Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | WC Handy |
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Birthdate | November 16, 1873 |
Birth Place | Florence, AL |
Age (in 2024) | 151 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Blues Singer |
WC Handy is best known as Blues Singer who has born on November 16, 1873 in Florence, AL. Currently, WC Handy is 151 years, 0 months and 5 days old. WC Handy will celebrate 152nd birthday on Sunday, 16th of November 2025. Below the countdown to WC Handy upcoming birthday.
Blues composer and musician known as the Father of the Blues. He took the blues from being a regional genre to a mainstream one.
He was a teacher and worked at a pipe works plant before achieving success in the music industry.
He was inducted into the National Academy of Popular Music Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
He married Elizabeth Price in 1896. They had six children together.
He was portrayed by Nat King Cole in the film St. Louis Blues from 1958.
WC Handy is 151 years old today.
WC Handy was born on November 16, 1873 in Florence, AL.
WC Handy zodiac sign is Scorpio.
WC Handy was best known as Blues Singer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about WC Handy's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with WC Handy's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1945 | UNESCO is founded. |
1965 | Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. |
1973 | Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission. |
1973 | U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline. |
1974 | The Arecibo message is broadcast from Puerto Rico. |
1979 | The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania. |
1988 | The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence. |
1988 | In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan. |
1989 | El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University. |
1990 | Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals. |
1992 | The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk. |
1997 | After nearly 18 years of incarceration, China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons. |
2002 | The first cases of the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak are traced to Foshan, Guangdong Province, China. |
2005 | Following a 31-year wait, Australia defeats Uruguay in a penalty shootout to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. |
2022 | Artemis Program: NASA launches Artemis 1 on the first flight of the Space Launch System, the start of the program's future missions to the moon. |
1985 | The birth of Sanna Marin, Finnish politician, the Prime Minister of Finland |
1986 | The birth of Omar Mateen, Islamic terrorist, perpetrator of the Orlando nightclub shooting (d. 2016) |
1986 | The birth of Maxime Médard, French rugby player |
1987 | The birth of Eitan Tibi, Israeli footballer |
1987 | The birth of Jordan Walden, American baseball player |
1989 | The birth of Iamsu!, American rapper and producer |
1990 | The birth of Arjo Atayde, Filipino actor |
1990 | The birth of Dénes Dibusz, Hungarian football player |
1991 | The birth of Tomomi Kasai, Japanese actress and singer |
1992 | The birth of George Akpabio, Nigerian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Matthew Allwood, Australian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Pete Davidson, American comedian and actor |
1994 | The birth of Brandon Larracuente, American actor |
1994 | The birth of Yoshiki Yamamoto, Japanese football player |
1995 | The birth of Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor and pianist |
2015 | The death of David Canary, American actor (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Michael C. Gross, American graphic designer and producer (b. 1945) |
2015 | The death of Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Alton D. Slay, American general (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Jay Wright Forrester, American computer engineer (b. 1918) |
2016 | The death of Melvin Laird, American politician and writer (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of Daniel Prodan, Romanian football player (b. 1972) |
2017 | The death of Hiromi Tsuru, Japanese actress (b. 1960) |
2017 | The death of Ann Wedgeworth, American actress (b. 1934) |
2018 | The death of William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1931) |
2019 | The death of John Campbell Brown, Scottish astronomer (b. 1947) |
2019 | The death of Terry O'Neill, British photographer (b. 1938) |
2020 | The death of Sheila Nelson, English string teacher (b. 1936) |
2021 | The death of Jyrki Kasvi, Finnish journalist and politician (b. 1964) |
2022 | The death of Robert Clary, French-American actor and author (b. 1926) |
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