Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Ken Darby |
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Birthdate | May 13, 1909 |
Birth Place | Nebraska |
Age (in 2024) | 115 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Composer |
Ken Darby is best known as Composer who has born on May 13, 1909 in Nebraska. Currently, Ken Darby is 115 years, 5 months and 20 days old. Ken Darby will celebrate 116th birthday on Tuesday, 13th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Ken Darby upcoming birthday.
Three-time Academy Award co-winner for The King and I from 1956, South Pacific from 1958, and Porgy and Bess from 1959. His choral group, The Ken Darby Singers, provided the backup vocals for Bing Crosby's original 1942 White Christmas recording.
He provided the vocals for the Mayor of Munchkinland in the classic The Wizard of Oz from 1939.
He wrote The Brownstone House of Nero Wolfe in 1983 as an outgrowth of his passion for author Rex Stout's legendary detective.
He signed over the rights for composition to the Elvis Presley hit "Love Me Tender" to his wife Vera Matson.
He was Marilyn Monroe's vocal coach on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes from 1953 and There's No Business Like Show Business from 1954.
Ken Darby is 115 years old today.
Ken Darby was born on May 13, 1909 in Nebraska.
Ken Darby zodiac sign is Taurus.
Ken Darby was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Ken Darby's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1981 | Mehmet Ali AÄca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives. |
1985 | Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents. |
1989 | Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike. |
1990 | The Dinamo-Red Star riot took place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade). |
1992 | Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China. |
1995 | Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas. |
1996 | Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people. |
1998 | Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped. |
1998 | India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India. |
2005 | Andijan uprising, Uzbekistan; Troops open fire on crowds of protestors after a prison break; at least 187 people were killed according to official estimates. |
2006 | SĂŁo Paulo violence: Rebellions occur in several prisons in Brazil. |
2011 | Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others. |
2012 | Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40. |
2013 | American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted abortions, involuntary manslaughter of a woman during an abortion procedure, and other charges. |
2014 | An explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest Turkey kills 301 miners. |
1990 | The birth of Mychal Givens, American baseball player |
1991 | The birth of Jen Beattie, Scottish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Anders Fannemel, Norwegian ski jumper |
1992 | The birth of Bill Arnold, American ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Willson Contreras, Venezuelan baseball player |
1992 | The birth of Josh Papalii, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Georgina GarcĂa PĂ©rez, Spanish tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Stefan Kraft, Austrian ski jumper |
1993 | The birth of Debby Ryan, American actress and singer |
1993 | The birth of Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Siim-Tanel Sammelselg, Estonian ski jumper |
1993 | The birth of Tones and I, Australian singer-songwriter |
1993 | The birth of Morgan Wallen, American singer-songwriter |
1994 | The birth of Ćukasz Moneta, Polish footballer |
1997 | The birth of Reimis Smith, Australian rugby league player |
2013 | The death of Lynne Woolstencroft, Canadian politician (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher and author (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish director and producer (b. 1977) |
2014 | The death of J. F. Coleman, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918) |
2014 | The death of Ron Stevens, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, American occultist and author (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of Earl Averill, Jr., American baseball player (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Robert Drasnin, American clarinet player and composer (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Nina Otkalenko, Russian runner (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of David Sackett, American-Canadian physician and academic (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Gainan Saidkhuzhin, Russian cyclist (b. 1937) |
2018 | The death of Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress (b. 1948) |
2019 | The death of Doris Day, American singer and actress (b. 1922) |
2019 | The death of Unita Blackwell, American civil rights activist and politician (b. 1933) |
2022 | The death of Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 2nd President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1948) |
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