Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Pierre Boulle |
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Birthdate | February 20, 1912 |
Birth Place | France |
Age (in 2024) | 112 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Novelist |
Pierre Boulle is best known as Novelist who has born on February 20, 1912 in France. Currently, Pierre Boulle is 112 years, 9 months and 20 days old. Pierre Boulle will celebrate 113th birthday on Thursday, 20th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Pierre Boulle upcoming birthday.
Best remembered for his 1963 science fiction novel The Planet of the Apes, he also penned the 1952 bestseller The Bridge over the River Kwai. His lesser-known works include Garden on the Moon (novel) and Time Out of Mind (short stories).
After studying engineering at the Ăcole SupĂ©rieure d'ElectricitĂ©, he worked on a rubber plantation in British Malaya.
He earned the Croix de Guerre for his spying work on behalf of the World War II-era resistance movement in French Indochina.
Born to a Catholic family in Avignon, France, he later fell in love with a Frenchwoman he met while working in Malaya (the pair never married).
His novel Planet of the Apes was adapted into a popular 1968 film starring Charlton Heston.
Pierre Boulle is 112 years old today.
Pierre Boulle was born on February 20, 1912 in France.
Pierre Boulle zodiac sign is Pisces.
Pierre Boulle was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Pierre Boulle's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1965 | Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts. |
1968 | The China Academy of Space Technology, China's main arm for the research, development, and creation of space satellites, is established in Beijing. |
1971 | The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert. |
1979 | An earthquake cracks open the Sinila volcanic crater on the Dieng Plateau, releasing poisonous H2S gas and killing 149 villagers in the Indonesian province of Central Java. |
1986 | The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years. |
1988 | The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. |
1991 | In the Albanian capital Tirana, a gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down by mobs of angry protesters. |
1998 | American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. |
2003 | During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others. |
2005 | Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout. |
2009 | Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack. |
2010 | In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago. |
2014 | Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, many reportedly killed by snipers. |
2015 | Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services. |
2016 | Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. |
1985 | The birth of Julia Volkova, Russian singer and actress |
1985 | The birth of TJ Kirk, American YouTube personality and podcast host |
1987 | The birth of Luke Burgess, English rugby league player |
1987 | The birth of Miles Teller, American actor |
1988 | The birth of Kealoha Pilares, American football player |
1988 | The birth of Ki Bo-bae, South Korean archer |
1988 | The birth of Rihanna, Barbadian-American singer-songwriter and actress |
1988 | The birth of Jiah Khan, Indian singer and actress (d. 2013) |
1989 | The birth of Daly Cherry-Evans, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Ciro Immobile, Italian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Hidilyn Diaz, Filipino weightlifter |
1991 | The birth of Angelique van der Meet, Dutch tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Kyle Turner, Australian rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Kateryna Baindl, Ukrainian tennis player |
2003 | The birth of Olivia Rodrigo, American actress and singer |
2013 | The death of David S. McKay, American biochemist and geologist (b. 1936) |
2013 | The death of Antonio Roma, Argentinian footballer (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan jurist and politician, President of Uruguay (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Walter D. Ehlers, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Garrick Utley, American journalist (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Govind Pansare, Indian author and activist (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Henry Segerstrom, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of John C. Willke, American physician, author, and activist (b. 1925) |
2016 | The death of Fernando Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest and politician (b. 1934) |
2017 | The death of Vitaly Churkin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United Nations (b. 1952) |
2017 | The death of Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Steve Hewlett, British journalist (b. 1958) |
2020 | The death of Joaquim Pina Moura, Portuguese Minister of Economy and Treasury and MP (b. 1952) |
2021 | The death of Nurul Haque Miah, Bangladeshi professor and writer (b. 1944) |
2021 | The death of Mauro Bellugi, Italian footballer (b. 1950) |
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