Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Gordon W. Prange |
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Birthdate | July 16, 1910 |
Birth Place | Iowa |
Age (in 2024) | 114 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Novelist |
Gordon W. Prange is best known as Novelist who has born on July 16, 1910 in Iowa. Currently, Gordon W. Prange is 114 years, 4 months and 5 days old. Gordon W. Prange will celebrate 115th birthday on Wednesday, 16th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Gordon W. Prange upcoming birthday.
The author of popular World War II histories, he is best known for Tora! Tora! Tora!, At Dawn We Slept, and Miracle at Midway. For more than four decades, he taught history at the University of Maryland.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1937. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy.
He studied briefly in Berlin, where he witnessed Hitler's speeches firsthand. From 1945 to 1951, he worked as the chief staff historian for General Douglas MacArthur.
He grew up in Des Moines, Iowa.
Akira Kurosawa was involved in the 1970 film adaptation of Prange's work, Tora! Tora! Tora!
Gordon W. Prange is 114 years old today.
Gordon W. Prange was born on July 16, 1910 in Iowa.
Gordon W. Prange zodiac sign is Cancer.
Gordon W. Prange was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Gordon W. Prange's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1969 | Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida. |
1979 | Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein. |
1983 | Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities. |
1990 | The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac. |
1990 | The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR. |
1994 | The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is destroyed in a head-on collision with Jupiter. |
1999 | John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the aircraft he is piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. |
2004 | Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley. |
2005 | An Antonov An-24 crashes near Baney in Bioko Norte, Equatorial Guinea, killing 60 people. |
2007 | An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant. |
2009 | Teoh Beng Hock, an aide to a politician in Malaysia is found dead on the rooftop of a building adjacent to the offices of the Anti-Corruption Commission, sparking an inquest that gains nationwide attention. |
2013 | As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India. |
2013 | Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn resumes between the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist forces, beginning the Rojava-Islamist conflict. |
2015 | Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee. |
2019 | A 100-year-old building in Mumbai, India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped. |
1984 | The birth of Attila Szabó, Hungarian decathlete |
1985 | The birth of Mārtiņš Kravčenko, Latvian basketball player |
1986 | The birth of Misako Uno, Japanese actress, singer, and fashion designer |
1987 | The birth of Mousa Dembélé, Belgian footballer |
1987 | The birth of AnnaLynne McCord, American actress and producer |
1987 | The birth of Knowshon Moreno, American football player |
1988 | The birth of Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer |
1990 | The birth of Bureta Faraimo, New Zealand rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Wizkid, Nigerian singer and songwriter |
1990 | The birth of Johann Zarco, French motorcycle racer |
1991 | The birth of Dylan Grimes, Australian Rules footballer |
1991 -Nate Schmidt, American ice hockey player[38] | The birth of |
1991 | The birth of Andros Townsend, English footballer |
1996 | The birth of Daniel Pearson, English actor and presenter |
2013 | The death of Talia Castellano, American internet celebrity (b. 1999) |
2013 | The death of Alex Colville, Canadian painter and academic (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Marv Rotblatt, American baseball player (1927) |
2014 | The death of Karl Albrecht, German businessman, co-founded Aldi (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Mary Ellen Otremba, American educator and politician (b. 1950) |
2014 | The death of Johnny Winter, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Heinz Zemanek, Austrian computer scientist and academic (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Denis Avey, English soldier, engineer, and author (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of Evelyn Ebsworth, English chemist and academic (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Jack Goody, English anthropologist, author, and academic (b. 1919) |
2017 | The death of George Romero, American filmmaker (b. 1940) |
2019 | The death of John Paul Stevens, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1920) |
2020 | The death of Tony Taylor, Cuban baseball player (b. 1935) |
2021 | The death of Biz Markie, American rapper (b. 1964) |
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