Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | William Cameron Townsend |
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Birthdate | July 09, 1896 |
Birth Place | California |
Age (in 2024) | 128 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Religious Leader |
William Cameron Townsend is best known as Religious Leader who has born on July 09, 1896 in California. Currently, William Cameron Townsend is 128 years, 3 months and 24 days old. William Cameron Townsend will celebrate 129th birthday on Wednesday, 9th of July 2025. Below the countdown to William Cameron Townsend upcoming birthday.
Remembered for founding both the Summer Institute of Linguistics (also known as SIL International) and the Wycliffe Bible Translators organization, Townsend aimed to make the Bible and American brands of Christianity more accessible to people in non-English-speaking countries. As a missionary, he worked primarily in Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru.
He briefly studied at the Presbyterian-affiliated Occidental College in Eagle Rock, California, but ended his college career to work for the Los Angeles Bible House.
In the late 1940s, he founded a company called the Jungle Aviation and Radio Service.
Over the course of his two marriages -- to Elvira Malmstrom Townsend and Elaine Mielke Townsend -- he fathered children named Grace, Joy, Del, and William.
He and fellow American-born Christian missionary Nate Saint both participated in mission work in South America.
William Cameron Townsend is 128 years old today.
William Cameron Townsend was born on July 09, 1896 in California.
William Cameron Townsend zodiac sign is Cancer.
William Cameron Townsend was best known as Religious Leader.
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Below are historical events that coincided with William Cameron Townsend's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1958 | A 7.8 Mw⯠strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525 m (1,722 ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed. |
1961 | Greece becomes the first member state to join the European Economic Community by signing the Athens Agreement, which was suspended in 1967 during the Greek junta. |
1962 | Starfish Prime tests the effects of a nuclear test at orbital altitudes. |
1977 | The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event of Acto de Chacarillas, a ritualised act reminiscent of Francoist Spain. |
1979 | A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt. |
1982 | Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground. |
1986 | The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand. |
1993 | The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act leading to the 1999 creation of Nunavut, dividing the Northwest Territories into arctic (Inuit) and sub-arctic (Dene) lands based on a plebiscite. |
1995 | The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees. |
1997 | A Fokker 100 from the Brazilian airline TAM launches engineer Fernando Caldeira de Moura Campos into 2,400 meters of free fall after an explosion that depressurized the aircraft. |
1999 | Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran. |
2002 | The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, replacing the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The organization's first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa. |
2006 | One hundred and twenty-five people are killed when S7 Airlines Flight 778, an Airbus A310 passenger jet, veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia. |
2011 | South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan. |
2011 | A rally takes place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to call for fairer elections in the country. |
1985 | The birth of PaweĆ Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer |
1985 | The birth of Ashley Young, English footballer |
1986 | The birth of SĂ©bastien Bassong, Cameroonian footballer |
1986 | The birth of Simon Dumont, American skier |
1986 | The birth of Kiely Williams, American singer-songwriter and dancer |
1987 | The birth of Gert JÔeÀÀr, Estonian cyclist |
1987 | The birth of Rebecca Sugar, American animator, composer, and screenwriter |
1988 | The birth of Raul Rusescu, Romanian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Earl Bamber, New Zealand race car driver |
1990 | The birth of FĂĄbio, Brazilian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Rafael, Brazilian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Mitchel Musso, American actor and singer |
1993 | The birth of Mitch Larkin, Australian swimmer |
1993 | The birth of DeAndre Yedlin, American footballer |
1999 | The birth of Claire Corlett, American voice actress |
2013 | The death of Andrew Nori, Solomon lawyer and politician (b. 1952) |
2013 | The death of Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (b. 1954) |
2013 | The death of Barbara Robinson, American author and poet (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Toshi Seeger, American activist, co-founded the Clearwater Festival (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Lorenzo Ălvarez FlorentĂn, Paraguayan violinist and composer (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of David Azrieli, Polish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Eileen Ford, American businesswoman, co-founded Ford Models (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of John Spinks, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1953) |
2015 | The death of Christian Audigier, French fashion designer (b. 1958) |
2015 | The death of Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian economist and politician, Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1940) |
2019 | The death of William E. Dannemeyer, American politician (b. 1929) |
2019 | The death of Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (b. 1930) |
2019 | The death of Fernando de la RĂșa, 43rd President of Argentina (b. 1937) |
2019 | The death of Rip Torn, American actor (b. 1931) |
2019 | The death of Freddie Jones, English actor (b. 1927) |
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