Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Walter W. Granger |
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Birthdate | November 07, 1872 |
Birth Place | Middletown Springs, VT |
Age (in 2024) | 152 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Paleontologist |
Walter W. Granger is best known as Paleontologist who has born on November 07, 1872 in Middletown Springs, VT. Currently, Walter W. Granger is 152 years, 1 months and 6 days old. Walter W. Granger will celebrate 153rd birthday on Friday, 7th of November 2025. Below the countdown to Walter W. Granger upcoming birthday.
Paleontologist and fossil hunter who collected specimens from around the U.S., as well as China and Mongolia. He was also the president of the prestigious Explorers Club during the 1930's.
Developing a childhood interest in taxidermy, he got a job with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City at age 17, and from there developed an interest in fossils.
As the assistant curator of the American Museum of Natural History, he devoted four months of every year to field trips and important research papers.
He was born in Middletown Springs, Vermont, his father Charles H. Granger an insurance agent.
At the same time he was taking his fossil-collection trips, Charles Beecher, another prominent paleontologist, was studying his big find at Beecher's Trilobite Bed.
Walter W. Granger is 152 years old today.
Walter W. Granger was born on November 07, 1872 in Middletown Springs, VT.
Walter W. Granger zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Walter W. Granger was best known as Paleontologist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Walter W. Granger's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1989 | Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States. |
1989 | David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City. |
1989 | East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests. |
1990 | Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland. |
1991 | Magic Johnson announces that he is HIV-positive and retires from the NBA. |
1994 | WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, launches the world's first internet radio broadcast. |
1996 | NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor. |
1996 | ADC Airlines Flight 086 crashes on approach to Murtala Muhammed International Airport, in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 144 people on board. |
2000 | The controversial US presidential election is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, electing George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States. |
2000 | The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas. |
2004 | Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day state of emergency as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. |
2007 | The Jokela school shooting in Jokela, Tuusula, Finland, takes place, resulting in the death of nine people. |
2012 | An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people. |
2017 | Shamshad TV is attacked by armed gunmen and suicide bombers, with a security guard killed and 20 people wounded; ISIS claims responsibility for the attack. |
2020 | Joe Biden is elected the 46th president of the United States. |
1988 | The birth of Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukrainian tennis player |
1988 | The birth of Simone Favaro, Italian rugby player |
1988 | The birth of Thomas Schneider, German sprinter |
1988 | The birth of Tinie Tempah, English rapper and producer |
1989 | The birth of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Russian singer and political activist |
1990 | The birth of Daniel Ayala, Spanish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Matt Corby, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1990 | The birth of David de Gea, Spanish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Joelle Hadjia, Australian singer-songwriter |
1991 | The birth of Felix Rosenqvist, Swedish race car driver |
1992 | The birth of Apisai Koroisau, Australian-Fijian rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Haruna Iikubo, Japanese singer and actress |
1996 | The birth of Lorde, New Zealand singer-songwriter |
1997 | The birth of Erika Hendsel, Estonian tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Nana Okada, Japanese singer |
2013 | The death of Manfred Rommel, German lawyer and politician (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Lincoln D. Faurer, American general (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Kajetan Kovič, Slovenian journalist and poet (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Allen Ripley, American baseball player (b. 1952) |
2015 | The death of Bappaditya Bandopadhyay, Indian director and poet (b. 1970) |
2015 | The death of Ri Ul-sol, North Korean marshal and politician (b. 1921) |
2016 | The death of Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1934) |
2016 | The death of Janet Reno, American lawyer and government official; Attorney General of the United States (1993-2001) (b. 1938) |
2016 | The death of Jimmy Young, British singer and radio personality (b. 1921) |
2017 | The death of Roy Halladay, American baseball player (b. 1977) |
2017 | The death of Carl Sargeant, Welsh Assembly minister (b. 1968) |
2017 | The death of James R. Thompson Jr., American naval officer and engineer, 5th Director of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (b. 1936) |
2019 | The death of Janette Sherman, American physician, author, and pioneer in occupational and environmental health (b. 1930) |
2020 | The death of Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth and member of the House of Lords (b. 1948) |
2021 | The death of Dean Stockwell, American actor (b. 1936) |
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