Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Thomas Hardy |
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Birthdate | June 02, 1840 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 184 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Novelist |
Thomas Hardy is best known as Novelist who has born on June 02, 1840 in England. Currently, Thomas Hardy is 184 years, 5 months and 2 days old. Thomas Hardy will celebrate 185th birthday on Monday, 2nd of June 2025. Below the countdown to Thomas Hardy upcoming birthday.
An important Victorian Realist author, he is remembered for Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, and other novels. Also a significant poet, he published Moments of Vision, Satires of Circumstance, and Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, among other collections.
He was the son of a stonemason and worked for a time as an architect's apprentice before studying at King's College, London.
He dictated a poem to his second wife while he was on his deathbed.
He was married to Emma Lavinia Gifford until her death. Later, he wed Florence Dugdale.
His work influenced the literary development of author D.H. Lawrence.
Thomas Hardy is 184 years old today.
Thomas Hardy was born on June 02, 1840 in England.
Thomas Hardy zodiac sign is Gemini.
Thomas Hardy was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Thomas Hardy's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1953 | The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey becomes the first British coronation and one of the first major international events to be televised. |
1955 | The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between the two countries, discontinued since 1948. |
1962 | During the FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history. |
1964 | The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed. |
1966 | Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world. |
1967 | Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States. |
1967 | Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran are brutally suppressed, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June. |
1979 | Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country. |
1983 | After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place. |
1990 | The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. |
1997 | In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later. |
2003 | Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. |
2012 | Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. |
2014 | Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India, formed from ten districts of northwestern Andhra Pradesh. |
2022 | Following a request from Ankara, the United Nations officially changed the name of the Republic of Turkey in the organization from what was previously known as "Turkey" to "Türkiye." |
1984 | The birth of Jack Afamasaga, New Zealand rugby league player |
1984 | The birth of Feleti Mateo, Australian-Tongan rugby league player |
1985 | The birth of Miyuki Sawashiro, Japanese voice actress and singer |
1987 | The birth of Maryka Holtzhausen, South African netball player |
1987 | The birth of Yoann Huget, French rugby player |
1987 | The birth of Matthew Koma, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1987 | The birth of Angelo Mathews, Sri Lankan cricketer |
1987 | The birth of Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress |
1988 | The birth of Staniliya Stamenova, Bulgarian canoeist |
1989 | The birth of Steve Smith, Australian cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer |
1993 | The birth of Adam Taggart, Australian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Morissette, Filipina singer-songwriter |
1999 | The birth of Campbell Graham, Australian rugby league player |
2002 | The birth of Madison Hu, American actress |
2008 | The death of Mel Ferrer, American actor (b. 1917) |
2009 | The death of David Eddings, American author (b. 1931) |
2012 | The death of Adolfo Calero, Nicaraguan businessman and political activist (b. 1931) |
2012 | The death of Richard Dawson, English-American soldier, actor, television personality, and game show host (b. 1932) |
2012 | The death of LeRoy Ellis, American basketball player (b. 1940) |
2012 | The death of Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939) |
2013 | The death of Mario Bernardi, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Mandawuy Yunupingu, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1956) |
2014 | The death of Ivica Brzić, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Nikolay Khrenkov, Russian bobsledder (b. 1984) |
2014 | The death of Alexander Shulgin, American pharmacologist and chemist (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Fernando de Araújo, East Timorese politician, President of East Timor (b. 1963) |
2015 | The death of Irwin Rose, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of Peter Sallis, English actor (b. 1921) |
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