Updated at December 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Al Foster |
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Birthdate | January 18, 1943 |
Birth Place | Virginia |
Age (in 2024) | 81 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Drummer |
Al Foster is best known as Drummer who has born on January 18, 1943 in Virginia. Currently, Al Foster is 81 years, 11 months and 5 days old. Al Foster will celebrate 82nd birthday on Saturday, 18th of January 2025. Below the countdown to Al Foster upcoming birthday.
Jazz artist who drummed with Miles Davis' 1970s funk fusion group and who could play bebop, free form, and rock.
He started to play the drums when he was thirteen years old, making his recording debut at the age of twenty-one with Blue Mitchell.
He became incredibly close with Miles Davis, staying in touch during Davis' retirement and playing on Davis' 1981 comeback album, The Man with the Horn.
His family was living in Richmond, Virginia when he was born, but he was raised in New York.
He collaborated with several jazz legends, including Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, and Joe Henderson.
Al Foster is 81 years old today.
Al Foster was born on January 18, 1943 in Virginia.
Al Foster zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Al Foster was best known as Drummer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Al Foster's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Al Foster's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1977 | SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
1978 | The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. |
1981 | Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs). |
1983 | The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family. |
1988 | China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 crashes near Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, killing all 98 passengers and 10 crew members. |
1990 | Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting. |
1993 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states. |
2002 | The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over. |
2003 | A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia. |
2005 | The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France |
2007 | The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Cyclone Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. |
2008 | The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
2018 | A bus catches fire on the Samara-Shymkent road in Yrgyz District, Aktobe, Kazakhstan. The fire kills 52 passengers, with three passengers and two drivers escaping. |
2019 | An oil pipeline explosion near Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, kills 137 people. |
2023 | A helicopter crash in Ukraine leaves 14 people dead, including the country's Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrsky. |
1990 | The birth of Brett Lawrie, Canadian baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Gift Ngoepe, South African baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Zeeko Zaki, Egyptian-born American actor |
1991 | The birth of Diego Simões, Brazilian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Francesco Bardi, Italian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Sean Keenan, Australian actor |
1994 | The birth of Max Fried, American baseball player |
1994 | The birth of Kang Ji-young, South Korean singer |
1994 | The birth of Ilona Kremen, Belarusian tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Bryce Alford, American basketball player |
1995 | The birth of Leonard Fournette, American football player |
1998 | The birth of Aitana BonmatÃ, Spanish footballer |
1999 | The birth of Tee Higgins, American football player |
1999 | The birth of Mateus Ward, American actor |
2002 | The birth of Anastasia Zakharova, Russian tennis player |
2015 | The death of Piet van der Sanden, Dutch journalist and politician (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Tony Verna, American director and producer, invented instant replay (b. 1933) |
2016 | The death of Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1948) |
2016 | The death of T. S. Sinnathuray, Judge of the High Court of Singapore (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Michel Tournier, French journalist and author (b. 1924) |
2017 | The death of Peter Abrahams, South African-Jamaican writer (b. 1919) |
2017 | The death of David P. Buckson, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Delaware (b. 1920) |
2017 | The death of Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer, businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1939) |
2017 | The death of Roberta Peters, American coloratura soprano (b. 1930) |
2019 | The death of John Coughlin, American figure skater (b. 1985) |
2022 | The death of Francisco Gento, Spanish football player (b. 1933) |
2022 | The death of Yvette Mimieux, American actress (b. 1942) |
2022 | The death of André Leon Talley, American fashion journalist (b. 1948) |
2023 | The death of David Crosby, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941) |
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