Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Oscar Hammerstein II |
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Birthdate | July 12, 1895 |
Birth Place | New York City, NY |
Age (in 2024) | 129 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Songwriter |
Oscar Hammerstein II is best known as Songwriter who has born on July 12, 1895 in New York City, NY. Currently, Oscar Hammerstein II is 129 years, 4 months and 9 days old. Oscar Hammerstein II will celebrate 130th birthday on Saturday, 12th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Oscar Hammerstein II upcoming birthday.
With longtime collaborator Richard Rodgers made legendary contributions to American musical theatre.
He went to Columbia University and Columbia Law School, but dropped out of law school to embrace theatre full-time. His first musical was Always You from 1921.
His first collaboration with Rodgers was a musical adaptation of the play Green Grow the Lilacs. Their adaptation would be called Oklahoma!, opening on Broadway in 1943. They went on to write Carousel, The King and I, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, and many other classics that developed the idea of the songs advancing and establishing the characters in the play.
He married Myra Finn on August 22, 1917; they divorced in 1929. He married Dorothy Jacobson on May 13, 1929. He had two children by Myra and one child, future theatre director and producer James Hammerstein, by Dorothy.
He also collaborated with Jerome Kern, for which Show Boat from 1927 was their biggest hit.
Oscar Hammerstein II is 129 years old today.
Oscar Hammerstein II was born on July 12, 1895 in New York City, NY.
Oscar Hammerstein II zodiac sign is Cancer.
Oscar Hammerstein II was best known as Songwriter.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Oscar Hammerstein II's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1962 | The Rolling Stones perform for the first time at London's Marquee Club. |
1963 | Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders. |
1967 | Riots begin in Newark, New Jersey. |
1971 | The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time. |
1973 | A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States. |
1975 | SĂŁo TomĂ© and PrĂncipe declare independence from Portugal. |
1979 | The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom. |
1995 | Chinese seismologists successfully predict the 1995 Myanmar-China earthquake, reducing the number of casualties to 11. |
1998 | The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers. |
2001 | Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-104, carrying the Quest Joint Airlock to the International Space Station. |
2006 | The 2006 Lebanon War begins. |
2007 | U.S. Army Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes against armed insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, where civilians are killed; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet. |
2012 | Syrian Civil War: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68 and 150 people. |
2012 | A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria. |
2013 | Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge. |
1989 | The birth of Nick Palmieri, American ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Bebé, Portuguese footballer |
1990 | The birth of Rachel Brosnahan, American actress |
1991 | The birth of Salih Dursun, Turkish footballer |
1991 | The birth of James RodrĂguez, Colombian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Bartosz BereszyĆski, Polish footballer |
1993 | The birth of Kurt Capewell, Australian rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Kanako Momota, Japanese singer-songwriter |
1995 | The birth of Evania Pelite, Australian rugby union player |
1995 | The birth of Luke Shaw, English footballer |
1995 | The birth of Jordyn Wieber, American gymnast |
1996 | The birth of Moussa Dembélé, French footballer |
1996 | The birth of Jordan Romero, American mountaineer |
1997 | The birth of Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani-English activist, Nobel Prize laureate |
2000 | The birth of VinĂcius JĂșnior, Brazilian footballer |
2013 | The death of Alan Whicker, Egyptian-English journalist (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Jamil Ahmad, Pakistani author (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Nestor Basterretxea, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Emil Bobu, Romanian politician (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist and author (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Kenneth J. Gray, American soldier and politician (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of D'Army Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and actor (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwean journalist, author, and poet (b. 1956) |
2015 | The death of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Tibetan monk and activist (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of Cheng Siwei, Chinese engineer, economist, and politician (b. 1935) |
2016 | The death of Goran HadĆŸiÄ, Serbian politician (b. 1958) |
2019 | The death of Emily Hartridge, English Youtuber and television presenter (b. 1984) |
2020 | The death of Kelly Preston, American actress and model (b. 1962) |
2020 | The death of Wim Suurbier, a Dutch football player, (b. 1945) |
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