Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Doc Watson |
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Birthdate | March 03, 1923 |
Birth Place | Deep Gap, NC |
Age (in 2024) | 101 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Folk Singer |
Doc Watson is best known as Folk Singer who has born on March 03, 1923 in Deep Gap, NC. Currently, Doc Watson is 101 years, 9 months and 0 days old. Doc Watson will celebrate 102nd birthday on Monday, 3rd of March 2025. Below the countdown to Doc Watson upcoming birthday.
Folk singer, guitarist, and songwriter who won seven Grammy Awards and had success with the single "Bottle of Wine."
He lost his vision as an infant due to an eye infection. His first guitar was a $10 Stella guitar.
He was known for flat-picking, and performing with his son Merle until he died.
He married Rosa Lee Carlton in 1947 and they had two children together.
Watson collaborated with many people, including David Holt.
Doc Watson is 101 years old today.
Doc Watson was born on March 03, 1923 in Deep Gap, NC.
Doc Watson zodiac sign is Pisces.
Doc Watson was best known as Folk Singer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Doc Watson's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Doc Watson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1958 | Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time. |
1969 | Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module. |
1972 | Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures. |
1974 | Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard. |
1980 | The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register. |
1985 | Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures. |
1985 | A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless. |
1986 | The Australia Act 1986 commences, causing Australia to become fully independent from the United Kingdom. |
1991 | An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. |
1991 | United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on its final approach to Colorado Springs killing everyone on board. |
2005 | James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. This is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion. |
2005 | Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling. |
2005 | Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006, where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur. |
2013 | A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominantly Shia Muslim area. |
2017 | The Nintendo Switch releases worldwide. |
1988 | The birth of Jan-Arie van der Heijden, Dutch footballer |
1988 | The birth of Max Waller, English cricketer |
1989 | The birth of Erwin Mulder, Dutch footballer |
1990 | The birth of Vladimir Janković, Greek-Serbian basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Anri Sakaguchi, Japanese actress |
1991 | The birth of Cho-rong, South Korean singer |
1993 | The birth of Gabriela Cé, Brazilian tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Josef Dostál, Czech kayaker |
1993 | The birth of James Roberts, Australian rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Umika Kawashima, Japanese singer and actress |
1995 | The birth of Maine Mendoza, Filipina actress |
1996 | The birth of Cameron Johnson, American basketball player |
1996 | The birth of Andile Phehlukwayo, South African cricketer |
1997 | The birth of Camila Cabello, Cuban-American singer |
1998 | The birth of Jayson Tatum, American basketball player |
2014 | The death of William R. Pogue, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Ernest Braun, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of M. Stanton Evans, American journalist and author (b. 1934) |
2016 | The death of Hayabusa, Japanese wrestler (b. 1968) |
2016 | The death of Berta Cáceres, Honduran environmentalist (b. 1973) |
2016 | The death of Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1962) |
2016 | The death of Thanat Khoman, Thai politician and diplomat, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1914) |
2016 | The death of Sarah Tait, Australian Olympic rower (b. 1983) |
2017 | The death of René Préval, Haitian politician (b. 1943) |
2018 | The death of Roger Bannister, English middle-distance athlete, first man to run a four-minute mile (b. 1929) |
2018 | The death of Mal Bryce, Australian politician (b. 1943) |
2018 | The death of Vanessa Goodwin, Australian politician (b. 1969) |
2018 | The death of David Ogden Stiers, American actor, voice actor and musician (b. 1942) |
2019 | The death of Peter Hurford OBE, British organist and composer (b. 1930) |
2020 | The death of Charles J. Urstadt, American real estate executive and investor (b. 1928) |
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Wikipedia | Doc Watson on Wikipedia |
Website | Doc Watson's Webiste |
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