Updated at November 5, 2025 by BirthdayDBs Team

| Full Name | Samuel L Lewis |
|---|---|
| Birthdate | October 18, 1896 |
| Birth Place | California |
| Age (in 2025) | 129 Years Old |
| Zodiac | Libra |
| Occupation | Religious Leader |
Samuel L Lewis is best known as Religious Leader who has born on October 18, 1896 in California. Currently, Samuel L Lewis is 129 years, 0 months and 18 days old. Samuel L Lewis will celebrate 130th birthday on Sunday, 18th of October 2026. Below the countdown to Samuel L Lewis upcoming birthday.
Known as "Sufi Sam," this American mystic in the Chisti Order of Islamic Sufism became famous for founding the Dances of Universal Peace movement.
After a brief stint as a student in Columbia University's mathematics department, he studied in California with several prominent Sufi leaders and later continued his religious training in India, Pakistan, Egypt, and Japan.
A horticulture enthusiast, he worked on the development of environmentally-friendly fertilizers and drought-proof crops.
He was born into a wealthy Jewish family. His father, Jacob Lewis, was an executive with the
He and Indian author Ashfaq Ahmed were both twentieth-century followers of the mystical Sufi branch of Islam.
Samuel L Lewis is 129 years old today.
Samuel L Lewis was born on October 18, 1896 in California.
Samuel L Lewis zodiac sign is Libra.
Samuel L Lewis was best known as Religious Leader.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Samuel L Lewis's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
| Year | Event |
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| 1944 | World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany. |
| 1945 | The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. |
| 1945 | A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day. |
| 1945 | Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Duarte. |
| 1954 | Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio. |
| 1963 | Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space. |
| 1967 | The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet. |
| 1977 | German Autumn: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide. |
| 1979 | The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license. |
| 1991 | The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. |
| 1992 | Merpati Nustantara Airlines Flight 5601 crashes into Mount Papandayan near the town of Garut in West Java, Indonesia, killing 31. |
| 2003 | Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is forced to resign and leave Bolivia. |
| 2007 | Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured. |
| 2019 | NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller. |
| 2019 | Riots in Chile's capital Santiago escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city's 164 Metro stations. President Sebastián Piñera later announces a 15-day state of emergency in the capital. |
| 1985 | The birth of Andrew Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1986 | The birth of Wilma Elles, German actress and fashion designer |
| 1987 | The birth of Zac Efron, American actor and singer |
| 1987 | The birth of Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model |
| 1988 | The birth of Tessa Schram, Dutch director and actress |
| 1989 | The birth of Laci Green, American YouTube personality, video blogger, sex educator, and activist |
| 1989 | The birth of Riisa Naka, Japanese model and actress |
| 1990 | The birth of Bristol Palin, American public speaker and reality television personality |
| 1990 | The birth of Brittney Griner, American professional basketball player |
| 1990 | The birth of Drew Crawford, American basketball player |
| 1991 | The birth of Roly Bonevacia, Dutch footballer |
| 1992 | The birth of John John Florence, American professional surfer |
| 1993 | The birth of Ivan Cavaleiro, Portuguese professional footballer |
| 1994 | The birth of Pascal Wehrlein, German-Mauritian Formula One driver |
| 1994 | The birth of Enhō Akira, Japanese sumo wrestler |
| 2014 | The death of Mariano Lebrón Saviñón, Dominican author and academic (b. 1922) |
| 2014 | The death of Edward Regan, American academic and politician (b. 1930) |
| 2014 | The death of Sidney Shapiro, American-Chinese author and translator (b. 1915) |
| 2015 | The death of Robert Dickerson, Australian painter (b. 1924) |
| 2015 | The death of Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian journalist and author (b. 1945) |
| 2015 | The death of Robert W. Farquhar, American engineer (b. 1932) |
| 2015 | The death of Frank Watkins, American bass player (b. 1968) |
| 2015 | The death of Paul West, English-American author, poet, and academic (b. 1930) |
| 2017 | The death of Marino Perani, Italian football player and manager (b. 1939) |
| 2018 | The death of Lisbeth Palme, Swedish child psychologist, former chairwoman of UNICEF (b. 1931) |
| 2018 | The death of Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, 5th President of the Sudan (b. 1934) |
| 2019 | The death of Rui Jordão, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1952) |
| 2020 | The death of René Felber, 81st President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1933) |
| 2021 | The death of Colin Powell, American military leader and statesman, 65th Secretary of State (b. 1937) |
| 2022 | The death of Harvey Wollman, American politician, 26th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1935) |
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