Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Sandi Toksvig |
---|---|
Birthdate | May 03, 1958 |
Birth Place | Copenhagen, Denmark |
Age (in 2024) | 66 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Comedian |
Sandi Toksvig is best known as Comedian who has born on May 03, 1958 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Currently, Sandi Toksvig is 66 years, 7 months and 10 days old. Sandi Toksvig will celebrate 67th birthday on Saturday, 3rd of May 2025. Below the countdown to Sandi Toksvig upcoming birthday.
Writer and comedian who is the presenter of the BBC Radio 4's News Quiz and Channel 4's quiz show 1001 You Should Know. In 2012 she became the Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth.
She studied acting at Girton College, Cambridge University, where she became a member of the first all-woman show at its student-run theatrical club, the Footlights.
She has been a panelists on numerous comedy shows, and performed stand up on the opening of the Comedy Store in London.
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, she spent much of her childhood in the U.S., before moving to the UK. She married Debie Toksvig in 2014 and she has three children: Jessica, Megan and Theo.
She attended Cambridge at the same time as Hugh Laurie, known to American audiences as Dr. House.
Sandi Toksvig is 66 years old today.
Sandi Toksvig was born on May 03, 1958 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sandi Toksvig zodiac sign is Taurus.
Sandi Toksvig was best known as Comedian.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Sandi Toksvig's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Sandi Toksvig's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
---|---|
1963 | The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the civil rights movement. |
1968 | Eighty-five people are killed when Braniff International Airways Flight 352 crashes near Dawson, Texas. |
1971 | Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989. |
1978 | The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States. |
1979 | Margaret Thatcher wins the United Kingdom general election. The following day, she becomes the first female British Prime Minister. |
1986 | Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka. |
1987 | A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega. |
1999 | The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h). |
1999 | Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in the Kargil War. |
2000 | The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet. |
2001 | The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947. |
2006 | Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people. |
2007 | The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history". |
2015 | Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting. |
2016 | Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a wildfire rips through the community, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings. |
1989 | The birth of Jesse Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player |
1989 | The birth of Katinka Hosszú, Hungarian swimmer |
1990 | The birth of Alexandra Cadanțu-Ignatik, Romanian tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Brooks Koepka, American golfer |
1990 | The birth of James Pattinson, Australian cricketer |
1991 | The birth of Samuel Seo, South Korean musician |
1992 | The birth of Aaron Whitchurch, Australian rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Ivan Bukavshin, Russian chess player (d. 2016) |
1996 | The birth of Mary Cain, American runner |
1996 | The birth of Alex Iwobi, Nigerian football player |
1996 | The birth of Domantas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player |
1997 | The birth of Desiigner, American rapper |
1997 | The birth of Dwayne Haskins, American football player (d. 2022) |
1997 | The birth of Ivana Jorović, Serbian tennis player |
2003 | The birth of Elsa Jacquemot, French tennis player |
2013 | The death of Brad Drewett, Australian tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1958) |
2013 | The death of David Morris Kern, American pharmacist, co-invented Orajel (b. 1909) |
2013 | The death of Curtis Rouse, American football player (b. 1960) |
2013 | The death of Branko Vukelić, Croatian politician, 11th Minister of Defence for Croatia (b. 1958) |
2014 | The death of Gary Becker, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Francisco Icaza, Mexican painter (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Jim Oberstar, American educator and politician (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Revaz Chkheidze, Georgian director and screenwriter (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Danny Jones, Welsh rugby player (b. 1986) |
2015 | The death of Warren Smith, American golfer and coach (b. 1915) |
2016 | The death of Ian Deans, Canadian politician (b. 1937) |
2016 | The death of Jadranka Stojaković, Yugoslav singer-songwriter (b. 1950) |
2017 | The death of Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress, singer and model (b. 1942) |
2020 | The death of Victoria Barbă, Moldovan animated film director (b. 1926) |
2021 | The death of Lloyd Price, an American R&B vocalist (b. 1933) |
Social Media
Sandi Toksvig on Facebook | |
Sandi Toksvig on Twitter | |
Sandi Toksvig on Instagram | |
Youtube | Sandi Toksvig on Youtube |
Tiktok | Sandi Toksvig on Tiktok |
Wikipedia | Sandi Toksvig on Wikipedia |
Website | Sandi Toksvig's Webiste |
Similar Comedian
Month
Professions
Zodiacs
Birthplaces
Today
Copyright © 2020 BirthdayDBs.com