Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Robert Green Ingersoll |
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Birthdate | August 11, 1833 |
Birth Place | New York |
Age (in 2024) | 191 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Politician |
Robert Green Ingersoll is best known as Politician who has born on August 11, 1833 in New York. Currently, Robert Green Ingersoll is 191 years, 2 months and 22 days old. Robert Green Ingersoll will celebrate 192nd birthday on Monday, 11th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Robert Green Ingersoll upcoming birthday.
Nicknamed "The Great Agnostic," he spoke publicly on religion, slavery and women's suffrage. His influential speeches were posthumously collected in a twelve-volume work known as the Dresden Editions.
He worked as a schoolteacher in Illinois before earning a law degree. Later, he organized the 11th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, a unit that fought in the American Civil War's Battle of Shiloh.
He was captured in the Civil War, but was released after promising that he would not fight for the remainder of the war.
He married Eva Parker Ingersoll, with whom he subsequently had two daughters. He was the son of Congregationalist minister and abolitionist, John Ingersoll.
He was a close friend of Walt Whitman.
Robert Green Ingersoll is 191 years old today.
Robert Green Ingersoll was born on August 11, 1833 in New York.
Robert Green Ingersoll zodiac sign is Leo.
Robert Green Ingersoll was best known as Politician.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Robert Green Ingersoll's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1965 | Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California. |
1969 | The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon. |
1972 | Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam. |
1975 | East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin. |
1979 | Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners. |
1982 | A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others. |
1984 | "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio. |
1988 | A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda. |
1992 | The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States. |
2000 | An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries. |
2003 | NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. |
2003 | Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. |
2006 | The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill. |
2012 | At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran. |
2017 | At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt. |
1987 | The birth of Drew Storen, American baseball player |
1988 | The birth of Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Filipino basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Patty Mills, Australian basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Mustafa Pektemek, Turkish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete (d. 2013) |
1989 | The birth of Sebastian Huke, German footballer |
1990 | The birth of Lenka JurÃková, Slovak tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Tomi Lahren, American conservative political commentator |
1994 | The birth of Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Anton Cooper, New Zealand cross-country cyclist |
1994 | The birth of Joseph Barbato, French footballer |
1994 | The birth of Song I-han, South Korean singer |
1997 | The birth of Sarah Clelland, Scottish footballer |
2001 | The birth of Moyuka Uchijima, Japanese tennis player |
2013 | The death of David Howard, English ballet dancer and educator (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Vladimir Beara, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Raymond Gravel, Canadian priest and politician (b. 1952) |
2014 | The death of Kika Szaszkiewiczowa, Polish author and blogger (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (b. 1951) |
2015 | The death of Serge Collot, French viola player and educator (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Richard Oriani, Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (b. 1920) |
2017 | The death of Yisrael Kristal, Polish-Israeli supercentenarian; oldest living Holocaust survivor and one of the ten oldest men ever (b. 1903) |
2017 | The death of Segun Bucknor, Nigerian musician and journalist (b. 1946) |
2018 | The death of V S Naipaul, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932) |
2019 | The death of Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1931) |
2020 | The death of Trini Lopez, Mexican American singer and guitarist (b. 1937) |
2020 | The death of Sumner Redstone, American billionaire businessman (b. 1923) |
2022 | The death of Anne Heche, American actress (b. 1969) |
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