Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Peter Morton |
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Birthdate | August 07, 1947 |
Birth Place | Illinois |
Age (in 2024) | 77 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Peter Morton is best known as Entrepreneur who has born on August 07, 1947 in Illinois. Currently, Peter Morton is 77 years, 2 months and 26 days old. Peter Morton will celebrate 78th birthday on Thursday, 7th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Peter Morton upcoming birthday.
Best known as the co-founder of the Hard Rock Café restaurant chain, this Illinois-born entrepreneur donated some of his fortune to the University of California, Los Angeles. The UCLA Medical Plaza subsequently became the Peter Morton Medical Building.
He earned a degree in restaurant and hotel management from the University of Denver. He opened his first Hard Rock Cafe in London, England, in the early 1970s.
In the early 2000s, after selling the one branch of the Hard Rock Cafe that he still owned (the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada), he opened a popular Los Angeles restaurant called Morton's.
His father, Arnie Morton, founded the Morton's Steakhouse restaurant chain. Peter Morton's first marriage, to model Paulene Stone, resulted in a son named Harry (who went on to found the Pink Taco chain), and his second marriage, to Tarlton Pauley, produced a son (Matthew) and a daughter (Grace).
His son Harry once dated actress Lindsay Lohan.
Peter Morton is 77 years old today.
Peter Morton was born on August 07, 1947 in Illinois.
Peter Morton zodiac sign is Leo.
Peter Morton was best known as Entrepreneur.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Peter Morton's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1978 | U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently. |
1981 | The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. |
1985 | Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts. |
1987 | Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union. |
1989 | U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. |
1990 | First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War. |
1993 | Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, is sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. |
1995 | The Chilean government declares state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the White Earthquake. |
1997 | Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. |
1997 | Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people. |
1998 | Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people. |
1999 | The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan. |
2007 | At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record. |
2008 | The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia. |
2020 | Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board. |
1988 | The birth of Beanie Wells, American football player |
1989 | The birth of DeMar DeRozan, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Josh Franceschi, English singer-songwriter |
1991 | The birth of Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer (d. 2016) |
1991 | The birth of Mitchell te Vrede, Dutch footballer |
1991 | The birth of Mike Trout, American baseball player |
1992 | The birth of Adam Yates, English cyclist |
1992 | The birth of Simon Yates, English cyclist |
1992 | The birth of E. J. Tackett, American bowler |
1993 | The birth of Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper |
1993 | The birth of Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter |
1997 | The birth of Matty Cash, Polish footballer |
1997 | The birth of Kyler Murray, American football player |
1998 | The birth of Vladimir Barbu, Italian diver |
1998 | The birth of MarÃa Bazo, Peruvian windsurfer |
2014 | The death of VÃctor Fayad, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1955) |
2014 | The death of Perry Moss, American football player and coach (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Henry Stone, American record producer (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian pharmacologist and physician (b. 1914) |
2015 | The death of Louise Suggs, American golfer, co-founded LPGA (b. 1923) |
2016 | The death of Bryan Clauson, American racing driver (b. 1989) |
2017 | The death of Don Baylor, American baseball player (b. 1949) |
2017 | The death of David Maslanka, American composer (b. 1943) |
2018 | The death of M. Karunanidhi, Indian politician, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and prominent leader of Tamils (b. 1924) |
2018 | The death of Stan Mikita, Slovak hockey player (b. 1940) |
2019 | The death of David Berman, American musician, singer, poet and cartoonist (b. 1967) |
2020 | The death of Lê Khả Phiêu, Vietnamese politician (b. 1931) |
2021 | The death of Markie Post, American actress (b. 1950) |
2022 | The death of David McCullough, American historian and author (b. 1933) |
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