Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | William Attaway |
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Birthdate | November 19, 1911 |
Birth Place | Mississippi |
Age (in 2024) | 112 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Novelist |
William Attaway is best known as Novelist who has born on November 19, 1911 in Mississippi. Currently, William Attaway is 112 years, 11 months and 13 days old. William Attaway will celebrate 113th birthday on Tuesday, 19th of November 2024. Below the countdown to William Attaway upcoming birthday.
An African-American songwriter, fiction writer, and playwright, he is known for his 1941 novel, Blood on the Forge, and for his 1957 work, Calypso Song Book. His early works include Carnival and Let Me Breathe Thunder.
He was a tennis champion at the University of Illinois. After graduating from college, he settled in New York.
He spent his last years working in Los Angeles as a screenwriter.
He and his Caucasian wife, Frances, were married in 1962. To escape American racial prejudice, they settled in Barbados with their two children.
As a young man, Attaway read a poem by Langston Hughes and was inspired to become a writer.
William Attaway is 112 years old today.
William Attaway was born on November 19, 1911 in Mississippi.
William Attaway zodiac sign is Scorpio.
William Attaway was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with William Attaway's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1984 | San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people. |
1985 | Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time. |
1985 | Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty. |
1985 | Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud. |
1988 | Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia. |
1994 | In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers. |
1996 | A Beechcraft 1900 and a Beechcraft King Air collide at Quincy Regional Airport in Quincy, Illinois, killing 14. |
1998 | Clinton-Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton. |
1999 | Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft. |
1999 | John Carpenter becomes the first person to win the top prize in the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. |
2002 | The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 76,000 m3 (20 million US gal) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history. |
2004 | The worst brawl in NBA history results in several players being suspended. Several players and fans are charged with assault and battery. |
2010 | The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand. Twenty-nine people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914. |
2013 | A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others. |
2022 | A gunman kills five and injures 17 at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
1989 | The birth of Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper |
1989 | The birth of Tyga, American rapper |
1990 | The birth of Marquise Goodwin, American football player |
1990 | The birth of John Moore, American ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Benedikt Schmid, German footballer |
1991 | The birth of Marina Marković, Serbian basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Fabien Antunes, French footballer |
1992 | The birth of Cameron Bancroft, Australian cricketer |
1993 | The birth of Kerim Frei, Austrian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Suso, Spanish footballer |
1994 | The birth of Ibrahima Mbaye, Senegalese footballer |
1995 | The birth of Vanessa Axente, Hungarian model |
1997 | The birth of Kotonowaka Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler |
1997 | The birth of The McCaughey septuplets |
1999 | The birth of Evgenia Medvedeva, Russian figure skater |
2014 | The death of Pete Harman, American businessman (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Richard A. Jensen, American theologian, author, and academic (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer and manager (b. 1950) |
2014 | The death of Mike Nichols, German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Armand, Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of Allen E. Ertel, American lawyer and politician (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Ron Hynes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of Korrie Layun Rampan, Indonesian author, poet, and critic (b. 1953) |
2015 | The death of Mal Whitfield, American runner and diplomat (b. 1924) |
2017 | The death of Charles Manson, American cult leader and mass murderer (b. 1934) |
2017 | The death of Warren "Pete" Moore, American singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1938) |
2017 | The death of Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player (b. 1968) |
2017 | The death of Della Reese, American singer and actress (b. 1931) |
2017 | The death of Mel Tillis, American singer and songwriter (b. 1932) |
2022 | The death of Jason David Frank, American actor and mixed martial artist, best known as Tommy Oliver in the Power Rangers franchise (b. 1973) |
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