Updated at December 12, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Emmett Till |
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Birthdate | July 25, 1941 |
Birth Place | Chicago, IL |
Age (in 2024) | 83 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Emmett Till was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago, IL. Currently, Emmett Till is 83 years, 4 months and 18 days old. Emmett Till will celebrate 84th birthday on Friday, 25th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Emmett Till upcoming birthday.
African-American youth who was beaten and murdered for talking to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, a white woman, in 1955. His murder and subsequent trial were pivotal events in the instigation of the African-American Civl Rights Movement and were covered heavily in the 1987 Emmy award-winning series Eyes on the Prize.
He attended McCosh Elementary School.
Carolyn's husband, Roy, and his half-brother Milam abducted 14-year-old Till, removed one of his eyes, and shot him before tying a 70-pound cotton gin fan to his neck with barbed wire and dumping him in the Tallahatchie River.
His mother insisted that he had a public funeral with an open casket to publicize his death.
Bryant and Milam were acquitted of his murder, although they admitted to killing him in a magazine interview. The trial added momentum to the Civil Rights Movement, which was led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Emmett Till is 83 years old today.
Emmett Till was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago, IL.
Emmett Till zodiac sign is Leo.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Emmett Till's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1978 | Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders. |
1978 | Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF. |
1979 | In accord with the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. |
1983 | Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners. |
1984 | Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. |
1993 | Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War. |
1993 | The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa. |
1994 | Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948. |
1995 | A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded. |
1996 | In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya. |
2000 | Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people. |
2007 | Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president. |
2010 | WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. |
2018 | As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria. |
2019 | National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave. |
1987 | The birth of Jax Jones, English DJ, singer and songwriter |
1987 | The birth of Eran Zahavi, Israeli footballer |
1988 | The birth of John Goossens, Dutch footballer |
1988 | The birth of Tom Hiariej, Dutch footballer |
1988 | The birth of Stacey Kemp, English skater |
1988 | The birth of Paulinho, Brazilian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Natalia Vieru, Russian basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Thodoris Karapetsas, Greek footballer |
1991 | The birth of Hasan Piker, Twitch streamer |
1991 | The birth of Toni Duggan, English footballer |
1992 | The birth of Sergei Simonov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2016) |
1994 | The birth of Natalija Stevanović, Serbian tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Maria Sakkari, Greek tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Nat Butcher, Australian rugby league player |
2013 | The death of William J. Guste, American lawyer and politician (b. 1922) |
2013 | The death of Hugh Huxley, English-American biologist and academic (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Bel Kaufman, German-American author and academic (b. 1911) |
2014 | The death of Richard Larter, Australian painter and illustrator (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Jacques Andreani, French diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of R. S. Gavai, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor of Kerala (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Bob Kauffman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1946) |
2016 | The death of Tim LaHaye, American Christian minister and author (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of Tom Peterson, American television personality (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944) |
2018 | The death of Sergio Marchionne, Italian-Canadian businessman (b. 1952) |
2019 | The death of Beji Caid Essebsi, 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1926) |
2020 | The death of Peter Green, English blues rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and founder of Fleetwood Mac (b. 1946) |
2020 | The death of Lou Henson, American college basketball coach (b. 1932) |
2022 | The death of Paul Sorvino, American actor (b. 1939) |
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