Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Robert Conquest |
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Birthdate | July 15, 1917 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 107 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Historian |
Robert Conquest is best known as Historian who has born on July 15, 1917 in England. Currently, Robert Conquest is 107 years, 4 months and 2 days old. Robert Conquest will celebrate 108th birthday on Tuesday, 15th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Robert Conquest upcoming birthday.
A British-American historian and author, he is most famous for The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties (1968). His other scholarly works include Where Marx Went Wrong (1970) and Common Sense About Russia (1960).
He was the son of a British mother and an American father. He attended Magdalen College, Oxford, among other universities, and received advanced degrees in politics, philosophy, economics, and Soviet history.
He was a respected poet and a member of The Movement, a prominent British literary group.
He was divorced three times prior to his 1979 marriage to Elizabeth Neece Wingate.
He criticized philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, among other intellectuals of his time, for turning a blind eye to the violence of Stalin's regime.
Robert Conquest is 107 years old today.
Robert Conquest was born on July 15, 1917 in England.
Robert Conquest zodiac sign is Cancer.
Robert Conquest was best known as Historian.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Robert Conquest's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1975 | Space Race: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. |
1979 | U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech". |
1983 | An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured. |
1996 | A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. |
1998 | Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine. |
2002 | "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. |
2002 | The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life. |
2003 | AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day. |
2006 | Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched. |
2009 | Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168. |
2012 | South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style. |
2014 | A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others. |
2016 | Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup. |
2018 | France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4-2. |
2021 | Three people are killed by a distracted driver in the 2021 Bowburn crash. |
1990 | The birth of Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Damian Lillard, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Tyler Young, American racing driver |
1991 | The birth of Danilo, Brazilian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Derrick Favors, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Evgeny Tishchenko, Russian boxer |
1991 | The birth of Nuria Párrizas DÃaz, Spanish tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Tobias Harris, American basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter |
1993 | The birth of HÃ¥vard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Harrison Rhodes, American racing driver |
1996 | The birth of Vivianne Miedema, Dutch football player |
1997 | The birth of Jil Teichmann, Swiss tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Noah Gragson, American racing driver |
2008 | The birth of Iain Armitage, American child actor |
2013 | The death of Earl Gros, American football player (b. 1940) |
2013 | The death of Noël Lee, Chinese-American pianist and composer (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (b. 1986) |
2013 | The death of John T. Riedl, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1962) |
2014 | The death of Óscar Acosta, Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (b. 1918) |
2014 | The death of Saúl Lara, Spanish footballer (b. 1982) |
2014 | The death of Edward Perl, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Masahiko Aoki, Japanese-American economist and academic (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Wan Li, Chinese politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of Aubrey Morris, British actor (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Martin Landau, American film and television actor (b. 1928) |
2021 | The death of Peter R. de Vries, Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter (b. 1956) |
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