Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | James Booker |
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Birthdate | December 17, 1939 |
Birth Place | New Orleans, LA |
Age (in 2024) | 84 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Pianist |
James Booker is best known as Pianist who has born on December 17, 1939 in New Orleans, LA. Currently, James Booker is 84 years, 11 months and 25 days old. James Booker will celebrate 85th birthday on Tuesday, 17th of December 2024. Below the countdown to James Booker upcoming birthday.
New Orleans-born musician who combined rhythm and blues, jazz, gospel, stride, and Latin. He also mastered classical music, such as Bach and Chopin.
He scored a recording deal in 1954 with Imperial, laying down Thinkin' 'Bout My Baby and Doin' the Hambone, as well as participating in session work with Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, and Lloyd Price.
He was the organist for Dr. John's Bonnaroo Revue in 1974.
He was born into a family of Baptist ministers with his father and grandfather being preachers as well as piano players.
He greatly impressed Arthur Rubinstein with his musicality after performing for Rubinstein in 1958 following one of the pianist's concerts.
James Booker is 84 years old today.
James Booker was born on December 17, 1939 in New Orleans, LA.
James Booker zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
James Booker was best known as Pianist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about James Booker's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with James Booker's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1981 | American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy. |
1983 | Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed. |
1989 | Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in TimiÈoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire. |
1989 | Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz InĂĄcio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years. |
1989 | The Simpsons premieres on television with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". |
1997 | Aerosvit Flight 241: A Yakovlev Yak-42 crashes into the Pierian Mountains near Thessaloniki Airport in Thessaloniki, Greece, killing all 70 people on board. |
2002 | Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years. |
2003 | The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend, Maxine Carr, is found guilty of perverting the course of justice. |
2003 | SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight. |
2003 | Sex work rights activists establish December 17 (or "D17") as International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers to memorialize victims of a serial killer who targeted prostitutes, and highlight State violence against sex workers by police and others. |
2005 | Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. |
2005 | Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan. |
2009 | MVÂ Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals. |
2010 | Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring. |
2014 | The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them in 1961. |
1988 | The birth of Craig Sutherland, Scottish footballer |
1991 | The birth of James Hurst, American football player |
1991 | The birth of Jordan Rankin, Australian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Atsedu Tsegay, Ethiopian runner |
1992 | The birth of Quinton de Kock, South African cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Joshua Ingram, Canadian drummer and percussionist |
1993 | The birth of Patricia KĂș Flores, Peruvian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Lloyd Perrett, New Zealand rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Nat Wolff, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player and actor |
1996 | The birth of Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russian figure skater |
1997 | The birth of Naiktha Bains, British-Australian tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Shoma Uno, Japanese figure skater |
1998 | The birth of Jasmine Armfield, English actress |
1998 | The birth of Martin Ădegaard, Norwegian footballer |
1999 | The birth of Mirei Sasaki, Japanese idol |
2013 | The death of Janet Rowley, American geneticist and biologist (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Conny van Rietschoten, Dutch sailor (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (b. 1913) |
2014 | The death of Richard C. Hottelet, American journalist (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Oleh Lysheha, Ukrainian poet and playwright (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of Lowell Steward, American captain (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Ivan VekiÄ, Croatian colonel, lawyer, and politician, Croatian Minister of the Interior (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Hal Brown, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Osamu Hayaishi, American-Japanese biochemist and academic (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Michael Wyschogrod, German-American philosopher and theologian (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Benjamin A. Gilman, American soldier and politician (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of Henry Heimlich, American doctor (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Gordon Hunt, American voice director (b. 1929) |
2020 | The death of Jeremy Bullock, English actor (b. 1945) |
2020 | The death of Allen Dines, American politician (b. 1921) |
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