Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Roger Angell |
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Birthdate | September 19, 1920 |
Birth Place | New York |
Age (in 2024) | 104 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Journalist |
Roger Angell is best known as Journalist who has born on September 19, 1920 in New York. Currently, Roger Angell is 104 years, 2 months and 22 days old. Roger Angell will celebrate 105th birthday on Friday, 19th of September 2025. Below the countdown to Roger Angell upcoming birthday.
Though he is also known for his New Yorker Christmas poems and for his works of fiction and literary criticism, this New York-based writer is most famous for his sports journalism pieces. He received the 2011 PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing, among many other honors.
After graduating from Harvard University, he served in World War II with the United States Army Air Forces.
The Baseball Writers' Association of America honored him with its 2014 J. G. Taylor Spink Award.
His first marriage, to Evelyn Baker, resulted in daughters named Callie and Alice. With his second wife, Carol Rogge Angell, he had a son named John Henry.
His mother, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, was the fiction editor for The New Yorker, and his stepfather, E.B. White, wrote the classic children's book Charlotte's Web. He grew up primarily in the care of his father, American Civil Liberties Union leader Ernest Angell.
Roger Angell is 104 years old today.
Roger Angell was born on September 19, 1920 in New York.
Roger Angell zodiac sign is Virgo.
Roger Angell was best known as Journalist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Roger Angell's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1983 | Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence. |
1985 | A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City. |
1985 | Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa, John Denver, and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music. |
1989 | A bomb destroys UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing all 170 passengers and crew. |
1991 | Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria. |
1995 | The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber manifesto. |
1997 | The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people. |
2006 | The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared. |
2010 | The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed. |
2011 | Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time career saves leader with 602. |
2016 | In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New Jersey is apprehended after a shootout with police. |
2017 | The 2017 Puebla earthquake strikes Mexico, causing 370 deaths and over 6,000 injuries, as well as extensive damage. |
2019 | A drone strike by the United States kills 30 civilian farmers in Afghanistan. |
2021 | The Cumbre Vieja volcano, on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, erupts. The eruption lasts for almost three months, ending on December 13. |
2022 | The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is held at Westminster Abbey, London. |
1985 | The birth of Song Joong-ki, South Korean actor |
1985 | The birth of Nathanael Liminski, German politician |
1986 | The birth of Leon Best, English footballer |
1986 | The birth of Sally Pearson, Australian athlete |
1987 | The birth of Carlos Quintero, Colombian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Kenny Britt, American football player |
1989 | The birth of Tyreke Evans, American basketball player |
1989 | The birth of George Springer, American baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress and singer |
1990 | The birth of Savvas Gentsoglou, Greek footballer |
1990 | The birth of Kieran Trippier, English footballer |
1992 | The birth of Jiro Kuroshio, Japanese wrestler |
1992 | The birth of Diego Antonio Reyes, Mexican footballer |
1996 | The birth of Dejounte Murray, American basketball player |
1998 | The birth of Trae Young, American basketball player |
2013 | The death of John D. Vanderhoof, American banker and politician, 37th Governor of Colorado (b. 1922) |
2013 | The death of Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Audrey Long, American actress (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Jackie Collins, English novelist (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Todd Ewen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1966) |
2015 | The death of Masajuro Shiokawa, Japanese economist and politician, 63rd Japanese Minister of Finance (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Marcin Wrona, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1973) |
2017 | The death of Leonid Kharitonov, Russian bass-baritone (b. 1933) |
2018 | The death of Arthur Mitchell, American ballet dancer & choreographer (b. 1934) |
2018 | The death of Bernard "Bunny" Carr, Irish TV presenter (b. 1927) |
2019 | The death of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian soldier, politician, 2nd President of Tunisia (b. 1936) |
2020 | The death of John Turner, Canadian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1929) |
2021 | The death of John Challis, English actor (b. 1942) |
2021 | The death of Jimmy Greaves, English footballer (Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, national team), world champion (1966 FIFA World Cup) (b. 1940) |
2021 | The death of Dinky Soliman, Filipino politician, 23rd Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (b. 1953) |
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