As per our current Database, Eric Clapton is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Eric Clapton is 79 years, 8 months and 22 days old. Eric Clapton will celebrate 80rd birthday on a Sunday 30th of March 2025. Below we countdown to Eric Clapton upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Eric Clapton |
| Occupation | Guitarist |
| Age | 79 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Aries |
| Born | March 30, 1945 (Ripley, England) |
| Birthday | March 30 |
| Town/City | Ripley, England |
| Nationality | England |
Eric Clapton’s zodiac sign is Aries. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.
Eric Clapton was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Musician, singer, and Songwriter who is widely considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time. He was a member of The Yardbirds, Derek and the Dominos, and Cream, and also found success as a solo Artist.
His family deceived him as a child, leading him to believe that his mother was his older sister and his grandmother was his mother.
He got the nickname Slowhand because he played the guitar with such ferocity that his strings would break and as he replaced them onstage, the audience would slowly clap their hands.
He married Pattie Boyd on March 27, 1979 and, after their divorce in June 1988, he married Melia McEnery on January 1, 2002. His only son, Conor, tragically died at the age of four and a half when he fell out a bathroom window, inspiring the lyrics to Clapton's song "Tears in Heaven." Clapton also has four daughters named Julie, Ruth, Sophie and Ella.
He collaborated with Bob Dylan on the 1976 album No Reason to Cry.
