New Zealand-Australian comedian, writer, and satirist (born 1948)

John Clarke

John Morrison Clarke was a New Zealand comedian, writer and satirist who lived and worked in Australia from the late 1970s. He was a highly regarded actor and writer whose work appeared on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in both radio and television and also in print. He is principally known for his character Fred Dagg and his long-running collaboration with fellow satirist Bryan Dawe, which lasted from 1989 to his death in 2017, as well as for his success as a comic actor in Australian and New Zealand film and television.

Born

1948

July 29

Died

2017

Era

1940s

Country

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John, in brief

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Key dates

1948 Born
2017 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

-587 The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple.
615 Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12.
904 Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
923 Battle of Firenzuola: Lombard forces under King Rudolph II and Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, defeat the dethroned Emperor Berengar I of Italy at Firenzuola (Tuscany).

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The world in 1948

When John arrived

april 1 Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.
april 1 Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
april 13 In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
april 16 The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on July 29

Alexis de Tocqueville 1805–1859 French historian and philosopher, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1805) Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 Italian journalist, fascist dictator and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1883) Erich Priebke 1913–2013 German war criminal, leader of the 1944 Ardeatine massacre (died 2013) J. S. Woodsworth 1874– Canadian minister and politician (died 1942) Julie Elliott 1963– English politician Melvin Belli 1907–1996 American lawyer (died 1996) Ronald Murray 1979– American basketball player Sally Gunnell 1966– English hurdler and sportscaster Ted Lindsay 1925– Canadian ice hockey player, manager, and sportscaster (died 2019)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1948

Art Spiegelman 1948– Swedish-American cartoonist and critic Buck Martinez 1948– American baseball player and manager Carl Weathers 1948–2024 American football player and actor (born 1948) Carlos Salinas de Gortari 1948– Mexican economist and politician, 53rd President of Mexico Christopher Guest 1948– British-American actor and director Claude Jade 1948–2006 French actress (born 1948) Cliff Thorburn 1948– Canadian snooker player Davíð Oddsson 1948– Icelandic politician, 21st Prime Minister of Iceland (died 2026) Dayle Haddon 1948– Canadian model and actress (died 2024)

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