Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Percy Lavon Julian |
---|---|
Birthdate | April 11, 1899 |
Birth Place | Montgomery, AL |
Age (in 2024) | 125 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Chemist |
Percy Lavon Julian is best known as Chemist who has born on April 11, 1899 in Montgomery, AL. Currently, Percy Lavon Julian is 125 years, 6 months and 21 days old. Percy Lavon Julian will celebrate 126th birthday on Friday, 11th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Percy Lavon Julian upcoming birthday.
One of the first African-Americans to receive a doctorate in chemistry who synthesized some of the earliest plant-derived medicine. He was also the African-American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.
Denied a professorship due to his race, he went to work for the Glidden Company, where among his other inventions, he found a better fire retardent than plain water.
Running his own company, he worked to create synthetic steroid intermediates from wild yams, dramatically lowering cost of their production.
He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, his father a former slave.
Dr. Charles Drew was another renowned African-American scientist.
Percy Lavon Julian is 125 years old today.
Percy Lavon Julian was born on April 11, 1899 in Montgomery, AL.
Percy Lavon Julian zodiac sign is Aries.
Percy Lavon Julian was best known as Chemist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Percy Lavon Julian's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Percy Lavon Julian's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
---|---|
1979 | Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed. |
1981 | A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries. |
1986 | FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed. |
1987 | The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan. |
1990 | Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq. |
1993 | Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. |
2001 | The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released. |
2002 | The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia. |
2002 | Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the presidential palace to demand the resignation of President Hugo ChĂĄvez. Nineteen protesters are killed. |
2006 | Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium. |
2007 | Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others. |
2011 | An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others. |
2012 | A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake is VII (Very strong). Ten are killed, twelve are injured, and a non-destructive tsunami is observed on the island of Nias. |
2018 | An Ilyushin Il-76 which was owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257. |
2021 | Twenty year old Daunte Wright is shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota by officer Kimberly Potter, sparking protests in the city, when the officer allegedly mistakes her own gun for her taser. |
1984 | The birth of Nikola KarabatiÄ, French handball player |
1985 | The birth of Pablo HernĂĄndez DomĂnguez, Spanish footballer |
1985 | The birth of Will Minson, Australian footballer |
1986 | The birth of Sarodj Bertin, Haitian model and human rights lawyer |
1986 | The birth of Lena Schöneborn, German pentathlete |
1987 | The birth of Joss Stone, English singer-songwriter and actress |
1987 | The birth of Lights, Canadian singer-songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Leland Irving, Canadian ice hockey player |
1989 | The birth of Torrin Lawrence, American sprinter (d. 2014) |
1990 | The birth of Dimitrios Anastasopoulos, Greek footballer |
1990 | The birth of Thulani Serero, South African footballer |
1991 | The birth of Thiago AlcĂąntara, Spanish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Brennan Poole, American racing driver |
1996 | The birth of Dele Alli, English international footballer |
2000 | The birth of Milly Alcock, Australian actress |
2014 | The death of Rolf Brem, Swiss sculptor and illustrator (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Edna Doré, English actress (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Bill Henry, American baseball player (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Lou Hudson, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Myer S. Kripke, American rabbi and scholar (b. 1914) |
2014 | The death of Sergey Nepobedimy, Russian engineer (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Jesse Winchester, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1944) |
2015 | The death of Jimmy Gunn, American football player (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, Bangladeshi journalist and politician (b. 1952) |
2015 | The death of François Maspero, French journalist and author (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Hanut Singh, Indian general (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Tekena Tamuno, Nigerian historian and academic (b. 1932) |
2017 | The death of J. Geils, American singer and guitarist (b. 1946) |
2017 | The death of Mark Wainberg, Canadian researcher and HIV/AIDS activist (b. 1945) |
2020 | The death of John Horton Conway, English mathematician (b. 1937) |
Social Media
Percy Lavon Julian on Facebook | |
Percy Lavon Julian on Twitter | |
Percy Lavon Julian on Instagram | |
Youtube | Percy Lavon Julian on Youtube |
Tiktok | Percy Lavon Julian on Tiktok |
Wikipedia | Percy Lavon Julian on Wikipedia |
Website | Percy Lavon Julian's Webiste |
Similar Chemist
Month
Professions
Zodiacs
Birthplaces
Today
Copyright © 2020 BirthdayDBs.com