Updated at December 24, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Eva Jessye |
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Birthdate | January 20, 1895 |
Birth Place | Kansas |
Age (in 2024) | 129 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Composer |
Eva Jessye is best known as Composer who has born on January 20, 1895 in Kansas. Currently, Eva Jessye is 129 years, 11 months and 4 days old. Eva Jessye will celebrate 130th birthday on Monday, 20th of January 2025. Below the countdown to Eva Jessye upcoming birthday.
Famous for music directing the original productions of the respective George Gershwin and Virgil Thomson operas Porgy and Bess (1935) and Four Saints in Three Acts (1933), she is also remembered as America's first internationally-acclaimed female choir conductor of African descent.
After attending both Western University (in Kansas) and Langston University (in Oklahoma), she was appointed choral director at Maryland's Morgan State College.
Also a composer, she was responsible for a 1931 choral work titled The Life of Christ in Negro Spirituals, as well as for a 1927 collection of her choral arrangements of traditional spirituals. While in New York, she performed in a Eugene Ormandy-conducted music program at the Capitol Theatre.
Born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas, she later lived and worked in New York, New York and Ann Arbor, Michigan.
She served as choral director for the 1929, King Vidor-directed MGM feature Hallelujah!
Eva Jessye is 129 years old today.
Eva Jessye was born on January 20, 1895 in Kansas.
Eva Jessye zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Eva Jessye was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Eva Jessye's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1972 | Pakistan launches its nuclear weapons program, a few weeks after its defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, as well as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. |
1973 | Amílcar Cabral, leader of the independence movement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, is assassinated in Conakry, Guinea. |
1974 | China gains control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam. |
1981 | Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America, Iran releases 52 American hostages. |
1986 | In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time. |
1986 | Leabua Jonathan, Prime Minister of Lesotho, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Justin Lekhanya. |
1990 | Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union. |
1991 | Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south. |
1992 | Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France, killing 87 of the 96 people on board. |
2001 | President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent four-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. |
2009 | Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becoming the first African-American President of the United States. |
2009 | A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start. |
2018 | A group of four or five gunmen attack The Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle. The attack kills 40 people and injures many others. |
2018 | Syrian civil war: The Government of Turkey announces the initiation of the Afrin offensive and begins shelling Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positions in Afrin Region. |
2021 | Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America. At 78, he becomes the oldest person ever inaugurated. Kamala Harris becomes the first female Vice President of the United States. |
1984 | The birth of Toni Gonzaga, Filipino singer and television personality |
1987 | The birth of Evan Peters, American actor |
1988 | The birth of Uwa Elderson Echiéjilé, Nigerian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Nick Foles, American football player |
1989 | The birth of Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, New Zealand rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Ciara Hanna, American actress and model |
1991 | The birth of Tom Cairney, Scottish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Polona Hercog, Slovenian tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Lorenzo Crisetig, Italian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Seán Kavanagh, Irish footballer |
1994 | The birth of Lucas Piazon, Brazilian footballer |
1995 | The birth of Joey Badass, American rapper and actor |
1995 | The birth of Calum Chambers, English footballer |
2000 | The birth of Tyler Herro, American basketball player |
2003 | The birth of Antonia Ružić, Croatian tennis player |
2012 | The death of Alejandro Rodriguez, Venezuelan-American pediatrician and psychiatrist (b. 1918) |
2013 | The death of Pavlos Matesis, Greek author and playwright (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Toyo Shibata, Japanese poet and author (b. 1911) |
2014 | The death of Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Otis G. Pike, American judge and politician (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Jonas Trinkūnas, Lithuanian ethnologist and academic (b. 1939) |
2016 | The death of Mykolas Burokevičius, Lithuanian carpenter and politician (b. 1927) |
2016 | The death of Edmonde Charles-Roux, French journalist and author (b. 1920) |
2018 | The death of Paul Bocuse, French chef (b. 1926) |
2018 | The death of Naomi Parker Fraley, American naval machiner (b. 1921) |
2020 | The death of Jaroslav Kubera, Czech politician (b. 1947) |
2020 | The death of Tom Fisher Railsback, American politician, member of the Illinois and U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1932) |
2021 | The death of Sibusiso Moyo, Zimbabwean politician, army general (b. 1960) |
2021 | The death of Mira Furlan, Croatian actress and singer (b. 1955) |
2022 | The death of Meat Loaf, American singer and actor (b. 1947) |
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