Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Marshall McLuhan |
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Birthdate | July 21, 1911 |
Birth Place | Edmonton, Canada |
Age (in 2024) | 113 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Novelist |
Marshall McLuhan is best known as Novelist who has born on July 21, 1911 in Edmonton, Canada. Currently, Marshall McLuhan is 113 years, 3 months and 27 days old. Marshall McLuhan will celebrate 114th birthday on Monday, 21st of July 2025. Below the countdown to Marshall McLuhan upcoming birthday.
Canadian academic, communication theory expert, and philosopher who wrote about mass media and predicted the World Wide Web thirty years before its inception. His important publications include The Mechanical Bride (1951), War and Peace in the Global Village (1968), and Understanding Media (1964).
He spent one year studying engineering at the University of Manitoba before changing his major to English. He later pursued graduate studies at the University of Cambridge.
His careful study of the work of theologian G. K. Chesterton spurred his 1937 conversion to Roman Catholicism.
He was born in Alberta, Canada to Elsie Naomi Hall and Herbert Ernest McLuhan. He and his wife, Corinne, became parents to two sons (Eric and Michael) and four daughters (Mary, Teresa, Stephanie, and Elizabeth).
Woody Allen was a vocal supporter of McLuhan's research center.
Marshall McLuhan is 113 years old today.
Marshall McLuhan was born on July 21, 1911 in Edmonton, Canada.
Marshall McLuhan zodiac sign is Cancer.
Marshall McLuhan was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Marshall McLuhan's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1972 | The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130. |
1973 | In Lillehammer, Norway, Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre. |
1976 | Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA. |
1977 | The start of the four-day-long Libyan-Egyptian War. |
1979 | Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. |
1983 | The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at â89.2 °C (â128.6 °F). |
1990 | Taiwan's military police forces mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, causing 25 people to die from suffocation. |
1995 | Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan. |
2001 | At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, HyĆgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect. |
2005 | Four attempted bomb attacks by Islamist extremists disrupt part of London's public transport system. |
2008 | Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first President of Nepal. |
2010 | President Barack Obama signs the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. |
2011 | NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. |
2012 | Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world. |
2019 | Yuen Long attack or "721 incident" in Hong Kong. Triad members indiscriminately beat civilians returning from protests while police failed to take action. |
1987 | The birth of JesĂșs Zavala, Mexican footballer |
1988 | The birth of KB, American rapper |
1988 | The birth of DeAndre Jordan, American basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer (d. 2016) |
1989 | The birth of Marco FabiĂĄn, Mexican footballer |
1989 | The birth of Juno Temple, English actress |
1990 | The birth of Chris Martin, English footballer |
1990 | The birth of Jason Roy, English cricketer |
1990 | The birth of Erislandy SavĂłn, Cuban amateur heavyweight boxer |
1990 | The birth of Franck Elemba, Congolese athlete |
1991 | The birth of Sara Sampaio, Portuguese model |
1992 | The birth of Rachael Flatt, American figure skater |
1996 | The birth of Mikael Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian footballer |
1998 | The birth of Marie Bouzkova, Czech tennis player |
2000 | The birth of Erling Haaland, Norwegian footballer |
2014 | The death of Dan Borislow, American businessman, invented the magicJack (b. 1961) |
2014 | The death of Lettice Curtis, English engineer and pilot (b. 1915) |
2014 | The death of Hans-Peter Kaul, German lawyer and judge (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Rilwanu Lukman, Nigerian engineer and politician (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Kevin Skinner, New Zealand rugby player and boxer (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Robert Broberg, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of E. L. Doctorow, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Nicholas Gonzalez, American physician (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of CzesĆaw Marchaj, Polish-English sailor and academic (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Dick Nanninga, Dutch footballer (b. 1949) |
2016 | The death of Dennis Green, American football player and coach (b. 1949) |
2017 | The death of John Heard, American film and television actor (b. 1946) |
2018 | The death of Alene Duerk, U.S. Navy first female admiral (b. 1920) |
2020 | The death of Annie Ross, Scottish-American singer and actress (b. 1930) |
2020 | The death of Andrew Mlangeni, South African political activist (b. 1925) |
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