Seattle-based coffee chain Starbucks has seen expansion on a large scale in recent years, tripling from around seven thousand stores in 2003 to more than 21 thousand in 2014. As of May 2014, the United States, with 11,563 locations, had the largest number of Starbucks stores in the world by far.
Confidence votes 319K. According to several sources Sir Ian Mckellen was knighted in 1991 for services to the performing arts. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1979 and also a Companion of Honour at the 2008 awards.
(Refer to website for later developments) 1  Ian Murray McKellen was born at 20.30 Greenwich Mean Time, on 25 May 1939, in the general hospital of Burnley, the northern English mill town where his father Denis Murray was a civil engineer. He and Margery Lois (nee Sutcliffe) already had a five-year-old daughter Jean.