Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | WEB DuBois |
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Birthdate | February 23, 1868 |
Birth Place | Great Barrington, MA |
Age (in 2024) | 156 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Non-Fiction Author |
WEB DuBois is best known as Non-Fiction Author who has born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, MA. Currently, WEB DuBois is 156 years, 9 months and 0 days old. WEB DuBois will celebrate 157th birthday on Sunday, 23rd of February 2025. Below the countdown to WEB DuBois upcoming birthday.
African-American writer, sociologist, Civil Rights activist, and advocate of Pan-Africanism. His most famous non-fiction works include The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Black Reconstruction in America (1935).
When he graduated from high school, his childhood church collected money to support the cost of his college tuition. He subsequently attended Fisk University and, later, Harvard University, and went on to become both a professor at Atlanta University and a leader of the Niagara Movement.
He was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard University.
He was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts to Alfred and Mary Silvina Du Bois. In 1896, he married Nina Gomer, with whom he had a son (who died as a baby) and a daughter. Following his first wife's death, he wed playwright and activist, Shirley Graham.
Dubois and Benjamin Tucker were both famous Massachusetts-born authors.
WEB DuBois is 156 years old today.
WEB DuBois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, MA.
WEB DuBois zodiac sign is Pisces.
WEB DuBois was best known as Non-Fiction Author.
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Below are historical events that coincided with WEB DuBois's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1983 | The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri. |
1987 | Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud. |
1988 | Saddam Hussein begins the Anfal genocide against Kurds and Assyrians in northern Iraq. |
1991 | In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan. |
1998 | In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 people. |
1999 | Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey. |
1999 | An avalanche buries the town of Galtür, Austria, killing 31. |
2007 | A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 88. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents. |
2008 | A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2. |
2010 | Unknown criminals pour more than .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}2+1⁄2 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster. |
2012 | A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured. |
2017 | The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army captures Al-Bab from ISIL. |
2019 | Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, crashes into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board. |
2020 | Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old African-American citizen, is shot and murdered by three white men after visiting a house under construction while jogging at a neighborhood in Satilla Shores near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia. |
2021 | Four simultaneous prison riots leave at least 62 people dead in Ecuador. |
1987 | The birth of Ab-Soul, American rapper |
1987 | The birth of Theophilus London, Trinidadian-American singer-songwriter and producer |
1987 | The birth of Zak Kirkup, Member of the Parliament of Western Australia |
1988 | The birth of Nicolás Gaitán, Argentinian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Evan Bates, American ice dancer |
1989 | The birth of Jérémy Pied, French footballer |
1990 | The birth of Kevin Connauton, Canadian ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Marco Scandella, Canadian ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Casemiro, Brazilian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Greek footballer |
1993 | The birth of Chris Grevsmuhl, Australian rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Dakota Fanning, American actress |
1995 | The birth of Andrew Wiggins, Canadian basketball player |
1996 | The birth of D'Angelo Russell, American basketball player |
1997 | The birth of Jamal Murray, Canadian basketball player |
2012 | The death of David Sayre, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1924) |
2012 | The death of Kazimierz Żygulski, Polish sociologist and activist (b. 1919) |
2013 | The death of Eugene Bookhammer, American soldier and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (b. 1918) |
2013 | The death of Joseph Friedenson, Holocaust survivor, Holocaust historian, Yiddish writer, lecturer and editor (b. 1922) |
2013 | The death of Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Lotika Sarkar, Indian lawyer and academic (b. 1945) |
2014 | The death of Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-English Holocaust survivor, pianist and educator (b. 1903) |
2014 | The death of Roger Hilsman, American soldier, academic, and politician (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of James Aldridge, Australian-English journalist and author (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Rana Bhagwandas, Pakistani lawyer and judge, Chief Justice of Pakistan (b. 1942) |
2015 | The death of W. E. "Bill" Dykes, American soldier and politician (b. 1925) |
2016 | The death of Peter Lustig, German television host and author (b. 1937) |
2016 | The death of Jacqueline Mattson, American baseball player (b. 1928) |
2019 | The death of Katherine Helmond, American actress (b. 1929) |
2021 | The death of Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician (b. 1930) |
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