Updated at November 8, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Shirley Bassey |
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Birthdate | January 08, 1937 |
Birth Place | Tiger Bay, Wales |
Age (in 2024) | 87 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Jazz Singer |
Shirley Bassey is best known as Jazz Singer who has born on January 08, 1937 in Tiger Bay, Wales. Currently, Shirley Bassey is 87 years, 10 months and 0 days old. Shirley Bassey will celebrate 88th birthday on Wednesday, 8th of January 2025. Below the countdown to Shirley Bassey upcoming birthday.
Jazz singer who is known for her work on the theme songs for the James Bond movies Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever, and Moonraker.
She was discouraged by school teachers from having such a powerful voice. She left school when she was 14 to sing in public houses.
She has been involved with a lot of charitable works, including a performance on behalf of the Rainforest Foundation Fund.
She married Kenneth Hume in June 1961; after their divorce on February 25, 1965, she married Sergio Novak on August 12, 1968. She has two daughters named Samantha and Sharon and a son named Mark.
She made her first American TV appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in November 1960.
Shirley Bassey is 87 years old today.
Shirley Bassey was born on January 08, 1937 in Tiger Bay, Wales.
Shirley Bassey zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Shirley Bassey was best known as Jazz Singer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Shirley Bassey's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Shirley Bassey's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1994 | Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. |
1996 | An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 people on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed. |
2002 | President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act. |
2003 | Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers. |
2003 | Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board. |
2004 | The RMSÂ Queen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. |
2005 | The nuclear sub USSÂ San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired. |
2009 | A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32. |
2010 | Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three people and injuring another nine. |
2011 | Sitting US Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is shot in the head along with 18 others in a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Giffords survived the assassination attempt, but six others died, including John Roll, a federal judge. |
2016 | JoaquÃn Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico. |
2016 | West Air Sweden Flight 294 crashes near the Swedish reservoir of Akkajaure; both pilots, the only people on board, are killed. |
2020 | Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashes immediately after takeoff at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport; all 176 on board are killed. The plane was shot down by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile. |
2021 | Twenty-three people are killed in what is described as a police ″massacre″ in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela. |
2023 | Supporters of former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian Congress. |
1981 | The birth of Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player |
1982 | The birth of Gaby Hoffmann, American actress |
1982 | The birth of Kim Jong-un, North Korean soldier and politician, 3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea (probable) |
1988 | The birth of Adrián López, Spanish footballer |
1988 | The birth of Michael Mancienne, English footballer |
1988 | The birth of Alex Tyus, American-Israeli basketball player |
1989 | The birth of Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player |
1991 | The birth of Josh Hazlewood, Australian cricketer |
1991 | The birth of Stefan Johansen, Norwegian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Stefan Savić, Montenegrin footballer |
1992 | The birth of Stefanie Dolson, American basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Koke, Spanish footballer |
1993 | The birth of Sophie Pascoe, New Zealand swimmer |
1999 | The birth of Damiano David, Italian singer-songwriter |
2000 | The birth of Noah Cyrus, American singer, songwriter, and actress |
2014 | The death of Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Dutch-Australian swimmer (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Antonino P. Roman, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Andraé Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor (b. 1942) |
2015 | The death of Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 23rd Attorney-General for Australia (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Patsy Garrett, American actress and singer (b. 1921) |
2016 | The death of Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of German Moreno, Filipino television host, actor, comedian and talent manager (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (b. 1925) |
2017 | The death of James Mancham, Seychellois politician, President 1976-77 (b. 1939) |
2017 | The death of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian politician (b. 1934) |
2017 | The death of Peter Sarstedt, Indian-British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941) |
2020 | The death of Pat Dalton, Australian footballer (b. 1942) |
2020 | The death of Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1930) |
2021 | The death of Iancu Țucărman, Romanian Holocaust survivor (b. 1922) |
2022 | The death of Michael Lang, American concert promoter and producer (b. 1944) |
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Wikipedia | Shirley Bassey on Wikipedia |
Website | Shirley Bassey's Webiste |
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