Born On Your Day
Jody Williams
Justin Hoch photographing for Hudson Union Society: cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:42, 16 June 2017 (UTC), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Top tier

Jody Williams

American teacher and aid worker · born October 9, 1950

XWhatsAppFacebook

About

Jody Williams is an American political activist known for her work in banning anti-personnel landmines, her defense of human rights, and her efforts to promote new understandings of security in today's world.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Milestones, by age

Dated facts from Wikidata; ages marked “about” come from year-only dates.

  1. ~47Received the Nobel Peace Prize1997

Sources

Every fact on this page traces to one of these.

Sources (2)

Also born on October 9

Jody's most notable birthday twins

John Lennon
actor

John Lennon

Actor

1940–1980 · United Kingdom

John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician, songwriter and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Lennon's songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history.

Tony Barnard, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Full profile →

Sources (2)
Guillermo del Toro
actor

Guillermo del Toro

Actor

1964 · Mexico

Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican filmmaker. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism, and horror, often blending the genres, with an effort to infuse visual or poetic beauty in the grotesque.

Gabriel Brooks, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Full profile →

Sources (2)
author

Ivo Andrić

Politician

1892–1975 · Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.

Sources (2)
Max von Laue
scientist

Max von Laue

Scientist

1879–1960 · Germany

Max Theodor Felix von Laue was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 "for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals."

Franz Schmelhaus, Zürich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Full profile →

Sources (2)
Hermann Emil Fischer
scientist

Hermann Emil Fischer

Scientist

1852–1919 · Germany

Hermann Emil Louis Fischer was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification. He also developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms.

https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/29/85/3104172da6b66ab0d72a53a71f82.jpg Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.o, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Full profile →

Sources (2)