Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Essie Mae Washington-Williams |
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Birthdate | October 12, 1925 |
Birth Place | Edgefield, SC |
Age (in 2024) | 99 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Memoirist |
Essie Mae Washington-Williams is best known as Memoirist who has born on October 12, 1925 in Edgefield, SC. Currently, Essie Mae Washington-Williams is 99 years, 1 months and 5 days old. Essie Mae Washington-Williams will celebrate 100th birthday on Sunday, 12th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Essie Mae Washington-Williams upcoming birthday.
Best known as the illegitimate African-American child of segregationist senator Strom Thurmond, she published her Pulitzer-nominated memoir, Dear Senator, in 2005.
After graduating from high school, she pursued a nursing career in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. She later studied education at the University of Southern California and had a thirty-year career as a Los Angeles schoolteacher.
She was active in the civil rights movement during the 1960s.
She was born to the Thurmond family's sixteen-year-old servant when her biological father, Strom Thurmond, was twenty-two years old. She did not know the identity of her father until she was a teenager. She was raised by her mother, Carrie Butler.
She and Bob Telson were both nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams is 99 years old today.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams was born on October 12, 1925 in Edgefield, SC.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams zodiac sign is Libra.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams was best known as Memoirist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Essie Mae Washington-Williams's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1997 | The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock. |
1998 | Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie. |
1999 | Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup. |
1999 | The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia. |
2000 | The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39. |
2002 | Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300. |
2005 | The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days. |
2010 | The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program airs controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"), which leads to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church. |
2012 | The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. |
2013 | Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in Peru. |
2017 | The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows. |
2018 | Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. |
2019 | Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people. |
2019 | Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna. |
2019 | The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing two and injuring 20. |
1987 | The birth of Marvin Ogunjimi, Belgian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Sam Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player |
1988 | The birth of Calum Scott, British singer |
1989 | The birth of Anna Ohmiya, Japanese curler |
1990 | The birth of Henri Lansbury, English footballer |
1991 | The birth of Nicolao Dumitru, Italian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Josh Hutcherson, American actor and producer |
1994 | The birth of Alex Katz, American baseball player |
1994 | The birth of Sean Monahan, Canadian ice hockey player |
1994 | The birth of Olivia Smoliga, American swimmer |
1995 | The birth of Jessica Hogg, Welsh artistic gymnast |
1996 | The birth of James Graham, British singer |
1996 | The birth of Owen Watkin, Welsh rugby player |
1997 | The birth of Curtis Scott, Australian rugby league player |
2004 | The birth of Darci Lynne, American ventriloquist |
2012 | The death of Torkom Manoogian, Iraqi-Armenian patriarch (b. 1919) |
2012 | The death of Erik Moseholm, Danish bassist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1930) |
2012 | The death of Břetislav Pojar, Czech animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923) |
2013 | The death of George Herbig, American astronomer and academic (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Oscar Hijuelos, American author and academic (b. 1951) |
2013 | The death of Hans Wilhelm Longva, Norwegian diplomat (b. 1942) |
2013 | The death of Malcolm Renfrew, American chemist and academic (b. 1910) |
2014 | The death of Ali Mazrui, Kenyan-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Graham Miles, English snooker player (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Roberto Telch, Argentinian footballer and coach (b. 1943) |
2015 | The death of Abdallah Kigoda, Tanzanian politician, 8th Tanzanian Minister of Industry and Trade (b. 1953) |
2015 | The death of Joan Leslie, American actress, dancer, and vaudevillian (b. 1925) |
2017 | The death of Margarita D'Amico, Venezuelan journalist (b. 1938) |
2020 | The death of Conchata Ferrell, American actress (b. 1943) |
2020 | The death of Roberta McCain, American socialite and oil heiress (b. 1912) |
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