Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | John Lewis |
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Birthdate | February 21, 1940 |
Birth Place | Troy, AL |
Age (in 2024) | 84 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Politician |
John Lewis is best known as Politician who has born on February 21, 1940 in Troy, AL. Currently, John Lewis is 84 years, 9 months and 2 days old. John Lewis will celebrate 85th birthday on Friday, 21st of February 2025. Below the countdown to John Lewis upcoming birthday.
American politician and civil rights activist. He was elected as a democratic representative for the state of Georgia in 1987.
He participated in Freedom Rides to desegregate the South during the American Civil Rights movement.
He was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to end segregation.
His parents were named Willie Mae and Eddie Lewis. He was married to Lillian Miles from 1968 until her death in 2012. They had one son, John-Miles.
Like him, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was also a renowned Civil Rights activist.
John Lewis is 84 years old today.
John Lewis was born on February 21, 1940 in Troy, AL.
John Lewis zodiac sign is Pisces.
John Lewis was best known as Politician.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about John Lewis'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 Lewis's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1948 | NASCAR is incorporated. |
1952 | The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free". |
1952 | The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). |
1958 | The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. |
1965 | Malcolm X is gunned down while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. |
1971 | The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. |
1972 | United States President Richard Nixon visits China to normalize Sino-American relations. |
1972 | The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon. |
1973 | Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people. |
1974 | The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt. |
1975 | Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison. |
1994 | Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia. |
1995 | Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. |
2013 | At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad. |
2022 | In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations. |
1989 | The birth of Corbin Bleu, American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter |
1990 | The birth of Mattias Tedenby, Swedish ice hockey player |
1991 | The birth of Joe Alwyn, English actor |
1991 | The birth of Riyad Mahrez, Algerian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Ji So-yun, South Korean footballer |
1991 | The birth of Devon Travis, American baseball player |
1991 | The birth of Suppasit Jongcheveevat, Thai actor |
1993 | The birth of Steve Leo Beleck, Cameroonian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Davy Klaassen, Dutch footballer |
1993 | The birth of Masaki Suda, Japanese actor |
1994 | The birth of Tang Haochen, Chinese tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Shon Seung-wan, South Korean singer |
1996 | The birth of Noah Rubin, American tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Sophie Turner, English actress |
1999 | The birth of Metawin Opas-iamkajorn, Thai actor and singer |
2012 | The death of H. M. Darmstandler, American general (b. 1922) |
2013 | The death of Hasse Jeppson, Swedish footballer (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Héctor Maestri, Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Matthew Robinson, Australian snowboarder (b. 1985) |
2014 | The death of Cornelius Schnauber, German-American historian, playwright, and academic (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Aleksei Gubarev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Sadeq Tabatabaei, Iranian journalist and politician (b. 1943) |
2015 | The death of Clark Terry, American trumpet player, composer, and educator (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Eric Brown, Scottish-English captain and pilot (b. 1919) |
2017 | The death of Jeanne Martin Cissé, Guinean teacher and politician (b. 1926) |
2018 | The death of Billy Graham, American evangelist (b. 1918) |
2019 | The death of Stanley Donen, American film director (b. 1924) |
2019 | The death of Peter Tork, American musician and actor (b. 1942) |
2021 | The death of Mireya Arboleda, Colombian classical pianist (b. 1928) |
2021 | The death of Kevin Dann, Australian rugby league player (b. 1958) |
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