Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Richard Stallman |
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Birthdate | March 16, 1953 |
Birth Place | New York |
Age (in 2024) | 71 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Richard Stallman is best known as Entrepreneur who has born on March 16, 1953 in New York. Currently, Richard Stallman is 71 years, 7 months and 17 days old. Richard Stallman will celebrate 72nd birthday on Sunday, 16th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Richard Stallman upcoming birthday.
Famous for championing free software, this computer scientist and activist established both the Free Software Foundation and the GNU free software project. He is also notable for introducing the idea of "copyleft" (a practice by which software and its modifications are distributed free of cost).
After earning a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard, he studied computer programming at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
A popular speaker, he delivered lectures titled "Copyright and Community in the Age of Computer Networks" and "The Dangers of Software Patents."
The son of printer Daniel Stallman and teacher Alice Lippman, he grew up in New York, New York.
Linux kernel developer and free software advocate Linus Torvalds spoke out against what he believed to be Stallman's overly simplistic, harmful approach to promoting free software.
Richard Stallman is 71 years old today.
Richard Stallman was born on March 16, 1953 in New York.
Richard Stallman zodiac sign is Pisces.
Richard Stallman was best known as Entrepreneur.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Richard Stallman's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1984 | William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah; he later dies in captivity. |
1985 | Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he not released until December 1991. |
1988 | Iran-Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. |
1988 | Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people. |
1988 | The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded. |
1995 | Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865. |
2001 | A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China kill 108 people and injure 38 others, the biggest mass murder in China in decades. |
2003 | American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah by being run over by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer while trying to obstruct the demolition of a home. |
2005 | Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control. |
2014 | Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia. |
2016 | A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 30. |
2016 | Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 24 and injuring 18. |
2020 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0-0.25%. |
2021 | Atlanta spa shootings: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day. |
2022 | A 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225. |
1988 | The birth of Jessica Gregg, Canadian speed skater |
1988 | The birth of Patrick Herrmann, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of Blake Griffin, American basketball player |
1989 | The birth of Jung So-min, South Korean actress |
1989 | The birth of Magalie Pottier, French racing cyclist |
1989 | The birth of Theo Walcott, English footballer |
1990 | The birth of Andre Young, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Reggie Bullock, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Wolfgang Van Halen, American bassist |
1993 | The birth of George Ford, English rugby union player |
1993 | The birth of Marine Lorphelin, Miss France |
1994 | The birth of Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player |
1995 | The birth of Inga Janulevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater |
1997 | The birth of Florian Neuhaus, German football player |
1999 | The birth of Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Canadian baseball player |
2013 | The death of Ruchoma Shain, American-born teacher and author (b. 1914) |
2013 | The death of Marina Solodkin, Russian-Israeli academic and politician (b. 1952) |
2013 | The death of Frank Thornton, English actor (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Gary Bettenhausen, American race car driver (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Donald Crothers, American chemist and academic (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy, Sierra Leonean author, poet, and playwright (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Steve Moore, English author and illustrator (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of Alexander Pochinok, Russian economist and politician (b. 1958) |
2015 | The death of Jack Haley, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1964) |
2015 | The death of Don Robertson, American pianist and composer (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician and poet (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Frank Sinatra Jr., American singer and actor (b. 1944) |
2017 | The death of Lewis Rowland, American neurologist (b. 1925) |
2018 | The death of Louise Slaughter, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York (b. 1929) |
2019 | The death of Dick Dale, American surf-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (b. 1937) |
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