Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Carson McCullers |
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Birthdate | February 19, 1917 |
Birth Place | Columbus, GA |
Age (in 2024) | 107 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Novelist |
Carson McCullers is best known as Novelist who has born on February 19, 1917 in Columbus, GA. Currently, Carson McCullers is 107 years, 8 months and 13 days old. Carson McCullers will celebrate 108th birthday on Wednesday, 19th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Carson McCullers upcoming birthday.
An acclaimed twentieth-century American author in the Southern Gothic genre, she is best known for The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) and The Member of the Wedding (1946). Her other works include The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951) and Clock Without Hands (1961).
She left her native Georgia at age seventeen with plans to study piano at the Juilliard School in New York City. However, a bout of rheumatic fever forced her return to the South and re-focused her attention from music to writing.
Reflecting her own tumultuous life, her novels frequently depict characters' lonely inner lives.
She was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia. She had a stormy relationship with her husband, Reeves McCullers; they divorced after he was found forging some of her royalty checks. They remarried in 1945, but their union came to a tragic end (Reeves McCullers killed himself in 1953).
She was inspired by playwright Tennessee Williams to write her popular work, The Member of the Wedding. Both Tennessee Williams and
Carson McCullers is 107 years old today.
Carson McCullers was born on February 19, 1917 in Columbus, GA.
Carson McCullers zodiac sign is Pisces.
Carson McCullers was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Carson McCullers's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1959 | The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960. |
1960 | China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket. |
1963 | The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread. |
1965 | Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm, all Catholics, attempt a coup against the military junta of the Buddhist Nguyễn Khánh. |
1976 | Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417. |
1978 | Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat. |
1985 | William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital. |
1985 | Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148. |
1986 | Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in eastern Sri Lanka. |
1989 | Flying Tiger Line flight 66 crashes into a hill near Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Malaysia, killing four. |
2002 | NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system. |
2003 | An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275. |
2006 | A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners. |
2011 | The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artifacts found in one location, begins in Singapore. |
2012 | Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico. |
1988 | The birth of Seth Morrison, American guitarist |
1989 | The birth of Sone Aluko, Anglo-Nigerian international footballer |
1991 | The birth of Christoph Kramer, German national footballer |
1991 | The birth of Trevor Bayne, American race car driver |
1992 | The birth of Camille Kostek, American model |
1993 | The birth of Mauro Icardi, Argentinian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Victoria Justice, American actress and singer |
1994 | The birth of Sam Lisone, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Tiina Trutsi, Estonian footballer |
1995 | The birth of Nikola Jokić, Serbian basketball player |
1996 | The birth of Mabel, British-Swedish singer |
1998 | The birth of Katharina Gerlach, German tennis player |
2001 | The birth of David Mazouz, American actor |
2001 | The birth of Lee Kang-in, South Korean footballer |
2004 | The birth of Millie Bobby Brown, English actress, model and producer |
2014 | The death of Kresten Bjerre, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1946) |
2014 | The death of Dale Gardner, American captain and astronaut (b. 1948) |
2014 | The death of Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Harold Johnson, American boxer (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Nirad Mohapatra, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of Harris Wittels, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1984) |
2016 | The death of Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and philosopher (b. 1932) |
2016 | The death of Harper Lee, American author (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of Chiaki Morosawa, Japanese anime screenwriter (b. 1959) |
2016 | The death of Samuel Willenberg, Polish-Israeli sculptor and painter (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist (b. 1943) |
2019 | The death of Clark Dimond, American musician and author (b. 1941) |
2019 | The death of Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (b. 1933) |
2020 | The death of José Mojica Marins, Brazilian filmmaker, actor, composer, screenwriter, and television horror host (b. 1936) |
2020 | The death of Pop Smoke, American rapper (b. 1999) |
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