Updated at November 14, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Harold Bell Wright |
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Birthdate | May 04, 1872 |
Birth Place | New York |
Age (in 2024) | 152 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Novelist |
Harold Bell Wright is best known as Novelist who has born on May 04, 1872 in New York. Currently, Harold Bell Wright is 152 years, 6 months and 10 days old. Harold Bell Wright will celebrate 153rd birthday on Sunday, 4th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Harold Bell Wright upcoming birthday.
The first American writer to make a million dollars from fiction writing, he is known for such works as That Printer of Udell's, The Shepherd of the Hills, and Exit. Five of his novels were bestsellers.
He made a living in his teens as an artist and painter of houses. He later attended Hiram College and became a minister in a Disciples of Christ Church in Missouri.
He wrote nineteen books during his lifetime.
He was the New York-born son of a former Civil War soldier. He married Frances Long-Wright; together, they had three children.
His novel, The Shepherd of the Hills, was made into a film starring John Wayne.
Harold Bell Wright is 152 years old today.
Harold Bell Wright was born on May 04, 1872 in New York.
Harold Bell Wright zodiac sign is Taurus.
Harold Bell Wright was best known as Novelist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Harold Bell Wright's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Harold Bell Wright's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1972 | The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation". |
1973 | The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building. |
1978 | The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people. |
1979 | Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
1982 | Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War. |
1988 | The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire. |
1989 | Iran-Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal. |
1990 | Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union. |
1994 | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. |
1998 | A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty. |
2000 | Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London). |
2002 | One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a plane crash near Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Nigeria. |
2007 | Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale. |
2014 | Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya. |
2019 | The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural season's champion. |
1989 | The birth of Henna Lindholm, Finnish figure skater |
1989 | The birth of Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer |
1989 | The birth of Aris Tatarounis, Greek basketball player |
1989 | The birth of James van Riemsdyk, American ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Irina Falconi, American tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Ryan Morgan, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Duvashen Padayachee, Australian race car driver |
1990 | The birth of Andrea Torres, Filipino actress and model |
1991 | The birth of Brianne Jenner, Canadian women's ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Victor Oladipo, American basketball player |
1993 | The birth of Jānis Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Abi Masatora, Japanese sumo wrestler |
1994 | The birth of Joseph Tapine, New Zealand rugby league player |
1996 | The birth of Pelayo Roza, Spanish sprint canoeist |
1997 | The birth of Max King, Australian rugby league player |
2013 | The death of Morgan Morgan-Giles, English admiral and politician (b. 1914) |
2013 | The death of César Portillo de la Luz, Cuban guitarist and composer (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Dick Ayers, American author and illustrator (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (b. 1983) |
2014 | The death of Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Helga Königsdorf, German physicist and author (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Ross Lonsberry, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1947) |
2014 | The death of Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Central African politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of William Bast, American screenwriter and author (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (b. 1913) |
2015 | The death of Marv Hubbard, American football player (b. 1946) |
2016 | The death of Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, Burundian politician (b. 1946) |
2020 | The death of Don Shula, American football player and coach (b. 1930) |
2020 | The death of Greg Zanis, American carpenter and activist (b. 1950) |
2021 | The death of Nick Kamen, English model, songwriter (b. 1962) |
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