Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | River Phoenix |
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Birthdate | August 23, 1970 |
Birth Place | Madras, OR |
Age (in 2024) | 54 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Movie Actor |
River Phoenix is best known as Movie Actor who has born on August 23, 1970 in Madras, OR. Currently, River Phoenix is 54 years, 2 months and 29 days old. River Phoenix will celebrate 55th birthday on Saturday, 23rd of August 2025. Below the countdown to River Phoenix upcoming birthday.
Former child actor who starred in Stand by Me and earned an Academy Award nomination for his role in Running on Empty. He also played young Indiana Jones in the 1989 blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He tragically died of a drug overdose at the young age of 23.
Growing up, he and his family spent time living with a religious cult called the Children of God. At age ten, he began acting in TV commercials.
His last film was the drama feature Dark Blood. Filming wasn't completed due to his death and the feature remained incomplete for 19 years before it was finally pieced together and shown at the Netherlands Film Festival in September 2012.
His mother, Arlyn Sharon Phoenix, served as the board president of the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding. His siblings are Rain, Joaquin, Liberty, and Summer Phoenix.
He and Ethan Hawke both made their film debuts in the 1985 sci-fi fantasy feature Explorers.
River Phoenix is 54 years old today.
River Phoenix was born on August 23, 1970 in Madras, OR.
River Phoenix zodiac sign is Virgo.
River Phoenix was best known as Movie Actor.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about River Phoenix's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with River Phoenix's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1985 | Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany. |
1989 | Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands. |
1990 | Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War. |
1990 | Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union. |
1990 | West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3. |
1991 | The World Wide Web is opened to the public. |
1994 | Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. |
2000 | Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143. |
2006 | Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil, after eight years of captivity. |
2007 | The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia. |
2010 | The Manila hostage crisis occurred near the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, Philippines killing 9 people including the perpetrator while injuring 9 others. |
2011 | A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington, D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at 200 million-300 million USD. |
2011 | Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War. |
2012 | A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others. |
2013 | A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people. |
1988 | The birth of Olga Govortsova, Belarusian tennis player |
1988 | The birth of Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player |
1988 | The birth of Jeremy Lin, American basketball player |
1989 | The birth of Lianne La Havas, British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist |
1989 | The birth of Trixie Mattel, American drag queen, actor, and country singer |
1989 | The birth of Heiko Schwarz, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of TeddyLoid, Japanese musician |
1990 | The birth of Seth Curry, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Mike Yastrzemski, American baseball player |
1992 | The birth of Nicola Docherty, Scottish footballer |
1993 | The birth of Iván López, Spanish professional footballer |
1994 | The birth of August Ames, Canadian pornographic actress (d. 2017) |
1995 | The birth of Gabriela Lee, Romanian tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Cameron Norrie, British tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Lil Yachty, American rapper and singer |
2013 | The death of Richard J. Corman, American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (b. 1955) |
2013 | The death of William Glasser, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Charles Lisanby, American production designer and set director (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Konstanty Miodowicz, Polish ethnographer and politician (b. 1951) |
2013 | The death of Vesna Rožič, Slovenian chess player (b. 1987) |
2013 | The death of Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist and economist (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1989) |
2014 | The death of Annefleur Kalvenhaar, Dutch cyclist (b. 1994) |
2014 | The death of Birgitta Stenberg, Swedish author and illustrator (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Jaume Vallcorba Plana, Spanish philologist and publisher (b. 1949) |
2015 | The death of Augusta Chiwy, Congolese-Belgian nurse (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Guy Ligier, French rugby player and race car driver (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Enrique Reneau, Honduran footballer (b. 1971) |
2015 | The death of Paul Royle, Australian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1914) |
2021 | The death of Elizabeth Blackadder, Scottish painter and printmaker (b. 1931) |
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