American singer-songwriter, guitarist and activist (born 1919)

Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and left-wing social activist. He was a fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s and had a string of hit records in the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, especially their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, workers' rights, counterculture, environmental causes, and ending the Vietnam War.

Born

1919

May 3

Died

2014

Era

1910s

Country

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About

Pete, in brief

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Key dates

1919 Born
2014 Died

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752 Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne.
996 German king Otto III chooses his cousin Bruno of Carinthia as pope following the death of Pope John XV. Bruno becomes pope under the name Gregory V.
1481 The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
1491 Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.

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The world in 1919

When Pete arrived

april 10 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
april 10 The Third Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Huliaipole.
april 13 Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer kill approximately 379–1,000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India. Approximately 1,500 are injured.
april 16 Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Amaro Pargo 1678–1747 Spanish corsair (died 1747) Ashok Gehlot 1951– Indian politician, 21st Chief Minister of Rajasthan Bernhard von Bülow 1849–1929 German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1929) Dulé Hill 1975– American actor José de la Riva Agüero 1783–1858 Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (born 1783) Karl Allmenröder 1896–1917 German soldier and pilot (born 1896) Konstantine Gamsakhurdia 1893–1975 Georgian author (born 1893) Sanath Nishantha 1975–2024 Sri Lankan politician (born 1975) Stu Hart 1915–2003 Canadian wrestler and trainer, founded Stampede Wrestling (died 2003)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1919

Alan Young 1919–2016 English-born Canadian-American actor (born 1919) Clifton McNeely 1919– American basketball player and coach (died 2003) David Willcocks 1919–2015 English organist, composer, and conductor (died 2015) Doris Lessing 1919–2013 British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919) Edward Brooke 1919–2015 American captain and politician, 47th Massachusetts Attorney General (born 1919) Émile Bouchard 1919–2012 Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1919) Eva Gabor 1919–1995 Hungarian-American actress (died 1995) Eva Perón 1919–1952 Argentinian politician, 25th First Lady of Argentina (born 1919) Fritz Langanke 1919–2012 German lieutenant (born 1919)

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