Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Willa Cather |
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Birthdate | December 07, 1873 |
Birth Place | Virginia |
Age (in 2024) | 150 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Novelist |
Willa Cather is best known as Novelist who has born on December 07, 1873 in Virginia. Currently, Willa Cather is 150 years, 10 months and 26 days old. Willa Cather will celebrate 151st birthday on Saturday, 7th of December 2024. Below the countdown to Willa Cather upcoming birthday.
An American author known for her novels depicting frontier life on the Great Plains, she wrote such classics as O Pioneers!, My Antonia, and The Song of the Lark. Her literary work contains autobiographical elements and is notable for its air of nostalgia.
She graduated from the University of Nebraska. She then worked in Pittsburgh for the Home Monthly journal.
She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours.
She was born in Gore, Virginia to Charles Fectigue Cather and Mary Virginia Boak. In her early thirties, she moved to New York City.
She was an acquaintance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and exchanged letters with him.
Willa Cather is 150 years old today.
Willa Cather was born on December 07, 1873 in Virginia.
Willa Cather zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Willa Cather was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Willa Cather's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1971 | Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister. |
1972 | Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth. |
1982 | In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States. |
1982 | The Senior Road Tower collapses in less than 17 seconds. Five workers on the tower are killed and three workers on a building nearby are injured. |
1983 | An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid-Barajas Airport, killing 93 people. |
1987 | Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and steers the plane into the ground. |
1988 | The 6.8 Ms Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000-50,000 and injuring 31,000-130,000. |
1993 | Long Island Rail Road shooting: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York. |
1995 | The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34. |
1995 | Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashes into the Bo-Dzhausa Mountain, killing 98. |
1995 | An Air Saint Martin (now Air Caraïbes) Beechcraft 1900 crashes near the Haitian commune of Belle Anse, killing 20. |
2003 | The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. |
2005 | Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport. |
2015 | The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt. |
2016 | Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661, a domestic passenger flight from Chitral to Islamabad, operated by ATR-42-500 crashes near Havelian, killing all 47 on board. |
1988 | The birth of Emily Browning, Australian actress and singer |
1989 | The birth of Kyle Hendricks, American baseball player |
1989 | The birth of Alessandro Marchi, Italian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Nicholas Hoult, English actor |
1990 | The birth of David Goffin, Belgian tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Aleksandr Menkov, Russian long jumper |
1990 | The birth of Yasiel Puig, Cuban baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Urszula Radwańska, Polish tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Eugenio Pisani, Italian race car driver |
1993 | The birth of Rahama Sadau, Nigerian actress |
1994 | The birth of Pete Alonso, American baseball player |
1994 | The birth of Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater |
1997 | The birth of Abi Harrison, Scottish footballer |
1997 | The birth of Tommy Nelson, American actor |
1998 | The birth of Tony Yike Yang, Canadian pianist |
2012 | The death of Ralph Parr, American colonel and pilot (b. 1924) |
2012 | The death of Marty Reisman, American table tennis player and author (b. 1930) |
2012 | The death of Saul Steinberg, American businessman and financier (b. 1939) |
2013 | The death of Édouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of Chick Willis, American singer and guitarist (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of Mark Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1954) |
2015 | The death of Gerhard Lenski, American sociologist and academic (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Hyron Spinrad, American astronomer and academic (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Peter Westbury, English race car driver (b. 1938) |
2016 | The death of Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani recording artist, television personality, fashion designer, occasional actor, singer-songwriter and preacher. (b. 1964) |
2016 | The death of Greg Lake, English musician (b. 1947) |
2017 | The death of Steve Reevis, Native American actor (b. 1962) |
2019 | The death of Ron Saunders, English football player and manager (b. 1932) |
2020 | The death of Dick Allen, American baseball player and tenor (b. 1942) |
2020 | The death of Chuck Yeager, American aviator (b. 1923) |
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