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Full Name | EL Doctorow |
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Birthdate | January 06, 1931 |
Birth Place | New York City, NY |
Age (in 2024) | 93 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Novelist |
EL Doctorow is best known as Novelist who has born on January 06, 1931 in New York City, NY. Currently, EL Doctorow is 93 years, 11 months and 11 days old. EL Doctorow will celebrate 94th birthday on Monday, 6th of January 2025. Below the countdown to EL Doctorow upcoming birthday.
An award-winning American author of historical fiction, he is best known for his 1971 novel The Book of Daniel, which focuses on the trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. His equally popular 1975 novel Ragtime was adapted into both a Broadway musical and a film.
He graduated from Kenyon College in 1952 with a degree in philosophy. He was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II and, upon his return to the United States, spent nearly a decade working as a book editor.
He received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.
He was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. He married Helen Esther Setzer in 1953; together, the couple had three children.
He worked with Ayn Rand in an editorial capacity.
EL Doctorow is 93 years old today.
EL Doctorow was born on January 06, 1931 in New York City, NY.
EL Doctorow zodiac sign is Capricorn.
EL Doctorow was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with EL Doctorow's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1974 | In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. |
1989 | Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh are sentenced to death for conspiracy in the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; the two men are executed the same day. |
1992 | President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup. |
1993 | Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol. |
1993 | Four people are killed when Lufthansa CityLine Flight 5634 crashes on approach to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy-en-France, France. |
1994 | U.S. figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and injured by an assailant hired by her rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. |
1995 | A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. |
2000 | The last natural Pyrenean ibex, Celia, is killed by a falling tree, thus making the species extinct. |
2005 | Edgar Ray Killen is indicted for the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner during the American Civil Rights Movement. |
2005 | A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, United States, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas. |
2012 | Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus. |
2017 | Five people are killed and six others injured in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida. |
2019 | Forty people are killed in a gold mine collapse in Badakhshan province, in northern Afghanistan. |
2019 | Muhammad V of Kelantan resigns as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, becoming the first monarch to do so. |
2021 | Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump attack the United States Capitol to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in five deaths and evacuation of the U.S. Congress. |
1982 | The birth of Eddie Redmayne, English actor and model |
1983 | The birth of Adam Burish, American ice hockey player |
1984 | The birth of A. J. Hawk, American football player and analyst |
1984 | The birth of Kate McKinnon, American actress and comedian |
1986 | The birth of Paul McShane, Irish footballer |
1986 | The birth of Petter Northug, Norwegian skier |
1987 | The birth of Bongani Khumalo, South African footballer |
1987 | The birth of Ndamukong Suh, American football player |
1989 | The birth of Andy Carroll, English footballer |
1989 | The birth of Derrick Morgan, American football player |
1991 | The birth of Will Barton, American basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Corey Conners, Canadian professional golfer |
1994 | The birth of Catriona Gray, Filipino-Australian model, singer and beauty queen, Miss Universe 2018 |
1994 | The birth of Jameis Winston, American football player |
2000 | The birth of Kwon Eun-bin, South Korean singer and actress |
2016 | The death of Florence King, American journalist and author (b. 1936) |
2016 | The death of Christy O'Connor Jnr, Irish golfer and architect (b. 1948) |
2016 | The death of Silvana Pampanini, Italian model, actress, and director, Miss Italy 1946 (b. 1925) |
2017 | The death of Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of Om Puri, Indian actor (b. 1950) |
2019 | The death of José Ramón Fernåndez, Cuban revolution leader (b. 1923) |
2019 | The death of Lamin Sanneh, Gambian-born American professor (b. 1942) |
2019 | The death of W. Morgan Sheppard, British actor (b. 1932) |
2019 | The death of Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British economics professor (b. 1917) |
2020 | The death of Richard Maponya, South African businessman (b. 1920) |
2020 | The death of Gordon Renwick, Canadian ice hockey administrator and businessman (b. 1935) |
2021 | The death of James Cross, British diplomat kidnapped during the 1970 October crisis in Québec (b. 1921) |
2022 | The death of Peter Bogdanovich, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1939) |
2022 | The death of Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, director, and diplomat (b. 1927) |
2022 | The death of Francisco Sionil Jose, Philippine novelist (b.1924) |
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