Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | John Kenneth Galbraith |
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Birthdate | October 15, 1908 |
Birth Place | Canada |
Age (in 2024) | 116 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Economist |
John Kenneth Galbraith is best known as Economist who has born on October 15, 1908 in Canada. Currently, John Kenneth Galbraith is 116 years, 1 months and 6 days old. John Kenneth Galbraith will celebrate 117th birthday on Wednesday, 15th of October 2025. Below the countdown to John Kenneth Galbraith upcoming birthday.
Harvard economist who wrote the bestselling trilogy of American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967). He also served as editor of Fortune magazine and had a career as a United States diplomat, serving as U.S. Ambassador to India during John F. Kennedy's presidency.
He studied agricultural economics at the University of Toronto and later received his Ph.D. in the same field from the University of California-Berkeley. During the 1930s, he taught at Harvard University.
He was the 1946 recipient of The Medal of Freedom. Nearly five decades later, he was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He was born in Ontario, Canada to Sarah Catherine Kendall and Archibald Galbraith. He had four sons with his wife, Catherine Merriam Atwater, to whom he was married for nearly seven decades.
He worked as a U.S. diplomat under several Democratic administrations, including that of Harry S. Truman.
John Kenneth Galbraith is 116 years old today.
John Kenneth Galbraith was born on October 15, 1908 in Canada.
John Kenneth Galbraith zodiac sign is Libra.
John Kenneth Galbraith was best known as Economist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with John Kenneth Galbraith's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1987 | A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara. |
1989 | Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL. |
1990 | Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation. |
1991 | The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. |
1991 | The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland. |
1994 | The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island. |
1997 | The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn. |
2001 | NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 180 km of Jupiter's moon Io. |
2003 | China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission. |
2006 | The 6.7 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport. |
2007 | Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids. |
2008 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history. |
2013 | The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed. |
2016 | One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons. |
2018 | 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered. |
1985 | The birth of Marcos Martínez, Spanish racing driver |
1986 | The birth of Lee Donghae, South Korean singer-songwriter |
1986 | The birth of Carlo Janka, Swiss skier |
1986 | The birth of Nolito, Spanish footballer |
1987 | The birth of Ott Tänak, Estonian racing driver |
1988 | The birth of Lassy Mbouity, Congolese writer and politician |
1988 | The birth of Mesut Özil, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of Leandro Antonio Martínez, Argentinian-Italian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Anthony Joshua, British professional boxer |
1990 | The birth of Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer |
1995 | The birth of Jakob Pöltl, Austrian basketball player |
1995 | The birth of Jack Flaherty, American baseball player |
1996 | The birth of Zelo, South Korean rapper and dancer |
1996 | The birth of Charly Musonda, Belgian footballer |
1999 | The birth of Bailee Madison, American actress |
2013 | The death of Gloria Lynne, American singer (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Rudy Minarcin, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Hans Riegel, German businessman (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Giovanni Reale, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic designer (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Robert Tiernan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Nobby Wirkowski, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Sergei Filippenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1971) |
2015 | The death of Nate Huffman, American basketball player (b. 1975) |
2015 | The death of Neill Sheridan, American baseball player (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian businessman and diplomat (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Tyrone Young, American football player (b. 1960) |
2017 | The death of Chinggoy Alonzo, Filipino theater, movie & television actor (b. 1950) |
2018 | The death of Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks (b. 1953) |
2021 | The death of David Amess, British politician, member of Parliament for Southend West (b. 1952) |
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