Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Robert Elegant |
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Birthdate | March 07, 1928 |
Birth Place | New York |
Age (in 2024) | 96 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Non-Fiction Author |
Robert Elegant is best known as Non-Fiction Author who has born on March 07, 1928 in New York. Currently, Robert Elegant is 96 years, 8 months and 10 days old. Robert Elegant will celebrate 97th birthday on Friday, 7th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Robert Elegant upcoming birthday.
An American-born journalist and writer of both fiction and non-fiction, he is known for works such as China's Red Masters and A Kind of Treason. Many of his works are set in Asia; his 2005 novel, Cry Peace, takes place during the Korean War.
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, he received a diploma in the Chinese language from Yale University and subsequently traveled to Asia, where he worked as a journalist for many years.
He received an Edgar Allan Poe Special Award for his 1966 novel, A Kind of Treason.
He was born in New York; after traveling throughout Asia, he lived in both England and Italy. He married Ursula Rosemary Righter in 2003. Previously, he had been married to artist Moira Clarissa Brady, with whom he had two children.
He and Peter Arnett both studied at Harvard University.
Robert Elegant is 96 years old today.
Robert Elegant was born on March 07, 1928 in New York.
Robert Elegant zodiac sign is Pisces.
Robert Elegant was best known as Non-Fiction Author.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Robert Elegant's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1951 | Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces. |
1951 | Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, inside a mosque in Tehran. |
1965 | Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. |
1967 | The Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesia's provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate as President of Indonesia. |
1968 | Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho. |
1971 | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka. |
1986 | Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor. |
1987 | Lieyu massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen. |
1989 | Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. |
1993 | The tugboat Thomas Hebert sank off the coast of New Jersey, USA. |
2006 | The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India. |
2007 | Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. |
2007 | Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people. |
2009 | The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles. |
2021 | At least 105 die and 600 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea. |
1984 | The birth of Lindsay McCaul, American singer-songwriter |
1985 | The birth of Andre Fluellen, American football player |
1985 | The birth of Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer |
1985 | The birth of Gerwyn Price, Welsh darts player |
1986 | The birth of Ben Griffin, Australian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer |
1987 | The birth of Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player |
1988 | The birth of Larry Asante, American football player |
1991 | The birth of Michele Rigione, Italian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Chase Kalisz, American swimmer |
1994 | The birth of Jordan Pickford, English footballer |
1995 | The birth of Jerome Binnom-Williams, English footballer |
1995 | The birth of Aboubakar Kamara, French footballer |
1996 | The birth of Liam Donnelly, Northern Irish footballer |
1998 | The birth of Amanda Gorman, American poet and activist |
2012 | The death of Ravi, Indian director and composer (b. 1926) |
2012 | The death of Włodzimierz Smolarek, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1957) |
2013 | The death of Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947) |
2013 | The death of Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922) |
2013 | The death of Frederick B. Karl, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Claude King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov, Russian actor and director (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Victor Shem-Tov, Israeli lawyer and politician, 8th Israeli Minister of Health (b. 1915) |
2015 | The death of G. Karthikeyan, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1949) |
2015 | The death of F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1935) |
2016 | The death of Adrian Hardiman, Irish lawyer and judge (b. 1951) |
2016 | The death of Leonard Berney, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberator (b. 1920) |
2017 | The death of Lynne Stewart, American attorney and activist (b. 1939) |
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