Olson's Tree » Edward Coleman Delafield (1877-1976)
Personal data Edward Coleman Delafield
Source 1- He was born on July 10, 1877 in Westhampton, Suffolk County, New York, .
- He died on April 21, 1976 in Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida, USA, he was 98 years old.
- A child of Maturin Livingston Delafield and Mary Coleman Livingston
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Birthday July 10, 1877
- The temperature on July 10, 1877 was about 19.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
- In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1877: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
- April 12 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
- May 5 » American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
- May 9 » A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
- September 5 » American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
- November 29 » Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
- December 10 » Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria.
Day of death April 21, 1976
- The temperature on April 21, 1976 was between 4.6 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
- May 21 » Twenty-nine people are killed in the Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California.
- June 29 » The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.
- July 4 » The U.S. celebrates its Bicentennial.
- July 29 » In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
- September 16 » Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
- October 22 » Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.
Same birth/death day
- 1874 » Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor († 1971)
- 1875 » Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian politician († 1973)
- 1875 » Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist († 1955)
- 1877 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist († 1935)
- 1878 » Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor († 1943)
- 1882 » Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts († 1975)
- 1973 » Arthur Fadden, Australian accountant and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
- 1973 » Kemal Tahir, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1910)
- 1974 » Chic Harley, American football player (b. 1894)
- 1977 » Gummo Marx, American vaudevillian and talent agent (b. 1893)
- 1978 » Sandy Denny, English singer-songwriter (b.1947)
- 1978 » Thomas Wyatt Turner, American biologist and academic (b. 1877)
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Charles Olson, "Olson's Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/olsons-tree/P18572.php : accessed February 1, 2026), "Edward Coleman Delafield (1877-1976)".