Updated at December 15, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Tomas Transtromer |
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Birthdate | April 15, 1931 |
Birth Place | Sweden |
Age (in 2024) | 93 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Poet |
Tomas Transtromer is best known as Poet who has born on April 15, 1931 in Sweden. Currently, Tomas Transtromer is 93 years, 8 months and 0 days old. Tomas Transtromer will celebrate 94th birthday on Tuesday, 15th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Tomas Transtromer upcoming birthday.
Swedish poet and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient whose well-known poetic works include The Sorrow Gondola, For the Living and the Dead, and Baltics. His friend and fellow poet, Robert Bly, translated many of his poetic works into English.
He published his debut poetry collection, Seventeen Poems, in 1954.
After graduating from Stockholm University, he worked as a psychologist for juvenile criminals.
He was raised in Stockholm, Sweden by a schoolteacher mother. He married Monika Bladh.
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature two years after Herta Muller earned the same honor.
Tomas Transtromer is 93 years old today.
Tomas Transtromer was born on April 15, 1931 in Sweden.
Tomas Transtromer zodiac sign is Aries.
Tomas Transtromer was best known as Poet.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Tomas Transtromer's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1947 | Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line. |
1952 | First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. |
1955 | McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois. |
1960 | At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. |
1969 | The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board. |
1970 | During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam. |
1986 | The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a discotheque bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen. |
1989 | Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans. |
1989 | Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China. |
1994 | Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted. |
2002 | Air China Flight 129 crashes on approach to Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, killing 129 people. |
2013 | Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others. |
2013 | A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people. |
2014 | In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, at least 200 civilians are gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals. |
2019 | The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire. |
1986 | The birth of Sylvain Marveaux, French footballer |
1988 | The birth of Blake Ayshford, Australian rugby league player |
1988 | The birth of Steven Defour, Belgian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Chris Tillman, American baseball pitcher |
1989 | The birth of Darren Nicholls, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Emma Watson, English actress |
1991 | The birth of Daiki Arioka, Japanese idol, singer, and actor |
1991 | The birth of Javier Fernández López, Spanish figure skater |
1992 | The birth of Jeremy McGovern, Australian rules football player |
1994 | The birth of Brodie Grundy, Australian rules football player |
1994 | The birth of Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Bahamian sprinter |
1995 | The birth of Leander Dendoncker, Belgian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Ashleigh Gardner, Australian cricketer |
1999 | The birth of Denis Shapovalov, Canadian tennis player |
2001 | The birth of Shanti Dope, Filipino rapper |
2012 | The death of Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player (b. 1968) |
2013 | The death of Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Richard LeParmentier, American-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1946) |
2013 | The death of Jean-François Paillard, French conductor (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of John Houbolt, American engineer and academic (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Eliseo Verón, Argentinian sociologist and academic (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Jonathan Crombie, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1966) |
2015 | The death of Surya Bahadur Thapa, Nepalese politician, 24th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1928) |
2017 | The death of Clifton James, American actor (b. 1920) |
2017 | The death of Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian, last person verified born in the 1800s (b. 1899) |
2018 | The death of R. Lee Ermey, American actor (b. 1944) |
2018 | The death of Vittorio Taviani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1929) |
2022 | The death of Bilquis Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist and wife of Abdul Sattar Edhi (b. 1947) |
2022 | The death of Henry Plumb, British politician and farmer (b. 1925) |
2022 | The death of Liz Sheridan, American actress (b. 1929) |
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