Updated at December 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | William Goyen |
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Birthdate | April 24, 1915 |
Birth Place | Texas |
Age (in 2024) | 109 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Novelist |
William Goyen is best known as Novelist who has born on April 24, 1915 in Texas. Currently, William Goyen is 109 years, 7 months and 29 days old. William Goyen will celebrate 110th birthday on Thursday, 24th of April 2025. Below the countdown to William Goyen upcoming birthday.
An American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet, he is best known for The House of Breath, A Book of Jesus, and Arcadio.
He studied comparative literature at Rice University. He served in the South Pacific during World War II.
His work contains themes of isolation, loneliness, home and family, time, memory, and spirituality.
He was born in Texas. He married actress
His writing style has been compared to that of Virginia Woolf.
William Goyen is 109 years old today.
William Goyen was born on April 24, 1915 in Texas.
William Goyen zodiac sign is Taurus.
William Goyen was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with William Goyen's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1965 | Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch. |
1967 | Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission. |
1967 | Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily". |
1970 | China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster. |
1970 | The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President. |
1980 | Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis. |
1990 | STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery. |
1990 | Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine. |
1993 | An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London. |
1996 | In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law. |
2004 | The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction. |
2005 | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI. |
2011 | WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak. |
2013 | A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others. |
2013 | Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people. |
1990 | The birth of Jan Veselý, Czech basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Sigrid Agren, French-Swedish model |
1991 | The birth of Morgan Ciprès, French figure skater |
1991 | The birth of Batuhan Karadeniz, Turkish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Joe Keery, American actor |
1992 | The birth of Laura Kenny, English cyclist |
1993 | The birth of Ben Davies, Welsh international footballer |
1994 | The birth of Jordan Fisher, American singer, dancer, and actor |
1994 | The birth of Caspar Lee, British-South African Youtuber |
1996 | The birth of Ashleigh Barty, Australian tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Lydia Ko, New Zealand golfer |
1997 | The birth of Veronika Kudermetova, Russian tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Ryan Newman, American actress |
1999 | The birth of Jerry Jeudy, American football player |
2002 | The birth of Olivia Gadecki, Australian tennis player |
2004 | The death of Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founded Estée Lauder Companies (b. 1906) |
2005 | The death of Ezer Weizman, Israeli general and politician, 7th President of Israel (b. 1924) |
2005 | The death of Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist and academic (b. 1910) |
2006 | The death of Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940) |
2006 | The death of Moshe Teitelbaum, Romanian-American rabbi and author (b. 1914) |
2008 | The death of Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, and saxophonist, and composer (b. 1921) |
2011 | The death of Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philanthropist (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Hans Hollein, Austrian architect, designed Haas House (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of Sandy Jardine, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1948) |
2014 | The death of Shobha Nagi Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1968) |
2014 | The death of Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Władysław Bartoszewski, Polish journalist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of Tommy Kono, American weightlifter and coach (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Robert Pirsig, American author and philosopher (b. 1928) |
2022 | The death of Andrew Woolfolk, American saxophonist (b. 1950) |
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