Updated at December 22, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Ridley Scott |
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Birthdate | November 30, 1937 |
Birth Place | Tyne and Wear, England |
Age (in 2024) | 87 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Director |
Ridley Scott is best known as Director who has born on November 30, 1937 in Tyne and Wear, England. Currently, Ridley Scott is 87 years, 0 months and 22 days old. Ridley Scott will celebrate 88th birthday on Sunday, 30th of November 2025. Below the countdown to Ridley Scott upcoming birthday.
Longtime director known for such films as the sci-fi horror Alien, the cult classic Blade Runner and the Academy Award winning historical drama Gladiator.
As a student at the Royal College of Art, he wrote for the school's magazine, ARK, and helped establish the college's film program. His first film, The Duellists, was a big hit at Cannes film festival in 1977, winning the Best Debut Film Award and receiving a nomination for the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or.
He earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director for Thelma & Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down.
He was previously married to Felicity Heywood and Sandy Watson. He has three children: Jordan, Jake and Luke.
He and his brother Tony Scott served as executive producers for the CBS drama series The Good Wife.
Ridley Scott is 87 years old today.
Ridley Scott was born on November 30, 1937 in Tyne and Wear, England.
Ridley Scott zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Ridley Scott was best known as Director.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Ridley Scott's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Ridley Scott's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1971 | Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah. |
1972 | Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000. |
1981 | Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.) |
1995 | Official end of Operation Desert Storm. |
1995 | U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favor of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall; he calls IRA fighters "yesterday's men". |
1999 | Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7Â billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company. |
1999 | In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies. |
1999 | British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world. |
2000 | NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission. |
2004 | Lion Air Flight 538 overshoots the runway while landing at Adisumarmo International Airport and crashes, killing 25 people. |
2005 | John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York. |
2012 | An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aéro-Service, crashes into houses near Maya-Maya Airport during a thunderstorm, killing at least 32 people. |
2018 | A magnitude 7.1 earthquake with its epicenter only 24Â km from Anchorage, Alaska causes significant property damage but no deaths. |
2021 | Barbados becomes a republic. |
2021 | A 15-year-old gunman murders four students and injures seven people, including a teacher, in a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan. |
1985 | The birth of Hikari Mitsushima, Japanese actress and singer |
1985 | The birth of Chrissy Teigen, American model |
1986 | The birth of Jordan Farmar, American basketball player |
1986 | The birth of Evgenia Linetskaya, Israeli tennis player |
1987 | The birth of Vasilisa Bardina, Russian tennis player |
1987 | The birth of Naomi Knight, American wrestler, model, and dancer |
1987 | The birth of Dougie Poynter, English singer-songwriter and bass player |
1988 | The birth of Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (d. 2014) |
1988 | The birth of Vitaliy Polyanskyi, Ukrainian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Tomi Saarelma, Finnish footballer |
1989 | The birth of VladimÃr Weiss, Slovak footballer |
1990 | The birth of Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player |
1990 | The birth of Antoine N'Gossan, Ivorian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Agnatius Paasi, Tongan rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Sofia Araújo, Portuguese tennis player |
2015 | The death of PÃo Caro Baroja, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Minas Hatzisavvas, Greek actor and screenwriter (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of Marcus Klingberg, Polish-Israeli physician and biologist (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan sociologist and author (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Eldar Ryazanov, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Nigel Buxton, British travel writer and wine critic (b. 1924) |
2017 | The death of Jim Nabors, American actor and comedian (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Surin Pitsuwan, Thai politician and diplomat (b. 1949) |
2017 | The death of Marina Popovich, Soviet pilot, engineer and military officer (b. 1931) |
2017 | The death of Alfie Curtis, British actor (b. 1930) |
2018 | The death of George H. W. Bush, American politician, 41st President of the United States (b. 1924) |
2020 | The death of Irina Antonova, Russian art historian (b. 1922) |
2022 | The death of Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) and President of China (b. 1926) |
2022 | The death of Christine McVie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (b. 1943) |
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