Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Alex Haley |
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Birthdate | August 11, 1921 |
Birth Place | Ithaca, NY |
Age (in 2024) | 103 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Autobiographer |
Alex Haley is best known as Autobiographer who has born on August 11, 1921 in Ithaca, NY. Currently, Alex Haley is 103 years, 2 months and 22 days old. Alex Haley will celebrate 104th birthday on Monday, 11th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Alex Haley upcoming birthday.
Author who received a Pulitzer Prize for Roots: The Saga of an American Family. He also received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his work on The Autobiography of Malcolm X.Â
He began studying at Alcorn State University in his mid-teens and later transferred to Elizabeth City State College. He left school to join the military and he served in the Coast Guard for twenty-one years, first as a mess attendant and later as a Petty Officer Third Class.
He co-wrote Malcolm X's autobiography.Â
He was born in Ithaca, New York to Alabama A&M agriculture professor, Simon Haley. He was married three times: to Nannie Branch, Juliette Collins, and Myra Lewis. He had two daughters, Cynthia and Lydia, and a son, William.
He once interviewed jazz musician Miles Davis for Playboy Magazine.
Alex Haley is 103 years old today.
Alex Haley was born on August 11, 1921 in Ithaca, NY.
Alex Haley zodiac sign is Leo.
Alex Haley was best known as Autobiographer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Alex Haley's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1965 | Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California. |
1969 | The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon. |
1972 | Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam. |
1975 | East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin. |
1979 | Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners. |
1982 | A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others. |
1984 | "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio. |
1988 | A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda. |
1992 | The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States. |
2000 | An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries. |
2003 | NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. |
2003 | Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. |
2006 | The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill. |
2012 | At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran. |
2017 | At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt. |
1987 | The birth of Drew Storen, American baseball player |
1988 | The birth of Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Filipino basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Patty Mills, Australian basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Mustafa Pektemek, Turkish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete (d. 2013) |
1989 | The birth of Sebastian Huke, German footballer |
1990 | The birth of Lenka JurÃková, Slovak tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Tomi Lahren, American conservative political commentator |
1994 | The birth of Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Anton Cooper, New Zealand cross-country cyclist |
1994 | The birth of Joseph Barbato, French footballer |
1994 | The birth of Song I-han, South Korean singer |
1997 | The birth of Sarah Clelland, Scottish footballer |
2001 | The birth of Moyuka Uchijima, Japanese tennis player |
2013 | The death of David Howard, English ballet dancer and educator (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Vladimir Beara, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Raymond Gravel, Canadian priest and politician (b. 1952) |
2014 | The death of Kika Szaszkiewiczowa, Polish author and blogger (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (b. 1951) |
2015 | The death of Serge Collot, French viola player and educator (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Richard Oriani, Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (b. 1920) |
2017 | The death of Yisrael Kristal, Polish-Israeli supercentenarian; oldest living Holocaust survivor and one of the ten oldest men ever (b. 1903) |
2017 | The death of Segun Bucknor, Nigerian musician and journalist (b. 1946) |
2018 | The death of V S Naipaul, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932) |
2019 | The death of Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1931) |
2020 | The death of Trini Lopez, Mexican American singer and guitarist (b. 1937) |
2020 | The death of Sumner Redstone, American billionaire businessman (b. 1923) |
2022 | The death of Anne Heche, American actress (b. 1969) |
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