As per our current Database, Jim Jones is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Jim Jones is 92 years, 11 months and 16 days old. Jim Jones will celebrate 93rd birthday on a Monday 13th of May 2024. Below we countdown to Jim Jones upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Jim Jones |
Occupation | Criminal |
Age | 92 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
Born | May 13, 1931 (Indiana) |
Birthday | May 13 |
Town/City | Indiana |
Nationality | Indiana |
Jim Jones’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Jim Jones was born in the Year of the Goat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Goat enjoy being alone in their thoughts. They’re creative, thinkers, wanderers, unorganized, high-strung and insecure, and can be anxiety-ridden. They need lots of love, support and reassurance. Appearance is important too. Compatible with Pig or Rabbit.
Infamous as the leader of the Peoples Temple cult, he orchestrated the 1978 Jonestown, Guyana murder/suicide of close to 1,000 members of the organization (including more than 200 children). Jones died from what was likely a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Before founding the Peoples Temple, he was involved with the Communist Party USA and also directed Indiana's Human Rights Commission. Before establishing his quasi-religious community in Jonestown, Guyana, Jones based his organization in Indiana and California, U.S.A.
The 2013 horror film The Sacrament was largely inspired by the events of the Jonestown massacre.
He grew up in Indiana and Virginia as the child of Lynetta Putnam and World War I soldier James Thurman Jones. He married Marceline Baldwin in 1949 and went on to raise six adopted and one biological child.
United States Congressman Leo Ryan was murdered in Jonestown while investigating claims of human rights violations there.