Updated at December 14, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Oscar Fraley |
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Birthdate | August 02, 1914 |
Birth Place | Pennsylvania |
Age (in 2024) | 110 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Memoirist |
Oscar Fraley is best known as Memoirist who has born on August 02, 1914 in Pennsylvania. Currently, Oscar Fraley is 110 years, 4 months and 12 days old. Oscar Fraley will celebrate 111th birthday on Saturday, 2nd of August 2025. Below the countdown to Oscar Fraley upcoming birthday.
An American writer and journalist, he is best known as the co-author of the 1957 memoir, The Untouchables, which inspired a 1950s television series and a 1987 film. He also had a lengthy career as a sportswriter.
While working as a reporter for United Press International, he was introduced to his Untouchables co-writer, Eliot Ness. After several rounds of scotch at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the two agreed to co-write a book.
Soon after its publication, The Untouchables sold more than 1.5 million copies.
He grew up in Woodbury, New Jersey. He died of heart failure in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
He assisted Jimmy Hoffa in writing an autobiography.
Oscar Fraley is 110 years old today.
Oscar Fraley was born on August 02, 1914 in Pennsylvania.
Oscar Fraley zodiac sign is Leo.
Oscar Fraley was best known as Memoirist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Oscar Fraley's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1944 | ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in North Macedonia. |
1944 | World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches. |
1945 | World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference. |
1947 | A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998. |
1968 | An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261. |
1973 | A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man. |
1980 | A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200. |
1982 | The Helsinki Metro, the first rapid transit system of Finland, is opened to the general public. |
1985 | Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137. |
1989 | Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972. |
1989 | A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians. |
1990 | Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War. |
1999 | The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India. |
2005 | Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities. |
2014 | At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China. |
1986 | The birth of Mathieu Razanakolona, Canadian skier |
1988 | The birth of Rob Kwiet, Canadian ice hockey player |
1989 | The birth of Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Ima Bohush, Belarusian tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Vitalia Diatchenko, Russian tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Skylar Diggins-Smith, American basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Charli XCX, English singer-songwriter |
1993 | The birth of Gael Bussa, Congolese politician |
1994 | The birth of Laura Pigossi, Brazilian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Laremy Tunsil, American football player |
1995 | The birth of Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player |
1996 | The birth of Keston Hiura, American baseball player |
1996 | The birth of Simone Manuel, American swimmer |
1999 | The birth of Mark Lee, Korean-Canadian singer |
2000 | The birth of Varvara Gracheva, Russian tennis player |
2014 | The death of Ed Joyce, American journalist (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Billie Letts, American author and educator (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Barbara Prammer, Austrian social worker and politician (b. 1954) |
2014 | The death of James Thompson, American-Finnish author (b. 1964) |
2015 | The death of Forrest Bird, American pilot and engineer (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Giovanni Conso, Italian jurist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Piet Fransen, Dutch footballer (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Jack Spring, American baseball player (b. 1933) |
2016 | The death of Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of David Huddleston, American actor (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (b. 1927) |
2016 | The death of Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1946) |
2017 | The death of Judith Jones, American literary and cookbook editor (b. 1924) |
2020 | The death of Suzanne Perlman, Hungarian-Dutch visual artist (b. 1922) |
2022 | The death of Vin Scully, American sportscaster and game show host (b. 1927) |
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Wikipedia | Oscar Fraley on Wikipedia |
Website | Oscar Fraley's Webiste |
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