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Eric Davies

Eric Davies, South African cricketer and educator (died 1976)

Born
August 26, 1909
Died
November 11, 1976
Zodiac sign
Virgo
Birth year
1909

About Eric Davies

Eric Quail Davies, was a South African cricketer, who played in five Test matches from 1936 to 1939. He was born in King William's Town and died in Port Alfred, both in Cape Province. Davies was a right-arm fast bowler and left-handed tail-end batsman with a 16-match first-class cricket career extending from 1929 to 1946. The Australians won the game easily by an innings inside two days, but Davies scored a personal success by taking six Australian wickets for 80 runs.

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The world when Eric Davies was born

Eric Davies was born in 1909. 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 1909

  • Best-selling book"The Inner Shrine" – Basil King

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentHonus Wagner leads Pittsburgh Pirates to World Series victory
  • Top headlineRobert Peary claims to reach the North Pole
  • Technology milestoneBakelite (first fully synthetic plastic) invented
  • Notable inventionBakelite plastic
  • World population~1.69B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWilliam Howard Taft
  • U.S. population88.8M

1909 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Eric Davies's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19092026
Population88.8M341 million

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