Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | James Gould Cozzens |
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Birthdate | August 19, 1903 |
Birth Place | Chicago, IL |
Age (in 2024) | 121 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Novelist |
James Gould Cozzens is best known as Novelist who has born on August 19, 1903 in Chicago, IL. Currently, James Gould Cozzens is 121 years, 2 months and 14 days old. James Gould Cozzens will celebrate 122nd birthday on Tuesday, 19th of August 2025. Below the countdown to James Gould Cozzens upcoming birthday.
A twentieth-century American novelist, he is known for works such as Guard of Honor and By Love Possessed. Two of his short stories, Total Stranger and a Farewell to Cuba, received the prestigious O. Henry Award.
He published his debut novel, Confusion, while he was a student at Harvard University.
A vocal critic of literary modernism, he once said that he could not read more than ten pages of John Steinbeck without throwing up.
He was born in Chicago, and he grew up in New York City. He married Sylvia Bernice Baumgarten in 1927.
John Updike criticized Cozzens's last novel, Morning, Noon, and Night.
James Gould Cozzens is 121 years old today.
James Gould Cozzens was born on August 19, 1903 in Chicago, IL.
James Gould Cozzens zodiac sign is Leo.
James Gould Cozzens was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with James Gould Cozzens's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1987 | Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide. |
1989 | Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years. |
1989 | Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. |
1991 | Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The August Coup begins when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine. |
1991 | Crown Heights riot begins. |
1999 | In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević. |
2002 | Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers. |
2003 | A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees. |
2003 | Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children. |
2004 | Google Inc. has its initial public offering on Nasdaq. |
2005 | The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins. |
2009 | A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others. |
2010 | Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait. |
2013 | The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar. |
2017 | Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break. |
1986 | The birth of Sotiris Balafas, Greek footballer |
1986 | The birth of Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player |
1986 | The birth of Christina Perri, American singer and songwriter |
1987 | The birth of Nick Driebergen, Dutch swimmer |
1987 | The birth of Nico Hülkenberg, German racing driver |
1988 | The birth of Veronica Roth, American author |
1989 | The birth of Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor |
1990 | The birth of Danny Galbraith, Scottish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Salem Al-Dawsari, Saudi Arabian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete |
1994 | The birth of Fernando Gaviria, Colombian cyclist |
1996 | The birth of Jung Ye-rin, South Korean singer and actress |
1996 | The birth of Lachlan Lewis, Australian rugby league player |
1999 | The birth of Thomas Flegler, Australian rugby league player |
2001 | The birth of Awak Kuier, Finnish basketball player |
2012 | The death of Edmund Skellings, American poet and academic (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1923) |
2013 | The death of Russell S. Doughten, American director and producer (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Abdul Rahim Hatif, Afghan politician, 8th President of Afghanistan (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Donna Hightower, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Samih al-Qasim, Palestinian poet and journalist (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Simin Behbahani, Iranian poet and activist (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of James Foley, American photographer and journalist (b. 1973) |
2014 | The death of Candida Lycett Green, Anglo-Irish journalist and author (b. 1942) |
2015 | The death of George Houser, American minister and activist (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of Sanat Mehta, Indian activist and politician (b. 1935) |
2016 | The death of Jack Riley, American actor and voice artist (b. 1935) |
2017 | The death of Dick Gregory, American comedian, author and activist (b. 1932) |
2019 | The death of Lars Larsen, Danish businessman and billionaire, founder and owner of the Danish retail chain JYSK (b. 1948) |
2021 | The death of Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor (b. 1939) |
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