Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Nelson Algren |
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Birthdate | March 28, 1909 |
Birth Place | Michigan |
Age (in 2024) | 115 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nelson Algren is best known as Novelist who has born on March 28, 1909 in Michigan. Currently, Nelson Algren is 115 years, 7 months and 24 days old. Nelson Algren will celebrate 116th birthday on Friday, 28th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Nelson Algren upcoming birthday.
Author who wrote The Man with the Golden Arm, for which he won the National Book Award. His other successful works include Chicago, City on the Make (1951) and A Walk on the Wild Side (1956).
He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in journalism and subsequently worked for a local paper. He published his debut novel, Somebody in Boots, in 1935.
He was a three-time O Henry Award winner for his short stories "A Bottle of Milk for Mother," "The Captain is Impaled," and "The Brother's House."
He wed his second wife, Betty Ann Jones, in 1965. Previously, he had been married to Amanda Kontowicz. He also had an affair with existentialist author Simone de Beauvoir.
He, like Anne Lindbergh , was a National Book Award winner.
Nelson Algren is 115 years old today.
Nelson Algren was born on March 28, 1909 in Michigan.
Nelson Algren zodiac sign is Aries.
Nelson Algren was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Nelson Algren's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1959 | The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet. |
1965 | An Mw⯠7.4 earthquake in Chile sets off a series of tailings dam failures, burying the town of El Cobre and killing at least 500 people. |
1968 | Brazilian high school student Edson LuĂs de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a student protest. |
1969 | Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece. |
1970 | An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring at least 1,200. |
1978 | The US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity. |
1979 | A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown. |
1979 | The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by 1 vote, precipitating a general election. |
1990 | United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal. |
1994 | In South Africa, African National Congress security guards kill dozens of Inkatha Freedom Party protesters. |
1999 | Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill at least 130 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica. |
2001 | Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos begins operation. |
2003 | In a friendly fire incident, two American A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing one soldier. |
2005 | An earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a magnitude of 8.6 and killing over 1000 people. |
2006 | At least one million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law. |
1988 | The birth of Ryan Kalish, American baseball player |
1989 | The birth of Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer |
1989 | The birth of Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater |
1990 | The birth of Delroy Edwards, American musician |
1990 | The birth of Laura Harrier, American actress and model |
1991 | The birth of Jordan McRae, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Lisa-Maria Moser, Austrian tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Marie-Philip Poulin, Canadian ice hockey player |
1991 | The birth of OndĆej PalĂĄt, Czech ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Sergi GĂłmez, Spanish footballer |
1995 | The birth of Jonathan Drouin, Canadian ice hockey player |
1996 | The birth of Matt Renshaw, English-Australian cricketer |
1998 | The birth of Lance Morris, Australian cricketer |
2001 | The birth of Xiyu Wang, Chinese tennis player |
2004 | The birth of Anna Shcherbakova, Russian figure skater |
2012 | The death of Harry Crews, American novelist (b. 1935) |
2012 | The death of Addie L. Wyatt, African American labor leader (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of George E. P. Box, English-American statistician and educator (b. 1919) |
2013 | The death of Richard Griffiths, English actor (b. 1947) |
2013 | The death of Hugh McCracken, American guitarist, harmonica player, and producer (b. 1942) |
2013 | The death of Bob Teague, American college football star and television news-reporter (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Gus Triandos, American baseball player and scout (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Lorenzo Semple, Jr., American screenwriter and producer (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Chuck Brayton, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Joseph Cassidy, Canadian-English priest and academic (b. 1954) |
2015 | The death of Miroslav OndĆĂÄek, Czech cinematographer (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Gene Saks, American actor and director (b. 1921) |
2016 | The death of James Noble, American actor (b. 1922) |
2021 | The death of Didier Ratsiraka, Malagasy politician and naval officer (b. 1936) |
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