Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Madalyn Murray O'Hair |
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Birthdate | April 13, 1919 |
Birth Place | Pittsburgh, PA |
Age (in 2024) | 105 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Activist |
Madalyn Murray O'Hair is best known as Activist who has born on April 13, 1919 in Pittsburgh, PA. Currently, Madalyn Murray O'Hair is 105 years, 6 months and 22 days old. Madalyn Murray O'Hair will celebrate 106th birthday on Sunday, 13th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Madalyn Murray O'Hair upcoming birthday.
Known pseudonymously as M. Bible, she is remembered for founding and heading a non-profit organization known as American Atheists, as well as for being involved in the famous Murray v. Curlett case, which laid the groundwork for a Supreme Court case called Abington School District v. Schempp that ultimately banned public school-sanctioned reading of the Bible in the United States.
After completing her undergraduate degree from Ashland University, she enrolled at the South Texas College of Law, but never seriously pursued a legal career.
Tragically, in 1995, she, her son Jon, and her granddaughter Robin were tortured and murdered by criminals David Roland Waters, Danny Fry, and Gary Karr.
The daughter of Lena Scholle and Irv Mays, she grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a member of a Presbyterian family. Following a brief marriage to John Henry Roths, she had relationships with William J. Murray, Jr. and Michael Fiorillo that resulted in sons named William J. Murray III (who became a Baptist minister) and Jon Garth Murray (who joined his mother as a member of the American Atheists).
She and Ed Buckner both held the office of President of the American Atheists.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair is 105 years old today.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair was born on April 13, 1919 in Pittsburgh, PA.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair zodiac sign is Aries.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair was best known as Activist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Madalyn Murray O'Hair's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1945 | World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna. |
1948 | In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre. |
1953 | CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra. |
1958 | American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. |
1960 | The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system. |
1964 | At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field. |
1970 | An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed "Odyssey") while en route to the Moon. |
1972 | The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan. |
1972 | Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lá»™c begins. |
1975 | An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War. |
1976 | The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration. |
1976 | Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland. |
1996 | Two women and four children are killed after Israeli helicopter fired rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon. |
1997 | Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament. |
2017 | The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. |
1963 | The birth of Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player and author |
1964 | The birth of Davis Love III, American golfer and sportscaster |
1965 | The birth of Patricio Pouchulu, Argentinian architect and educator |
1967 | The birth of Michael Eisen, American biologist and academic |
1967 | The birth of Olga Tañón, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter |
1971 | The birth of Franck Esposito, French swimmer |
1971 | The birth of Danie Mellor, Australian painter and sculptor |
1972 | The birth of Aaron Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1977 | The birth of Margus Tsahkna, Estonian lawyer and politician |
1978 | The birth of Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer |
1982 | The birth of Nellie McKay, British-American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress |
1987 | The birth of John-Allison Weiss, American singer-songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Allison Williams, American actress and singer |
1989 | The birth of Josh Reynolds, Australian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Darrun Hilliard, American basketball player |
2005 | The death of Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1924) |
2005 | The death of Phillip Pavia, American painter and sculptor (b. 1912) |
2006 | The death of Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1918) |
2008 | The death of John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist and academic (b. 1911) |
2012 | The death of Cecil Chaudhry, Pakistani pilot, academic, and activist (b. 1941) |
2012 | The death of Shūichi Higurashi, Japanese illustrator (b. 1936) |
2013 | The death of Stephen Dodgson, English composer and educator (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian-Spanish philosopher and theorist (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Michael Ruppert, American journalist and author (b. 1951) |
2015 | The death of Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist and author (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, and illustrator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Herb Trimpe, American author and illustrator (b. 1939) |
2017 | The death of Dan Rooney, American football executive and former United States Ambassador to Ireland (b. 1932) |
2022 | The death of Michel Bouquet, French stage and film actor (b. 1925) |
2022 | The death of Gloria Parker, American musician and bandleader (b.1921) |
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