Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Walter Scott |
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Birthdate | August 15, 1771 |
Birth Place | Scotland |
Age (in 2024) | 253 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Poet |
Walter Scott is best known as Poet who has born on August 15, 1771 in Scotland. Currently, Walter Scott is 253 years, 3 months and 27 days old. Walter Scott will celebrate 254th birthday on Friday, 15th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Walter Scott upcoming birthday.
Scottish romantic author and poet whose popular literary works include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, and The Lady of the Lake. He was also active in the Scottish Tory party and served as President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
He began attending the University of Edinburgh at the age of twelve. After studying law in the early 1790s, he published one of his first works of poetry, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, in 1805.
He suffered from a limp as the result of a childhood polio infection.
He wed Charlotte Genevieve Charpentier in 1797. The couple became parents to five children.
He attended a literary salon at the age of fifteen and met the renowned poet, Robert Burns.
Walter Scott is 253 years old today.
Walter Scott was born on August 15, 1771 in Scotland.
Walter Scott zodiac sign is Leo.
Walter Scott was best known as Poet.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Walter Scott's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1984 | The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish Armed Forces with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh. |
1985 | Signing of the Assam Accord, an agreement between representatives of the Government of India and the leaders of the Assam Movement to end the movement. |
1995 | In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later). |
1995 | Tomiichi Murayama, Prime Minister of Japan, releases the Murayama Statement, which formally expresses remorse for Japanese war crimes committed during World War II. |
1998 | Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured. |
1998 | Apple introduces the iMac computer. |
1999 | Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco. |
2005 | Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins. |
2005 | The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending almost three decades of fighting. |
2007 | An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090. |
2013 | At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video. |
2013 | The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years. |
2015 | North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 8.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1⁄2 hours ahead of UTC. |
2020 | Russia begins production on the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine. |
2021 | Kabul falls into the hands of the Taliban as Ashraf Ghani flees Afghanistan along with local residents and foreign nationals, effectively reestablishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. |
1988 | The birth of Oussama Assaidi, Moroccan footballer |
1989 | The birth of Joe Jonas, American singer-songwriter |
1989 | The birth of Ryan McGowan, Australian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Carlos PenaVega, American actor and singer |
1989 | The birth of Jordan Rapana, New Zealand rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Jennifer Lawrence, American actress |
1991 | The birth of Petja Piiroinen, Finnish snowboarder |
1992 | The birth of Baskaran Adhiban, Indian chess player |
1993 | The birth of Rieah Holder, Barbadian netball player |
1993 | The birth of Clinton N'Jie, Cameroonian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, English footballer |
1994 | The birth of Lasse Vigen Christensen, Danish footballer |
1994 | The birth of Kosuke Hagino, Japanese swimmer |
1995 | The birth of Chief Keef, American rapper |
1999 | The birth of Paola Reis, BMX rider |
2008 | The death of Jerry Wexler, American journalist and producer (b. 1917) |
2011 | The death of Rick Rypien, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1984) |
2012 | The death of Bob Birch, American bass player and saxophonist (b. 1956) |
2012 | The death of Altamiro Carrilho, Brazilian flute player and composer (b. 1924) |
2012 | The death of Harry Harrison, American author and illustrator (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Rosalía Mera, Spanish businesswoman, co-founded Inditex and Zara (b. 1944) |
2013 | The death of Sławomir Mrożek, Polish-French author and playwright (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Marich Man Singh Shrestha, Nepali politician, 28th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1942) |
2013 | The death of August Schellenberg, Canadian actor (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano and actress (b. 1909) |
2015 | The death of Julian Bond, American academic, leader of the civil rights movement, and politician (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Hamid Gul, Pakistani general (b. 1936) |
2017 | The death of Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian-American architect (b. 1925) |
2020 | The death of Robert Trump, American real-estate developer, business executive (b. 1948) |
2021 | The death of Gerd Müller, German footballer (b. 1945) |
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Wikipedia | Walter Scott on Wikipedia |
Website | Walter Scott's Webiste |
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