Updated at November 24, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Big Joe Williams |
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Birthdate | October 16, 1903 |
Birth Place | Mississippi |
Age (in 2024) | 121 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Guitarist |
Big Joe Williams is best known as Guitarist who has born on October 16, 1903 in Mississippi. Currently, Big Joe Williams is 121 years, 1 months and 8 days old. Big Joe Williams will celebrate 122nd birthday on Thursday, 16th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Big Joe Williams upcoming birthday.
Delta blues musician known as much for his nine-string guitar playing as for his notoriously cankerous personality.
In the days before blues musicians could make a living from selling records, he traveled around the United States playing alleys, bars, stores, and any place else that would have him.
His instrument of choice was a modified nine-string guitar, with three extra strings added so no others could play it.
He was born in Crawford, Mississippi.
Robert Johnson was another prominent Delta Blues guitarist and a contemporary of Big Joe's.
Big Joe Williams is 121 years old today.
Big Joe Williams was born on October 16, 1903 in Mississippi.
Big Joe Williams zodiac sign is Libra.
Big Joe Williams was best known as Guitarist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Big Joe Williams's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Big Joe Williams's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1973 | Henry Kissinger and LĂȘ Äức Thá» are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
1975 | Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, in Portuguese Timor. |
1975 | Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox. |
1975 | The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget. |
1978 | Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523. |
1984 | Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
1985 | The Finnish dry cargo ship MS Hanna-Marjut, on its way from Mariehamn to Naantali, sank in hard sea on the open water of Kihti between the Kökar and Sottunga islands of à land, leading to the drowning of four people. |
1991 | George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20. |
1995 | The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend. |
1995 | The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened. |
1996 | Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City. |
1998 | Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant. |
2002 | The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria. |
2013 | Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people. |
2017 | Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss. |
1985 | The birth of Peter Wallace, Australian rugby league player |
1986 | The birth of Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer |
1986 | The birth of Derk Boerrigter, Dutch footballer |
1988 | The birth of ZoltĂĄn Stieber, Hungarian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player |
1991 | The birth of Shardul Thakur, Indian cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Kostas Fortounis, Greek footballer |
1992 | The birth of Bryce Harper, American baseball player |
1992 | The birth of Stuart Lightbody, Irish badminton player |
1992 | The birth of Viktorija Golubic, Swiss tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Jovit Baldivino, Filipino singer and actor (d. 2022) |
1993 | The birth of Caroline Garcia, French tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player |
1997 | The birth of Charles Leclerc, Monégasque Formula One driver |
1997 | The birth of Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player |
2013 | The death of Saggy Tahir, Pakistani-American lawyer and politician (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Allen Forte, American musicologist and theorist (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Seppo Kuusela, Finnish basketball player and coach (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Richard J. Cardamone, American lawyer and judge (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of James W. Fowler, American psychologist and academic (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of William James, Australian general and physician (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Memduh Ăn, Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb, Canadian professor and computer scientist (b. 1921) |
2017 | The death of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist and blogger (b. 1964) |
2017 | The death of Roy Dotrice, British actor (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of John Dunsworth, Canadian actor (b. 1946) |
2017 | The death of Sean Hughes, British-born Irish stand-up comedian (b. 1965) |
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