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.
- March 15 » First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
- June 20 » Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- July 9 » The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
- August 9 » Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole: A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army.
- November 21 » Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
- November 29 » Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
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.
- January 4 » The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen would shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.
- February 27 » The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
- July 19 » Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
- July 20 » The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
- October 11 » George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.
- December 2 » Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
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 2, 2026), "Edward Coleman Delafield (1877-1976)".