Updated at November 22, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Richard Todd |
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Birthdate | June 11, 1919 |
Birth Place | Ireland |
Age (in 2024) | 105 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Movie Actor |
Richard Todd is best known as Movie Actor who has born on June 11, 1919 in Ireland. Currently, Richard Todd is 105 years, 5 months and 11 days old. Richard Todd will celebrate 106th birthday on Wednesday, 11th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Richard Todd upcoming birthday.
Remembered for his work on both stage and screen, he rose to fame after starring as Yank in the London stage production of The Hasty Heart and subsequently earned an Oscar nomination for his reprisal of the role in the 1948 Warner Brothers adaptation of the play.
He began his professional acting career at London's Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, performing in a mid 1930s production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
He participated in the D-Day landings of 1944 as a captain in the British 6th Airborne Division. He later appeared in The Longest Day, a war movie depicting the historic event; interestingly, he did not play himself (though he was a character in the film), but rather portrayed Major John Howard.
The son of doctor and professional rugby player Andrew William Palethorpe Todd, Richard Todd spent his youth in Ireland, India, and England. Through marriages to Catherine Grant-Bogle and Virginia Mailer and a relationship with Patricia Nelson, he fathered four sons and one daughter.
Todd was the original choice for the James Bond role in the 1962 film Dr. No; however, scheduling difficulties resulted in the re-casting of Sean Connery.
Richard Todd is 105 years old today.
Richard Todd was born on June 11, 1919 in Ireland.
Richard Todd zodiac sign is Gemini.
Richard Todd was best known as Movie Actor.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Richard Todd's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1970 | After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first women to do so. |
1971 | The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control. |
1978 | Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University. |
1981 | A magnitude 6.9 earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000. |
1987 | Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain. |
1998 | Compaq Computer pays US$9Â billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition. |
2001 | Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. |
2002 | Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress. |
2004 | Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe. |
2007 | Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people. |
2008 | Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school. |
2008 | The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit. |
2010 | The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa. |
2012 | More than 80 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried. |
2013 | Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would open exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras. |
1986 | The birth of Sebastian Bayer, German long jumper |
1986 | The birth of Shia LaBeouf, American actor |
1987 | The birth of Marsel Ä°lhan, Turkish tennis player |
1987 | The birth of Didrik Solli-Tangen, Norwegian singer |
1988 | The birth of Jesús Fernández Collado, Spanish footballer |
1988 | The birth of Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress, voice actress, singer-songwriter, model, radio host |
1989 | The birth of Maya Moore, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Christophe Lemaitre, French sprinter |
1991 | The birth of Daniel Howell, English YouTuber |
1993 | The birth of Brittany Boyd, American basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress |
1996 | The birth of Ayaka Sasaki, Japanese singer |
1998 | The birth of Charlie Tahan, American actor |
1999 | The birth of Eartha Cumings, Scottish footballer |
2004 | The birth of Katrina Scott, American tennis player |
2013 | The death of Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Ruby Dee, American actress (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Susan B. Horwitz, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic (b. 1955) |
2014 | The death of Mipham Chokyi Lodro, Tibetan lama and educator (b. 1952) |
2014 | The death of Benjamin Mophatlane, South African businessman (b. 1973) |
2014 | The death of Carlton Sherwood, American soldier and journalist (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of Jim Ed Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Ian McKechnie, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Ron Moody, English actor and singer (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Dusty Rhodes, American wrestler (b. 1945) |
2016 | The death of Rudi Altig, German track and road racing cyclist (b. 1937) |
2020 | The death of Stella Pevsner, children's author (b. 1921) |
2022 | The death of Hilary Devey, English businesswoman, television presenter (b. 1957) |
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