Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Big Mama Thornton |
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Birthdate | December 11, 1926 |
Birth Place | Alabama |
Age (in 2024) | 97 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Blues Singer |
Big Mama Thornton is best known as Blues Singer who has born on December 11, 1926 in Alabama. Currently, Big Mama Thornton is 97 years, 10 months and 22 days old. Big Mama Thornton will celebrate 98th birthday on Wednesday, 11th of December 2024. Below the countdown to Big Mama Thornton upcoming birthday.
American blues singer most widely remembered for her 1952 hit "Hound Dog," which became a huge hit for Elvis Presley three years later. She was nominated for six Blues Music Awards during her career and was inducted into both the Blues Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
She quit school following the death of her mother and began working at a local tavern. She left home in 1940 and joined the Sammy Greens Hot Harlem Revue.
She became known for the subverting many of the gender expectations of her time, often donning clothes traditionally worn by men during her live performances.
Her birth name was Willie Mae Thornton. She was one of seven children born to a minister and a church singer.
Like "Hound Dog," her song "Ball 'N' Chain" was later made more famous by another singer, Janis Joplin.
Big Mama Thornton is 97 years old today.
Big Mama Thornton was born on December 11, 1926 in Alabama.
Big Mama Thornton zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Big Mama Thornton was best known as Blues Singer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Big Mama Thornton'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 Mama Thornton's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1997 | The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature. |
1998 | Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-200 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation. |
1999 | SATA Air Açores Flight 530M crashes into Pico da Esperança on São Jorge Island in the Azores, killing 35. |
2001 | China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO). |
2005 | The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England. |
2005 | Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla. |
2006 | The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern. |
2006 | Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War. |
2007 | Insurgency in the Maghreb: Two car bombs explode in Algiers, Algeria, one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations. |
2008 | Bernie Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. |
2009 | Finnish game developer Rovio Entertainment releases the hit mobile game Angry Birds internationally on iOS. |
2012 | At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria. |
2017 | New York City Subway bombing: A pipe bomb partially detonates in the New York City Subway, in the Times Square-42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal. Four people are injured, including the perpetrator. |
2019 | The results of the 2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum are announced. The results are overwhelmingly one-sided. Over 98% of voters vote for Bougainville's independence. |
2020 | The Food and Drug Administration issues an Emergency Use Authorization on the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the agency. |
1984 | The birth of James Ellsworth, American wrestler |
1985 | The birth of Karla Souza, Mexican actress |
1986 | The birth of Roy Hibbert, American basketball player |
1987 | The birth of Clifton Geathers, American football player |
1987 | The birth of Alex Russell, Australian actor |
1987 | The birth of Miranda Tapsell, Australian actress |
1988 | The birth of Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer |
1989 | The birth of Kellie Harrington, Irish boxer |
1990 | The birth of Derrick Nix, American basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Tiffany Alvord, American singer-songwriter |
1992 | The birth of Dalton Pompey, Canadian baseball player |
1993 | The birth of Yalitza Aparicio, Mexican actress |
1995 | The birth of Abbi Grant, Scottish footballer |
1996 | The birth of Hailee Steinfeld, American actress, singer and songwriter |
2000 | The birth of Emily Whitehead, artistic gymnast |
2012 | The death of Mendel Weinbach, Polish-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1933) |
2012 | The death of Ravi Shankar, Indian-American sitar player and composer (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter and architect (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Barbara Branden, Canadian-American author and academic (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Javier Jáuregui (boxer), Mexican boxer (b. 1973) |
2013 | The death of Sheikh Mussa Shariefi, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Hans Wallat, German conductor and director (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Abish Kekilbayev, Kazakh academic and politician (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of H. Arnold Steinberg, Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and academic (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Hema Upadhyay, Indian painter and sculptor (b. 1972) |
2015 | The death of John "Hot Rod" Williams, American basketball player (b. 1962) |
2015 | The death of Ken Woolley, Australian architect (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Keith Chegwin, British TV presenter (b. 1957) |
2020 | The death of James Flynn, New Zealand intelligence researcher. (b. 1934) |
2021 | The death of Anne Rice, American author (b. 1941) |
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