Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Davis Grubb |
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Birthdate | July 23, 1919 |
Birth Place | West Virginia |
Age (in 2024) | 105 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Novelist |
Davis Grubb is best known as Novelist who has born on July 23, 1919 in West Virginia. Currently, Davis Grubb is 105 years, 3 months and 10 days old. Davis Grubb will celebrate 106th birthday on Wednesday, 23rd of July 2025. Below the countdown to Davis Grubb upcoming birthday.
An American novelist and short fiction writer, he is most known for works such as Twelve Tales of Suspense and the Supernatural (1964) and Fools' Parade (1969). His bestselling 1953 novel, The Night of the Hunter, was a finalist for the National Book Award.
After graduating from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, he worked as a writer for NBC radio.
He gave up painting because he was color blind.
He grew up in West Virginia and moved to New York City during the 1940s. He had a beloved dog named Rowdy Charlie.
Some of his stories were adapted for television by legendary director Alfred Hitchcock.
Davis Grubb is 105 years old today.
Davis Grubb was born on July 23, 1919 in West Virginia.
Davis Grubb zodiac sign is Leo.
Davis Grubb was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Davis Grubb's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1992 | A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender. |
1992 | Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia. |
1993 | China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 crashes during takeoff from Yinchuan Xihuayuan Airport in Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, killing 55 people. |
1995 | Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later. |
1997 | Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel. |
1999 | ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa. |
1999 | Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory. |
2005 | Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people. |
2010 | English-Irish boy band One Direction is formed by judge Simon Cowell on The X Factor (British series 7), later going on to finish at third place. It would go on to become one of the biggest boy bands in the world, and would be very influential on pop music of the 2010s. |
2011 | A high-speed train rear-ends another on a viaduct on the Yongtaiwen railway line in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, resulting in 40 deaths. |
2012 | The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide. |
2014 | TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. Forty-eight of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured. |
2015 | NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler. |
2016 | Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured. |
2018 | A wildfire in East Attica, Greece caused the death of 102 people. It was the deadliest wildfire in history of Greece and the second-deadliest in the world, in the 21st century, after the 2009 bushfires in Australia that killed 180. |
1986 | The birth of Aya Uchida, Japanese voice actress and singer |
1986 | The birth of Nelson Philippe, French race car driver |
1986 | The birth of Yelena Sokolova, Russian long jumper |
1987 | The birth of Alessio Cerci, Italian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Felipe Dylon, Brazilian singer |
1987 | The birth of Serdar KurtuluÅŸ, Turkish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Daniel Radcliffe, English actor |
1989 | The birth of Donald Young, American tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater |
1991 | The birth of Lauren Mitchell, Australian gymnast |
1991 | The birth of Jarrod Wallace, Australian rugby league footballer |
1992 | The birth of Danny Ings, English footballer |
1996 | The birth of Alexandra Andresen, Norwegian heiress and equestrian |
1996 | The birth of David Dobrik, Slovak YouTube personality |
2002 | The birth of Séléna Janicijevic, French tennis player |
2013 | The death of Rona Anderson, Scottish actress (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Pauline Clarke, English author (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of Arthur J. Collingsworth, American diplomat (b. 1944) |
2013 | The death of Dominguinhos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player (b. 1941) |
2013 | The death of Emile Griffith, American boxer and trainer (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Kim Jong-hak, South Korean director and producer (b. 1951) |
2013 | The death of Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Dora Bryan, English actress and restaurateur (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Ariano Suassuna, Brazilian author and playwright (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Jordan Tabor, English footballer (b. 1990) |
2015 | The death of Shigeko Kubota, Japanese-American sculptor and director (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Don Oberdorfer, American journalist, author, and academic (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of William Wakefield Baum, American cardinal (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of John Kundla, American basketball coach (b. 1916) |
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