Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Raymond Briggs |
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Birthdate | January 18, 1934 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 90 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Cartoonist |
Raymond Briggs is best known as Cartoonist who has born on January 18, 1934 in England. Currently, Raymond Briggs is 90 years, 9 months and 15 days old. Raymond Briggs will celebrate 91st birthday on Saturday, 18th of January 2025. Below the countdown to Raymond Briggs upcoming birthday.
English cartoonist and illustrator who is best known in Britain for his popular book The Snowman, which is picture book that was adapted into a televised musical.
He studied painting at the Wimbledon School of Art from 1949 until 1953 and studied typography at the Central School of Art.
He won the 1966 and 1973 Kate Greenaway Medals from the British Library Association and was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1984.
He was born to Ethel and Ernest Briggs and was married to his wife, Jean, until her death in 1973.
Mel Smith voiced the character of Father Christmas in the special 20th anniversary introduction to the animated film version of his book The Snowman.
Raymond Briggs is 90 years old today.
Raymond Briggs was born on January 18, 1934 in England.
Raymond Briggs zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Raymond Briggs was best known as Cartoonist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Raymond Briggs's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1977 | SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
1978 | The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. |
1981 | Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs). |
1983 | The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family. |
1988 | China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 crashes near Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, killing all 98 passengers and 10 crew members. |
1990 | Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting. |
1993 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states. |
2002 | The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over. |
2003 | A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia. |
2005 | The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France |
2007 | The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Cyclone Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. |
2008 | The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
2018 | A bus catches fire on the Samara-Shymkent road in Yrgyz District, Aktobe, Kazakhstan. The fire kills 52 passengers, with three passengers and two drivers escaping. |
2019 | An oil pipeline explosion near Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, kills 137 people. |
2023 | A helicopter crash in Ukraine leaves 14 people dead, including the country's Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrsky. |
1990 | The birth of Brett Lawrie, Canadian baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Gift Ngoepe, South African baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Zeeko Zaki, Egyptian-born American actor |
1991 | The birth of Diego Simões, Brazilian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Francesco Bardi, Italian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Sean Keenan, Australian actor |
1994 | The birth of Max Fried, American baseball player |
1994 | The birth of Kang Ji-young, South Korean singer |
1994 | The birth of Ilona Kremen, Belarusian tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Bryce Alford, American basketball player |
1995 | The birth of Leonard Fournette, American football player |
1998 | The birth of Aitana Bonmatí, Spanish footballer |
1999 | The birth of Tee Higgins, American football player |
1999 | The birth of Mateus Ward, American actor |
2002 | The birth of Anastasia Zakharova, Russian tennis player |
2015 | The death of Piet van der Sanden, Dutch journalist and politician (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Tony Verna, American director and producer, invented instant replay (b. 1933) |
2016 | The death of Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1948) |
2016 | The death of T. S. Sinnathuray, Judge of the High Court of Singapore (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Michel Tournier, French journalist and author (b. 1924) |
2017 | The death of Peter Abrahams, South African-Jamaican writer (b. 1919) |
2017 | The death of David P. Buckson, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Delaware (b. 1920) |
2017 | The death of Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer, businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1939) |
2017 | The death of Roberta Peters, American coloratura soprano (b. 1930) |
2019 | The death of John Coughlin, American figure skater (b. 1985) |
2022 | The death of Francisco Gento, Spanish football player (b. 1933) |
2022 | The death of Yvette Mimieux, American actress (b. 1942) |
2022 | The death of André Leon Talley, American fashion journalist (b. 1948) |
2023 | The death of David Crosby, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941) |
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