Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Robert Fripp |
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Birthdate | May 16, 1946 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 78 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Guitarist |
Robert Fripp is best known as Guitarist who has born on May 16, 1946 in England. Currently, Robert Fripp is 78 years, 6 months and 28 days old. Robert Fripp will celebrate 79th birthday on Friday, 16th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Robert Fripp upcoming birthday.
Lead guitarist of the London progressive rock band King Crimson. He has also been a studio musician for artists like David Bowie.
He responded to an advertisement for a singing organist, despite not being able to do either.
After his first band broke up, he and the drummer from it decided to form King Crimson.
He married Toyah Willcox, a singer and actress, in 1986.
He worked with David Bowie on the album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).
Robert Fripp is 78 years old today.
Robert Fripp was born on May 16, 1946 in England.
Robert Fripp zodiac sign is Taurus.
Robert Fripp was best known as Guitarist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Robert Fripp's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Robert Fripp's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1951 | The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines. |
1959 | The Triton Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for the first time. |
1960 | Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. |
1961 | Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea. |
1966 | The Chinese Communist Party issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. |
1969 | Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus. |
1974 | Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia. |
1975 | Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. |
1988 | A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine. |
1991 | Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress. |
1997 | Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country. |
2003 | In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks. |
2005 | Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote. |
2011 | STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour. |
2014 | Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, Kenya. |
1990 | The birth of Thomas Brodie-Sangster, English actor |
1990 | The birth of Darko Šarović, Serbian sprinter |
1990 | The birth of Omar Strong, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgarian tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Joey Graceffa, American internet celebrity |
1991 | The birth of Ashley Wagner, American figure skater |
1992 | The birth of Jeff Skinner, Canadian ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Kirstin Maldonado, American singer and songwriter |
1993 | The birth of Johannes Thingnes Bø, Norwegian biathlete |
1993 | The birth of Karol Mets, Estonian footballer |
1993 | The birth of IU, Korean singer-songwriter and actress |
1994 | The birth of Kathinka von Deichmann, Liechtenstein tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Elizabeth Ralston, Australian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Louisa Chirico, American tennis player |
2000 | The birth of Luis Garcia, Dominican-American baseball player |
2013 | The death of Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Paul Shane, British actor and comedian (b. 1940) |
2013 | The death of Dick Trickle, American race car driver (b. 1941) |
2013 | The death of Bernard Waber, American author and illustrator (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Chris Duckworth, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Vito Favero, Italian cyclist (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Bud Hollowell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Clyde Snow, American anthropologist and author (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Prashant Bhargava, American director and producer (b. 1973) |
2015 | The death of Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Flora MacNeil, Scottish Gaelic singer (b. 1928) |
2019 | The death of Piet Blauw, Dutch politician (b. 1937) |
2019 | The death of Bob Hawke, Australian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1929) |
2019 | The death of I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (b. 1917) |
2021 | The death of Bruno Covas, Brazilian lawyer, politician (b. 1980) |
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