Updated at December 22, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Alexander Vonhumboldt |
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Birthdate | September 14, 1769 |
Birth Place | Germany |
Age (in 2024) | 255 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Explorer |
Alexander Vonhumboldt is best known as Explorer who has born on September 14, 1769 in Germany. Currently, Alexander Vonhumboldt is 255 years, 3 months and 8 days old. Alexander Vonhumboldt will celebrate 256th birthday on Sunday, 14th of September 2025. Below the countdown to Alexander Vonhumboldt upcoming birthday.
Considered the founder of modern geography, he published many influential works with solid grounding in science.
One of the his first trips was to South America, where he studied the local flora and fauna and climbed to the peak of Mt. Chimborazo, the part of earth's surface farthest from its core.
He was the first person to propose that the earth's continents had been joined together at one point in time.
His father, an army officer, died when Alexander was nine.
A meeting with Captain James Cook's scientific illustrator had a profound influence on him when he was a child.
Alexander Vonhumboldt is 255 years old today.
Alexander Vonhumboldt was born on September 14, 1769 in Germany.
Alexander Vonhumboldt zodiac sign is Virgo.
Alexander Vonhumboldt was best known as Explorer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Alexander Vonhumboldt's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1993 | Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320, crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Okęcie International Airport (now Warsaw Chopin Airport), killing two people. |
1994 | The rest of the Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike. |
1997 | Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad-Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India. |
1998 | Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37Â billion merger to form MCI WorldCom. |
1999 | Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations. |
2000 | Microsoft releases Windows Me. |
2001 | Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital. |
2002 | Total Linhas Aéreas Flight 5561 crashes near Paranapanema, Brazil, killing both pilots on board. |
2003 | In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union. |
2003 | Bissau-Guinean President Kumba Ialá is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General VerÃssimo Correia Seabra. |
2007 | Financial crisis of 2007-2008: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years. |
2008 | Aeroflot Flight 821, a Boeing 737-500, crashes into a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway while on approach to Perm International Airport, in Perm, Russia, killing all 88 people on board. |
2015 | The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016. |
2019 | Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. |
2022 | Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen's coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days with queues of up to 30 hours stretching for miles along the River Thames. |
1990 | The birth of Cecilie Pedersen, Norwegian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Dee Milliner, American football player |
1991 | The birth of Nana, South Korean singer, actress and model |
1991 | The birth of Shayne Topp, American actor and Smosh cast member |
1992 | The birth of Connor Fields, American cyclist |
1992 | The birth of Zico, South Korean rapper |
1993 | The birth of Brandon Brown, American race car driver |
1994 | The birth of Brahim Darri, Dutch footballer |
1994 | The birth of Gary Harris, American basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Daniel O'Shaughnessy, Finnish footballer |
1994 | The birth of Krasimir Stanoev, Bulgarian footballer |
1995 | The birth of Deshaun Watson, American football player |
1996 | The birth of Hugh Bernard, English cricketer |
1996 | The birth of Myles Wright, English professional footballer |
1997 | The birth of Benjamin Ingrosso, Swedish singer and songwriter |
2012 | The death of Winston Rekert, Canadian actor and director (b. 1949) |
2012 | The death of Kan Yuet-keung, Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician (b. 1913) |
2013 | The death of Maksym Bilyi, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1989) |
2013 | The death of Osama El-Baz, Egyptian soldier and diplomat (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Faith Leech, Australian swimmer (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Tony Auth, American illustrator (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Peter Gutteridge, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1961) |
2014 | The death of E. Jennifer Monaghan, English-American historian, author, and academic (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Davey Browne, Australian boxer (b. 1986) |
2015 | The death of Fred DeLuca, American businessman, co-founded Subway (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of Martin Kearns, English drummer (b. 1977) |
2015 | The death of Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1949) |
2018 | The death of Ethel Johnson, American professional wrestler (b. 1935) |
2018 | The death of Zienia Merton, British actress (b. 1945) |
2021 | The death of Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1959) |
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