Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | William Gaines |
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Birthdate | March 01, 1922 |
Birth Place | New York |
Age (in 2024) | 102 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Comic Book Author |
William Gaines is best known as Comic Book Author who has born on March 01, 1922 in New York. Currently, William Gaines is 102 years, 8 months and 4 days old. William Gaines will celebrate 103rd birthday on Saturday, 1st of March 2025. Below the countdown to William Gaines upcoming birthday.
American publisher and editor of EC Comics. He is best known for publishing Mad Magazine for over 40 years.
He trained as an Army Air Corps photographer and later trained as a teacher at New York University.
He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1993 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1997.
He was married three times and had three children: Cathy, Wendy, and Christopher.
Wally Wood was a contributor to EC Comics, which he edited.
William Gaines is 102 years old today.
William Gaines was born on March 01, 1922 in New York.
William Gaines zodiac sign is Pisces.
William Gaines was best known as Comic Book Author.
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Below are historical events that coincided with William Gaines's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1974 | Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice. |
1981 | Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze. |
1990 | Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. |
1991 | Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the death of more than 25,000 people mostly civilian. |
1992 | Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. |
1998 | Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide. |
2002 | U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan. |
2002 | The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to reach an orbit of 800 km (500 mi) above the Earth, which was the then-largest payload at 10.5 m long and with a diameter of 4.57 m. |
2003 | Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security. |
2003 | The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague. |
2005 | In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional. |
2006 | English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station. |
2007 | Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School. |
2008 | The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections, as a result ten people are killed. |
2014 | Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China. |
1985 | The birth of Andreas Ottl, German footballer |
1986 | The birth of Jonathan Spector, American footballer |
1987 | The birth of Kesha, American singer-songwriter and actress |
1989 | The birth of Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer |
1992 | The birth of Tom Walsh, New Zealand athlete |
1992 | The birth of Édouard Mendy, Senegalese footballer |
1993 | The birth of Nathan Brown, Australian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Michael Conforto, American baseball player |
1993 | The birth of Kurt Mann, Australian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Josh McEachran, English footballer |
1994 | The birth of Justin Bieber, Canadian singer-songwriter |
1994 | The birth of Asanoyama Hideki, Japanese sumo wrestler |
1994 | The birth of Tyreek Hill, American football player |
1999 | The birth of Brogan Hay, Scottish footballer |
2000 | The birth of Ja'Marr Chase, American football player |
1995 | The death of César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1920) |
1995 | The death of Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1946) |
1998 | The death of Archie Goodwin, American author and illustrator (b. 1937) |
2004 | The death of Mian Ghulam Jilani, Pakistani general (b. 1914) |
2006 | The death of Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947) |
2006 | The death of Jack Wild, English actor (b.1952) |
2006 | The death of Nurasyura binte Mohamed Fauzi, Singaporean rape and murder victim. |
2010 | The death of Kristian Digby, English television host and director (b. 1977) |
2012 | The death of Andrew Breitbart, American journalist and publisher (b. 1969) |
2012 | The death of Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Bonnie Franklin, American actress, dancer, and singer (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Minnie Miñoso, Cuban-American baseball player and coach (b. 1922) |
2018 | The death of María Rubio, Mexican television, film and stage actress (b. 1934) |
2019 | The death of Mike Willesee, Australian journalist and producer (b. 1942) |
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