English actor

Asa Butterfield

Asa Bopp Farr Butterfield is an English actor. Beginning his career as a child actor, Butterfield first achieved recognition as the lead of the historical drama film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008). He continued to headline films during the 2010s, starring in the adventure drama Hugo (2011), the science-fiction film Ender's Game (2013), the drama X+Y (2014), the fantasy Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and the romantic science-fiction The Space Between Us (2017). From 2019 to 2023, Butterfield portrayed the lead of the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education.

Born

1997

April 1

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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1997 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

285 Roman emperor Diocletian names Maximian his co-emperor ("Augustus").
527 Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
1081 Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and, after his troops spend three days extensively looting Constantinople, is formally crowned on April 4.
1572 In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.

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The world in 1997

When Asa arrived

april 1 Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
april 13 Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
april 14 Pai Hsiao-yen, daughter of Taiwanese artiste Pai Bing-bing, is kidnapped on her way to school, preceding her murder.
april 29 The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on April 1

Anamaria Marinca 1978– Romanian-English actress Beth Tweddle 1985– English gymnast Bijou Phillips 1980– American actress and model David Gower 1957– English cricketer and sportscaster Ferenc Puskás 1927–2006 Hungarian footballer and manager (died 2006) Gil Scott-Heron 1949–2011 American singer-songwriter and author (died 2011) Hazem El Masri 1976– Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and educator James Fisk 1834– American businessman (died 1872) Lon Chaney 1883–1930 American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1930)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1997

Arike Ogunbowale 1997– American basketball player Ashleigh Gardner 1997– Australian cricketer Brittany Broski 1997– American comedian and singer Cha Eun-woo 1997– South Korean singer, actor, and model Daniel Sprong 1997– Dutch ice hockey player Duncan Scott 1997– Scottish swimmer Greyson Chance 1997– American musician Holly Taylor 1997– Canadian-American actress Keira Walsh 1997– English footballer

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