Home / Birthday profiles / David Dellinger
Portrait of David Dellinger

Birthday profile

David Dellinger

David Dellinger, American activist (died 2004)

Find birthday twinsOpen interactive profile
Born
August 22, 1915
Died
May 25, 2004
Zodiac sign
Leo
Birth year
1915

About David Dellinger

David T. Dellinger was an American pacifist and an activist for nonviolent social change. Although active beginning in the early 1940s, Dellinger reached peak prominence as one of the Chicago Seven, who were put on trial in 1969. In 1961 Dellinger joined the newly founded Fair Play for Cuba Committee and by late 1961 he had joined the executive of the organization. In 1948, he co-founded the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors. Muste founded the magazine Liberation as a forum for the pacifist, non-Marxist left.

Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.

David Dellinger timeline

  1. In 1948, he co-founded the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors.
  2. In 1961 Dellinger joined the newly founded Fair Play for Cuba Committee and by late 1961 he had joined the executive of the organization.
  3. Although active beginning in the early 1940s, Dellinger reached peak prominence as one of the Chicago Seven, who were put on trial in 1969.

The world when David Dellinger was born

David Dellinger was born in 1915. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1915

  • Top movieThe Birth of a Nation
  • Best-selling book"The Turmoil" – Booth Tarkington

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentJess Willard defeats Jack Johnson for heavyweight title in Havana
  • Top headlineLusitania sunk by German submarine — 1,198 die
  • Technology milestoneFirst transcontinental telephone call (Bell to Watson)
  • World population~1.75B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
  • U.S. population98.4M

1915 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in David Dellinger's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19152026
Gas$0.25$3.45/gal
Movie ticket$0.10$11.95
Population98.4M341 million

Sources and editorial standards

This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, Library of Congress, Wikidata. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.

Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.