Updated at September 7, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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Birthdate | August 29, 1809 |
Birth Place | Cambridge, MA |
Age (in 2024) | 215 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Novelist |
Oliver Wendell Holmes is best known as Novelist who has born on August 29, 1809 in Cambridge, MA. Currently, Oliver Wendell Holmes is 215 years, 0 months and 9 days old. Oliver Wendell Holmes will celebrate 216th birthday on Friday, 29th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Oliver Wendell Holmes upcoming birthday.
A nineteenth-century physician, teacher, and author, he is famous for his Breakfast-Table prose series, as well as for his 1830 poem, 'Old Ironsides.' He was one of the famous Fireside Poets, a group that included William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and James Russell Lowell.
He graduated from Harvard Medical School and subsequently taught at both his alma mater and at Dartmouth College.
He published numerous literary works in The Atlantic Monthly, a publication that he helped establish.
He married Amelia Lee Jackson in 1840.
He and Ralph Waldo Emerson were literary contemporaries.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is 215 years old today.
Oliver Wendell Holmes was born on August 29, 1809 in Cambridge, MA.
Oliver Wendell Holmes zodiac sign is Virgo.
Oliver Wendell Holmes was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Oliver Wendell Holmes's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1975 | El Tacnazo: Peruvian Prime Minister Francisco Morales BermĂșdez carries out a coup dâĂ©tat in the city of Tacna, forcing the sitting President of Peru, Juan Velasco Alvarado, to resign and assuming his place as the new President. |
1982 | The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft fĂŒr Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany. |
1987 | Odaeyang mass suicide: 33 individuals linked to a religious cult are found dead in the attic of a cafeteria in Yongin, South Korea. Investigators attribute their deaths to a murder-suicide pact. |
1991 | Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party. |
1991 | Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo, is killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands. |
1996 | Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard. |
1997 | Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service. |
1997 | At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria. |
1998 | Eighty people are killed when Cubana de AviaciĂłn Flight 389 crashes during a rejected takeoff from the Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador. |
2001 | Four people are killed when Binter MediterrĂĄneo Flight 8261 crashes into the N-340 highway near MĂĄlaga Airport. |
2003 | Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf. |
2005 | Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125Â billion in damage. |
2012 | At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province. |
2012 | The XIV Paralympic Games open in London, England, United Kingdom. |
2022 | Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukraine begins its southern counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast, eventually culminating in the liberation of the city of Kherson. |
1982 | The birth of Ruhila Adatia-Sood, Kenyan journalist and radio host (d. 2013) |
1982 | The birth of Carlos Delfino, Argentinian-Italian basketball player |
1982 | The birth of Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer |
1983 | The birth of Antti Niemi, Finnish ice hockey player |
1986 | The birth of Hajime Isayama, Japanese illustrator |
1986 | The birth of Lea Michele, American actress and singer |
1987 | The birth of Tony Kane, Irish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Jakub Kosecki, Polish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer |
1991 | The birth of NĂ©stor Araujo, Mexican footballer |
1991 | The birth of Deshaun Thomas, American basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Mallu MagalhĂŁes, Brazilian singer-songwriter |
1992 | The birth of Noah Syndergaard, American baseball player |
1993 | The birth of Liam Payne, English singer-songwriter |
1994 | The birth of Ysaline Bonaventure, Belgian tennis player |
2012 | The death of Shoshichi Kobayashi, Japanese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1932) |
2012 | The death of Anne McKnight, American soprano (b. 1924) |
2012 | The death of Les Moss, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1925) |
2012 | The death of Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1969) |
2013 | The death of Joan L. Krajewski, American lawyer and politician (b. 1934) |
2013 | The death of Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Zambian cardinal (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Bruce C. Murray, American geologist and academic, co-founded The Planetary Society (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Octavio Brunetti, Argentinian pianist and composer (b. 1975) |
2014 | The death of Björn WaldegÄrd, Swedish race car driver (b. 1943) |
2016 | The death of Gene Wilder, American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (b. 1933) |
2018 | The death of James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1936) |
2018 | The death of Paul Taylor, American choreographer (b. 1930) |
2021 | The death of Ed Asner, American actor (b. 1929) |
2021 | The death of Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican reggae producer (b. 1936) |
2021 | The death of Jacques Rogge, Olympic sailor and Orthopedic Surgeon who served as the 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1942) |
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