Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Percival Lowell |
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Birthdate | March 13, 1855 |
Birth Place | Boston, MA |
Age (in 2024) | 169 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Astronomer |
Percival Lowell is best known as Astronomer who has born on March 13, 1855 in Boston, MA. Currently, Percival Lowell is 169 years, 7 months and 20 days old. Percival Lowell will celebrate 170th birthday on Thursday, 13th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Percival Lowell upcoming birthday.
Distinguished astronomer who studied the canals of Mars and published three books - Mars, Mars and Its Canals, and Mars As the Abode of Life - about his discoveries. He was also a key figure in the discovery of Pluto.
He was a diplomat, serving as special counselor for a Korean diplomatic mission.
The naming of Pluto was influenced by his initials and he founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
He had a brother named Lawrence and a sister named Amy.
He has been described by other planetary scientists as "the most influential popularizer of planetary science in America before Carl Sagan."
Percival Lowell is 169 years old today.
Percival Lowell was born on March 13, 1855 in Boston, MA.
Percival Lowell zodiac sign is Pisces.
Percival Lowell was best known as Astronomer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Percival Lowell's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1957 | Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista. |
1969 | Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. |
1979 | The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état. |
1988 | The Seikan Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world with an undersea segment, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan. |
1992 | The Mw  6.6 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). |
1993 | The 1993 Storm of the Century affects the eastern United States, dropping feet of snow in many areas. |
1996 | The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland. |
1997 | The Missionaries of Charity choose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as their leader. |
2003 | An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints. |
2012 | The Sierre coach crash kills 28 people, including 22 children. |
2013 | The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. |
2016 | The Ankara bombing kills at least 37 people. |
2016 | Three gunmen attack two hotels in the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam, killing at least 19 people. |
2020 | President Donald Trump declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a national emergency in the United States. |
2020 | Breonna Taylor is killed by police officers who were forcibly entering her home in Louisville, Kentucky; her death sparked extensive protests against police brutality. |
1987 | The birth of Marco Andretti, American race car driver |
1987 | The birth of Andreas Beck, German footballer |
1988 | The birth of Furdjel Narsingh, Dutch footballer |
1989 | The birth of Holger Badstuber, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of Marko Marin, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of Robert Wickens, Canadian racing driver |
1990 | The birth of Anicet Abel, Malagasy footballer |
1991 | The birth of Daniel Greig, Australian speed skater |
1991 | The birth of Tristan Thompson, American basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Gerard Deulofeu, Spanish footballer |
1995 | The birth of Jang Su-jeong, South Korean tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Mikaela Shiffrin, American skier |
1998 | The birth of Jay-Roy Grot, Dutch footballer |
2001 | The birth of Thomas Dearden, Australian rugby league player |
2004 | The birth of Coco Gauff, American tennis player |
2009 | The death of Alan W. Livingston, American businessman (b. 1917) |
2010 | The death of Jean Ferrat, French singer-songwriter (b. 1930) |
2011 | The death of Rick Martin, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1951) |
2013 | The death of Clive Burr, English drummer and songwriter (b. 1957) |
2014 | The death of Reubin Askew, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of Florida (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond, Irish businessman and politician (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Sierra Leonean economist, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Icchokas Meras, Lithuanian-Israeli author and screenwriter (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Al Rosen, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of Amy Krouse Rosenthal, American author (b. 1965) |
2018 | The death of Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese writer and women's rights activist. (b. 1931) |
2021 | The death of Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American professional boxer (b. 1954) |
2021 | The death of Murray Walker, English motorsport commentator and journalist (b. 1923) |
2022 | The death of William Hurt, American actor (b. 1950) |
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