Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Marion Barry |
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Birthdate | March 06, 1936 |
Birth Place | Itta Bena, MS |
Age (in 2024) | 88 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Politician |
Marion Barry is best known as Politician who has born on March 06, 1936 in Itta Bena, MS. Currently, Marion Barry is 88 years, 7 months and 27 days old. Marion Barry will celebrate 89th birthday on Thursday, 6th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Marion Barry upcoming birthday.
Infamous mayor of Washington D.C. who was arrested for drug charges in 1990 only to be re-elected four years later. He also served as the first chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a group that orchestrated major change during the Civil Rights Movement.
As a boy scout he earned the rank of Eagle Scout. He was a big supporter of the Civil Rights Movement during his time at LeMoyne College.
He gave the presidential nomination speech for Jesse Jackson at the 1984 Democratic National Convention.
He was been married four times; his fourth wife was Cora Masters, whom he married in 1994.
He criticized President Richard Nixon for recognizing the 1969 moon landing as a holiday, while not doing the same to commemorate the life of the great Martin Luther King, Jr. following his assassination.
Marion Barry is 88 years old today.
Marion Barry was born on March 06, 1936 in Itta Bena, MS.
Marion Barry zodiac sign is Pisces.
Marion Barry was best known as Politician.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Marion Barry's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Marion Barry's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1964 | Constantine II becomes the last King of Greece. |
1965 | Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office. |
1967 | Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. |
1968 | Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation. |
1970 | An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three. |
1975 | For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. |
1975 | Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute. |
1984 | In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners. |
1987 | The British ferry MSÂ Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193. |
1988 | Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius. |
1992 | The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers. |
2003 | Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar - Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board. |
2008 | A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem. |
2018 | Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person, for the first time, at $112 billion net worth. |
2020 | 32 people are killed and 81 are injured when gunmen open fire on a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack. |
1988 | The birth of Marina Erakovic, New Zealand tennis player |
1988 | The birth of Simon Mignolet, Belgian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Agnieszka RadwaĆska, Polish tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Derek Drouin, Canadian athlete |
1991 | The birth of Lex Luger, American keyboard player and producer |
1991 | The birth of Emma McDougall, English footballer (d. 2013) |
1991 | The birth of Tyler Gregory Okonma, American rapper |
1992 | The birth of Sam Bankman-Fried, American businessman |
1993 | The birth of AndrĂ©s RenterĂa, Colombian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Marcus Smart, American basketball player |
1995 | The birth of Georgi Kitanov, Bulgarian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Christian Coleman, American sprinter |
1996 | The birth of Tyrell Fuimaono, Australian rugby player |
1996 | The birth of Timo Werner, German footballer |
1999 | The birth of Ylena In-Albon, Swiss tennis player |
2013 | The death of W. Wallace Cleland, American biochemist and academic (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Alemayehu Atomsa, Ethiopian educator and politician (b. 1969) |
2014 | The death of Frank Jobe, American soldier and surgeon (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Sheila MacRae, English-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Martin Nesbitt, American lawyer and politician (b. 1946) |
2014 | The death of Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Fred Craddock, American minister and academic (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Ram Sundar Das, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Enrique "Coco" Vicéns, Puerto Rican-American basketball player and politician (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of Nancy Reagan, American actress, 42nd First Lady of the United States (b. 1921) |
2016 | The death of Sheila Varian, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1937) |
2017 | The death of Robert Osborne, American actor and historian (b. 1932) |
2018 | The death of Peter Nicholls, Australian science fiction critic and encyclopedist (b. 1939) |
2021 | The death of Lou Ottens, Dutch engineer and inventor (b.1926) |
2021 | The death of Graham Pink, British nurse (b. 1929) |
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Website | Marion Barry's Webiste |
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