Updated at December 14, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Samuel Johnson |
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Birthdate | September 18, 1709 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 315 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Non-Fiction Author |
Samuel Johnson is best known as Non-Fiction Author who has born on September 18, 1709 in England. Currently, Samuel Johnson is 315 years, 2 months and 26 days old. Samuel Johnson will celebrate 316th birthday on Thursday, 18th of September 2025. Below the countdown to Samuel Johnson upcoming birthday.
Remembered for his biographies, literary criticism, essays, reference works, and poems, this significant eighteenth-century English writer is most well known for his 1755 work A Dictionary of the English Language and his 1765 annotated version of The Plays of William Shakespeare.
After briefly studying at Pembroke College, Oxford, he began writing for a London publication called The Gentleman's Magazine. His early literary works include a play titled Irene and a biographical work called Life of Mr. Richard Savage.
His well-documented repertoire of physical tics has led modern physicians to believe that the writer suffered from Tourette syndrome.
The son of Sarah Ford and bookseller Michael Johnson, he spent his youth in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. In 1735, he married Elizabeth "Tetty" Jervis Porter, a widow twenty years his senior.
He is the subject of Scottish author James Boswell's acclaimed 1791 biography The Life of Samuel Johnson.
Samuel Johnson is 315 years old today.
Samuel Johnson was born on September 18, 1709 in England.
Samuel Johnson zodiac sign is Virgo.
Samuel Johnson was best known as Non-Fiction Author.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Samuel Johnson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1984 | Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic. |
1988 | The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end. |
1988 | General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril. |
1990 | Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations. |
1992 | An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada. |
1997 | United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations. |
1997 | The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted. |
2001 | First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. |
2007 | Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution. |
2011 | The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet. |
2012 | Greater Manchester Police officers PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone are murdered in a gun and grenade ambush attack in Greater Manchester, England. |
2014 | Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%. |
2015 | Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar. |
2016 | The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers. |
2021 | A ferry capsizes in Guizhou province, China due to bad weather, killing ten people and five missing. |
1980 | The birth of Petri Virtanen, Finnish basketball player |
1981 | The birth of Jennifer Tisdale, American actress and singer |
1981 | The birth of Kristaps Valters, Latvian basketball player |
1981 | The birth of Han Ye-seul, South Korean actress |
1982 | The birth of Alessandro Cibocchi, Italian footballer |
1982 | The birth of Arvydas Eitutavičius, Lithuanian basketball player |
1982 | The birth of Leono, Mexican wrestler |
1982 | The birth of Alfredo Talavera, Mexican footballer |
1984 | The birth of Anthony Gonzalez, American football player and politician |
1984 | The birth of Dizzee Rascal, British hip hop musician |
1987 | The birth of Seiko Oomori, Japanese singer-songwriter |
1989 | The birth of Serge Ibaka, Congolese-Spanish basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Lewis Holtby, German footballer |
1998 | The birth of Christian Pulisic, American soccer player |
2003 | The birth of Ana Galindo, Mexican rhythmic gymnast |
2013 | The death of Arthur Lamothe, French-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of Ken Norton, American boxer (b. 1943) |
2013 | The death of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-German author and critic (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Richard C. Sarafian, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Milan Marcetta, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Earl Ross, Canadian racing driver (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Hirofumi Uzawa, Japanese economist and academic (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Kenny Wheeler, Canadian-English trumpet player and composer (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean footballer and manager (b. 1955) |
2015 | The death of James R. Houck, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Mario Benjamín Menéndez, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, Pakistani writer, poet, translator and playwright (b. 1937) |
2020 | The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court justice (b. 1933) |
2021 | The death of Jolidee Matongo, South African politician, 97th Mayor of Johannesburg (b. 1975) |
2021 | The death of Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish road bicycle racer (b. 1984) |
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