Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Philippa Gregory |
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Birthdate | January 09, 1954 |
Birth Place | Kenya |
Age (in 2024) | 70 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Novelist |
Philippa Gregory is best known as Novelist who has born on January 09, 1954 in Kenya. Currently, Philippa Gregory is 70 years, 10 months and 25 days old. Philippa Gregory will celebrate 71st birthday on Thursday, 9th of January 2025. Below the countdown to Philippa Gregory upcoming birthday.
British historical fiction author most well known for her 2001 novel The Other Boleyn Girl. The book won Romantic Novel of the Year in 2002 and was made into a feature film in 2008.
She studied English and history at the University of Sussex, and got her doctorate in 18th Century literature from the University of Edinburgh.
In 1993, she established the charity Gardens for The Gambia, which builds low-cost, easy to maintain wells in the gardens of schools and communities in The Gambia.
She was married three times and had six children and stepchildren.
Scarlett Johansson was cast as Mary Boleyn in the film adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl.
Philippa Gregory is 70 years old today.
Philippa Gregory was born on January 09, 1954 in Kenya.
Philippa Gregory zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Philippa Gregory was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Philippa Gregory's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1991 | Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. |
1992 | The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia. |
1992 | The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12. |
1996 | First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians. |
1997 | Comair Flight 3272 crashes in Raisinville Township in Monroe County, Michigan, killing 29 people. |
2003 | TANS Perú Flight 222 crashes on approach to Chachapoyas Airport in Chachapoyas, Peru, killing 46 people. |
2004 | An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula en route to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28. This is the second deadliest marine disaster in Albanian history. |
2005 | Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority, replacing interim president Rawhi Fattouh. |
2005 | The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War. |
2007 | Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco. |
2011 | Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Urmia in the northwest of the country, in icy conditions, killing 77 people. |
2014 | An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others. |
2015 | The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes. |
2015 | A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was contaminated with Burkholderia gladioli leaves 75 dead and over 230 people ill. |
2021 | Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes north of Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 62 people on board. |
1987 | The birth of Jami Puustinen, Finnish footballer |
1988 | The birth of Lee Yeon-hee, South Korean actress |
1989 | The birth of Michael Beasley, American basketball player |
1989 | The birth of Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress |
1989 | The birth of Yana Maksimava, Belarusian heptathlete |
1989 | The birth of Chris Sandow, Australian rugby league player |
1989 | The birth of Haris Sohail, Pakistani cricketer |
1991 | The birth of Álvaro Soler, Spanish singer-songwriter |
1992 | The birth of Joseph Parker, Samoan heavyweight boxer |
1993 | The birth of Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English long jumper and heptathlete |
1995 | The birth of Braden Hamlin-Uele, New Zealand rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Nicola Peltz, American actress |
1998 | The birth of Brent Rivera, American social media personality and actor |
2001 | The birth of Peter Mamouzelos, Australian rugby league player |
2004 | The birth of Souhardya De, Indian author and columnist |
2014 | The death of Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Michel Jeury, French author (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Józef Oleksy, Polish economist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, Malaysian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Sarawak (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Roy Tarpley, American basketball player (b. 1964) |
2016 | The death of John Harvard, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b. 1938) |
2016 | The death of Angus Scrimm, American actor and author (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of Zygmunt Bauman, Polish sociologist (b. 1925) |
2018 | The death of Kato Ottio, Papua New Guinean rugby league player (b. 1994) |
2019 | The death of Verna Bloom, American actress (b. 1938) |
2019 | The death of Paul Koslo, German-Canadian actor (b. 1944) |
2021 | The death of John Reilly, American actor (b. 1934) |
2022 | The death of Bob Saget, American comedian, actor, and television host (b. 1956) |
2022 | The death of Maria Ewing, American opera singer (b.1950) |
2023 | The death of Séamus Begley, Irish accordion player, fiddler and Irish traditional musician (b. 1949) |
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