Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Sarah Dunant |
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Birthdate | August 08, 1950 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 74 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Novelist |
Sarah Dunant is best known as Novelist who has born on August 08, 1950 in England. Currently, Sarah Dunant is 74 years, 3 months and 15 days old. Sarah Dunant will celebrate 75th birthday on Friday, 8th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Sarah Dunant upcoming birthday.
Known for such novels as The Birth of Venus and Mapping the Edge, this British writer was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for her 2009 work Sacred Hearts and won the Silver Dagger Award for her 1993 crime novel Fatlands.
After graduating from Newnham College, Cambridge with a degree in history, she worked briefly for the BBC and then traveled throughout Asia and Central and South America. She published her first (co-written) novel, Exterminating Angels, in 1984.
Her 2013 historical novel, Blood and Beauty, focuses on the Italian Borgia dynasty.
A native of London, England, she completed her early education at The Godolphin and Latymer School.
She was born in the same year as fellow British novelist Patrick McGrath.
Sarah Dunant is 74 years old today.
Sarah Dunant was born on August 08, 1950 in England.
Sarah Dunant zodiac sign is Leo.
Sarah Dunant was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Sarah Dunant's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1990 | Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward. |
1991 | The Warsaw radio mast, then the tallest construction ever built, collapses. |
1993 | The 7.8 Mw  Guam earthquake shakes the island with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing around $250 million in damage and injuring up to 71 people. |
1998 | Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is raided by Taliban leading to the deaths of ten Iranian diplomats and a journalist. |
2000 | Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence. |
2001 | Albanian rebels ambush a convoy of the Army of the Republic of Macedonia near Tetovo, killing 10 soldiers. |
2004 | A tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band dumps approximately 800 pounds of human waste onto a boat full of passengers. |
2007 | An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889. |
2008 | A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others. |
2008 | The 29th modern summer Olympic Games took place in Beijing, China until August 24. |
2010 | China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people. |
2013 | A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people. |
2015 | Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas. |
2016 | Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others. |
2022 | The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executes a raid on former president Donald Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida. |
1989 | The birth of Ken Baumann, American actor and author |
1989 | The birth of Anthony Rizzo, American baseball player |
1989 | The birth of Hannah Miley, English-Scottish swimmer |
1989 | The birth of Prajakta Mali, Indian actress |
1990 | The birth of VladimÃr Darida, Czech footballer |
1990 | The birth of Parker Kligerman, American race car driver |
1990 | The birth of Aleksandra Szwed, Polish actress and singer |
1990 | The birth of Kane Williamson, New Zealand cricket captain |
1991 | The birth of Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer |
1991 | The birth of Tyrone Peachey, Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Josip Drmić, Swiss footballer |
1992 | The birth of Casey Cott, American actor |
1998 | The birth of Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1998 | The birth of Ryan Garcia, American boxer |
2000 | The birth of Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player |
2013 | The death of Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (b. 1985) |
2013 | The death of Regina Resnik, American soprano and actress (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Charles Keating, English-American actor (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Leonardo Legaspi, Filipino archbishop (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer and conductor (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Red Wilson, American football and baseball player (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Sean Price, American rapper (b. 1972) |
2015 | The death of Gus Mortson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1925) |
2017 | The death of Glen Campbell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1936) |
2018 | The death of Nicholas Bett, Kenyan track and field athlete (b. 1990) |
2020 | The death of Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Colombian football player and manager (b. 1929) |
2020 | The death of Alfredo Lim, former Philippine senator and Mayor of Manila (b. 1929) |
2021 | The death of Bill Davis, Canadian politician, 18th premier of Ontario (b. 1929) |
2022 | The death of Olivia Newton-John, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1948) |
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