Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Benjamin Ide Wheeler |
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Birthdate | July 15, 1854 |
Birth Place | Massachusetts |
Age (in 2024) | 170 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Teacher |
Benjamin Ide Wheeler is best known as Teacher who has born on July 15, 1854 in Massachusetts. Currently, Benjamin Ide Wheeler is 170 years, 4 months and 19 days old. Benjamin Ide Wheeler will celebrate 171st birthday on Tuesday, 15th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Benjamin Ide Wheeler upcoming birthday.
Best remembered for serving a twenty-year term as President of the University of California, this Massachusetts-born educator also taught comparative and classical linguistics (philology) at Cornell University in New York.
Upon his 1875 graduation from Brown University, he briefly worked as a high school teacher. He later traveled to Europe and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg.
His publications include Introduction to the Study of the History of Language; The Organization of Higher Education in the United States; and Analogy in Language.
He grew up in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island as the son of a minister. In 1881, he married Rhode Island banker's daughter Amey Webb.
He and Janet Napolitano (American Secretary of Homeland Security under the presidential administration of Barack Obama) both served as President of the University of California.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler is 170 years old today.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler was born on July 15, 1854 in Massachusetts.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler zodiac sign is Cancer.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler was best known as Teacher.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Benjamin Ide Wheeler's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Benjamin Ide Wheeler's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1975 | Space Race: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. |
1979 | U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech". |
1983 | An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured. |
1996 | A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. |
1998 | Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine. |
2002 | "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. |
2002 | The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life. |
2003 | AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day. |
2006 | Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched. |
2009 | Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168. |
2012 | South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style. |
2014 | A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others. |
2016 | Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup. |
2018 | France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4-2. |
2021 | Three people are killed by a distracted driver in the 2021 Bowburn crash. |
1990 | The birth of Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Damian Lillard, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Tyler Young, American racing driver |
1991 | The birth of Danilo, Brazilian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Derrick Favors, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Evgeny Tishchenko, Russian boxer |
1991 | The birth of Nuria Párrizas DÃaz, Spanish tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Tobias Harris, American basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter |
1993 | The birth of HÃ¥vard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Harrison Rhodes, American racing driver |
1996 | The birth of Vivianne Miedema, Dutch football player |
1997 | The birth of Jil Teichmann, Swiss tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Noah Gragson, American racing driver |
2008 | The birth of Iain Armitage, American child actor |
2013 | The death of Earl Gros, American football player (b. 1940) |
2013 | The death of Noël Lee, Chinese-American pianist and composer (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (b. 1986) |
2013 | The death of John T. Riedl, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1962) |
2014 | The death of Óscar Acosta, Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (b. 1918) |
2014 | The death of Saúl Lara, Spanish footballer (b. 1982) |
2014 | The death of Edward Perl, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Masahiko Aoki, Japanese-American economist and academic (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Wan Li, Chinese politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of Aubrey Morris, British actor (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Martin Landau, American film and television actor (b. 1928) |
2021 | The death of Peter R. de Vries, Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter (b. 1956) |
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