Peter Fluck

Peter Fluck, English puppet maker and illustrator

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Born: April 7, 1941
Age in 2026: 85
Zodiac sign: Aries
Birth year: 1941

About Peter Fluck

Peter Nigel Fluck (born 7 April 1941) is a British caricaturist and one half of the partnership known as Luck and Flaw (with Roger Law), creators of the popular satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image. He attended Cambridgeshire High School for Boys, a grammar school, and then Cambridge School of Art (now part of Anglia Ruskin University). Fluck taught art in the 1970s at the Colchester School of Art in Colchester, Essex. After Spitting Image finished its run, he moved to Cornwall to work as an artist. He married Anne-Cécile de Bruyne in 1963 in Cambridge. They have a daughter and a son. He lives in Cadgwith, Cornwall.

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The world when Peter Fluck was born

Peter Fluck was born in 1941. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1941

#1 song"Chattanooga Choo Choo" – Glenn Miller
Top movieCitizen Kane
Best-selling bookThe Keys of the Kingdom – A.J. Cronin

Headlines and milestones

Major sports momentJoe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak
Top headlineJapan bombs Pearl Harbor — United States enters World War II
Technology milestoneFirst commercial television broadcasts (CBS, NBC)
Defining fadVictory gardens
Notable inventionAerosol spray can
World population2.30 billion

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderFranklin D. Roosevelt
Sports championNew York Yankees (World Series)
U.S. population133.4M

1941 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Peter Fluck's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure	1941	2026
Gas	$0.19	$3.45/gal
Average home	$5,500	$435,000
Average income	$3,400	$67,500
Minimum wage	$0.30	$7.25/hr (federal)
Movie ticket	$0.25	$11.95
Postage stamp	$0.03	$0.73
Population	133.4M	341 million

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