Updated at November 8, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Bessie Smith |
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Birthdate | April 15, 1894 |
Birth Place | Chattanooga, TN |
Age (in 2024) | 130 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Blues Singer |
Bessie Smith is best known as Blues Singer who has born on April 15, 1894 in Chattanooga, TN. Currently, Bessie Smith is 130 years, 6 months and 23 days old. Bessie Smith will celebrate 131st birthday on Tuesday, 15th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Bessie Smith upcoming birthday.
Empress of the Blues who sang in the 1920s and 1930s, releasing award-winning songs like "Empty Bed Blues" and "St. Louis Blues."
She worked as a street performer with her brother on the streets of Chattanooga. Ma Rainey mentored her and helped her develop her stage presence.
She had a short-lived career on Broadway, but in that time she sang with Louis Armstrong.
She was born to parents Laura and William Smith who was a laborer and part-time Baptist preacher.
The great Benny Goodman made a small contribution to her 1933 recordings with the record label Okeh.
Bessie Smith is 130 years old today.
Bessie Smith was born on April 15, 1894 in Chattanooga, TN.
Bessie Smith zodiac sign is Aries.
Bessie Smith was best known as Blues Singer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Bessie Smith's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Bessie Smith's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1947 | Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line. |
1952 | First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. |
1955 | McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois. |
1960 | At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. |
1969 | The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board. |
1970 | During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam. |
1986 | The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a discotheque bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen. |
1989 | Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans. |
1989 | Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China. |
1994 | Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted. |
2002 | Air China Flight 129 crashes on approach to Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, killing 129 people. |
2013 | Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others. |
2013 | A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people. |
2014 | In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, at least 200 civilians are gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals. |
2019 | The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire. |
1986 | The birth of Sylvain Marveaux, French footballer |
1988 | The birth of Blake Ayshford, Australian rugby league player |
1988 | The birth of Steven Defour, Belgian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Chris Tillman, American baseball pitcher |
1989 | The birth of Darren Nicholls, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Emma Watson, English actress |
1991 | The birth of Daiki Arioka, Japanese idol, singer, and actor |
1991 | The birth of Javier Fernández López, Spanish figure skater |
1992 | The birth of Jeremy McGovern, Australian rules football player |
1994 | The birth of Brodie Grundy, Australian rules football player |
1994 | The birth of Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Bahamian sprinter |
1995 | The birth of Leander Dendoncker, Belgian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Ashleigh Gardner, Australian cricketer |
1999 | The birth of Denis Shapovalov, Canadian tennis player |
2001 | The birth of Shanti Dope, Filipino rapper |
2012 | The death of Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player (b. 1968) |
2013 | The death of Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Richard LeParmentier, American-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1946) |
2013 | The death of Jean-François Paillard, French conductor (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of John Houbolt, American engineer and academic (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Eliseo Verón, Argentinian sociologist and academic (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Jonathan Crombie, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1966) |
2015 | The death of Surya Bahadur Thapa, Nepalese politician, 24th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1928) |
2017 | The death of Clifton James, American actor (b. 1920) |
2017 | The death of Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian, last person verified born in the 1800s (b. 1899) |
2018 | The death of R. Lee Ermey, American actor (b. 1944) |
2018 | The death of Vittorio Taviani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1929) |
2022 | The death of Bilquis Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist and wife of Abdul Sattar Edhi (b. 1947) |
2022 | The death of Henry Plumb, British politician and farmer (b. 1925) |
2022 | The death of Liz Sheridan, American actress (b. 1929) |
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