Singer Maizie Williams (Boney M) born
March 25, 1951 (59)
Singer Maisie Williams born on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. Williams is the only founding member of the group Boney M that remained trhough its several changes.Olympic gold medallist Arthur Wint born
March 25, 1920 - October 19, 1992 (72)
Arthur Wint, the first Jamaican Olympic gold medallist, winning the 400 m at 1948 Summer Olympics was born in Plowden, Manchester, Jamaica.Author, editor, writer, journalist Susan L. Taylor born
January 23, 1946 (65)
Author, editor, writer, journalist Susan L. Taylor born in New York, New York to a father from the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. Susan L. Taylor is the Editor-in-chief of the enormously popular magazine Essence. She has also written books including In the Spirit, a collection of essays reprinted from her Essence column of the same name.
Taylor is known as a source of inspiration and encouragement for African American women.
Billy Ocean, famous singer born
January 21, 1950 (61)
Billy Ocean singer of several number one hits including "Caribbean Queen" was born on this day in Trinidad.Birthday of Olympic gold medalist Donald Quarrie
February 25, 1951 (59)
One of the top sprinters in the world in his day was born on this day in Kingston, Jamaica.Best selling singer Rihanna born
February 20, 1988 (23)
Best selling singer Rihanna born Robyn Rihanna Fenty in Saint Michael, Barbados. Her mother is of Guyanese descent. A Grammy Award winning artist she has several top 10 hit songs to her credit including "Pon de Replay", "SOS", "Unfaithful", "Don't Stop the Music" and "Umbrella" (feat. Jay-Z).
Athlete Obadele Thompson born in Saint Micheal Barbados.
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| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
 Obadele Thompson, on the right, at the Sydney 2000 Olympics | ||
| Men’s Athletics | ||
Competitor for  Barbados | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| Bronze | 2000 Sydney | 100 m |
| World Indoor Championships | ||
| Silver | 1999 Maebashi | 200 m |
| Central American and Caribbean Games | ||
| Gold | 1998 Maracaibo | 100 m |
Obadele Thompson (born March 30, 1976) is a sprint athlete from Barbados;. In 2000, he became the first Olympic medalist from Barbados with a bronze medal in the 100m race
Biography
Born in Saint Michael, Thompson attended Harrison College before earning a scholarship, and graduated with honors with a degree in marketing and economics from the University of Texas at El Paso, United States.On February 21, 2007 Thompson announced his engagement to Marion Jones, then pregnant. The marriage took place in a private ceremony on February 24, 2007 in North Carolina with close friends and family in attendance.[1] Their first child together was born in July 2007[citation needed].
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Activist Claudia Jones born
February 15, 1915 - December 24, 1964 (49)
Claudia Jones born in Belmont, Trinidad and Tobago. She was a feminist, Black Nationalist, political activist, community leader, journalist, and communist in the U.S.. She is also remembered in the UK as 'the mother of Notting Hill Carnival'. Jones is also the founder the West Indian Gazette, the first black newspaper in Britain in 1958.
International civil rights activist Henry Sylvester Williams born
February 19, 1869 - March 26, 1911 (42)
International civil rights activist Henry Sylvester Williams born in Arouca, Trinidad to parents from Barbados. Williams moved to New York then later to England where he followed politics and interacted with Ms. E.V. Kinloch, a Black South African woman who openly criticized colonial oppression in South Africa. Williams, Kinloch, and Joseph Mason of Antigua, established the African Association in 1897.
In 1901 Williams went on a speaking tour around the world and managed to set-up branches of the Pan-African Association in the United States, Jamaica and Trinidad. Williams was called to the bar in June 1902, becoming the first barrister of African descent to practice law in Britain.
Walter Rodney born
March 23, 1942 - June 13, 1980 (38)
Walter Rodney born in Guyana. Roddney was a prominent Guyanese historian and political figure.WALTER RODNEY: A BIOGRAPHY
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Walter Rodney was born in Georgetown, Guyana on March 23, 1942. His was a working class family-his father was a tailor and his mother a seamstress. After attending primary school, he won an open exhibition scholarship to attend Queens College as one of the early working-class beneficiaries of concessions made in the filed of education by the ruling class in Guyana to the new nationalism that gripped the country in the early 1950s.
While at Queens College young Rodney excelled academically, as well as in the fields of athletics and debating. In 1960, he won an open scholarship to further his studies at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. He graduated with a first-class honors degree in history in 1963 and. he won an open scholarship to the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. In 1966, at the age of 24 he was awarded a Ph.D. with honors in African History. 
His doctoral research on slavery on the Upper Guinea Coast was the result of long meticulous work on the records of Portuguese merchants both in England and in Portugal. In the process he learned Portuguese and Spanish which along with the French he had learned at Queens College made him somewhat of a linguist.
In 1970, his Ph.D dissertation was published by Oxford University Press under the title, A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800.
