Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Zora Neale Hurston |
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Birthdate | January 07, 1891 |
Birth Place | Notasulga, AL |
Age (in 2024) | 133 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Novelist |
Zora Neale Hurston is best known as Novelist who has born on January 07, 1891 in Notasulga, AL. Currently, Zora Neale Hurston is 133 years, 11 months and 4 days old. Zora Neale Hurston will celebrate 134th birthday on Tuesday, 7th of January 2025. Below the countdown to Zora Neale Hurston upcoming birthday.
One of the most prominent contributors to the Harlem Renaissance, she published her masterpiece novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, in 1937. Also a notable folklorist, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to carry out anthropological research in Haiti and Jamaica.
She attended Howard University during the early 1920s. A decade later, she received a degree in anthropology from Barnard College and published the folklore-heavy work, Mules and Men.
She moved to Harlem in the 1920s and was a close friend of Langston Hughes. However, the two later had a falling out over their co-written work, Mule Bone.
She and her seven siblings were the Alabama-born children of a Baptist minister. She had two brief marriages: to jazz musician Herbert Sheen (1927-1931) and to Albert Price (1939).
Her work was nearly forgotten until it was re-introduced to the public by author Alice Walker.
Zora Neale Hurston is 133 years old today.
Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 07, 1891 in Notasulga, AL.
Zora Neale Hurston zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Zora Neale Hurston was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Zora Neale Hurston's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1973 | In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers. |
1979 | Third Indochina War: Cambodian-Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. |
1980 | U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation. |
1984 | Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). |
1985 | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. |
1991 | Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest. |
1993 | The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as president. |
1993 | Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica. |
1994 | A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board. |
1999 | The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins. |
2012 | A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board. |
2015 | Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others. |
2015 | A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured. |
2020 | The 6.4Mw  2019-20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico. |
2023 | The longest U.S. House of Representatives speaker election since the December 1859 - February 1860 U.S. speaker election concludes and Kevin McCarthy is elected 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. |
1985 | The birth of Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver |
1985 | The birth of Wayne Routledge, English footballer |
1987 | The birth of Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress |
1987 | The birth of Davide Astori, Italian footballer (d. 2018) |
1988 | The birth of Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Liam Aiken, American actor |
1990 | The birth of Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper |
1991 | The birth of Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Caster Semenya, South African sprinter |
1991 | The birth of Michael Walters, Australian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Tohu Harris, New Zealand rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstani tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Ozzie Albies, Curaçaoan baseball player |
1997 | The birth of Lamar Jackson, American football player |
2015 | The death of Georges Wolinski, Tunisian-French cartoonist (b. 1934) |
2016 | The death of Bill Foster, American basketball player and coach (b. 1929) |
2016 | The death of John Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1947) |
2016 | The death of Kitty Kallen, American singer (b. 1921) |
2016 | The death of Judith Kaye, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1938) |
2016 | The death of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Home Affairs (b. 1936) |
2017 | The death of Mário Soares, Portuguese politician; 16th President of Portugal (b. 1924) |
2018 | The death of Jim Anderton, Former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1938) |
2018 | The death of France Gall, French singer (b. 1947) |
2020 | The death of Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1952) |
2020 | The death of Silvio Horta, American screenwriter and television producer (b. 1974) |
2020 | The death of Elizabeth Wurtzel, author and feminist (b. 1967) |
2021 | The death of Michael Apted, English filmmaker (b. 1941) |
2021 | The death of Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1927) |
2021 | The death of Henri Schwery, Swiss cardinal (b. 1932) |
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