Updated at December 22, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Stephen Girard |
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Birthdate | May 20, 1750 |
Birth Place | France |
Age (in 2024) | 274 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Business Executive |
Stephen Girard is best known as Business Executive who has born on May 20, 1750 in France. Currently, Stephen Girard is 274 years, 7 months and 2 days old. Stephen Girard will celebrate 275th birthday on Tuesday, 20th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Stephen Girard upcoming birthday.
American banker and philanthropist who single- handedly delivered the U.S. government from economic disaster during the War of 1812. His name and legacy live in on Philadelphia, where he lived.
He was born in Bordeaux, France to a sea captain father, and he pursued a career as a merchant, settling in Pennsylvania in 1776.
He purchased the majority of the stock of the First Bank of the United States in 1811 and subsequently established his own bank, which became the saving grace of the U.S. Government during the War of 1812.
He married Mary Lum in the 1770s. Several years later, Lum was institutionalized for severe psychological problems, and Girard became romantically involved with a woman named Sally Bickham.
He was named by authors Michael Klepper and Robert Gunther as one of the four wealthiest Americans in history. Only John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John Jacob Astor possessed greater fortunes than Girard.
Stephen Girard is 274 years old today.
Stephen Girard was born on May 20, 1750 in France.
Stephen Girard zodiac sign is Taurus.
Stephen Girard was best known as Business Executive.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Stephen Girard's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1971 | In the Chuknagar massacre, Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus. |
1980 | In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, by 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada. |
1983 | First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scientists including Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Jean-Claude Chermann, and Luc Montagnier. |
1983 | Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others. |
1985 | Radio MartÃ, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba. |
1989 | The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre. |
1990 | The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania. |
1996 | Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians. |
2002 | The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976). |
2011 | Mamata Banerjee is sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, the first woman to hold this post. |
2012 | At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy. |
2013 | An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others. |
2016 | The government of Singapore authorised the controversial execution of convicted murderer Kho Jabing for the murder of a Chinese construction worker despite the international pleas for clemency, notably from Amnesty International and the United Nations. |
2019 | The International System of Units (SI): The base units are redefined, making the international prototype of the kilogram obsolete. |
2022 | Russo-Ukrainian War: Russia claims full control of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol after a nearly three-month siege. |
1986 | The birth of Stéphane Mbia, Cameroonian footballer |
1986 | The birth of Jiřina Svobodová, Czech pole vaulter |
1987 | The birth of Mike Havenaar, Japanese footballer |
1987 | The birth of Julian Wright, American basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Joel Moon, Australian rugby league player |
1989 | The birth of Siosia Vave, Australian-Tongan rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Bastian Baker, Swiss singer, songwriter, and performer |
1991 | The birth of Emre Colak, Turkish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Cate Campbell, Malawian-Australian swimmer |
1992 | The birth of Jack Gleeson, Irish actor |
1992 | The birth of Enes Kanter, Turkish basketball player |
1993 | The birth of Caroline Zhang, American figure skater |
1996 | The birth of Brian Kelly, Australian rugby league player |
1998 | The birth of Jamie Chadwick, English race car driver |
1998 | The birth of Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater |
2013 | The death of Ray Manzarek, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1939) |
2013 | The death of Denys Roberts, English judge and politician (b. 1923) |
2013 | The death of Zach Sobiech, American singer-songwriter (b. 1995) |
2014 | The death of Sandra Bem, American psychologist and academic (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Ross Brown, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of Robyn Denny, English-French painter (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Arthur Gelb, American journalist, author, and critic (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Prince Rupert Loewenstein, Spanish-English businessman (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Barbara Murray, English actress (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Bob Belden, American saxophonist, composer, and producer (b. 1956) |
2015 | The death of Femi Robinson, Nigerian actor and playwright (b. 1940) |
2016 | The death of Kho Jabing, Malaysian convicted murderer who was executed by hanging in Singapore (b. 1984) |
2019 | The death of Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver (b. 1949) |
2022 | The death of Roger Angell, American sportswriter and author (b. 1920) |
2022 | The death of Susan Roces, Filipino actress (b. 1941) |
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