Updated at December 12, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Fatima Meer |
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Birthdate | August 12, 1928 |
Birth Place | South Africa |
Age (in 2024) | 96 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Civil Rights Leader |
Fatima Meer is best known as Civil Rights Leader who has born on August 12, 1928 in South Africa. Currently, Fatima Meer is 96 years, 4 months and 0 days old. Fatima Meer will celebrate 97th birthday on Tuesday, 12th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Fatima Meer upcoming birthday.
Visible during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s as an opponent of the apartheid regime, this South African activist also had a prominent career as a scholar and writer. Her publications include Race and Suicide in South Africa, Passive Resistance, and a Nelson Mandela biography titled Higher than Hope.
After graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand, she earned a graduate degree in sociology from the University of Natal.
Her numerous honors include the 1994 Vishwa Gurjari Human Rights Award and the 1975 Union of South African Journalists Award.
She and her siblings grew up in Durban, South Africa, in a family of Indian descent. She later gave birth to a son named Rashid.
Her anti-apartheid work in collaboration with Black Consciousness Movement leader Steve Biko resulted in her being imprisoned and denied a trial.
Fatima Meer is 96 years old today.
Fatima Meer was born on August 12, 1928 in South Africa.
Fatima Meer zodiac sign is Leo.
Fatima Meer was best known as Civil Rights Leader.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Fatima Meer's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1964 | South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies. |
1969 | Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside. |
1976 | Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War. |
1977 | The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise. |
1977 | The Sri Lanka Riots: Targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed. |
1981 | The IBM Personal Computer is released. |
1985 | Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster. |
1990 | Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota. |
1992 | Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). |
1994 | Major League Baseball players go on strike, eventually forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series. |
2000 | The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew. |
2015 | At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China. |
2016 | Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the city of Manbij from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). |
2018 | Thirty-nine civilians, including a dozen children, are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Sarmada, Syria. |
2021 | Six people,five victims and the perpetrator are killed in the worst mass shooting in the UK since 2010 in Keyham, Plymouth. |
1991 | The birth of Sam Hoare, Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Cara Delevingne, English model and actress |
1992 | The birth of Isabella Escobar, Guatemalan tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Jacob Loko, Australian rugby player |
1992 | The birth of Teo Gheorghiu, Swiss pianist and actor |
1993 | The birth of Ewa Farna, Czech singer-songwriter |
1993 | The birth of Luna, South Korean singer, actress and presenter |
1996 | The birth of Choi Yu-jin, South Korean singer and actress |
1996 | The birth of Julio Urías, Mexican baseball player |
1998 | The birth of Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek tennis player |
1999 | The birth of Matthijs de Ligt, Dutch footballer |
1999 | The birth of Dream (YouTuber), American YouTuber and Minecraft speedrunner |
1999 | The birth of Jule Niemeier, German tennis player |
2000 | The birth of Tristan Charpentier, French racing driver |
2001 | The birth of Dixie D'Amelio, American social media personality and singer |
2013 | The death of Pauline Maier, American historian and academic (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of David McLetchie, Scottish lawyer and politician (b. 1952) |
2013 | The death of Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov, Russian ecologist and journalist (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Lauren Bacall, American model, actress, and singer (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Futatsuryū Jun'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1950) |
2014 | The death of Kongō Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and academic (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Stephen Lewis, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Meshulim Feish Lowy, Hungarian-Canadian rabbi and author (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of John Scott, English organist and conductor (b. 1956) |
2016 | The death of Juan Pedro de Miguel, Spanish handball player (b. 1958) |
2017 | The death of Bryan Murray, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1942) |
2019 | The death of DJ Arafat, Ivorian DJ and singer (b. 1986) |
2020 | The death of Bill Yeoman, American college football player and coach (b. 1927) |
2021 | The death of Una Stubbs, English actress, TV personality, and dancer (b. 1937) |
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