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The Silent Generation, also known as the Traditionalist Generation, is the Western demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the baby boomers. The generation is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945. [1] By this definition and U.S. Census data, there were 23 million Silents in the United States as of 2019. [2]
The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1901 to 1927. [1] They were shaped by the Great Depression and were the primary generation composing the enlisted forces in World War II. Most people of the Greatest Generation are the parents of the Silent Generation and Baby Boomers, and they are the children of the Lost Generation.
August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, actor (born 1895) August 30 – Eddie Lyons, American actor (born 1886) September 8 – Kisaburo Kurihara, Japanese actor (born 1885) September 11 – Matsunosuke Onoe, actor (born 1875) October 31 – Harry Houdini, magician & actor (born 1874) November 7 – Tom Forman, silent film actor & director (born 1893)
The Lost Generation was the demographic cohort that reached early adulthood during World War I, and preceded the Greatest Generation.The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900, coming of age in either the 1900s or the 1910s, and were the first generation to mature in the 20th century.
This group represents slightly more than half of the generation, or roughly 38,002,000 people. The other half of the generation, usually called "Generation Jones", but sometimes also called names like the "late boomers" or "trailing-edge baby boomers", was born between 1956 and 1964, and came of age after Vietnam and the Watergate scandal.
Her year of birth had been misreported for years as 1926, the year Jackson gave in a 1962 interview. [7] Jackson's mother was of Irish Catholic descent and her father, whose original name was Ivan Jakšeković, had emigrated from Croatia (then part of Austria-Hungary) in 1918. [1] [7] [8] Her family moved to Brooklyn, New York when she was ...
The child was temporarily called Joan, until Crawford changed her name to Christina. Christina's birth mother was a 19-year-old unmarried girl who had moved to Los Angeles with her family. Christina's birth mother contracted with a baby broker for Crawford to adopt her baby after its birth. [83]
Denise Crosby, Dennis Crosby's daughter, is an actress and is known for her role as Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She appeared in the 1989 film adaptation of Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary. In 2006, Crosby's niece through his sister Mary Rose, Carolyn Schneider, published the laudatory book Me and Uncle Bing.