David Attenborough

Picture of David Attenborough, Natural World, Wildlife on One, The Green Planet , Life on Earth, The Planet Earth
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Saturday May 8, 1926
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AKA
Sir David Frederick Attenborough
Category
MovieAuthorOthers
Country
United Kingdom
Birth place
Isleworth, Middlesex, England

English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and author, presenter. 

He wrote and presented a series documentaries ( Life collection, The Living Planet,  Planet Earth,  Natural World and others). 

He  was a senior manager at the BBC, served as controller of BBC Two (1965–1969) and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s.

President of the Royal Society for Nature Conservation (1991–1996)

He is the only person to have won BAFTAs in all of the categories black and white, colour, high-definition, 3D and 4K resolutions.

In 2018 and 2019 he received Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Narrator

A key figure in the build up to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26)

A British polar research ship was named RRS Sir David Attenborough in his honour. 

At least 20 species and genera, both living and extinct, have been named in Attenborough's honour.

Find more information about David Attenborough on Wikipedia

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Generation: The Greatest Generation (1901-1927), 2 years to The Silent Generation (1928-1945)
Zodiac sign: Taurus ♉(April 20 - May 20)
Chinese zodiac sign: Tiger
Nr. of Heartbeats: 4,206,297,600
Nr. of Breaths: 854,404,200
Nr. of blinks (with 8 hours of sleep every day): 591,510,600
Hair length (if it was never cut): 1,521 cm or 15.21 meters (49 feet 11.0 inches)
Nail length (if it was never cut): 4,260 mm or 4.26 meters (13 feet 11.7 inches)

Animal Age

How old David Attenborough would be if they were an animal.
Dog
16.9 years
Cat
21.12 years
Turtle
249.22 years
Horse
38.02 years
Cow
28.16 years
Elephant
67.58 years

Planet Age

How old David Attenborough would be if they were born on a different planet
Mercury
415.07 years
Venus
162.5 years
Mars
53.15 years
Jupiter
8.42 years
Saturn
3.39 years

What happened on David Attenborough birthday

Birthdays: Enrique Iglesias, Ian Watkins, Harry S. Truman, Salome Jens, Darren Hayes
Deaths: William Fox, Gustave Flaubert, Jeanne Cooper, Dirk Bogarde, Theodore Sturgeon
Others: Coca-Cola started

 

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