven" by Chuck Berry.
Paul Shaffer is 75 years old today.
Paul Shaffer was born on November 28, 1949 in Thunder Bay, Canada.
Paul Shaffer zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Paul Shaffer was best known as Composer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Paul Shaffer's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Paul Shaffer's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1971 | Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later. |
1971 | Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization. |
1972 | Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison. |
1975 | East Timor declares its independence from Portugal. |
1979 | Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board. |
1980 | Iran-Iraq War: Operation Morvarid: The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf. (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.) |
1987 | South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board. |
1989 | Cold War: Velvet Revolution: In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power. |
1990 | British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and, therefore, as Prime Minister. She is succeeded in both positions by John Major. |
1991 | South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia. |
2002 | Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles. |
2010 | Sun Way Flight 4112 crashes after takeoff from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 12 people. |
2014 | Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing at least 120 people. |
2016 | A chartered Avro RJ85 plane carrying at least 77 people, including the Chapecoense football team, crashes near Medellín, Colombia. |
2020 | Over seven hundred civilians are massacred by the Ethiopian National Defense Force and Eritrean Army in Aksum, Ethiopia. |
1985 | The birth of Álvaro Pereira, Uruguayan footballer |
1986 | The birth of Mouhamadou Dabo, French footballer |
1987 | The birth of Karen Gillan, Scottish actress |
1987 | The birth of Craig Kieswetter, South African-English cricketer and golfer |
1988 | The birth of Scarlett Pomers, American actress and singer-songwriter |
1989 | The birth of Laura Alleway, Australian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Jamie Buhrer, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Dedryck Boyata, Belgian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Bradley Smith, English motorcycle racer |
1992 | The birth of Jake Miller, American singer-songwriter |
1992 | The birth of Adam Hicks, American actor |
1993 | The birth of David Nofoaluma, Australian-Samoan rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Nao Hibino, Japanese tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Chase Elliott, American race car driver |
2000 | The birth of Jackson Yee, Chinese singer, dancer and actor |
2013 | The death of Mitja Ribičič, Italian-Slovenian soldier and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1919) |
2013 | The death of Jean-Louis Roux, Canadian actor and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1923) |
2013 | The death of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Austrian-American poet and songwriter (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Chespirito, Mexican actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Said Akl, Lebanese poet, playwright, and linguist (b. 1912) |
2014 | The death of Dale Armstrong, Canadian race car driver (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Wayne Bickerton, Welsh songwriter and producer (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Luc Bondy, Swiss director and producer (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of Gerry Byrne, English-Welsh footballer (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Marjorie Lord, American actress (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Olene Walker, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah (b. 1930) |
2018 | The death of Harry Leslie Smith, British writer and political commentator (b. 1923) |
2020 | The death of David Prowse, English weight-lifting champion, actor and Green Cross Man (b. 1935) |
2021 | The death of Virgil Abloh, American fashion designer and entrepreneur (b. 1980) |
2021 | The death of Frank Williams, British founder of Williams Grand Prix Engineering (b. 1942) |
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