Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Alice Ball |
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Birthdate | July 24, 1892 |
Birth Place | Washington |
Age (in 2024) | 132 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Chemist |
Alice Ball is best known as Chemist who has born on July 24, 1892 in Washington. Currently, Alice Ball is 132 years, 3 months and 11 days old. Alice Ball will celebrate 133rd birthday on Thursday, 24th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Alice Ball upcoming birthday.
American chemist who developed an oil extract which served as the most effective known treatment of leprosy until the 1940's. She is also notable for having been the first woman and the first African-American to a Master's degree from the University of Hawaii.
She graduated from Seattle High School in 1910 and earned Bachelor's degrees in both Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Washington.
She died at the age of 24 under mysterious circumstances. It is suspected that she may have died from chlorine poisoning, as stated in an article in the Pacific Commercial Advertiser.
Her grandfather was famous photographer James Presley Ball. Her father, also named James, was a lawyer and newspaper editor, and her mother, Laura, was a photographer.
She and Saint Elmo Brady are both African-Americans who broke barriers in the field of chemistry.
Alice Ball is 132 years old today.
Alice Ball was born on July 24, 1892 in Washington.
Alice Ball zodiac sign is Leo.
Alice Ball was best known as Chemist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Alice Ball's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1977 | End of a four-day-long Libyan-Egyptian War. |
1980 | The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level. |
1982 | Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299. |
1983 | The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War. |
1983 | George Brett playing for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident". |
1987 | US supertanker SSÂ Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker. |
1987 | Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak. |
1998 | Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial. |
1999 | Air Fiji flight 121 crashes while en route to Nadi, Fiji, killing all 17 people on board. |
2001 | The Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos. Eleven civilian and military aircraft are destroyed and 15 are damaged. All 14 commandos are shot dead, while seven soldiers from the Sri Lanka Air Force are killed. In addition, three civilians and an engineer die. This incident slowed the Sri Lankan economy. |
2009 | Aria Air Flight 1525 crashes at Mashhad International Airport, killing 16. |
2012 | Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Girkê Legê. |
2013 | A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80Â km/h (50Â mph) speed limit at 190Â km/h (120Â mph), killing 78 passengers. |
2014 | Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers. The wreckage is later found in Mali. All 116 people onboard are killed. |
2019 | Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a leadership contest, succeeding Theresa May. |
1987 | The birth of Zack Sabre Jr., English wrestler |
1988 | The birth of Han Seung-yeon, South Korean singer and dancer |
1988 | The birth of Nichkhun, Thai-American singer-songwriter and actor |
1988 | The birth of Ricky Petterd, Australian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Maurkice Pouncey, American football player |
1989 | The birth of Kim Tae-hwan, South Korean footballer |
1990 | The birth of Travis Mahoney, Australian swimmer |
1991 | The birth of Emily Bett Rickards, Canadian actress |
1992 | The birth of Mikaël Kingsbury, Canadian skier |
1994 | The birth of Phillip Lindsay, American football player |
1995 | The birth of Valentine Holmes, Australian rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Kyle Kuzma, American basketball player |
1995 | The birth of Meisei Chikara, Japanese sumo wrestler |
1998 | The birth of Bindi Irwin, Australian conservationist, zookeeper, and actress |
2002 | The birth of Nicole Pircio, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast |
2012 | The death of Gregorio Peces-Barba, Spanish jurist and politician (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Garry Davis, American pilot and activist, created the World Passport (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of Fred Dretske, American philosopher and academic (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Virginia E. Johnson, American psychologist and sexologist (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Pius Langa, South African lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Ik-Hwan Bae, Korean-American violinist and educator (b. 1956) |
2014 | The death of Dale Schlueter, American basketball player (b. 1945) |
2014 | The death of Hans-Hermann Sprado, German journalist and author (b. 1956) |
2015 | The death of Peg Lynch, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of Ingrid Sischy, South African-American journalist and critic (b. 1952) |
2016 | The death of Marni Nixon, American actress and singer (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Harshida Raval, Indian Gujarati playback singer |
2020 | The death of Regis Philbin, American actor and television host (b. 1931) |
2021 | The death of Dale Snodgrass, United States Naval Aviator and air show performer (b. 1949) |
2022 | The death of David Warner, English actor (b. 1941) |
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