Updated at December 22, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Akinwumi Adesina |
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Birthdate | February 06, 1960 |
Birth Place | Nigeria |
Age (in 2024) | 64 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Politician |
Akinwumi Adesina is best known as Politician who has born on February 06, 1960 in Nigeria. Currently, Akinwumi Adesina is 64 years, 10 months and 16 days old. Akinwumi Adesina will celebrate 65th birthday on Thursday, 6th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Akinwumi Adesina upcoming birthday.
Nigerian politician who is known for having served as both the 8th President of the African Development Bank as well as the Nigerian Agriculture Minister. He is also known for his association with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.
He attended Purdue University where he obtained his PhD in Agricultural Economics and also founded the African Student Fellowship group. He started serving as a senior economist at the West African Rice Development Association before he became the Minister of Agriculture in 2010.
He is known for having received several honors including the Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit of Tunisia in 2019 and the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Star of Africa of Liberia.
He met his wife Grace while attending Purdue University. Together they have two children named Rotimi and Segun.
He was appointed by United Nations Secretary general Ban Ki-Moon to serve as a member of the Lead Group of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement.
Akinwumi Adesina is 64 years old today.
Akinwumi Adesina was born on February 06, 1960 in Nigeria.
Akinwumi Adesina zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Akinwumi Adesina was best known as Politician.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Akinwumi Adesina's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1978 | The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of four inches an hour. |
1981 | The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War. |
1987 | Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia. |
1988 | Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo. |
1989 | The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe. |
1996 | Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest. |
1996 | Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757. |
1998 | Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport. |
2000 | Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile. |
2006 | Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada. |
2012 | A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Negros, leaving 112 people dead. |
2016 | An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people. |
2018 | SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a super heavy launch vehicle, makes its maiden flight. |
2021 | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspends agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send asylum seekers back to their home countries. |
2023 | An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mww struck near the border between Turkey and Syria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). The earthquake resulted in numerous aftershocks and a death toll of more than 37,000 people. |
1990 | The birth of Adam Henrique, Canadian ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Jermaine Kearse, American football player |
1990 | The birth of Aida Rybalko, Lithuanian figure skater |
1991 | The birth of Tobias Eisenbauer, Austrian ice dancer |
1991 | The birth of Aleksandar Katai, Serbian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Ida Njåtun, Norwegian speed skater |
1991 | The birth of Eva Wacanno, Dutch tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Fei Yu, Chinese footballer |
1992 | The birth of Víctor Mañón, Mexican footballer |
1993 | The birth of Teresa Scanlan, American beauty pageant titleholder, Miss America 2011 |
1993 | The birth of Tinashe, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress |
1994 | The birth of Charlie Heaton, British actor and musician |
1995 | The birth of Nyck de Vries, Dutch racing driver |
1995 | The birth of Leon Goretzka, German footballer |
1995 | The birth of Sam McQueen, English footballer |
2015 | The death of André Brink, South African author and playwright (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Alan Nunnelee, American lawyer and politician (b. 1958) |
2015 | The death of Pedro León Zapata, Venezuelan cartoonist (b. 1929) |
2016 | The death of Dan Gerson, American screenwriter (b. 1966) |
2016 | The death of Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941) |
2017 | The death of Irwin Corey, American comedian and actor (b. 1914) |
2017 | The death of Inge Keller, German actress (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of Alec McCowen, English actor (b. 1925) |
2017 | The death of Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby union footballer (b. 1971) |
2018 | The death of Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist (b. 1935) |
2019 | The death of Manfred Eigen, German Nobel Prize winning biophysical chemist (b. 1927) |
2019 | The death of Rosamunde Pilcher, British author (born 1924) |
2020 | The death of Jhon Jairo Velásquez, Colombian hitman and drug dealer (b. 1962) |
2021 | The death of George Shultz, American politician, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Labor (b. 1920) |
2022 | The death of Lata Mangeshkar, Indian singer and music composer (b. 1929) |
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