Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | James Mckeen Cattell |
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Birthdate | May 25, 1860 |
Birth Place | Pennsylvania |
Age (in 2024) | 164 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Psychologist |
James Mckeen Cattell is best known as Psychologist who has born on May 25, 1860 in Pennsylvania. Currently, James Mckeen Cattell is 164 years, 5 months and 27 days old. James Mckeen Cattell will celebrate 165th birthday on Sunday, 25th of May 2025. Below the countdown to James Mckeen Cattell upcoming birthday.
Psychologist whose experiments in mental ability helped establish the field as a legitimate scientific discipline. The New York Times once called him "the dean of American science".
He published dozens of articles measuring human reaction times and memory, which he considered a proxy for intelligence.
An outspoken opponent of American involvement in WWI, he was fired from his post at Columbia, but sued and won, which established the tradition of tenure to protect academics with unpopular beliefs.
He married Josephine Owens, the daughter of an English merchant; they home-schooled their children before college age.
Jean Piaget was another notable psychologist, who studied human intelligence - in his case, in children.
James Mckeen Cattell is 164 years old today.
James Mckeen Cattell was born on May 25, 1860 in Pennsylvania.
James Mckeen Cattell zodiac sign is Gemini.
James Mckeen Cattell was best known as Psychologist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with James Mckeen Cattell's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1985 | Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people. |
1986 | The Hands Across America event takes place. |
1997 | A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma. |
1999 | The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades. |
2000 | Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 18 years after the invasion of 1982. |
2001 | Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull. |
2002 | China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait, with the loss of all 225 people on board. |
2008 | NASA's Phoenix lander touches down in the Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life. |
2009 | North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device, after which Pyongyang also conducts several missile tests, building tensions in the international community. |
2011 | Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show. |
2012 | The SpaceX Dragon 1 becomes the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station. |
2013 | Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India. |
2013 | A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 18 people. |
2018 | The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union. |
2018 | Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland. |
1986 | The birth of Geraint Thomas, Welsh cyclist |
1987 | The birth of Timothy Derijck, Belgian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Yves De Winter, Belgian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Moritz Stehling, German footballer |
1987 | The birth of Kamil Stoch, Polish ski jumper |
1988 | The birth of Dávid Škutka, Slovak footballer |
1988 | The birth of Cameron van der Burgh, South African swimmer |
1990 | The birth of Bo Dallas, American wrestler |
1990 | The birth of Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player |
1993 | The birth of James Porter, English cricketer |
1994 | The birth of Matt Murray, Canadian ice hockey player |
1994 | The birth of Aly Raisman, American gymnast |
1995 | The birth of Kagiso Rabada, South African cricketer |
1996 | The birth of David Pastrňák, Czech ice hockey player |
2000 | The birth of Claire Liu, American tennis player |
2013 | The death of Nand Kumar Patel, Indian politician (b. 1953) |
2014 | The death of David Allen, English cricketer (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Marcel Côté, Canadian economist and politician (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general and politician, 1st President of Poland (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Herb Jeffries, American singer and actor (b. 1913) |
2014 | The death of Toaripi Lauti, Tuvaluan educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Matthew Saad Muhammad, American boxer and trainer (b. 1954) |
2015 | The death of George Braden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of the Northwest Territories (b. 1949) |
2015 | The death of Robert Lebel, Canadian bishop (b. 1924) |
2018 | The death of Kaduvetti Guru, Indian politician and Veera Vanniyar caste leader (b. 1961) |
2019 | The death of Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (b. 1926) |
2020 | The death of George Floyd, African American man murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin (b. 1973) |
2021 | The death of John Warner, American attorney and politician (b. 1927) |
2021 | The death of Lois Ehlert, American author and illustrator (b. 1934) |
2022 | The death of Morton L. Janklow, American literary agent (b. 1930) |
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