Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | PG Wodehouse |
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Birthdate | October 15, 1881 |
Birth Place | Guildford, England |
Age (in 2024) | 143 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Novelist |
PG Wodehouse is best known as Novelist who has born on October 15, 1881 in Guildford, England. Currently, PG Wodehouse is 143 years, 0 months and 18 days old. PG Wodehouse will celebrate 144th birthday on Wednesday, 15th of October 2025. Below the countdown to PG Wodehouse upcoming birthday.
Best remembered for his novels and short stories featuring Blandings Castle settings and the famous Jeeves character, this early 20th-century British author and humorist also wrote over a dozen plays and worked as a musical theater lyricist.
Difficult financial times put a halt to his educational plans, and he spent his early adulthood years working at a London branch of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and simultaneously writing for a newspaper called The Globe.
He penned the screenplay for the 1937 George Burns, Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, and Gracie Allen picture A Damsel in Distress.
He was born in Guildford, Surrey, England, to Eleanor and Henry Ernest Wodehouse. In 1914, he married Ethel Wayman.
He penned the lyrics for the song "Bill" in composer Jerome Kern's popular musical, Showboat.
PG Wodehouse is 143 years old today.
PG Wodehouse was born on October 15, 1881 in Guildford, England.
PG Wodehouse zodiac sign is Libra.
PG Wodehouse was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with PG Wodehouse's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1987 | A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara. |
1989 | Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL. |
1990 | Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation. |
1991 | The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. |
1991 | The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland. |
1994 | The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island. |
1997 | The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn. |
2001 | NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 180Â km of Jupiter's moon Io. |
2003 | China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission. |
2006 | The 6.7 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport. |
2007 | Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids. |
2008 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history. |
2013 | The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed. |
2016 | One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons. |
2018 | 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered. |
1985 | The birth of Marcos MartÃnez, Spanish racing driver |
1986 | The birth of Lee Donghae, South Korean singer-songwriter |
1986 | The birth of Carlo Janka, Swiss skier |
1986 | The birth of Nolito, Spanish footballer |
1987 | The birth of Ott Tänak, Estonian racing driver |
1988 | The birth of Lassy Mbouity, Congolese writer and politician |
1988 | The birth of Mesut Özil, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of Leandro Antonio MartÃnez, Argentinian-Italian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Anthony Joshua, British professional boxer |
1990 | The birth of Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer |
1995 | The birth of Jakob Pöltl, Austrian basketball player |
1995 | The birth of Jack Flaherty, American baseball player |
1996 | The birth of Zelo, South Korean rapper and dancer |
1996 | The birth of Charly Musonda, Belgian footballer |
1999 | The birth of Bailee Madison, American actress |
2013 | The death of Gloria Lynne, American singer (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Rudy Minarcin, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Hans Riegel, German businessman (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Giovanni Reale, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Jiřà Reynek, Czech poet and graphic designer (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Robert Tiernan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Nobby Wirkowski, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Sergei Filippenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1971) |
2015 | The death of Nate Huffman, American basketball player (b. 1975) |
2015 | The death of Neill Sheridan, American baseball player (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian businessman and diplomat (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Tyrone Young, American football player (b. 1960) |
2017 | The death of Chinggoy Alonzo, Filipino theater, movie & television actor (b. 1950) |
2018 | The death of Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks (b. 1953) |
2021 | The death of David Amess, British politician, member of Parliament for Southend West (b. 1952) |
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