Updated at December 15, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Billie Pierce |
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Birthdate | June 08, 1907 |
Birth Place | Marianna, FL |
Age (in 2024) | 117 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Pianist |
Billie Pierce is best known as Pianist who has born on June 08, 1907 in Marianna, FL. Currently, Billie Pierce is 117 years, 6 months and 7 days old. Billie Pierce will celebrate 118th birthday on Sunday, 8th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Billie Pierce upcoming birthday.
Jazz artist and singer who became a well-known performer in the New Orleans jazz scene from the 1950s until the early 1970s.
She became a member of several bands in the late 1920s, including Alphonse Picou's band, Emile Barnes' band, and George Lewis' band.
She met her husband, trumpeter De De Pierce, while she was performing at the Blue Jay Club in the 1930s.
She was born into a family where her six sisters all played piano as did her mother and father.
She accompanied singer Bessie Smith early on in her career when Smith was playing in a Pensacola, Florida, theater.
Billie Pierce is 117 years old today.
Billie Pierce was born on June 08, 1907 in Marianna, FL.
Billie Pierce zodiac sign is Gemini.
Billie Pierce was best known as Pianist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Billie Pierce's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Billie Pierce's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1968 | James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested at London Heathrow Airport. |
1972 | Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running naked down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo. |
1982 | Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFAÂ Sir Galahad and RFAÂ Sir Tristram. |
1982 | VASP Flight 168 crashes in Pacatuba, Ceará, Brazil, killing 128 people. |
1984 | Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Australian state of New South Wales. |
1987 | New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987. |
1992 | The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
1995 | Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia. |
2001 | Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan. |
2004 | The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882. |
2007 | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MVÂ Pasha Bulker. |
2008 | At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse. |
2008 | At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan. |
2009 | Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour. |
2014 | At least 28 people are killed in an attack at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan. |
1967 | The birth of Russell E. Morris, Welsh chemist and academic |
1968 | The birth of Sharon Shannon, Irish traditional musician |
1969 | The birth of David Barnhill, Australian rugby league player |
1970 | The birth of Steve Renouf, Australian rugby league player |
1975 | The birth of Mark Ricciuto, Australian footballer and sportcaster |
1976 | The birth of Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player |
1977 | The birth of Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer |
1978 | The birth of Maria Menounos, American television personality, professional wrestler, author, and actress |
1981 | The birth of Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author (d. 2019) |
1982 | The birth of Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player |
1983 | The birth of Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player; winner of six Grand Slam tournament titles. |
1984 | The birth of Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer |
1986 | The birth of Keith Gill, American financial analyst and investor |
1989 | The birth of Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player |
2006 | The death of Jaxon, American illustrator and publisher, co-founded Rip Off Press (b. 1941) |
2006 | The death of Matta El Meskeen, Egyptian monk, theologian, and author (b. 1919) |
2009 | The death of Omar Bongo, Gabonese captain and politician, President of Gabon (b. 1935) |
2012 | The death of Charles E. M. Pearce, New Zealand-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1940) |
2012 | The death of Ghassan Tueni, Lebanese journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1948) |
2013 | The death of Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist, and critic (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, 5th First Spouse of Indonesia (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (b. 1903) |
2014 | The death of Yoshihito, Prince Katsura of Japan (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of Chea Sim, Cambodian commander and politician (b. 1932) |
2017 | The death of Sam Panopoulos, Greek cook (b. 1934) |
2018 | The death of Anthony Bourdain, American chef and travel documentarian (b. 1956) |
2019 | The death of Andre Matos, Brazilian heavy metal musician (b. 1971) |
2022 | The death of Paula Rego, Portuguese-British visual artist (b. 1935) |
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