Updated at December 15, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Irvin S. Cobb |
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Birthdate | June 23, 1876 |
Birth Place | Paducah, KY |
Age (in 2024) | 148 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Journalist |
Irvin S. Cobb is best known as Journalist who has born on June 23, 1876 in Paducah, KY. Currently, Irvin S. Cobb is 148 years, 5 months and 22 days old. Irvin S. Cobb will celebrate 149th birthday on Monday, 23rd of June 2025. Below the countdown to Irvin S. Cobb upcoming birthday.
A prolific journalist and short story writer, he is known for humorous works such as Old Judge Priest (1915) and Speaking of Operations (1916). His popular short story, The Woman Accused, was adapted into a film starring Cary Grant.
He began his journalistic career at age seventeen with the Paducah Daily News in his native Kentucky. He later wrote articles on World War I for the Saturday Evening Post.
His short stories, Judge Priest (1934) and The Sun Shines Bright (1953), were adapted into films by John Ford.
He married Laura Spencer Baker in 1900. His daughter, Elisabeth Cobb, described her relationship with him in her 1945 memoir, My Wayward Parent.
He dabbled in horror writing; two of his works in this genre, written in 1911 and 1923, inspired some of H.P. Lovecraft's better-known works.
Irvin S. Cobb is 148 years old today.
Irvin S. Cobb was born on June 23, 1876 in Paducah, KY.
Irvin S. Cobb zodiac sign is Cancer.
Irvin S. Cobb was best known as Journalist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Irvin S. Cobb's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1969 | IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry. |
1972 | Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about illegally using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins. |
1972 | Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds. |
1973 | A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale. |
1985 | A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard. |
1991 | Sonic the Hedgehog is released in North America on the Sega Genesis platform, beginning the popular video game franchise. |
1994 | NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center. |
2001 | The 8.4 Mw  southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured. |
2012 | Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials. |
2013 | Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope. |
2013 | Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, killing ten climbers and a local guide. |
2014 | The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction. |
2016 | The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%. |
2017 | A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others. |
2018 | Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation. |
1988 | The birth of Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast |
1989 | The birth of Lisa Carrington, New Zealand flatwater canoeist |
1989 | The birth of Jordan Nolan, Canadian ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Clevid Dikamona, French footballer |
1990 | The birth of Vasek Pospisil, Canadian tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Laura RÃ fols, Spanish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Katie Armiger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1992 | The birth of Luiza Galiulina, Uzbekistani gymnast |
1992 | The birth of Nampalys Mendy, French footballer |
1993 | The birth of Tim Anderson, American baseball player |
1993 | The birth of Marvin Grumann, German footballer |
1994 | The birth of Ben Dwarshuis, Australian cricketer |
2000 | The birth of Starford To'a, New Zealand rugby league player |
2007 | The birth of Elliana Walmsley, American dancer |
2008 | The birth of Lilliana Ketchman, American dancer and YouTuber |
2013 | The death of Bobby Bland, American singer-songwriter (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Gary David Goldberg, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1944) |
2013 | The death of Frank Kelso, American admiral and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Kurt Leichtweiss, German mathematician and academic (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Darryl Read, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (b. 1951) |
2013 | The death of Sharon Stouder, American swimmer (b. 1948) |
2014 | The death of Nancy Garden, American author (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Euros Lewis, Welsh cricketer (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Paula Kent Meehan, American businesswoman, co-founded Redken (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Miguel Facussé Barjum, Honduran businessman (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Nirmala Joshi, Indian nun, lawyer, and social worker (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Dick Van Patten, American actor (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Ralph Stanley, American singer and banjo player (b. 1927) |
2021 | The death of John McAfee, British-American computer programmer and businessman, founded McAfee (b. 1945) |
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