Full Name: Ian Lancaster Fleming; Profession: English author, journalist, and naval intelligence officer, best known as the creator of the James Bond series of spy novels; Nationality: British (English); Born: 28 May 1908; Birthplace: Mayfair, London, England, United Kingdom; Generation: Greatest Generation (G.I. Generation, broadly defined as people born between 1901 and the mid‑1920s); Chinese Zodiac: Earth Monkey (1908 is identified in Chinese astrology as a Monkey year, specifically the Earth Monkey, covering births from February 2, 1908 to January 21, 1909); Zodiac Sign: Gemini (the Sun transits Gemini approximately May 21–June 21, placing 28 May firmly in Gemini); Age in 2026: 118 years old (hypothetical age if living, derived from 2026 minus his 1908 birth year). Marital Status: Married to British aristocrat and socialite Ann Geraldine Mary Charteris (later Ann Fleming), his third wife, from 1952 until his death; Children: One child, his only son Caspar Robert Fleming (born 12 August 1952 in London and later found dead in 1975), inherited his estate. Description: Ian Fleming was an influential twentieth-century British writer and former Royal Navy intelligence officer whose wartime intelligence experience profoundly shaped his creation of the MI6 agent. James Bond, a character introduced in the novel Casino Royale and subsequently developed through a series of spy thrillers that blended meticulous detail about espionage and geopolitics with escapist glamour, technological gadgetry, and a hard-edged, often morally ambiguous vision of Cold War power politics, and whose adaptations into film formed one of the longest‑running and most commercially successful franchises in cinema history, making both Bond and Fleming global cultural icons; beyond the Bond novels, he wrote journalism, travel and intelligence-themed nonfiction, and the beloved children’s book Chitty‑Chitty‑Bang‑Bang, while his life—marked by privilege, cosmopolitan education, high-society relationships, heavy smoking and drinking, and complex, often turbulent marriage to Ann Charteris—mirrored the mixture of sophistication, danger, and emotional detachment that he gave to his fictional secret agent. Cause of Death: Died on 12 August 1964 at Kent and Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury, Kent, England, from a heart attack/heart disease at the age of 56, after years of heavy smoking and drinking, on the twelfth birthday of his son, Caspar.