Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Helen Humes |
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Birthdate | June 23, 1913 |
Birth Place | Kentucky |
Age (in 2024) | 111 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Jazz Singer |
Helen Humes is best known as Jazz Singer who has born on June 23, 1913 in Kentucky. Currently, Helen Humes is 111 years, 4 months and 9 days old. Helen Humes will celebrate 112th birthday on Monday, 23rd of June 2025. Below the countdown to Helen Humes upcoming birthday.
Remembered for her contributions to the jazz, swing, blues, and R&B music genres, she was nominated for a Grammy Award for her 1981 vocal jazz album Helen. Her earlier recordings include Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness if I Do (1959), Swingin' with Humes (1961), and Sneakin' Around (1974).
While participating in a 1926 vocal contest, she was discovered by blues guitarist Sylvester Weaver, and she went on to record her first blues album when she was only fourteen years old.
She contributed to the soundtracks of the 1950s films My Blue Heaven and Panic in the Streets and appeared in the Dizzy Gillespie musical movie Jivin' in Be-Bop.
The only child of Emma Johnson and lawyer John Henry Humes, she grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. After living and performing in Buffalo, New York and Cincinnati, Ohio, she settled in Los Angeles, California.
She rose to fame while singing in The Count Basie Orchestra in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as a replacement for the touring band's previous singer, Billie Holiday, and was featured on the group's The Original American Decca Recordings album.
Helen Humes is 111 years old today.
Helen Humes was born on June 23, 1913 in Kentucky.
Helen Humes zodiac sign is Cancer.
Helen Humes was best known as Jazz Singer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Helen Humes's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1969 | IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry. |
1972 | Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about illegally using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins. |
1972 | Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds. |
1973 | A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale. |
1985 | A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard. |
1991 | Sonic the Hedgehog is released in North America on the Sega Genesis platform, beginning the popular video game franchise. |
1994 | NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center. |
2001 | The 8.4 Mw  southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured. |
2012 | Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials. |
2013 | Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope. |
2013 | Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, killing ten climbers and a local guide. |
2014 | The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction. |
2016 | The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%. |
2017 | A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others. |
2018 | Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation. |
1988 | The birth of Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast |
1989 | The birth of Lisa Carrington, New Zealand flatwater canoeist |
1989 | The birth of Jordan Nolan, Canadian ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Clevid Dikamona, French footballer |
1990 | The birth of Vasek Pospisil, Canadian tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Laura RÃ fols, Spanish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Katie Armiger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1992 | The birth of Luiza Galiulina, Uzbekistani gymnast |
1992 | The birth of Nampalys Mendy, French footballer |
1993 | The birth of Tim Anderson, American baseball player |
1993 | The birth of Marvin Grumann, German footballer |
1994 | The birth of Ben Dwarshuis, Australian cricketer |
2000 | The birth of Starford To'a, New Zealand rugby league player |
2007 | The birth of Elliana Walmsley, American dancer |
2008 | The birth of Lilliana Ketchman, American dancer and YouTuber |
2013 | The death of Bobby Bland, American singer-songwriter (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Gary David Goldberg, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1944) |
2013 | The death of Frank Kelso, American admiral and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Kurt Leichtweiss, German mathematician and academic (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Darryl Read, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (b. 1951) |
2013 | The death of Sharon Stouder, American swimmer (b. 1948) |
2014 | The death of Nancy Garden, American author (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Euros Lewis, Welsh cricketer (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Paula Kent Meehan, American businesswoman, co-founded Redken (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Miguel Facussé Barjum, Honduran businessman (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Nirmala Joshi, Indian nun, lawyer, and social worker (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Dick Van Patten, American actor (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Ralph Stanley, American singer and banjo player (b. 1927) |
2021 | The death of John McAfee, British-American computer programmer and businessman, founded McAfee (b. 1945) |
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