Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Grant Wood |
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Birthdate | February 13, 1891 |
Birth Place | Anamosa, IA |
Age (in 2024) | 133 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Painter |
Grant Wood is best known as Painter who has born on February 13, 1891 in Anamosa, IA. Currently, Grant Wood is 133 years, 8 months and 20 days old. Grant Wood will celebrate 134th birthday on Thursday, 13th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Grant Wood upcoming birthday.
Best known for his iconic painting, 'American Gothic.' He pioneered Regionalism along with John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton. He became the patron artist of Cedar Rapids.
He began studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1913; he traveled to Europe four times between 1920 and 1928, where he was exposed to the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles.
His "American Gothic" was first exhibited by the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930. It would never fall out of the American consciousness, being honored and parodied in countless forms of media.
His father passed away in 1901, after which his family relocated to Cedar Rapids. He grew up with a sister named Nan. He worked as an apprentice at a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, metal shop. He and Sara Sherman Maxon were married from 1935 until 1938.
He and Jean Seberg were both born in Iowa.
Grant Wood is 133 years old today.
Grant Wood was born on February 13, 1891 in Anamosa, IA.
Grant Wood zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Grant Wood was best known as Painter.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Grant Wood's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1983 | A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people. |
1984 | Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
1990 | German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. |
1991 | Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed. |
1996 | The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre). |
2001 | An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944. |
2004 | The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". |
2007 | Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. |
2008 | Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations. |
2010 | A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more. |
2011 | For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855. |
2012 | The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. |
2017 | Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. |
2021 | Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial. |
2021 | A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico. |
1983 | The birth of Mike Nickeas, Canadian baseball player |
1983 | The birth of Anna Watkins, English rower |
1984 | The birth of Hinkelien Schreuder, Dutch swimmer |
1985 | The birth of Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress |
1986 | The birth of Luke Moore, English footballer |
1986 | The birth of Aqib Talib, American football player |
1987 | The birth of Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer |
1988 | The birth of Ryan Goins, American baseball player |
1988 | The birth of Eddy Pettybourne, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player |
1989 | The birth of Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Eliaquim Mangala, French footballer |
1991 | The birth of Junior Roqica, Australian-Fijian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Vianney, French singer |
1994 | The birth of Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer |
2001 | The birth of Kaapo Kakko, Finnish ice hockey player |
2014 | The death of Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Ralph Waite, American actor and activist (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Faith Bandler, Australian activist and author (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Stan Chambers, American journalist and actor (b. 1923) |
2016 | The death of O. N. V. Kurup, Indian poet and academic (b. 1931) |
2016 | The death of Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1936) |
2017 | The death of Ricardo Arias Calderón, Panamanian politician (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Aileen Hernandez, American union organizer and activist (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of Kim Jong-nam, North Korean politician (b. 1971) |
2017 | The death of E-Dubble, American rapper (b. 1982) |
2018 | The death of Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born Danish royal (b. 1934) |
2019 | The death of Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic and politician (b. 1936) |
2021 | The death of Kadir Topbaş, Turkish politician (b. 1945) |
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