Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Harry Crews |
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Birthdate | June 07, 1935 |
Birth Place | Georgia |
Age (in 2024) | 89 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Novelist |
Harry Crews is best known as Novelist who has born on June 07, 1935 in Georgia. Currently, Harry Crews is 89 years, 5 months and 14 days old. Harry Crews will celebrate 90th birthday on Saturday, 7th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Harry Crews upcoming birthday.
An American novelist and playwright, he wrote the 1968 novel The Gospel Singer and also published columns and essays in Esquire magazine. His other literary works include The Mulching of America, A Feast of Snakes, and The Gypsy's Curse.
He served in the U.S. Marines during the Korean War.
He had a tattoo on his arm that featured a line from an E.E. Cummings poem.
He grew up in Georgia and briefly attended the University of Florida. With his wife, Sally, he had a son named Patrick.
He had a brief role in The Indian Runner, a film directed by Sean Penn.
Harry Crews is 89 years old today.
Harry Crews was born on June 07, 1935 in Georgia.
Harry Crews zodiac sign is Gemini.
Harry Crews was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Harry Crews's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1948 | Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state. |
1955 | Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films. |
1962 | The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books. |
1965 | The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples. |
1967 | Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem. |
1971 | The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
1971 | The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades. |
1975 | Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format. |
1977 | Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television. |
1981 | The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. |
1982 | Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits. |
1989 | Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard. |
1991 | Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3Â mi) high. |
2000 | The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon. |
2017 | A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard. |
1960 | The birth of Bill Prady, American screenwriter and producer |
1965 | The birth of Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector |
1965 | The birth of Mick Foley, American professional wrestler and author |
1967 | The birth of Dave Navarro, American musician |
1970 | The birth of Cafu, Brazilian footballer |
1974 | The birth of Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host |
1975 | The birth of Allen Iverson, American basketball player |
1978 | The birth of Bill Hader, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter |
1981 | The birth of Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player |
1988 | The birth of Michael Cera, Canadian actor and musician |
1990 | The birth of Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and model |
1991 | The birth of Fetty Wap, American rapper, singer, and songwriter |
1991 | The birth of Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress |
1993 | The birth of George Ezra, English singer-songwriter |
1996 | The birth of Christian McCaffrey, American football player |
1970 | The death of E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (b. 1879) |
1978 | The death of Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) |
1980 | The death of Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (b. 1883) |
1980 | The death of Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (b. 1913) |
1980 | The death of Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (b. 1891) |
1985 | The death of Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (b. 1906) |
1987 | The death of Cahit ZarifoÄŸlu, Turkish poet and author (b. 1940) |
1992 | The death of Bill France Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (b. 1909) |
1995 | The death of Hsuan Hua, Chinese monk and educator (b. 1918) |
2001 | The death of VÃctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (b. 1907) |
2001 | The death of Betty Neels, English nurse and author (b. 1910) |
2002 | The death of Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress (b. 1915) |
2012 | The death of Phillip V. Tobias, South African paleontologist and academic (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922) |
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