Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Richard Mentor Johnson |
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Birthdate | October 17, 1780 |
Birth Place | Louisville, KY |
Age (in 2024) | 244 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Politician |
Richard Mentor Johnson is best known as Politician who has born on October 17, 1780 in Louisville, KY. Currently, Richard Mentor Johnson is 244 years, 1 months and 6 days old. Richard Mentor Johnson will celebrate 245th birthday on Friday, 17th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Richard Mentor Johnson upcoming birthday.
Vice President under Martin Van Buren from 1837 to 1841. He was the only VP to be elected under the prerogatives of the Twelfth Amendment.
He gained popularity for killing the Indian chief Tecumseh, and used that as the basis for his political platform.
He scandalized the nation by marrying one of his slaves and then proposing an expedition to the North Pole to drill into the earth and prove it's hollow.
He openly treated his African American slave as his common law wife and gave their children his surname. This was very rare for the time.
Because he was attracting so much negative attention, Martin Van Buren decided to run for re-election without him.
Richard Mentor Johnson is 244 years old today.
Richard Mentor Johnson was born on October 17, 1780 in Louisville, KY.
Richard Mentor Johnson zodiac sign is Libra.
Richard Mentor Johnson was best known as Politician.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Richard Mentor Johnson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1980 | As part of the Holy See-United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican. |
1988 | Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome-Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people. |
1989 | The 6.9 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63. |
1989 | The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary. |
1991 | 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who explode two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people. |
1992 | Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. |
1994 | Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces. |
2000 | The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack. |
2001 | Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack. |
2003 | Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest high-rise. |
2017 | Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last foothold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, marking the end of the Battle of Raqqa. |
2018 | The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada. |
2018 | Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea. |
2019 | Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest. |
2019 | The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon. |
1989 | The birth of Débora García, Spanish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Oleksandr Isakov, Ukrainian swimmer |
1989 | The birth of Sophie Luck, Australian actress |
1989 | The birth of Charles Oliveira, Brazilian mixed martial artist |
1989 | The birth of David Timor, Spanish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Maica García Godoy, Spanish water polo player |
1990 | The birth of Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer |
1990 | The birth of Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer |
1990 | The birth of Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player |
1991 | The birth of Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress |
1992 | The birth of Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer |
1992 | The birth of Keerthy Suresh, Indian actress |
1993 | The birth of Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer |
2001 | The birth of Thomas Strudwick, British motorcycle road racer |
2013 | The death of Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (b. 1944) |
2013 | The death of Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of Rene Simpson, Canadian-American tennis player (b. 1966) |
2014 | The death of Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Tom Shaw, American bishop (b. 1945) |
2014 | The death of Berndt von Staden, German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of Anne-Marie Lizin, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1949) |
2015 | The death of Tom Smith, American businessman and politician (b. 1947) |
2017 | The death of Gord Downie, Canadian musician (b. 1964) |
2019 | The death of Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate (b. 1951) |
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