Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Edith Windsor |
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Birthdate | June 20, 1929 |
Birth Place | Philadelphia, PA |
Age (in 2024) | 95 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Activist |
Edith Windsor is best known as Activist who has born on June 20, 1929 in Philadelphia, PA. Currently, Edith Windsor is 95 years, 5 months and 21 days old. Edith Windsor will celebrate 96th birthday on Friday, 20th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Edith Windsor upcoming birthday.
American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM. She is known for her work in the Supreme Court case of United States v. Windsor, which was considered a landmark legal victory for the same-sex marriage movement in the United States.
She received her bachelor's degree from Temple University in 1950. In 1955, she began pursuing a master's degree in mathematics, which she obtained from New York University in 1957. She fell in love with a fellow classmate at Temple University. Although she would marry Saul Windsor, they later divorced due to her love for women.
She has received a variety of awards for her work as an activist including the Susan B. Anthony Award in February of 2012 as well as the New York City Council Award in June of 2011.
She was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James and Celia Schlain. She would go on to marry Judith Kasen in 2016.
Her death was referred to and honored by a variety of celebrities including Bill Clinton, Andrew Cuomo, and Dianne Feinstein.
Edith Windsor is 95 years old today.
Edith Windsor was born on June 20, 1929 in Philadelphia, PA.
Edith Windsor zodiac sign is Gemini.
Edith Windsor was best known as Activist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Edith Windsor's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1964 | A Curtiss C-46 Commando crashes in the Shengang District of Taiwan, killing 57 people. |
1972 | Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex. |
1973 | Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured. |
1973 | Aeroméxico Flight 229 crashes on approach to Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport, killing all 27 people on board. |
1975 | The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters". |
1979 | ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan National Guard soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle during the Nicaraguan Revolution. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime. |
1982 | The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide opens in Tel Aviv, despite attempts by the Turkish government to cancel it, as it included presentations on the Armenian genocide. |
1982 | The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War. |
1988 | Haitian President Leslie Manigat is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant general Henri Namphy. |
1990 | Asteroid Eureka is discovered. |
1990 | The 7.4 Mw Manjil-Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000-50,000, and injuring 60,000-105,000. |
1991 | The German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital of Berlin. |
1994 | The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured. |
2003 | The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida. |
2019 | Iran's Air Defense Forces shoot down an American surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid rising tensions between the two countries. |
1987 | The birth of Carsten Ball, Australian tennis player |
1987 | The birth of Asmir Begović, Bosnian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Joseph Ebuya, Kenyan runner |
1989 | The birth of Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor |
1989 | The birth of Javier Pastore, Argentinian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Terrelle Pryor, American football player |
1990 | The birth of DeQuan Jones, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Kalidou Koulibaly, Senegalese footballer |
1991 | The birth of Rick ten Voorde, Dutch footballer |
1994 | The birth of Leonard Williams, American football player |
1995 | The birth of Caroline Weir, Scottish footballer |
1995 | The birth of Carol Zhao, Canadian tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Sam Bennett, Canadian ice hockey player |
1997 | The birth of Bálint Kopasz, Hungarian sprint canoeist |
2003 | The birth of Hans Niemann, American chess player |
2004 | The death of Jim Bacon, Australian politician, 41st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1950) |
2005 | The death of Larry Collins, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1929) |
2005 | The death of Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923) |
2010 | The death of Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (b. 1943) |
2010 | The death of Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic (b. 1916) |
2011 | The death of Ryan Dunn, American television personality (b. 1977) |
2012 | The death of Judy Agnew, Second Lady of the United States. (b. 1921) |
2012 | The death of LeRoy Neiman, American painter (b. 1921) |
2012 | The death of Heinrich IV, Prince Reuss of Köstritz (b. 1919) |
2012 | The death of Andrew Sarris, American critic (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of Ingvar Rydell, Swedish footballer (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Angelo Niculescu, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Miriam Schapiro, Canadian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of Prodigy, American music artist (b. 1974) |
2022 | The death of Caleb Swanigan, American NBA player. (b. 1997) |
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