Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | John Chambers |
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Birthdate | September 12, 1922 |
Birth Place | Illinois |
Age (in 2024) | 102 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Makeup Artist |
John Chambers is best known as Makeup Artist who has born on September 12, 1922 in Illinois. Currently, John Chambers is 102 years, 3 months and 1 days old. John Chambers will celebrate 103rd birthday on Friday, 12th of September 2025. Below the countdown to John Chambers upcoming birthday.
Famous for his work on the original Star Trek series and on the Planet of the Apes films, this renowned makeup artist received an Academy Honorary Award in 1968.
Before studying with 20th-century Fox makeup head Ben Nye, Chambers worked as a jewelry designer and built prosthetic arms and legs for soldiers wounded in World War II.
He received the Intelligence Medal of Merit for his key role in securing -- through expert, makeup-based disguises -- the escape of several American hostages from Iran during a 1979 operation known as the "Canadian Caper." Played by John Goodman, he is a character in the Academy Award-winning movie Argo, which tells the story of this unique event.
He grew up in Chicago, Illinois, as the son of Irish-American parents. He later settled in Los Angeles, California, with his wife, Joan.
He is particularly known for fashioning the trademark pointed ears of Leonard Nimoy's Spock character on the original Star Trek series.
John Chambers is 102 years old today.
John Chambers was born on September 12, 1922 in Illinois.
John Chambers zodiac sign is Virgo.
John Chambers was best known as Makeup Artist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with John Chambers's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1990 | The Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal suspects after two days of talks in Kinmen, Fujian Province in response to the two tragedies in repatriation in the previous two months. It is the first agreement reached by private organizations across the Taiwan Strait. |
1992 | NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space. |
1992 | Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well. |
1994 | Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties. |
2001 | Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed. |
2003 | The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. |
2003 | Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers. |
2003 | Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan. |
2005 | Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished. |
2007 | Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder. |
2007 | Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Scale hits the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 25 people and injuring 161. |
2008 | The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people. |
2011 | The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City opens to the public. |
2013 | NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space. |
2015 | A series of explosions involving propane triggering nearby illegally stored mining detonators in the Indian town of Petlawad in the state of Madhya Pradesh kills at least 105 people with over 150 injured. |
1986 | The birth of Alfie Allen, English actor |
1986 | The birth of Emmy Rossum, American singer and actress |
1988 | The birth of Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1989 | The birth of Freddie Freeman, American-Canadian baseball player |
1989 | The birth of Andrew Luck, American football player |
1991 | The birth of Thomas Meunier, Belgian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Mike Towell, Scottish professional boxer (d. 2016) |
1991 | The birth of Scott Wootton, English footballer |
1992 | The birth of Sviatlana Pirazhenka, Belarusian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Gideon Jung, German footballer |
1994 | The birth of RM, South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer |
1994 | The birth of Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Steven Gardiner, Bahamian sprinter |
1997 | The birth of Sydney Sweeney, American actress |
1997 | The birth of Almida de Val, Swedish curler |
2013 | The death of Erich Loest, German author and screenwriter (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (b. 1946) |
2014 | The death of Atef Ebeid, Egyptian academic and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of John Gustafson, English singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Ian Paisley, Northern Irish evangelical pastor (Free Presbyterian Church) and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Hugh Royer, Jr., American golfer (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Frank D. Gilroy, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Al Monchak, American baseball player and coach (b. 1917) |
2015 | The death of Aronda Nyakairima, Ugandan general and politician (b. 1959) |
2017 | The death of Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1921) |
2017 | The death of Edith Windsor, American LGBT rights activist and technology manager at IBM (b. 1929) |
2018 | The death of Shen Chun-shan, Taiwanese academic (b. 1932) |
2019 | The death of ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician and activist, Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1941) |
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