Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Spalding Gray |
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Birthdate | June 05, 1941 |
Birth Place | Providence, RI |
Age (in 2024) | 83 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Autobiographer |
Spalding Gray is best known as Autobiographer who has born on June 05, 1941 in Providence, RI. Currently, Spalding Gray is 83 years, 6 months and 8 days old. Spalding Gray will celebrate 84th birthday on Thursday, 5th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Spalding Gray upcoming birthday.
American actor and writer whose autobiographical monologue, "Swimming to Cambodia," received widespread acclaim and was adapted into a 1987 film. He also wrote and performed several one-man shows, including "Monster in a Box" and "Gray's Anatomy."
He attended Emerson College and later moved to San Francisco, where he became a poetry teacher at the Esalen Institute. In 1970, he became a member of The Performance Group, an experimental theatrical troupe helmed by Richard Schechner.
His "Swimming to Cambodia" monologue earned him both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Book Award.
He married his first wife, Renee Shafransky, in 1991. His decade-long marriage to second wife, Kathleen Russo, ended with his 2004 suicide. He had two sons, Forrest and Theo.
He appeared in the movie, Kate & Leopold, starring Hugh Jackman.
Spalding Gray is 83 years old today.
Spalding Gray was born on June 05, 1941 in Providence, RI.
Spalding Gray zodiac sign is Gemini.
Spalding Gray was best known as Autobiographer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Spalding Gray's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1984 | Operation Blue Star: Under orders from India's prime minister, Indira Gandhi, the Indian Army begins an invasion of the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion. |
1989 | The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. |
1993 | Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK, fall into the sea following a landslide. |
1995 | The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created. |
1997 | The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War begins. |
1998 | A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks. |
2000 | The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed. |
2001 | Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history. |
2003 | A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50 °C (122 °F) in the region. |
2004 | Noël Mamère, Mayor of Bègles, celebrates marriage for two men for the first time in France. |
2006 | Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. |
2009 | After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru. |
2015 | An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.0 strikes Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia, killing 18 people, including hikers and mountain guides on Mount Kinabalu, after mass landslides that occurred during the earthquake. This is the strongest earthquake to strike Malaysia since 1975. |
2017 | Montenegro becomes the 29th member of NATO. |
2017 | Six Arab countries—Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates—cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region. |
1987 | The birth of Marcus Thornton, American basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Alessandro Salvi, Italian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Cam Atkinson, American ice hockey player |
1989 | The birth of Megumi Nakajima, Japanese voice actress and singer |
1990 | The birth of Radko Gudas, Czech ice hockey defenceman |
1991 | The birth of Sören Bertram, German footballer |
1992 | The birth of Joazhiño Arroe, Peruvian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer |
1993 | The birth of Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Samoan-New Zealand rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Troye Sivan, South African-born Australian singer-songwriter, actor, and YouTuber |
1995 | The birth of Ross Wilson, English table tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Sam Darnold, American football player |
1998 | The birth of Jaqueline Cristian, Romanian tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Yulia Lipnitskaya, Russian figure skater |
1999 | The birth of Suzan Lamens, Dutch tennis player |
2013 | The death of Helen McElhone, Scottish politician (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Stanisław Nagy, Polish cardinal (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Irish republican activist and politician (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Michel Ostyn, Belgian physiologist and physician (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi, Iraqi commander (b. 1971) |
2014 | The death of Don Davis, American songwriter and producer (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Reiulf Steen, Norwegian journalist and politician, Norwegian Minister of Transport and Communications (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Tariq Aziz, Iraqi journalist and politician, Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Alan Bond, English-Australian businessman (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Richard Johnson, English actor (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Roger Vergé, French chef and author (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (b. 1915) |
2017 | The death of Andy Cunningham, English actor (b. 1950) |
2017 | The death of Cheick Tioté, Ivorian footballer (b. 1986) |
2018 | The death of Kate Spade, American fashion designer (b. 1962) |
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