Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Johnny Hodges |
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Birthdate | July 25, 1907 |
Birth Place | Cambridge, MA |
Age (in 2024) | 117 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Saxophonist |
Johnny Hodges is best known as Saxophonist who has born on July 25, 1907 in Cambridge, MA. Currently, Johnny Hodges is 117 years, 3 months and 29 days old. Johnny Hodges will celebrate 118th birthday on Friday, 25th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Johnny Hodges upcoming birthday.
One of the Big Band Era's greatest jazz saxophonists. He nurtured a longtime collaboration with Duke Ellington.
He was a self-taught piano performer before taking an interest in the saxophone. His nickname was "Rabbit" for his unusual speed and ability to escape truant officers.
He worked with several other important jazz artists, including Willie Cook, Roy Eldridge, and Harold Baker.
He grew up with baritone saxophonist Harry Carney and saxophonists Charlie Holmes and Howard E. Johnson. He fathered two children, Johnny Jr. and Lorna, with wife Edith Cue.
His skills were admired and revered by such luminaries as Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Charlie Parker.
Johnny Hodges is 117 years old today.
Johnny Hodges was born on July 25, 1907 in Cambridge, MA.
Johnny Hodges zodiac sign is Leo.
Johnny Hodges was best known as Saxophonist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Johnny Hodges's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1978 | Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders. |
1978 | Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF. |
1979 | In accord with the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. |
1983 | Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners. |
1984 | Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. |
1993 | Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War. |
1993 | The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa. |
1994 | Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948. |
1995 | A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded. |
1996 | In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya. |
2000 | Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people. |
2007 | Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president. |
2010 | WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. |
2018 | As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria. |
2019 | National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave. |
1987 | The birth of Jax Jones, English DJ, singer and songwriter |
1987 | The birth of Eran Zahavi, Israeli footballer |
1988 | The birth of John Goossens, Dutch footballer |
1988 | The birth of Tom Hiariej, Dutch footballer |
1988 | The birth of Stacey Kemp, English skater |
1988 | The birth of Paulinho, Brazilian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Natalia Vieru, Russian basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Thodoris Karapetsas, Greek footballer |
1991 | The birth of Hasan Piker, Twitch streamer |
1991 | The birth of Toni Duggan, English footballer |
1992 | The birth of Sergei Simonov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2016) |
1994 | The birth of Natalija Stevanović, Serbian tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Maria Sakkari, Greek tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Nat Butcher, Australian rugby league player |
2013 | The death of William J. Guste, American lawyer and politician (b. 1922) |
2013 | The death of Hugh Huxley, English-American biologist and academic (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Bel Kaufman, German-American author and academic (b. 1911) |
2014 | The death of Richard Larter, Australian painter and illustrator (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Jacques Andreani, French diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of R. S. Gavai, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor of Kerala (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Bob Kauffman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1946) |
2016 | The death of Tim LaHaye, American Christian minister and author (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of Tom Peterson, American television personality (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944) |
2018 | The death of Sergio Marchionne, Italian-Canadian businessman (b. 1952) |
2019 | The death of Beji Caid Essebsi, 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1926) |
2020 | The death of Peter Green, English blues rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and founder of Fleetwood Mac (b. 1946) |
2020 | The death of Lou Henson, American college basketball coach (b. 1932) |
2022 | The death of Paul Sorvino, American actor (b. 1939) |
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