Updated at November 7, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | John B Curtis |
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Birthdate | October 10, 1827 |
Birth Place | Maine |
Age (in 2024) | 197 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
John B Curtis is best known as Entrepreneur who has born on October 10, 1827 in Maine. Currently, John B Curtis is 197 years, 0 months and 28 days old. John B Curtis will celebrate 198th birthday on Friday, 10th of October 2025. Below the countdown to John B Curtis upcoming birthday.
Famous as the first person to market and commercially produce chewing gum, Curtis made the product from spruce tree resin. He and his father eventually formed the Curtis & Son company, which manufactured nearly two thousand packages of chewing gum daily.
Before coming up with the idea to mass produce chewing gum, he worked on a farm.
His chewing gum varieties included "Licorice Lulu," "Sugar Cream," and "Yankee Spruce."
He and his brother and sister grew up in Maine as the children of John and Mary Curtis. In the late 1870s, he married Alice Bacon.
He and microwave oven inventor Percy Spencer were both born in Maine during the nineteenth century.
John B Curtis is 197 years old today.
John B Curtis was born on October 10, 1827 in Maine.
John B Curtis zodiac sign is Libra.
John B Curtis was best known as Entrepreneur.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about John B Curtis's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with John B Curtis's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1975 | Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations. |
1979 | The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant began operations in Eurajoki, Satakunta, Finland. |
1980 | The 7.1 Mw El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369. |
1980 | The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador. |
1985 | US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy. |
1986 | A 5.7 Mw San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500. |
1997 | Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74. |
1998 | A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people. |
2002 | Iraq War: The United States Congress approves the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002. |
2007 | Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space on board Soyuz TMA-11. |
2009 | Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side. |
2010 | The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country. |
2015 | Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and injure 500+. |
2018 | Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage. |
2022 | Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. |
1991 | The birth of Lali Espósito, Argentinian actress and singer |
1991 | The birth of Mariana Pajón, Colombian cyclist |
1991 | The birth of Xherdan Shaqiri, Swiss footballer |
1993 | The birth of Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Cuban baseball player |
1993 | The birth of Jayden Stockley, English footballer |
1994 | The birth of Ilya Mikheyev, Russian ice hockey player |
1994 | The birth of Marquez Valdes-Scantling, American football player |
1994 | The birth of Tereza Smitková, Czech tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Bae Suzy, South Korean singer, actress and model |
1995 | The birth of Brenko Lee, Australian-born Tongan rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Courtland Sutton, American football player |
1996 | The birth of Sami Niku, Finnish ice hockey player |
1996 | The birth of Genesis Cabrera, Dominican baseball player |
1997 | The birth of Vinnie Pasquantino, American baseball player |
2002 | The birth of Josh Giddey, Australian basketball player |
2013 | The death of Cal Smith, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Olav Dale, Norwegian saxophonist and composer (b. 1958) |
2014 | The death of Damiana Eugenio, Filipino author and academic (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Valeri Karpov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1971) |
2014 | The death of Lari Ketner, American football and basketball player (b. 1977) |
2014 | The death of Pavel Landovský, Czech actor, director, and playwright (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Ed Nimmervoll, Austrian-Australian journalist, historian, and author (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, Nigerian politician, Governor of Bayelsa State (b. 1952) |
2015 | The death of Hilla Becher, German photographer and educator (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Manorama, Indian (Tamil) actress (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Steve Mackay, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1949) |
2015 | The death of Sybil Stockdale, American activist, co-founded the National League of Families (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Donn Fendler, American author and speaker (b. 1926) |
2021 | The death of Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical scientist (b. 1936) |
2022 | The death of Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician, 15th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1939) |
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