Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Chick Webb |
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Birthdate | February 10, 1905 |
Birth Place | Baltimore, MD |
Age (in 2024) | 119 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Drummer |
Chick Webb is best known as Drummer who has born on February 10, 1905 in Baltimore, MD. Currently, Chick Webb is 119 years, 9 months and 13 days old. Chick Webb will celebrate 120th birthday on Monday, 10th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Chick Webb upcoming birthday.
Jazz and swing music drummer who played with the Chick Webb band, which featured the then-unknown Ella Fitzgerald.
He worked as a newspaper boy. His first professional drumming gig happened when he was eleven years old.
He rejected the suggestion that he should retire in 1938 when his health was rapidly failing because he knew his band needed to work after the Great Depression had wreaked havoc on the group.
He was married to Martha Loretta Ferguson.
He has been credited for influencing music created by Duke Ellington.
Chick Webb is 119 years old today.
Chick Webb was born on February 10, 1905 in Baltimore, MD.
Chick Webb zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Chick Webb was best known as Drummer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Chick Webb's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Chick Webb's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1954 | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam. |
1962 | Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. |
1964 | Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82. |
1967 | The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified. |
1972 | Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates. |
1984 | Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5,000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre. |
1989 | Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party. |
1996 | IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time. |
2003 | France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq. |
2004 | Forty-three people are killed and three are injured when a Fokker 50 crashes near Sharjah International Airport. |
2009 | The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. |
2013 | Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival. |
2016 | South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4. |
2018 | Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns. |
2021 | The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
1992 | The birth of Haruka Nakagawa, Japanese singer and actress |
1992 | The birth of Reinhold Yabo, German footballer |
1993 | The birth of Max Kepler, German baseball player |
1993 | The birth of Filip Twardzik, Czech footballer |
1993 | The birth of Luis Madrigal, Mexican footballer |
1994 | The birth of Kang Seul-gi, South Korean singer |
1994 | The birth of Son Na-eun, South Korean singer and actress |
1995 | The birth of Carolane Soucisse, Canadian ice dancer |
1995 | The birth of Lexi Thompson, American professional golfer |
1996 | The birth of Emanuel Mammana, Argentinian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Lilly King, American swimmer |
1997 | The birth of Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress |
1997 | The birth of Nadia Podoroska, Argentine tennis player |
2000 | The birth of María Carlé, Argentine tennis player |
2000 | The birth of Yara Shahidi, American actress and model |
2012 | The death of Jeffrey Zaslow, American journalist and author (b. 1958) |
2013 | The death of W. Watts Biggers, American author, screenwriter, and animator (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of David Hartman, American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher, founded the Shalom Hartman Institute (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Stuart Hall, Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Naseer Aruri, Palestinian scholar and activist (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Deng Liqun, Chinese theorist and politician (b. 1915) |
2016 | The death of Fatima Surayya Bajia, Indian-Pakistani author and playwright (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Mike Ilitch, American businessman (b. 1929) |
2019 | The death of Carmen Argenziano, American actor (b. 1943) |
2019 | The death of Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (b. 1944) |
2021 | The death of Larry Flynt, American publisher (b. 1942) |
2022 | The death of Olsen Filipaina, New Zealand rugby league player (b. 1957) |
2023 | The death of AKA, South African rapper (b. 1988) |
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Website | Chick Webb's Webiste |
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