Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Lydia Davis |
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Birthdate | July 15, 1947 |
Birth Place | Massachusetts |
Age (in 2024) | 77 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Novelist |
Lydia Davis is best known as Novelist who has born on July 15, 1947 in Massachusetts. Currently, Lydia Davis is 77 years, 4 months and 6 days old. Lydia Davis will celebrate 78th birthday on Tuesday, 15th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Lydia Davis upcoming birthday.
Known for such acclaimed short story collections as Varieties of Disturbance and Break It Down, she was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award and for the 1986 PEN/Hemingway Award.
She graduated from Barnard College and later taught at both New York University and the State University of New York at Albany.
A poet as well as a fiction writer, she published work in both The Best American Poetry and The Best American Short Stories anthologies.
The daughter of English teachers, she married novelist
She prepared a 2010 English translation of Gustave Flaubert's classic French novel, Madame Bovary.
Lydia Davis is 77 years old today.
Lydia Davis was born on July 15, 1947 in Massachusetts.
Lydia Davis zodiac sign is Cancer.
Lydia Davis was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Lydia Davis's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1975 | Space Race: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. |
1979 | U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech". |
1983 | An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured. |
1996 | A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. |
1998 | Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine. |
2002 | "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. |
2002 | The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life. |
2003 | AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day. |
2006 | Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched. |
2009 | Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168. |
2012 | South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style. |
2014 | A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others. |
2016 | Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup. |
2018 | France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4-2. |
2021 | Three people are killed by a distracted driver in the 2021 Bowburn crash. |
1990 | The birth of Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Damian Lillard, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Tyler Young, American racing driver |
1991 | The birth of Danilo, Brazilian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Derrick Favors, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Evgeny Tishchenko, Russian boxer |
1991 | The birth of Nuria Párrizas DÃaz, Spanish tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Tobias Harris, American basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter |
1993 | The birth of HÃ¥vard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Harrison Rhodes, American racing driver |
1996 | The birth of Vivianne Miedema, Dutch football player |
1997 | The birth of Jil Teichmann, Swiss tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Noah Gragson, American racing driver |
2008 | The birth of Iain Armitage, American child actor |
2013 | The death of Earl Gros, American football player (b. 1940) |
2013 | The death of Noël Lee, Chinese-American pianist and composer (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (b. 1986) |
2013 | The death of John T. Riedl, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1962) |
2014 | The death of Óscar Acosta, Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (b. 1918) |
2014 | The death of Saúl Lara, Spanish footballer (b. 1982) |
2014 | The death of Edward Perl, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Masahiko Aoki, Japanese-American economist and academic (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Wan Li, Chinese politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of Aubrey Morris, British actor (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Martin Landau, American film and television actor (b. 1928) |
2021 | The death of Peter R. de Vries, Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter (b. 1956) |
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