Updated at December 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Richard Carr-gomm |
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Birthdate | January 02, 1922 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 102 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Richard Carr-gomm is best known as Entrepreneur who has born on January 02, 1922 in England. Currently, Richard Carr-gomm is 102 years, 11 months and 21 days old. Richard Carr-gomm will celebrate 103rd birthday on Thursday, 2nd of January 2025. Below the countdown to Richard Carr-gomm upcoming birthday.
British entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Morpeth, Abbeyfield, and Carr-Gomm charities to provide housing and medical resources for people in need.
He received the prestigious Croix de guerre for his World War II service in the British military. He was one of the soldiers who liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
In 1985, he received the honorary title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
He detailed his extraordinary life in a 1979 autobiography entitled Push on the Door.
A London sermon by American preacher Billy Graham inspired Carr-Gomm to abandon his military career in favor of charity work.
Richard Carr-gomm is 102 years old today.
Richard Carr-gomm was born on January 02, 1922 in England.
Richard Carr-gomm zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Richard Carr-gomm was best known as Entrepreneur.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Richard Carr-gomm's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Richard Carr-gomm's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1955 | Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered. |
1959 | Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union. |
1963 | Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory, at the Battle of Ap Bac. |
1967 | Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is sworn in as Governor of California. |
1971 | The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match. |
1974 | United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo. |
1975 | At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. |
1975 | The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. |
1976 | The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage. |
1978 | On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills. |
1981 | One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. |
1988 | Condor Flugdienst Flight 3782 crashes near Seferihisar, Turkey, killing 16 people. |
1991 | Sharon Pratt Dixon becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia. |
1993 | Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35-100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon. |
2004 | Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth. |
1974 | The birth of Tomáš Řepka, Czech footballer |
1975 | The birth of Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby player |
1975 | The birth of Dax Shepard, American actor |
1977 | The birth of Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player and sportscaster |
1977 | The birth of Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player |
1979 | The birth of Jonathan Greening, English footballer |
1981 | The birth of Maxi RodrÃguez, Argentinian footballer |
1983 | The birth of Kate Bosworth, American actress |
1987 | The birth of Robert Milsom, English footballer |
1988 | The birth of Damien Tussac, French-German rugby player |
1992 | The birth of Paulo Gazzaniga, Argentinian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Korbin Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Bryson Tiller, American singer and rapper |
1998 | The birth of Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer |
1999 | The birth of Fernando TatÃs Jr., American baseball player |
2014 | The death of Bernard Glasser, American director and producer (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Elizabeth Jane Howard, English author and screenwriter (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (b. 1929) |
2016 | The death of Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1935) |
2016 | The death of Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Arabian religious leader (b. 1959) |
2016 | The death of Gisela Mota Ocampo, mayor of Temixco, Morelos, Mexico, assassinated (b. 1982) |
2017 | The death of Jean Vuarnet, French ski racer (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (b. 1926) |
2018 | The death of Guida Maria, Portuguese actress (b. 1950) |
2018 | The death of Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader, 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1927) |
2019 | The death of Daryl Dragon, American musician (b. 1942) |
2019 | The death of Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian (b. 1942) |
2019 | The death of Gene Okerlund, American wrestling announcer (b. 1942) |
2022 | The death of Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist and politician (b. 1944) |
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