Home / Birthday profiles / Claude H. Van Tyne
Portrait of Claude H. Van Tyne

Birthday profile

Claude H. Van Tyne

Claude H. Van Tyne, American historian and author (died 1930)

Find birthday twinsOpen interactive profile
Born
October 16, 1869
Died
March 21, 1930
Zodiac sign
Libra
Birth year
1869

About Claude H. Van Tyne

Claude Halstead Van Tyne was an American historian. He was a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in 1902. He taught history at the University of Michigan from 1903 to 1930 and wrote several books on the American Revolution. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The War of Independence in 1930. He won the annual Pulitzer Prize for History in 1930 for The War of Independence.

Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.

Claude H. Van Tyne timeline

  1. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The War of Independence in 1930.
  2. He won the annual Pulitzer Prize for History in 1930 for The War of Independence.

The world when Claude H. Van Tyne was born

Claude H. Van Tyne was born in 1869. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1869

  • Best-selling bookWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineTranscontinental Railroad completed at Promontory Summit
  • Technology milestoneSuez Canal opens
  • World population~1.49B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderUlysses S. Grant
  • U.S. population35.6M

1869 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Claude H. Van Tyne's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18692026
Population35.6M341 million

Sources and editorial standards

This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, Library of Congress, Wikidata. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.

Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.