Frank Dillane

BirthApril 211991

Frank Dillane

Frank Dillane, British actor

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When
Sunday, April 21 199135 years ago
Category
BirthA notable person born on this day. Each links to a person page with their dates and story.
Era
20th century · 1990s
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Person
Frank Dillane

Who they were

Frank Stephenson Dillane is a British actor and musician. He is known for his roles as Nick Clark on Fear the Walking Dead (2015–2018) and 16-year-old Tom Riddle in the film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009). He also appeared as Henry Coffin in the film In the Heart of the Sea (2015). Dillane plays a recurring role in the 2022 gothic romance miniseries The Essex Serpent.

Why this date

Frank Dillane appears on our April 21 calendar for 1991 as a birth entry.

April 21 through the years

Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.

  1. 1987Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
  2. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  3. 1991Frank Dillane
  4. 1993La Paz
  5. 1996Jokela rail accident
  6. 20042004 Basra police station bombings
  7. 2010Kharkiv Pact
  8. 2012Amsterdam Westerpark train collision
  9. 2014Flint, Michigan
  10. 20192019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings
  11. 2021Indonesian Navy

Also in 1991

  • September 9TajikistanTajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
  • September 11Continental Express Flight 2574Continental Express Flight 2574 crashes in Colorado County, Texas, near Eagle Lake, killing 11 passengers and three crew.
  • March 14EscondidaEscondida, one of the most productive copper mines in the world, was officially inaugurated.
  • September 12Space Shuttle DiscoveryNASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-48 to deploy the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
  • September 17EstoniaEstonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
  • September 17LinuxThe first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
  • September 5Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
  • October 201991 Uttarkashi earthquakeAn earthquake struck the Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing at least 768 people and destroying thousands of homes.

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April 21 1991 — 35 years ago, on a Sunday.

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