Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Jimmy Driftwood |
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Birthdate | June 20, 1907 |
Birth Place | Arkansas |
Age (in 2024) | 117 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Folk Singer |
Jimmy Driftwood is best known as Folk Singer who has born on June 20, 1907 in Arkansas. Currently, Jimmy Driftwood is 117 years, 4 months and 14 days old. Jimmy Driftwood will celebrate 118th birthday on Friday, 20th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Jimmy Driftwood upcoming birthday.
American folk music legend who recorded more than 6,000 song during his career, more than 300 of which have been covered by other artists. He won several Grammys, including one for Song of the Year for "The Battle of New Orleans" in 1960.
He learned to play guitar on a homemade instrument given to him by his grandfather. He began a career as a teacher shortly after earning a degree in education from Arkansas State Teacher's College.
He had a total of six songs on the popular and country music singles charts in 1959 alone.
He is the son of folk singer Neil Morris. He married Cleda Johnson in 1936.
His American folk classic "The Battle of New Orleans" was covered by Johnny Horton.
Jimmy Driftwood is 117 years old today.
Jimmy Driftwood was born on June 20, 1907 in Arkansas.
Jimmy Driftwood zodiac sign is Gemini.
Jimmy Driftwood was best known as Folk Singer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Jimmy Driftwood's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Jimmy Driftwood's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1964 | A Curtiss C-46 Commando crashes in the Shengang District of Taiwan, killing 57 people. |
1972 | Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex. |
1973 | Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured. |
1973 | Aeroméxico Flight 229 crashes on approach to Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport, killing all 27 people on board. |
1975 | The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters". |
1979 | ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan National Guard soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle during the Nicaraguan Revolution. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime. |
1982 | The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide opens in Tel Aviv, despite attempts by the Turkish government to cancel it, as it included presentations on the Armenian genocide. |
1982 | The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War. |
1988 | Haitian President Leslie Manigat is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant general Henri Namphy. |
1990 | Asteroid Eureka is discovered. |
1990 | The 7.4 Mw Manjil-Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000-50,000, and injuring 60,000-105,000. |
1991 | The German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital of Berlin. |
1994 | The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured. |
2003 | The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida. |
2019 | Iran's Air Defense Forces shoot down an American surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid rising tensions between the two countries. |
1987 | The birth of Carsten Ball, Australian tennis player |
1987 | The birth of Asmir Begović, Bosnian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Joseph Ebuya, Kenyan runner |
1989 | The birth of Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor |
1989 | The birth of Javier Pastore, Argentinian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Terrelle Pryor, American football player |
1990 | The birth of DeQuan Jones, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Kalidou Koulibaly, Senegalese footballer |
1991 | The birth of Rick ten Voorde, Dutch footballer |
1994 | The birth of Leonard Williams, American football player |
1995 | The birth of Caroline Weir, Scottish footballer |
1995 | The birth of Carol Zhao, Canadian tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Sam Bennett, Canadian ice hockey player |
1997 | The birth of Bálint Kopasz, Hungarian sprint canoeist |
2003 | The birth of Hans Niemann, American chess player |
2004 | The death of Jim Bacon, Australian politician, 41st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1950) |
2005 | The death of Larry Collins, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1929) |
2005 | The death of Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923) |
2010 | The death of Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (b. 1943) |
2010 | The death of Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic (b. 1916) |
2011 | The death of Ryan Dunn, American television personality (b. 1977) |
2012 | The death of Judy Agnew, Second Lady of the United States. (b. 1921) |
2012 | The death of LeRoy Neiman, American painter (b. 1921) |
2012 | The death of Heinrich IV, Prince Reuss of Köstritz (b. 1919) |
2012 | The death of Andrew Sarris, American critic (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of Ingvar Rydell, Swedish footballer (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Angelo Niculescu, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Miriam Schapiro, Canadian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of Prodigy, American music artist (b. 1974) |
2022 | The death of Caleb Swanigan, American NBA player. (b. 1997) |
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