Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Robert Stephenson |
---|---|
Birthdate | October 16, 1803 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 221 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Engineer |
Robert Stephenson is best known as Engineer who has born on October 16, 1803 in England. Currently, Robert Stephenson is 221 years, 1 months and 5 days old. Robert Stephenson will celebrate 222nd birthday on Thursday, 16th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Robert Stephenson upcoming birthday.
Railway pioneer who is widely considered one of the most important engineers of the nineteenth century. He was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Institution of Civil Engineers.
He attended Edinburgh University and worked as a mining engineer in Colombia for three years.
He designed Montreal's Victoria Bridge, which became the longest bridge in the world.
His father is George Stephenson, who built the first public railway for steam engines.
He and Isambard Kingdom Brunel are both famous railway engineers.
Robert Stephenson is 221 years old today.
Robert Stephenson was born on October 16, 1803 in England.
Robert Stephenson zodiac sign is Libra.
Robert Stephenson was best known as Engineer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Robert Stephenson'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 Stephenson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
---|---|
1973 | Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
1975 | Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, in Portuguese Timor. |
1975 | Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox. |
1975 | The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget. |
1978 | Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523. |
1984 | Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
1985 | The Finnish dry cargo ship MS Hanna-Marjut, on its way from Mariehamn to Naantali, sank in hard sea on the open water of Kihti between the Kökar and Sottunga islands of Åland, leading to the drowning of four people. |
1991 | George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20. |
1995 | The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend. |
1995 | The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened. |
1996 | Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City. |
1998 | Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant. |
2002 | The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria. |
2013 | Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people. |
2017 | Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss. |
1985 | The birth of Peter Wallace, Australian rugby league player |
1986 | The birth of Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer |
1986 | The birth of Derk Boerrigter, Dutch footballer |
1988 | The birth of Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player |
1991 | The birth of Shardul Thakur, Indian cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Kostas Fortounis, Greek footballer |
1992 | The birth of Bryce Harper, American baseball player |
1992 | The birth of Stuart Lightbody, Irish badminton player |
1992 | The birth of Viktorija Golubic, Swiss tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Jovit Baldivino, Filipino singer and actor (d. 2022) |
1993 | The birth of Caroline Garcia, French tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player |
1997 | The birth of Charles Leclerc, Monégasque Formula One driver |
1997 | The birth of Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player |
2013 | The death of Saggy Tahir, Pakistani-American lawyer and politician (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Allen Forte, American musicologist and theorist (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Seppo Kuusela, Finnish basketball player and coach (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Richard J. Cardamone, American lawyer and judge (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of James W. Fowler, American psychologist and academic (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of William James, Australian general and physician (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Memduh Ün, Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb, Canadian professor and computer scientist (b. 1921) |
2017 | The death of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist and blogger (b. 1964) |
2017 | The death of Roy Dotrice, British actor (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of John Dunsworth, Canadian actor (b. 1946) |
2017 | The death of Sean Hughes, British-born Irish stand-up comedian (b. 1965) |
Social Media
Robert Stephenson on Facebook | |
Robert Stephenson on Twitter | |
Robert Stephenson on Instagram | |
Youtube | Robert Stephenson on Youtube |
Tiktok | Robert Stephenson on Tiktok |
Wikipedia | Robert Stephenson on Wikipedia |
Website | Robert Stephenson's Webiste |
Similar Engineer
Month
Professions
Zodiacs
Birthplaces
Today
Copyright © 2020 BirthdayDBs.com