Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Will D. Campbell |
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Birthdate | July 18, 1924 |
Birth Place | Mississippi |
Age (in 2024) | 100 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Activist |
Will D. Campbell is best known as Activist who has born on July 18, 1924 in Mississippi. Currently, Will D. Campbell is 100 years, 4 months and 16 days old. Will D. Campbell will celebrate 101st birthday on Friday, 18th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Will D. Campbell upcoming birthday.
A minister, civil rights activist, and author, he was the only white man present at the inception of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His most famous published work, Brother to a Dragonfly, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1978.
At the age of seventeen, he was ordained as a Baptist minister. He received his undergraduate degree from Wake Forest College, and he later attended both Tulane University and the Yale University Divinity School.
He escorted integrated African-American students into public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.
He was born in Amite County, Mississippi. With his wife, Brenda Fisher, he had three children.
He and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were both founding members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Will D. Campbell is 100 years old today.
Will D. Campbell was born on July 18, 1924 in Mississippi.
Will D. Campbell zodiac sign is Cancer.
Will D. Campbell was best known as Activist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Will D. Campbell's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1976 | Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics. |
1982 | Two hundred sixty-eight Guatemalan campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre. |
1981 | A Canadair CL-44 and Sukhoi Su-15 collide in mid-air near Yerevan, Armenia, killing four. |
1984 | McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police. |
1992 | A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was taken, which became the first ever photo posted to the World Wide Web. |
1994 | The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300. |
1994 | Rwandan genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front takes control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide. |
1995 | On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital, forcing most of the population to flee. |
1996 | Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever. |
1996 | Battle of Mullaitivu: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1,200 soldiers. |
2002 | A Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer crashes near Estes Park, Colorado, killing both crew members. |
2012 | At least seven people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria. |
2013 | The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. |
2014 | The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant requires Christians to either accept dhimmi status, emigrate from ISIL lands, or be killed. |
2019 | A man sets fire to an anime studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens of others. |
1985 | The birth of James Norton, English actor |
1986 | The birth of Natalia Mikhailova, Russian ice dancer |
1987 | The birth of Tontowi Ahmad, Indonesian badminton player |
1988 | The birth of Änis Ben-Hatira, German-Tunisian footballer |
1988 | The birth of César Villaluz, Mexican footballer |
1989 | The birth of Jamie Benn, Canadian ice hockey player |
1989 | The birth of Sebastian Mielitz, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of Yohan Mollo, French footballer |
1993 | The birth of Lee Tae-min, South Korean singer and actor |
1993 | The birth of Michael Lichaa, Australian rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Nilo Soares, East Timorese footballer |
1996 | The birth of Smriti Mandhana, Indian cricketer |
1996 | The birth of Shudufhadzo Musida, Miss South Africa 2020 |
1997 | The birth of Noah Lyles, American sprinter |
2001 | The birth of Agustina Roth, Argentine BMX rider |
2012 | The death of Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, Lithuanian-Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1910) |
2012 | The death of Jean François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1928) |
2012 | The death of Dawoud Rajiha, Syrian general and politician, Syrian Minister of Defense (b. 1947) |
2012 | The death of Assef Shawkat, Syrian general and politician (b. 1950) |
2012 | The death of Hasan Turkmani, Syrian general and politician, Syrian Minister of Defense (b. 1935) |
2012 | The death of Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor (b. 1942) |
2013 | The death of Vaali, Indian poet, songwriter, and actor (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Olivier Ameisen, French-American cardiologist and academic (b. 1953) |
2014 | The death of Andreas Biermann, German footballer (b. 1980) |
2014 | The death of João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Brazilian journalist, author, and academic (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Alex Rocco, American actor (b. 1936) |
2018 | The death of Jonathan Gold, American food critic (b. 1960) |
2018 | The death of Adrian Cronauer, American radio personality (b. 1938) |
2021 | The death of Tom O'Connor, English comedian (b. 1939) |
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