Updated at December 15, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | James Madison |
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Birthdate | March 16, 1751 |
Birth Place | Port Conway, VA |
Age (in 2024) | 273 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | US President |
James Madison is best known as US President who has born on March 16, 1751 in Port Conway, VA. Currently, James Madison is 273 years, 8 months and 30 days old. James Madison will celebrate 274th birthday on Sunday, 16th of March 2025. Below the countdown to James Madison upcoming birthday.
The Father of the Constitution and fourth President of the United States who notably authored the United States Bill of Rights.
He chose to attend the College of New Jersey, which would become Princeton University, instead of the popular institution among Virginians of his day, the College of William & Mary, mainly because of the climate in which the school was located.
He wrote the 85 Federalist Papers, which were essays that promoted the ratification of the United States Constitution, along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay.
His father, James Madison Sr., was a wealthy tobacco planter who owned a plantation, Mt. Pleasant. In 1794, he married Dolley Madison and adopted her son John Payne Todd.
He was the U.S. Secretary of State under President Thomas Jefferson.
James Madison is 273 years old today.
James Madison was born on March 16, 1751 in Port Conway, VA.
James Madison zodiac sign is Pisces.
James Madison was best known as US President.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about James Madison'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 Madison's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1984 | William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah; he later dies in captivity. |
1985 | Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he not released until December 1991. |
1988 | Iran-Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. |
1988 | Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people. |
1988 | The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded. |
1995 | Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865. |
2001 | A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China kill 108 people and injure 38 others, the biggest mass murder in China in decades. |
2003 | American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah by being run over by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer while trying to obstruct the demolition of a home. |
2005 | Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control. |
2014 | Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia. |
2016 | A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 30. |
2016 | Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 24 and injuring 18. |
2020 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0-0.25%. |
2021 | Atlanta spa shootings: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day. |
2022 | A 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225. |
1988 | The birth of Jessica Gregg, Canadian speed skater |
1988 | The birth of Patrick Herrmann, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of Blake Griffin, American basketball player |
1989 | The birth of Jung So-min, South Korean actress |
1989 | The birth of Magalie Pottier, French racing cyclist |
1989 | The birth of Theo Walcott, English footballer |
1990 | The birth of Andre Young, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Reggie Bullock, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Wolfgang Van Halen, American bassist |
1993 | The birth of George Ford, English rugby union player |
1993 | The birth of Marine Lorphelin, Miss France |
1994 | The birth of Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player |
1995 | The birth of Inga Janulevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater |
1997 | The birth of Florian Neuhaus, German football player |
1999 | The birth of Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Canadian baseball player |
2013 | The death of Ruchoma Shain, American-born teacher and author (b. 1914) |
2013 | The death of Marina Solodkin, Russian-Israeli academic and politician (b. 1952) |
2013 | The death of Frank Thornton, English actor (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Gary Bettenhausen, American race car driver (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Donald Crothers, American chemist and academic (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy, Sierra Leonean author, poet, and playwright (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Steve Moore, English author and illustrator (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of Alexander Pochinok, Russian economist and politician (b. 1958) |
2015 | The death of Jack Haley, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1964) |
2015 | The death of Don Robertson, American pianist and composer (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician and poet (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Frank Sinatra Jr., American singer and actor (b. 1944) |
2017 | The death of Lewis Rowland, American neurologist (b. 1925) |
2018 | The death of Louise Slaughter, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York (b. 1929) |
2019 | The death of Dick Dale, American surf-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (b. 1937) |
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